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Martin Wolf is chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 “for services to financial journalism”.

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  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    ObituaryJames Wolfensohn
    James Wolfensohn, former president of the World Bank, 1933-2020

    Renaissance man who transformed the global financial institution, and the world’s view of it

  • Tuesday, 24 November, 2020
    Coronavirus economic impact
    What the world can learn from the Covid-19 pandemic

    Important lessons are already emerging to help us manage the impact of such diseases better in future

  • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
    Global Economy
    Why inflation could be on the way back

    The global economy may be shifting as it did four decades ago

  • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
    Best books of 2020: Economics

    Martin Wolf selects his must-read titles for the second half of 2020

  • Sunday, 15 November, 2020
    Boris Johnson
    Boris Johnson has secured a questionable legacy

    The UK prime minister will be remembered for ‘getting Brexit done’ and his mismanagement of Covid

  • Tuesday, 10 November, 2020
    US politics & policy
    Democracy in a time of division

    The challenge for Joe Biden is to convince most US citizens he serves their interests

  • Tuesday, 3 November, 2020
    Climate change
    We can avert irreversible climate change

    Action is both essential and affordable — but it demands international leaders’ co-operation

  • Tuesday, 3 November, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Ten ways coronavirus crisis will shape world in long term

    Much remains uncertain for business, the economy, domestic politics and international relations

  • Tuesday, 27 October, 2020
    Global Economy
    US global role at stake in this election

    A Trump victory would shatter it, but defeat may only defer that tragic withdrawal

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  • Tuesday, 20 October, 2020
    Coronavirus economic impact
    The threat of long economic Covid looms

    Governments need to focus on the cost of inaction, not the cost of supporting economies

  • Friday, 2 October, 2020
    ObituaryIsher Judge Ahluwalia
    Isher Judge Ahluwalia, economist, 1945-2020

    An extraordinary talent who made the case for India’s transformative economic liberalisation

  • Thursday, 13 August, 2020
    Politics4 min
    Martin Wolf - will Covid-19 kill off populism?

    The FT's chief economics commentator looks at the political implications of the global pandemic

  • Tuesday, 21 July, 2020
    FT Books Essay
    Alarm signals of our authoritarian age

    Martin Wolf reviews two important new books on Trump, strongmen leaders and the most disturbing political development of our times

  • Thursday, 16 July, 2020
    Global Economy
    Covid-19 aggravates adverse underlying trends

    Huge fiscal challenges await the UK due to rising public debt

  • Tuesday, 14 July, 2020
    Coronavirus economic impact
    Covid has exposed society’s dysfunctions

    If we wish to avoid a political breakdown we should not seek to suppress markets, but instead temper their gales

  • Tuesday, 7 July, 2020
    Geopolitics
    The world falls apart as the US withdraws

    An administration that cannot govern makes a stark contrast with China

  • Monday, 6 July, 2020
    Coronavirus: free to read
    Martin Wolf: ‘Democracy will fail if we don’t think as citizens’

    Covid-19 could transform western societies. But without a stable middle class, the state risks succumbing to plutocracy.

  • Monday, 6 July, 2020
    FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
    Fixing the social and economic damage brought by the pandemic

    Martin Wolf on how Covid-19 could transform western societies

  • Thursday, 2 July, 2020
    UK economic growth
    The shape of the recovery is not a given but must be decided

    Rishi Sunak should not succumb to premature fiscal retrenchment

  • Tuesday, 30 June, 2020
    Coronavirus economic impact
    The great interruption continues

    Leaders should now be asking how we create the strongest feasible recovery

  • Tuesday, 23 June, 2020
    Supply chains
    The dangerous war on supply chains

    Protectionism in a crisis only concentrates risk domestically and diminishes economies of scale

  • Tuesday, 23 June, 2020
    FT SeriesSummer Books 2020
    Summer books of 2020: Economics

    Martin Wolf selects his best mid-year reads

  • Thursday, 18 June, 2020
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Martin Wolf: what trade wars tell us

    A new book looks at why global conflicts owe more to divisions within countries than between them

  • Thursday, 18 June, 2020
    UK business & economy
    The British must learn from coronavirus mistakes

    Scale of the forecast economic decline reflects the failure to manage the pandemic effectively

  • Tuesday, 16 June, 2020
    Global Economy
    How Covid-19 will change the world

    The society that will emerge will probably be even less co-operative and effective

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