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Martin Wolf

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The cynical opportunities of ‘Epic Fury’

With this US administration, the best bet is that a business deal is to be reached with Iran

04.03.2026 10

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The great British electricity puzzle

It turns out that making the transition to clean energy while keeping the price down is hard

02.03.2026 20

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To raise low birth rates, we must help mothers

Easing the child penalty in the labour market could also increase fertility

25.02.2026 10

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The truth about population decline

Arguments about the dangers of falling fertility deserve much closer scrutiny

18.02.2026 100

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Student loans show that hard policy choices will only get harder

The debate over university funding is a good example of the intractable challenges facing the UK government

16.02.2026 100

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Why are fertility rates collapsing? Gender roles

A big part of female graduates’ decision to have children depends on how they expect their husbands to behave

11.02.2026 20

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Reading the runes on a Warsh Fed

The presumptive next chair might be better than others on the list, but he is a confusing, perhaps confused, figure

05.02.2026 20

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The dilemmas for the UK created by a rupturing world

New priorities are needed to succeed amid unreliable and competing great powers

03.02.2026 10

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The reality of a world after rupture

Europe has a key role to play in building a successor to the US-led global order

28.01.2026 30

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The world’s economy — past, present and future

The US is no longer predictable nor bound by any fundamental principles of action

21.01.2026 20

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The Maga war on European democracy

America’s national security strategy projects internal fears abroad

15.01.2026 100

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Trump’s war on Europe

American foreign policy now aims to help rightwing nationalists into power across the continent

17.12.2025 40

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Why the world should worry about stablecoins

Dollar-based digital currencies offer benefits for the US, but Britain and the EU are better off resisting them

10.12.2025 30

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The UK must do more than go on muddling through

We need to look at the causes of the country’s dire economic performance

08.12.2025 20

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It’s time to sound the alarm on growing fiscal and financial risk

Rising public debt is one concern — another is how it is being financed

03.12.2025 20

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Rachel Reeves’ case of risky risk aversion

It is depressing that a government with such a huge majority dares do so little to transform economic prospects

27.11.2025 9

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The fracturing of the world economy

Will the US or China abandon their current follies sooner?

26.11.2025 30

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How to get the UK out of its economic hole

Reeves’ challenge is to remedy the disaster that Brexit has been for the country

25.11.2025 10

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We have to be able to hold tech platforms accountable for fraud

Algorithms ensure that people who click on scams are likely to see more of them

19.11.2025 10

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Can a fragmented Europe continue to prosper?

What once made its sovereign states powerful and rich could now be a barrier to their remaining so

12.11.2025 20

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The disturbing victory of Old Labour over New Labour

In education, labour and housing we risk going back towards what we know will not work

10.11.2025 10

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The UK tax system is a mess — these are priorities for Reeves to reform

The list of inconsistencies goes on and on. Nobody should have designed such an absurdity

05.11.2025 10

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Reeves must get whatever growth she can

Improved standards of living are the foundation of modern democracy

29.10.2025 30

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The need to tighten UK fiscal policy is also an opportunity

Keir Starmer’s government should seize the chance to make radical reforms

28.10.2025 10

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The hard task of exiting the populist trap

Javier Milei’s plight in Argentina demonstrates how difficult it can be to rescue economies

22.10.2025 40

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The world economy in an age of disorder

It is dangerous to have confidence in what lies ahead

15.10.2025 10

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Trump’s tariffs won’t deliver many jobs

Nostalgia is not a strategy: the past cannot return

08.10.2025 10

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A world with two predatory superpowers

Nations must work out how to contend with Trump’s America and China

01.10.2025 10

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The Ukraine war will shape the world

We must not repeat the mistakes of the appeasers in the 1930s

23.07.2025 20

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How to help the financial sector promote growth — and how not to

Encouraging institutions to get bigger by taking risks is the opposite of what Reeves should do

21.07.2025 10

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A return to tariffs, Taco or not

Trump’s focus on the goods of the past is ridiculous. What matters is competitiveness in the future

16.07.2025 20

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Trump’s assault on American greatness

In just six months, the US president has made huge strides in advancing his agenda

09.07.2025 20

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The roots of the British malaise lie in a sick economy

Political responses to a bad situation tend towards either charlatanism or timidity

07.07.2025 10

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The risks of funding states via casinos

It is easy to imagine conditions in which money simply dries up, perhaps in response to large movements in bond yields

01.07.2025 10

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Why global imbalances do matter

If the US wants to accelerate a worldwide discussion with a policy intervention, the obvious one would be a tax on capital inflows

24.06.2025 20

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The copyright war between the AI industry and creatives

We have surely gone beyond being able to give the tech sector the benefit of the doubt

23.06.2025 10

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For whom does Trump govern?

The Big Beautiful Bill Act is a classic example of pluto-populism

18.06.2025 10

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An ever riskier world economy

Trump’s tariff war brings with it unpredictability and a consequent loss of confidence

11.06.2025 10

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British pension policy is finally stepping in the right direction

Consolidation of funds makes evident sense, bringing economies of scale and scope

09.06.2025 20

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Interest rates are normal, the world is not

Given all this fragility, recessionary or inflationary shocks — or even both together — are conceivable

04.06.2025 10

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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

26.05.2025 20

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Trump’s assault on the global dollar

The difficulty is that, however unsatisfactory the hegemon might be, the alternatives look worse

20.05.2025 10

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The challenge of using excess global savings

We now seem unable to turn the surplus in some countries into productive investment elsewhere

13.05.2025 10

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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

06.05.2025 30

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Why the US will lose against China

Trump’s unreliable America is throwing away the assets it needs

29.04.2025 20

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In tough times, good policy becomes still more important

A country as mired in stagnation as the UK has to take risks if it is to succeed

28.04.2025 20

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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?

25.04.2025 10

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Trump’s trade shock hits the global economy

The IMF is trying to make sense of the unknowable

22.04.2025 20

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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

15.04.2025 10

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Global turmoil makes Britain’s productivity predicament even worse

The situation is dire and only active policymaking is going to make a difference

14.04.2025 20

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