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Martin Wolf on the US midterms: What’s the risk of political violence?
As Americans prepare to vote in the November 3 midterm elections, the FT’s chief economics commentator Martin Wolf asks what the result will mean for Donald Trump, the future of US democracy and America's place in the world. In the third of
Martin Wolf on the US midterms: What’s at stake for the world?
As Americans prepare to vote in the November 3 midterm elections, FT chief economics commentator Martin Wolf asks what the result will mean for Donald Trump, the future of US democracy and America's place in the world. In the second of a si
Martin Wolf on the US midterms: Is American democracy safe?
As Americans prepare to vote in the November 3 midterm elections, FT chief economics commentator Martin Wolf asks what the result will mean for Donald Trump, the future of US democracy and America's place in the world. In the first of a six
Martin Wolf on saving democratic capitalism
In the first of this four-part series, the renowned FT columnist and economist Martin Wolf tells the FT’s executive opinion editor Jonathan Derbyshire why he fears the marriage of liberal economics and democracy may be facing its toughest t
Why the Irish crisis is such a huge test for the eurozone
The fault lines in the currency union stand revealed. The promise was that the eurozone would deliver its members from currency crises. But, as I, and others, warned, be careful what you wish for: credit crises would replace currency crises
Assets matter just as much as debt
Borrowing is no sin, provided we use the funds to ensure that we bequeath a better infrastructure to the future, says Martin Wolf Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ireland refutes the German perspective
Berlin’s emphasis on deflationary adjustment in weaker countries risks turning the eurozone as a whole into a gigantic Germany, dependent on importing demand from the rest of the world, says Martin Wolf Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.co
How to chart a course out of the Sino-American storm
They came; they saw; they lost. That is the reaction to what emerged on global rebalancing at the summit meeting of the Group of 20 leading countries in Seoul last week. Publicly, surplus countries persist in calling on those in deficit to
The IMF is giving some good fiscal advice
The International Monetary Fund does not normally respond to mere journalists. But its staff have explicitly rejected my arguments on the pace of fiscal consolidation in the UK. On one point – the need for a fiscal “plan B” – the IMF takes
The Fed is right to turn on the tap
The sky is falling, scream the hysterics: the Federal Reserve is pouring forth dollars in such quantities that they will soon be worthless. Nothing could be further from the truth. As in Japan, the policy known as “quantitative easing” is f
Current account targets are a way back to the future
The debate on “global imbalances” has gone back to the future. The proposal from Tim Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, to target the current account takes us back to the preoccupations of John Maynard Keynes at the Bretton Woods conferen
Britain has gone climbing without a rope
Martin Wolf admires the courage of the government as it launches its spending review without a Plan B but wonders whether the public will accept the necessary pain Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Why US voters are suing Dr Obama
A large part of the American public has forgotten the gravity of the financial heart attack that hit the US in the autumn of 2008. The Republicans have convinced many voters that the intervention by the Democrats, not the catastrophe George
A spending review for a diminished country
This may be a great policy success or the biggest fiscal blunder since the early 1930s. More likely, it will be in between, says Martin Wolf. Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Britain and America seek different paths from disaster
With the announcement of massive cuts in government spending the UK has launched a remarkable policy experiment. The contrast with the US – which has announced none – should at least be instructive, says Martin Wolf. Hosted on Acast. See ht
Why higher student fees are right
The changes will bring pain. But the upside is also huge. The government should grasp this nettle now, says Martin Wolf Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Why America is going to win the global currency battle
US policymakers will do whatever is required to avoid deflation. Indeed, the Fed will keep going until the US is satisfactorily reflated. What that effort does to the rest of the world is not its concern, says Martin Wolf Hosted on Acast. S
How to fight the currency wars with stubborn China
The post-crisis world economy will not work so long as its most dynamic economy is also its largest capital exporter. Policies that would turn China into a net importer would benefit both its own people and the rest of the world, says Marti
The IMF’s foolish praise for austerity
Effective policy would see the government increase its deficit and have this rise funded by the Bank of England, says Martin Wolf Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Currencies clash in new age of beggar-my-neighbour
Twenty five years ago, France, West Germany, Japan, the US and the UK met at the Plaza Hotel in New York and agreed to push for depreciation of the US dollar. Today America has the same desire. But this time, the focus of attention is not a
Wen is right to worry about China’s growth
Who dares to make such a downbeat assessment of the world’s most dynamic economy before a gathering of influential foreigners in the heart of China itself? Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
The risks of premature tightening
It would be more sensible to make plans for fiscal retrenchment that are explicitly contingent on how the economy recovers, says Martin Wolf Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Basel: the mouse that did not roar
The world needs a smaller and safer banking industry. The defect of the new rules is that they will fail to deliver this, says Martin Wolf Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Germans are wrong: the eurozone is good for them
Germany has an enormous political and economic interest in making the eurozone work, however unpopular that view may be, says Martin Wolf Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Why the Balls critique is correct
The market is screaming its lack of concern about UK fiscal credibility. Government debt is long-term and denominated in the domestic currency. We are terrified of a confidence bogey who is asleep, says Martin Wolf Hosted on Acast. See http
Obama was too cautious in fearful times
The idea that the policies adopted in the last few months of the Bush administration and the first months of this one were far better than nothing is weirdly controversial in the US, says Martin Wolf Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/p
Why Britain does not need a graduate tax
One big drawback is that it would again put allocation of funds under the control of the state, says Martin Wolf Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.
Why the battle is joined over tightening
The austerity debate: To tighten or not to tighten – that is the question. It is one to which policymakers have started changing their answers. Are they right to do so?, asks Martin Wolf Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for mo
Three years and new fault lines threaten
Leaders of the world’s principal economies – both advanced and emerging – will need to reform co-operatively and deeply if the world economy is not to suffer further earthquakes, says Martin Wolf Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/priva
Why we must halt the land cycle
Ruinous trust in land speculation as the route to wealth has led to expensive houses and inefficient taxes but, far worse, it ended up destabilising the entire global economy, says Martin Wolf Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy
