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Martin Sandbu

European Economics Commentator

Martin Sandbu is the Financial Times's European economics commentator. He also writes Free Lunch, the FT's weekly newsletter on the global economic policy debate. He has been writing for the FT since 2009, when he joined the paper as economics leader writer.

Before joining the FT, he worked in academia and policy consulting. He is the author of three books, on business ethics, the euro, and on the economics of belonging.

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  • Sunday, 29 January, 2023
    EU economy
    The EU should welcome a green subsidy race

    Europe must not let itself be spooked by the US commitment to bankroll the climate transition

  • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
    Free LunchNorway
    Norway’s exodus of billionaires Premium content

    Making sense of the world’s least important migration crisis

  • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
    Free LunchMacroeconomics
    Bank of Japan 2 — Markets 1 Premium content

    Governor Haruhiko Kuroda and his colleagues are right to keep yield curve control in place

  • Sunday, 15 January, 2023
    Sweden
    Sweden is navigating an international identity crisis

    War in Ukraine and economic activism in Europe are causing Stockholm to nuance traditional stances

  • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
    Free LunchEuro
    Reasons for confidence in the euro Premium content

    More nuanced thinking on both the currency and its inflation prospects

  • Sunday, 8 January, 2023
    Euro
    Monetary independence is overrated, and the euro is riding high

    Old misgivings about the currency are increasingly unpersuasive — it is becoming more attractive by the day

  • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
    Free LunchMacroeconomics
    When wage inflation is good for you Premium content

    And some New Year readings on the biggest economics themes affecting us

  • Sunday, 18 December, 2022
    Central banks
    Central banks should beware mistaking wage rises for an inflation problem

    Profound changes in labour markets since the pandemic may mean that many workers and companies are more productive

  • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
    Free LunchWar in Ukraine
    The west must massively upgrade its financial commitments to Ukraine Premium content

    The country’s friends are inching towards accepting the magnitude of the challenge — but too slowly

  • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
    Free LunchEuropean manufacturing
    Where next for Europe’s industry? Premium content

    More evidence that factories have weathered the energy crisis well

  • Sunday, 4 December, 2022
    EU energy
    Europe should not protest too much on energy

    Policymakers should accelerate reduced carbon usage and build up high-tech, knowledge-intensive industries

  • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
    Free LunchEuropean manufacturing
    What energy crisis? European industry is showing its adaptability

    Manufacturing output remains strong across most of the EU

  • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
    Free LunchTax
    The wealthy who like the idea of a wealth tax Premium content

    The moneyed classes are beginning to think governments have been too kind to them

  • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
    Economists Exchange
    Brad DeLong: ‘The US is now an anti-globalisation outlier’

    America is no longer seen as the furnace in which the future is being forged

  • Sunday, 20 November, 2022
    Brexit
    Jeremy Hunt’s fiscal rules mimic the EU’s — just as it departs from them

    Brussels is overhauling the policy constraints it imposes while the UK chancellor is setting new ones of his own

  • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
    Free LunchUS midterm elections
    It’s the economy, stupid (but not as we thought) Premium content

    Their surprisingly good midterms should make US Democrats appreciate Bidenomics

  • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
    Free LunchEU budget rules
    The EU begins to grasp its fiscal nettle Premium content

    New proposal accepts that budget rules must complement politics, not substitute for it

  • Sunday, 6 November, 2022
    EU trade
    Europe is learning that you can’t separate trade and politics

    Pursuing a narrowly commercial agenda undermines larger strategic objectives

  • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
    Free LunchGlobal inflation
    ‘Obvious truths’ about inflation that are nothing of the sort Premium content

    It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so

  • Sunday, 30 October, 2022
    Northern Ireland
    N Ireland’s power-sharing system is ‘not fit for purpose’, says Irish PM

    Micheál Martin calls for reform of governance arrangements enshrined in Good Friday accord

  • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
    Free LunchUK public finances
    How to make the UK’s budget maths add up Premium content

    Spending cuts are far from the only option

  • Sunday, 23 October, 2022
    Central banks
    A political backlash against monetary policy is looming

    Defenders of independent central banks must think about their democratic legitimacy

  • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
    Free LunchEnergy crisis
    How (not) to intervene in energy prices Premium content

    There are ways to prevent hardship that are both cost-efficient and keep the incentive to save energy

  • Thursday, 13 October, 2022
    Free LunchGlobal economic growth
    The post-pandemic recovery has been officially cancelled Premium content

    Taking on some lazy arguments for monetary tightening

  • Monday, 10 October, 2022
    Instant InsightNobel prizes
    A Nobel for an economic model with real world application

    Bernanke, Diamond and Dybvig have taught lessons about bank runs that have been absorbed since the financial crisis

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