Martin Wolf

Tuesday, 8 October, 2024

Sunday, 6 October, 2024

The best books of the week

On Freedom — Timothy Snyder’s timely manifesto for our fearful age

The historian draws on his experience in Ukraine and eastern Europe to warn of the dangers of tyranny in the US

Tuesday, 1 October, 2024

US interest rates

Have we seen the end of cheap money?

There are reasons to expect real rates to go even higher

Monday, 30 September, 2024

UK public finances

Reeves struggles to escape from self-imposed restraints

Breaking Labour’s commitments would be a bad thing to do but failure to improve the UK’s condition could be even worse

Tuesday, 24 September, 2024

EU business regulation

How to make European industrial policy work

The key is to ensure that regulation doesn’t stifle growth

Saturday, 21 September, 2024

FT SeriesThe FT Magazine’s Guide to the Business Lunch

The FT’s favourite business lunch restaurants in London

17 venues in and around the City worth rescheduling your 2pm for, and the best tables at each

Tuesday, 17 September, 2024

EU economy

Draghi is trying to save Europe from itself

His report on competitiveness presents the EU with an ‘existential challenge’

Monday, 16 September, 2024

UK economy

Rachel Reeves needs a credible growth plan

The UK chancellor should explain how her programme is going to work

Tuesday, 10 September, 2024

Global Economy

Overcoming the ‘middle income’ trap

The principal failure of these countries lies not in accumulating too little capital, but in using it poorly

Friday, 6 September, 2024

Lunch with the FT

John Lewis chair Sharon White: ‘I always ask, what’s the upside?’

The outgoing chief on guiding the retailer through financial storms, the need for intellectual diversity and the lessons of the Truss Budget

Tuesday, 3 September, 2024

US inflation

Lessons from the great inflation

Large shocks are likely to recur in the future, bringing significant challenges for policymakers

Tuesday, 6 August, 2024

Economists Exchange

Adair Turner: ‘I still think we have a chance of limiting global warming to well below 2C’

The businessman and academic on the path to a zero carbon economy

Tuesday, 30 July, 2024

US politics & policy

Naivety about Trump threatens all our futures

Plutocrats must understand that wealth is only a source of power if it is protected by a law-governed state

Tuesday, 23 July, 2024

Global migration

Immigration is both essential and impossible

The option of temporary worker contracts is not embraced by either side but it may be the solution

Monday, 22 July, 2024

UK politics

Citizens should be asked to do more in UK politics

Many things need to change, among them how the country governs itself

Tuesday, 16 July, 2024

German economy

Is Germany the ‘sick man’ of Europe once again?

Its hostility to debt is folly or hypocrisy. It should use more of its surplus savings at home

Tuesday, 9 July, 2024

Indian economy

Why India will become a superpower

The nation can play a big part in shaping the world’s future but its internal challenges are formidable

Monday, 8 July, 2024

Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer’s difficult choices

The challenge for Labour is not just to govern well, but to restore trust in doing so

Tuesday, 2 July, 2024

Climate change

Market forces are not enough to halt climate change

Investor returns imply that the welfare of future human beings is close to irrelevant

Sunday, 30 June, 2024

FT News Briefing podcast36 min listen

Martin Wolf on democracy’s year of peril

The FT’s renowned commentator reflects on a critical moment for liberal democracy

Tuesday, 25 June, 2024

Unhedged Podcast22 min listen

Are we all protectionists now?

One thing Biden and Trump might not be debating is industrial policy

Tuesday, 25 June, 2024

US presidential election 2024

The folly of the pro-Trump plutocrats

Many business leaders dismiss fears of a return of the former president to the White House — they are wrong to do so

Monday, 24 June, 2024

News

Podcast: Martin Wolf on democracy’s year of peril

The FT’s chief economics commentator and special guests examine a critical moment for democratic institutions

Monday, 24 June, 2024

UK general election 2024

The absence of honesty in UK election will undermine democracy itself

Treating the voters as mere children can only guarantee ever-rising cynicism

Tuesday, 18 June, 2024

Global Economy

How not to do industrial policy

Politicians should acknowledge how much we could lose in the new era of suspicion, protectionism and interventionism

Martin Wolf

Chief Economics Commentator

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