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Martin Wolf

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China senses an opportunity in Trump’s cultural revolution

Policymakers in Beijing believe they will benefit from the destruction of America’s global credibility

01.04.2025 5

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Fiscal tweaks won’t solve Britain’s growth problem

The government must embark on a much more radical programme of structural reforms

31.03.2025 10

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Trumponomics is putting lipstick on a policy pig

How do technocrats expect the needed macroeconomic adjustments to occur?

25.03.2025 10

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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

18.03.2025 6

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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

17.03.2025 40

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How Europe can take up America’s mantle

The continent is an economic superpower but it now has to mobilise in defence of democracy

11.03.2025 10

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The economic costs of Trump’s assault on the global order

America is trying to undo the very system of open trade that it created

04.03.2025 5

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How to respond to the realities of a more dangerous world

Spending on defence will need to rise substantially if the UK is to meet the challenges it faces

03.03.2025 10

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The US is now the enemy of the west

Washington has decided to abandon both Ukraine and its postwar role in the world

26.02.2025 100

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In defence of the state

A complex society is best served by a competent, professional and neutral public service

18.02.2025 10

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We must fund oppositions properly to save democracy

Without resources, they will be grossly unprepared for the difficult business of governing

17.02.2025 10

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The case for persisting with foreign aid

Until now, the US has been a strikingly benign and successful hegemon

11.02.2025 10

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Predictability is the victim of Trump’s tariff threats

An inconsistent US is an unreliable partner — it’s that simple

04.02.2025 4

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The long hard slog to reach the goal of faster growth

Britain is in a hole and the government is right to try to dig it out

03.02.2025 10

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We will have to learn to live with machines that can think

The impact of artificial intelligence on productivity could be epoch-making

28.01.2025 6

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Trump’s second coming and the world

An economic renaissance is unlikely, not least because the US economy is very far from the disaster he proclaims it to be

21.01.2025 3

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Britain’s situation remains fragile

The government must retain the confidence of its creditors

20.01.2025 10

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Trump’s threat to US liberal democracy

We must hope that the American people will not lightly abandon the enlightenment traditions of their country

14.01.2025 10

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An economically dynamic India is Manmohan Singh’s greatest legacy

He drove radical reform of an anti-market policy regime that was strangling growth

07.01.2025 4

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The UK government must make sure it isn’t a confidence killer

There is a danger that animal spirits and the propensity to invest expire in a vicious downward spiral

23.12.2024 10

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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 5

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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 4

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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 10

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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 5

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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 10

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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 3

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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 3

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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 3

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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 5

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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 10

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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 20

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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 10

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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 10

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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 20

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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 20

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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 10

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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 5

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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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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 3

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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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