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    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      Monetary policy
      Monetary policy is not solely to blame for this banking crisis

      It’s a fallacy to suppose there is a simple solution to the failings of our financial systems and economies

    • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
      Financial & markets regulation
      Four ways to fix the bank problem

      It is not clear how bad this crisis is going to be but reform is urgently needed

    • Sunday, 19 March, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      A sensible strategy for the UK needs radical changes on pensions

      Our fundamental mistakes include piecemeal policy and an over-reliance on simplistic ideology

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      UK Budget
      Luck has given Jeremy Hunt some room for manoeuvre

      Severe structural weaknesses persist in the UK economy and his measures do too little to remove them

    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      Banks
      Banks are designed to fail — and they do

      This is a system that is essential to the functioning of the market economy but doesn’t operate by its rules

    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      European Union
      The EU’s future in a world of deep disorder

      In adjusting to today’s crises, the bloc needs to decide whether it wishes to be an ally, a bridge or a power

    • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
      UK economic growth
      The UK economy has two regional problems, not one

      Now the country is suffering something worse than geographic inequality: national stagnation

    • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      The west must give Ukraine what it needs

      This war is a vital national interest of European countries and the US

    • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
      Government of Israel
      Illiberal democracy comes to Israel

      The government’s proposed legal reforms look rather like a power grab

    • Sunday, 19 February, 2023
      UK business & economy
      Britain can learn from Singapore on savings

      The UK’s low rate of national savings makes it dependent on foreign ones to finance its investment

    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
      ReviewEconomics books
      Martin Wolf shines a light on the doom loop of democratic capitalism

      The economics commentator appeals for a renewed concept of citizenship to save democracy

    • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
      Protectionism
      The new interventionism could pose a threat to global trade

      Security concerns are driving the fashion for active industrial policy, but there are potential downsides

    • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
      Monetary policy
      Lessons from the great reflation

      There is a danger not just of loosening too soon but of loosening too far

    • Sunday, 5 February, 2023
      Tax
      The case for a land value tax is overwhelming

      Natural resources are quite different from the capital stock created out of human effort

    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
      Central banks
      When good economic news may not be good news

      The dilemma for central banks is whether today’s optimism is consistent with returning inflation rates to 2 per cent

    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
      Global Economy
      What I learnt in my days on the mountain in Davos

      Business is feeling more cheerful but many unresolved challenges remain

    • Sunday, 22 January, 2023
      Healthcare costs
      The dangers of magical thinking on health policy

      We must carefully consider how changes in the funding model might affect the healthcare system

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      The Weekend Essay
      Martin Wolf: in defence of democratic capitalism

      The marriage of liberal economics and democracy has brought immense benefits to the world, but faces its toughest test in decades. What needs to be done?

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      World Economic Forum
      Davos: There’s life in global capitalism yet

      Rumours of the demise of international business and trade have been exaggerated

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      Global Economy
      We must tackle the looming global debt crisis before it’s too late

      A range of factors have made the cost of borrowing prohibitive for poor countries

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      InterviewCentral banks
      Philip Lane: ‘We haven’t seen “normal” in Europe for a long time’

      The European Central Bank’s chief economist discusses the institution’s response to a series of global shocks

    • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
      Emerging markets
      The threat of a lost decade in development

      A way has to be found to resolve the debt problems that are now emerging for the world’s most vulnerable

    • Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
      Global Economy
      Glimmers of light in a terrible year

      From the return of the west to the triumph of democracy, not everything that happened in 2022 was bad

    • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
      Behind the Money podcast21 min listen
      Martin Wolf on the economy in 2023

      The FT’s chief economics commentator discusses some of 2022’s biggest stories — inflation, the war in Ukraine, climate change — and how they might impact events next year

    • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
      Globalisation
      The optimists were right and can be so again

      We cannot wait for another period of catastrophe before we attempt renewal

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