Martin Wolf

Monday, 5 May, 2025

Friday, 2 May, 2025

Q&APersonal Finance

The rise of deepfake scams — and how not to fall for one

Many social media promotions appear to be hosted by senior finance figures, but they’re fake

Tuesday, 29 April, 2025

US-China trade dispute

Why the US will lose against China

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

Monday, 28 April, 2025

UK economy

In tough times, good policy becomes even more important

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

Friday, 25 April, 2025

Technology sector

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?

Tuesday, 22 April, 2025

Global Economy

Trump’s trade shock hits the global economy

The IMF is trying to make sense of the unknowable

Monday, 21 April, 2025

The Economics Show podcast32 min listen

Martin Wolf talks to David Autor: could AI be a bigger threat to US jobs than China?

Automation will disrupt American jobs more widely than China ever did

Tuesday, 15 April, 2025

Trump tariffs

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

Monday, 14 April, 2025

UK labour productivity

Global turmoil makes Britain’s productivity predicament even worse

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

Monday, 14 April, 2025

The Economics Show podcast31 min listen

Martin Wolf talks to Mervyn King: why central banks got inflation wrong

The former BoE governor says ‘groupthink’ was an issue

Wednesday, 9 April, 2025

ReviewNon-Fiction

Five books to boost your understanding of tariffs and trade wars

As tariffs escalate, FT specialists recommend titles that explain the forces and ideas shaping trade policy in recent decades, including President Trump’s trade war

Tuesday, 8 April, 2025

Trump tariffs

Trump’s tariffs will damage the world

The trade deficits will remain roughly unchanged — the globe will just end up poorer

Tuesday, 1 April, 2025

Chinese politics & policy

China senses an opportunity in Trump’s cultural revolution

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

Monday, 31 March, 2025

UK economy

Fiscal tweaks won’t solve Britain’s growth problem

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

Thursday, 27 March, 2025

ExplainerFT Film30 min

Why governments are 'addicted' to debt | FT Film

With developed economies around the world loaded up with debt, at what point does the bond market break?

Tuesday, 25 March, 2025

Macroeconomics

Trumponomics is putting lipstick on a policy pig

How do technocrats expect the needed macroeconomic adjustments to occur?

Tuesday, 18 March, 2025

Global trade

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

Monday, 17 March, 2025

UK economy

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

Tuesday, 11 March, 2025

Geopolitics

How Europe can take up America’s mantle

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

Monday, 10 March, 2025

The Economics Show podcast31 min listen

Martin Wolf talks to Keyu Jin: Has China’s economy run out of gas?

The property crash and trade war are taking their toll

Tuesday, 4 March, 2025

US trade

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

Monday, 3 March, 2025

The Economics Show podcast31 min listen

Martin Wolf talks to Adair Turner: Can the world decarbonise fast enough?

China, not the US, may be the key to tackling climate change

Monday, 3 March, 2025

UK defence

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

Tuesday, 25 February, 2025

Geopolitics

The US is now the enemy of the west

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

Monday, 24 February, 2025

The Economics Show podcast36 min listen

Martin Wolf talks to Richard Baldwin: What’s the future of global trade?

Is technology making tariffs redundant?

Martin Wolf

Chief Economics Commentator

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