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  • Friday, 2 December, 2022
    Financial & markets regulation
    ‘Competitiveness’ mantra must not let risky banking rise again

    We should not relax ringfencing, not least because UK banks remain undercapitalised

  • Tuesday, 29 November, 2022
    Global Economy
    How to think about policy in a polycrisis

    In our interactive world, we can no longer put problems into convenient intellectual silos

  • Sunday, 27 November, 2022
    UK economic growth
    The UK government should stop doing stupid stuff

    It should not consider regulatory changes unless they will clearly be for the better

  • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    The geopolitical threat to globalisation

    The FT’s chief economics commentator, Martin Wolf, discusses why geopolitics could be the biggest threat to globalisation

  • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
    FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
    Best books of 2022: Economics

    Martin Wolf selects his must-read titles of the past six months

  • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
    Renewable energy
    The market can deliver the green transition — just not fast enough

    Policymakers and governments need to work out how to accelerate the process

  • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
    Autumn Statement
    Jeremy Hunt offers no jam today and none tomorrow

    There is nothing in the chancellor’s Autumn Statement to suggest radical new thinking on growth

  • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
    Central banks
    Central banks are right to act decisively

    The worst possibility would not be for disinflation to be done too slowly but for policymakers to give up too quickly

  • Sunday, 13 November, 2022
    Conservative Party UK
    The Tories need to abandon their shibboleths

    The state is likely to grow faster than the economy and so must the tax burden

  • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
    COP27
    Delay only makes climate action more urgent

    A huge acceleration in investment is necessary to help emerging and developing countries

  • Tuesday, 1 November, 2022
    Globalisation
    Geopolitics is the biggest threat to globalisation

    The consequences of a great power rupture may be even worse now than during the cold war

  • Tuesday, 18 October, 2022
    Eurozone economy
    The eurozone economies have no choice but to tackle the supply shock together

    A common energy policy is essential if citizens are to be protected against the worst of the crisis

  • Sunday, 16 October, 2022
    UK economic growth
    Restoring Britain’s credibility will be hard for Hunt

    The new chancellor must recognise that a fresh round of austerity is undesirable

  • Tuesday, 11 October, 2022
    Global Economy
    Disease and war are shaping our economy

    As the new IMF report focuses on continuing downside risks, what can and should be done?

  • Thursday, 6 October, 2022
    Economists Exchange
    Larry Summers: ‘The destabilisation wrought by British errors will not be confined to Britain’

    The former US Treasury secretary delivers his verdict on a fiscal statement that sent markets spinning

  • Tuesday, 4 October, 2022
    Xi Jinping
    Xi Jinping’s third term is a tragic error

    China’s macroeconomic, microeconomic and environmental difficulties remain largely unaddressed

  • Sunday, 2 October, 2022
    Liz Truss
    Truss’s growth plan is nothing but a magic potion

    Hoping that reality will adapt to your desires is folly: Britain needs stable and credible policies, not zealotry

  • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
    US Dollar
    Why the strength of the dollar matters

    The financial tide is going out as a rising US currency has recessionary effects elsewhere

  • Friday, 23 September, 2022
    UK economic growth
    Kwarteng is risking serious economic instability

    The chancellor’s largesse raises large questions about debt sustainability

  • Tuesday, 20 September, 2022
    UK economic growth
    The economic consequences of Liz Truss

    It is surely a fantasy that further tax cuts and deregulation will transform performance

  • Sunday, 18 September, 2022
    Energy crisis
    Britain’s energy package puts its economic credibility at risk

    The new chancellor’s plan is poorly targeted, too generous and overly dependent on public borrowing

  • Tuesday, 13 September, 2022
    Globalisation
    Globalisation is not dying, it’s changing

    Trade in goods may be slowing, but the potential for technology-enabled trade in services remains huge

  • Tuesday, 6 September, 2022
    EU energy
    Europe can — and must — win the energy war

    Victory will be costly, but the EU has to free itself from Russia’s chokehold

  • Sunday, 4 September, 2022
    Energy sector
    The UK energy crisis is a burden of war

    Assistance must be bold and target the vulnerable first

  • Friday, 2 September, 2022
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    Have lunch with FT’s Martin Wolf or Claer Barrett

    Bid for your chance to meet FT columnists in the Flic charity auction

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