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Friday, 30 May, 2025

UK economy
BoE policymaker plays down inflation risk in call for rate cuts
Alan Taylor says price rises are being driven by one-off factors as he stressed hit from Trump trade war
Friday, 30 May, 2025

InterviewUK economy
Alan Taylor: we have flipped the switch from the ‘great moderation’
The professor and MPC member on making monetary policy in an age of uncertainty
Monday, 26 May, 2025

UK trade
The UK’s trade performance remains dire
Deals struck recently with the US, EU and India will not make a significant difference to Britain’s parlous position
Tuesday, 20 May, 2025

US dollar
Trump’s assault on the global dollar
The difficulty is that, however unsatisfactory the hegemon might be, the alternatives look worse
Tuesday, 13 May, 2025

Global trade
The challenge of using excess global savings
We now seem unable to turn the surplus in some countries into productive investment elsewhere
Tuesday, 6 May, 2025

US-China trade dispute
The old global economic order is dead
China and others must think afresh as the US steps away from its role as balancer of last resort
Monday, 5 May, 2025

The Economics Show podcast30 min listen
Martin Wolf talks to Kenneth Rogoff: Trump is accelerating the dollar’s decline
The US president’s trade policies are a ‘catalyst’ for the greenback’s fall
Friday, 2 May, 2025

Q&APersonal Finance
The rise of deepfake scams — and how not to fall for one
Many social media promotions appear to be hosted by senior finance figures, but they’re fake
Tuesday, 29 April, 2025

US-China trade dispute
Why the US will lose against China
Trump’s unreliable America is throwing away the assets it needs
Monday, 28 April, 2025

UK economy
In tough times, good policy becomes even more important
A country as mired in stagnation as the UK has to take risks if it is to succeed
Friday, 25 April, 2025

Technology sector
Playing ‘whack-a-mole’ with Meta over my fraudulent avatars
How is it possible that a company with such huge resources, including artificial intelligence tools, cannot deal with this?
Tuesday, 22 April, 2025

Global Economy
Trump’s trade shock hits the global economy
The IMF is trying to make sense of the unknowable
Monday, 21 April, 2025

The Economics Show podcast32 min listen
Martin Wolf talks to David Autor: could AI be a bigger threat to US jobs than China?
Automation will disrupt American jobs more widely than China ever did
Tuesday, 15 April, 2025

Trump tariffs
The economic consequences of a mad king
Trump’s delight in doing whatever he wishes in the moment is incompatible with stability and sustained dynamism
Monday, 14 April, 2025

UK labour productivity
Global turmoil makes Britain’s productivity predicament even worse
The situation is dire and only active policymaking is going to make a difference
Monday, 14 April, 2025

The Economics Show podcast31 min listen
Martin Wolf talks to Mervyn King: why central banks got inflation wrong
The former BoE governor says ‘groupthink’ was an issue
Wednesday, 9 April, 2025

ReviewNon-Fiction
Five books to boost your understanding of tariffs and trade wars
As tariffs escalate, FT specialists recommend titles that explain the forces and ideas shaping trade policy in recent decades, including President Trump’s trade war
Tuesday, 8 April, 2025

Trump tariffs
Trump’s tariffs will damage the world
The trade deficits will remain roughly unchanged — the globe will just end up poorer
Tuesday, 1 April, 2025

Chinese politics & policy
China senses an opportunity in Trump’s cultural revolution
Policymakers in Beijing believe they will benefit from the destruction of America’s global credibility
Monday, 31 March, 2025

UK economy
Fiscal tweaks won’t solve Britain’s growth problem
The government must embark on a much more radical programme of structural reforms
Thursday, 27 March, 2025

ExplainerFT Film30 min
Why governments are 'addicted' to debt | FT Film
With developed economies around the world loaded up with debt, at what point does the bond market break?
Tuesday, 25 March, 2025

Macroeconomics
Trumponomics is putting lipstick on a policy pig
How do technocrats expect the needed macroeconomic adjustments to occur?
Tuesday, 18 March, 2025

Global trade
Will anybody buy a ‘Mar-a-Lago accord’?
The US president wants both to protect domestic manufacturing and hold the dollar as the reserve currency
Monday, 17 March, 2025

UK economy
What should Reeves and Starmer say and do next?
The government needs to view the hard times coming upon us as an opportunity, as well as a crisis
Tuesday, 11 March, 2025

Geopolitics
How Europe can take up America’s mantle
The continent is an economic superpower but it now has to mobilise in defence of democracy

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