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Martin Wolf

Financial Times

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The EU must build on past successes

As it faces fresh challenges, Europe should remember that neither economic integration nor convergence among member states was inevitable

17.12.2024 7

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Reckoning with an era of slow growth

Opportunities exist for the UK and its European neighbours, but they must grasp the nettle of economic reform

10.12.2024 6

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The benefits and limits of privatisation

We can draw important lessons from the UK’s varied experience

09.12.2024 30

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What makes the US truly exceptional

Are American pathologies the necessary price of economic dynamism?

03.12.2024 6

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Climate change is a global problem — it requires a global solution

The deal on financing agreed at COP29 is too little, too late

26.11.2024 9

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Pensions reform is vital to raise the UK’s dismal savings rate

This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a system able to enhance both prosperity and security

25.11.2024 20

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Why Trump’s trade war will cause chaos

Tariffs, especially on one country, will lead to an unholy economic and political mess

19.11.2024 5

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Manufacturing fetishism is destined to fail

It is so much easier to blame the disappearance of these US jobs on China than on domestic consumers and automation

12.11.2024 10

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The British government’s Trump dilemmas

Relations with both the US and EU are now called into question

11.11.2024 10

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More muddling through won’t deliver the growth Britain craves

The country needs a strategy that takes on its most obvious weaknesses

05.11.2024 6

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Trump is the man who would be king

Were the former president to return to the White House, it would encourage rightwing populists everywhere

29.10.2024 10

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The global economy has proved surprisingly resilient

But significant downside risks will continue to pose a challenge for policymakers

22.10.2024 7

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Rachel Reeves’s Budget must rescue Britain from its growth trap

The chancellor’s task is made much harder by structural weaknesses in the UK economy

13.10.2024 10

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Trump’s trade policies would hurt the world

His new suggestions would have a far bigger impact than the relatively modest ‘starter protectionism’ of his first term

08.10.2024 20

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Have we seen the end of cheap money?

There are reasons to expect real rates to go even higher

01.10.2024 6

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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

30.09.2024 30

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How to make European industrial policy work

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

24.09.2024 30

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Draghi is trying to save Europe from itself

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

17.09.2024 30

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Rachel Reeves needs a credible growth plan

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

16.09.2024 20

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Overcoming the ‘middle income’ trap

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

10.09.2024 10

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Lessons from the great inflation

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

03.09.2024 10

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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

30.07.2024 8

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Immigration is both essential and impossible

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

23.07.2024 4

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Citizens should be asked to do more in UK politics

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

22.07.2024 10

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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

16.07.2024 40

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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

09.07.2024 5

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Keir Starmer’s difficult choices

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

08.07.2024 20

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Market forces are not enough to halt climate change

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

02.07.2024 7

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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

25.06.2024 5

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The absence of honesty in UK election will undermine democracy itself

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

24.06.2024 90

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Getting industrial policy right is a tricky business

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

18.06.2024 10

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Tariffs are bad policy, but good politics

There are excellent reasons why we may want to intervene in the economy but these taxes will rarely be the best way

11.06.2024 10

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UK election draws a veil of silence over bitter economic truths

Neither major political party wants the debate that the country needs about taxes, spending and structural reform

10.06.2024 20

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Nationalism threatens the world order

If America retreats from its security guarantee of Europe, the consequences for global stability will be dire

04.06.2024 10

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From the baby boom to the baby bust

Falling fertility rates are one of the biggest challenges facing our world

28.05.2024 9

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Increased longevity will bring profound social change

People will have to work longer and pension systems will need to be transformed

13.05.2024 60

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Biden has to find a way to convince Americans on the economy

Trump’s rhetorical style seems to appeal more to voters than the economic reality

07.05.2024 20

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We risk a lost decade for the world’s poor

The elimination of extreme poverty is slipping from our grasp

30.04.2024 20

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What we must still learn about the great inflation disaster

Past and present policymakers should ask more searching questions about the causes and impact of the price surge

29.04.2024 30

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The tricky judgments on when to loosen

An ECB interest rate cut soon would make sense but the Fed faces a more difficult call in the US

23.04.2024 7

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The shadow of war darkens on the global economy

Short-term performance has been surprisingly good but policymakers are walking on eggshells

16.04.2024 10

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The UK needs a reform road map to avoid stagnation

There are four clear ways to fix the current economic mess

15.04.2024 30

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The tree of debt must stop growing

Since the era of ultra-low interest rates ended, large-scale government borrowing is looking more and more problematic

09.04.2024 20

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For all its faults, democracy is still better than autocracy

All the evidence shows that despotism cannot consistently deliver the economic goods for developing countries

02.04.2024 20

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How Labour wants to change the British economy

Their plans should not make things worse. But can they make them better?

01.04.2024 10

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Fascism has changed, but it is not dead

The 1920s and 1930s were different times but a core of traditional attitudes persists

26.03.2024 30

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Donald Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine

Handing Vladimir Putin an unearned and undeserved victory will only hurt the US

19.03.2024 20

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The elusive search for economic transformation

The bigger the challenges the UK faces in restoring its fortunes, the more timid politicians seem to become

18.03.2024 30

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The future of ‘communist capitalism’ in China

The question of whether Xi-ism is killing Deng-ism is growing

12.03.2024 10

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Britain needs more than fiscal games

The old budgetary theatre will not help improve the dire performance of the UK economy

07.03.2024 40

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