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Martin Wolf is chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 “for services to financial journalism”.

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    The costs of entrenched high inflation cannot be ignored

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  • Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
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    The future of interest rates is a riddle

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    The UK’s future depends on improving economic performance

    Unfortunately politicians remain unable to offer a plausible account of how this can be achieved

  • Tuesday, 11 April, 2023
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    Japan, Germany and the challenge of excess savings

    Tokyo is trapped when it comes to managing this structural issue

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    Waging war on trade will be costly

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    UK financial regulation
    The UK needs to learn its own lessons from the banking crisis

    A shock like this should make mindless deregulation less appealing to politicians and mindless risk-taking less appealing to bankers

  • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
    Monetary policy
    Monetary policy is not solely to blame for this banking crisis

    It’s a fallacy to suppose there is a simple solution to the failings of our financial systems and economies

  • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
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    Four ways to fix the bank problem

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    A sensible strategy for the UK needs radical changes on pensions

    Our fundamental mistakes include piecemeal policy and an over-reliance on simplistic ideology

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    UK Budget
    Luck has given Jeremy Hunt some room for manoeuvre

    Severe structural weaknesses persist in the UK economy and his measures do too little to remove them

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    The UK economy has two regional problems, not one

    Now the country is suffering something worse than geographic inequality: national stagnation

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    War in Ukraine
    The west must give Ukraine what it needs

    This war is a vital national interest of European countries and the US

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    Illiberal democracy comes to Israel

    The government’s proposed legal reforms look rather like a power grab

  • Sunday, 19 February, 2023
    UK business & economy
    Britain can learn from Singapore on savings

    The UK’s low rate of national savings makes it dependent on foreign ones to finance its investment

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