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  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    Rana Foroohar
    Models can mislead us on the impact of global trade

    Predictions are only as good as the assumptions on which they depend

    Matt Kenyon illustration of a person’s face, with one eye as a globe and the other as a locator symbol
  • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
    World Trade Organization
    WTO warns about fragmentation of global trade into allied blocs

    Countries are switching supply chains to less efficient exporters and risking higher costs and conflict, says report

    WTO director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
  • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
    Pinelopi Goldberg
    How to get industrial policy right — and wrong

    Trade restrictions and preferential treatment of US companies will hurt the people America’s new approach is meant to help

    The interior of a shuttered factory
  • Monday, 7 August, 2023
    Gideon Rachman
    Why Joe Biden is the heir to Trump

    The current administration has quietly built upon many Trump-era policies

    James Ferguson illustration of Joe Biden standing in front of a US flag in side profile with a spotlight casting a shadow that resembles Donald Trump’s face
  • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
    Ian Goldin
    To tackle inequality, start with cities

    Globalisation has not levelled the economic playing field — instead, wealth is more concentrated than ever

    A man walks past a homeless person’s tent on a street in London. If we do not reverse course, soaring inequality will continue to corrode our trust in institutions and one another
  • Friday, 14 July, 2023
    ReviewPolitical books
    No Trade Is Free — Robert Lighthizer’s lessons from Trump’s tariff war with China

    The former US trade representative on how America must produce as well as consume — and win friends in the global economy

    Two men in suits and ties stand side by side, smiling
  • Friday, 14 July, 2023
    Markets InsightDavid Lubin
    Has the global trade recession already started?

    Economic forces put risk appetite of investors towards emerging economies in jeopardy

    A container ship docked at the container terminal in Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico
  • Monday, 26 June, 2023
    Andy Haldane
    The global race to industrialise is just what we need

    Manufacturing is undergoing a revival around the world, sending several secular trends into reverse

    Matt Kenyon illustration of an arms manufacturing plant where workers and robot arms construct two tanks - one blue and the other red
  • Sunday, 18 June, 2023
    Rana Foroohar
    America is telling a very different story about trade

    A paradigm shift is under way — even if the details are still catching up with the narrative

    Illustration of the US flag, with the red stripes as arrows curving away from the floor, with two figures stood on them
  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
    Why geopolitical tensions don’t threaten a fresh surge in inflation

    Economic globalisation hasn’t done much to hold prices down over the past three decades

    An employee works on a garment production line at Alibaba Group’s smart factory in Hangzhou, China, in 2020.
  • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
    Global Economy
    OECD chief economist calls for governments to cut fiscal support

    Clare Lombardelli says measures must now target ‘those who really need it’

    Clare Lombardelli
  • Friday, 2 June, 2023
    Janan Ganesh
    The frictionless life goes on

    Deglobalisation is hardly inconveniencing me at all

  • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
    Bruce Katz
    Old industrial cities can be central to America’s economic future

    The legacy assets they retain may prove crucial to the country’s manufacturing

    Mill workers in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1917
  • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    The Economic Government of the World — an end to globalisation?

    Martin Daunton’s history of trade liberalisation shows that capricious US opinion has always mattered most

    Cranes and containers line a stretch of waterfront
  • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
    Martin Wolf
    The G7 must accept that it cannot run the world

    American hegemony and the group’s economic dominance are now history

    James Ferguson illustration of a world globe that has been squashed out of shape, showing the Brics countries to the forefront
  • Monday, 22 May, 2023
    Rana Foroohar
    A US foreign policy for the middle class

    Biden’s G7 appearance reveals the challenges and contours of his new economic order plans

    Matt Kenyon illustration of a person representing the US holding a lecture for a group of people across the ocean
  • Friday, 14 April, 2023
    James Crabtree
    The west is in the grip of a decoupling delusion

    Trying to move production from China is much harder than many companies and governments think

    French president Emmanuel Macron, left, and Ursula von der Leyen meet Xi Jinping in Beijing
  • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
    Gillian Tett
    America must expand its friendship group in the interests of trade

    Restricting supply chains to trusted countries is fraught with danger

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of Uncle Sam giving handshakes with many hands while his head is turning left and right
  • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
    Martin Wolf
    Waging war on trade will be costly

    The US risks reversing nine decades of hugely successful policy that lifted tens of millions out of poverty

    James Ferguson illustration of Uncle Sam separating two trains with his body - leveraging a blue bumper block with his back, while pushing with his legs against a red train bumper with a Chinese flag on it.
  • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
    Leo Lewis
    The politics of deglobalisation favours the robots

    As labour supply problems persist, automation sales are hotting up

    Illustration of robots sitting in rows on a production line with one human with a helmet sitting amongst them
  • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
    Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
    Insular India’s exporters will struggle to fill Chinese shoes

    National trade strategy will make it hard for Indian companies to take full advantage of Beijing’s geopolitical problems

    Workers at the Chinese smartphone maker Realme factory in Greater Noida, India
  • Monday, 30 January, 2023
    Adam Tooze
    Three ways to read the ‘deglobalisation’ debate

    Proponents of business as usual and the new cold warriors are too confident of their ability to predict the future

  • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
    Janan Ganesh
    The west will rue its embrace of protectionism

    It doesn’t just split the democracies, it grants the Chinese-Russian view of the world as a zero-sum game

    Joe Biden hands Senator Joe Manchin his pen after signing the Inflation Reduction Act last year. With them are, from left, Chuck Schumer, Senate majority leader, James Clyburn, House majority whip, and Democratic representatives Frank Pallone and Kathy Castor
  • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
    Special ReportThe World 2023
    Business leaders must understand Vuca and Spofs

    Old commercial certainties have yielded to ugly acronyms

    An aerial image of cargo trucks
  • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
    Martin Wolf
    Davos: There’s life in global capitalism yet

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

    Aerial photo of large container ships in Yangshan Port, Shanghai, China
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