Martin Wolf: Euro zone needs to stop living dangerouslyInteractions between economic events and political stresses are unpredictableWed Dec 07 2016 - 17:31
Martin Wolf: Can China pick up the baton dropped by Trump?Political struggle is over who benefits from know-how developed by western companiesSat Nov 26 2016 - 14:00
Martin Wolf: Working class will not benefit from Trump’s policiesRich stand to gain, manufacturing will be hit and cost of living will riseWed Nov 16 2016 - 17:33
Martin Wolf: President Trump will have some serious issues to deal withMediocre growth, high inequality and low job creation are problems facing new administrationWed Nov 09 2016 - 11:58
Martin Wolf: Globalisation has lost its dynamismThe days of western leadership on trade would seem to be overWed Oct 26 2016 - 17:32
Martin Wolf: It is unwise to wage war on low inflationGovernments should examine reforms that could help central banks deliver growthWed Oct 19 2016 - 12:47
Martin Wolf: Markets teach Theresa May a lesson over BrexitBritish PM’s loose talk over UK’s EU exit has heightened possibility of economic crisisWed Oct 12 2016 - 16:19
Martin Wolf: Deutsche’s woes show crisis has not gone awayBanking will remain an accident waiting to happen until proper safeguards are in placeWed Oct 05 2016 - 17:33
Martin Wolf: UK faces grim but unavoidable hard BrexitHalfway houses between EU membership and hard exit from EU are uninhabitableWed Sept 21 2016 - 17:28
Martin Wolf: Central Banks need to adjust their tactics fastIn the face of low interest rates, a rescue by ‘helicopter money’ might be neededWed Sept 14 2016 - 15:34
Martin Wolf: Why the tide of globalisation is turningThe dominant philosophy of our age has plateaued and in some areas is in reverseWed Sept 07 2016 - 15:03
Martin Wolf: Can global capitalism and liberal democracy survive?The symbiotic relationship is under strain, last seen during rise of fascism in the 1930sWed Aug 31 2016 - 17:00
Martin Wolf: Trump’s answer is ‘clear, simple and wrong’Stagnating incomes will not be solved by a dose of populist protectionismWed Jul 20 2016 - 13:14
Martin Wolf: Economic growth is neither inevitable or steadyWe must put an end to our facile optimism, we live in harsh timesWed Jul 13 2016 - 13:15
Martin Wolf: Brexit is a nuisance, prosperity is the priority for EUIf citizens see the practical benefits of membership, then the union will thriveWed Jul 06 2016 - 12:34
Martin Wolf: The best thing for UK is to play for timeBritain should refrain from a hasty withdrawal until it has a better sense of what’s at stakeWed Jun 29 2016 - 11:27
Martin Wolf: Brexit will change UK economy, and not for the betterIt is a revolt of the provinces against a prosperous and globalised LondonFri Jun 24 2016 - 15:35
Martin Wolf: Why I believe Britain belongs in EuropeThe democratic EU of today owes immeasurably to British politics, values and courageWed Jun 22 2016 - 10:11
Martin Wolf: From Brexit to Donald Trump, how populist politics is taking holdLeaving the EU might be a big economic shock and not just for the UKWed Jun 15 2016 - 08:24
Painful choices still hang over GreeceThe IMF now acknowledges that the programme agreed in 2010 was wildly unrealisticTue Jun 07 2016 - 21:00
Martin Wolf: Will there be another huge financial crisis?A system built on making promises it cannot keep is bound to crash, and crash againWed Jun 01 2016 - 15:23
Martin Wolf: In Trump, the elites are reaping what they sowedDemocracy is in trouble, big trouble, and weak and self-interested leadership is to blameWed May 18 2016 - 13:02
Martin Wolf: What works for Germany does not work for euro zoneEurope’s heavyweight needs to understand that its part of a clubWed May 11 2016 - 15:30
Martin Wolf: Brexit will damage the UKReferendum is not about sovereignty. It is about how best to exercise the country’s power. And that is best done in the EUWed May 04 2016 - 14:48
Martin Wolf: Debunking 10 Brexit shibbolethsThose in favour of leaving offer fantasies of damage done by staying and of opportunity opened by departureWed Apr 27 2016 - 17:20
Martin Wolf: Our friends think Brexit is a mad ideaBarack Obama needs to tell the British, nicely but firmly, that they have to stay in the EUWed Apr 20 2016 - 12:53
Martin Wolf: China’s future challenge for the world economyThe country is systemically important and suffers high and rising corporate indebtednessTue Mar 29 2016 - 17:58
British chancellor George Osborne is in traps of his own devisingSteady reduction in corporation tax suggests government is trying to turn UK into IrelandThu Mar 17 2016 - 13:26
Banking would benefit from a good dose of disruptionHowever, such disruption must be beneficial and ordered as the sector is too important for a chaotic transitionWed Mar 09 2016 - 11:22
Martin Wolf: How great republics meet their endDonald Trump is a ‘promoter of paranoid fantasies, a xenophobe and an ignoramus’Wed Mar 02 2016 - 10:58
To stimulate global growth we need to be boldIt is time for Plan C, which could mean central banks giving every adult citizen a lump of money to spendWed Feb 24 2016 - 06:30
The battle over Brexit matters to the UK, Europe and the worldUK needs a voice in Europe and the bloc would benefit tooWed Feb 10 2016 - 07:26
Martin Wolf: Bring our elites closer to the people‘There is a growing sense that those at the top are corrupt, complacent and incompetent’Wed Feb 03 2016 - 14:12
The rise of Trump is a rejection of the elite’s agendaElites have become detached from domestic concerns, forming a global super-eliteWed Jan 27 2016 - 01:01
Martin Wolf: China’s great economic shift needs to beginCredit-fuelled investment must slow while household incomes and consumption accelerateTue Jan 19 2016 - 18:50
Martin Wolf: Market turmoil means we are in for bumpy rideTurbulence in emerging economies such as China will be felt around the worldWed Jan 13 2016 - 01:00
Martin Wolf: Disaster has always been a threat to world economyThere are three things to worry about: wars, inflation shocks and financial crisesWed Jan 06 2016 - 01:01
The Paris summit is a small step forward on climate changeCOP21 accord goes further than expected a year ago but not as far as it needs toWed Dec 16 2015 - 01:00
ECB and Fed take opposing view on fiscal strategyUS years ahead of EU in recovery and so at a different stage of monetary policy cycleWed Dec 09 2015 - 03:00
South Africa needs a plan to remove inequalityMartin Wolf: The legacy of injustice has shaped the country. Now it needs growth, of the right kindWed Nov 25 2015 - 01:00
Martin Wolf: Corporate surpluses contributing to savings glutIs it time for higher taxes on retained earnings? Behaviour raises big policy questionsWed Nov 18 2015 - 03:00
Martin Wolf: In the long shadow of the Great RecessionIt may be hard to avoid crises but it is vital to make them both small and rareWed Nov 11 2015 - 01:02
Martin Wolf: Ending climate change presents real opportunityGoals of eliminating mass poverty and tackling global warming are complementaryWed Oct 28 2015 - 13:37
Martin Wolf: Resist Russia’s blackmail over Ukraine’s debtThis is barefaced cheek and such behaviour must not succeedWed Oct 21 2015 - 07:48
The benefits of migration are questionableImmigration has economic pros and cons for the European UnionWed Sept 30 2015 - 07:52
EU needs common policy to combat chaos on all frontsFrom the refugee crisis to the Ukraine to Greece and Brexit, the EU’s is beset by problemsWed Sept 23 2015 - 17:33
Martin Wolf: ‘Made in China’ recession perfectly plausibleIf it were to happen, a decision by the Fed to tighten now would look downright foolishWed Sept 16 2015 - 01:00
Martin Wolf: Keep US interest rates low – the world is still abnormalAfter nearly seven years of zero interest rates, the inflation of which critics warned is invisibleWed Sept 09 2015 - 01:00
China must manage a slowdown without crashingBig question is whether a market-driven economy is compatible with the growing concentration of political powerWed Sept 02 2015 - 06:33
Grexit would leave the euro frighteningly fragileIf Greece left it would guarantee default and generate permanent instability for euro zoneWed Jul 08 2015 - 01:00
