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      Martin Wolf on saving democratic capitalism

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    • Sunday, 28 May, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      Citizens’ juries can help fix democracy

      Western polities are ailing — deliberative assemblies would revivify them

    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      G7
      The G7 must accept that it cannot run the world

      American hegemony and the group’s economic dominance are now history

    • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
      US budget
      America is hurt by its debt ceiling theatre of the absurd

      The only reason a default is conceivable is the depth of disagreement in the country

    • Sunday, 14 May, 2023
      UK privatisation
      How to fix Britain’s water industry

      Privatisation has not delivered on its promises, but it is not clear that the state would be a more reliable custodian

    • Tuesday, 9 May, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      The threat and promise of artificial intelligence

      It might be the most transformative technology of all for human beings’ sense of themselves

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      Media
      Media lies threaten the truth and decency on which democracy depends

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      UK inflation
      The costs of entrenched high inflation cannot be ignored

      The Bank of England may not be able to fix everything but it must get this under control

    • Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
      Global Economy
      US-China relations have entered a frightening new era

      Economic co-operation with Beijing will be harder than recent speeches by Janet Yellen and Ursula von der Leyen suggest

    • Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
      Global Economy
      The future of interest rates is a riddle

      Inflation’s comeback has changed the world — but how much we don’t yet know

    • Sunday, 16 April, 2023
      UK economic growth
      The UK’s future depends on improving economic performance

      Unfortunately politicians remain unable to offer a plausible account of how this can be achieved

    • Tuesday, 11 April, 2023
      Global Economy
      Japan, Germany and the challenge of excess savings

      Tokyo is trapped when it comes to managing this structural issue

    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      Global trade
      Waging war on trade will be costly

      The US risks reversing nine decades of hugely successful policy that lifted tens of millions out of poverty

    • Sunday, 2 April, 2023
      UK financial regulation
      The UK needs to learn its own lessons from the banking crisis

      A shock like this should make mindless deregulation less appealing to politicians and mindless risk-taking less appealing to bankers

    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      Monetary policy
      Monetary policy is not solely to blame for this banking crisis

      It’s a fallacy to suppose there is a simple solution to the failings of our financial systems and economies

    • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
      Financial & markets regulation
      Four ways to fix the bank problem

      It is not clear how bad this crisis is going to be but reform is urgently needed

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      A sensible strategy for the UK needs radical changes on pensions

      Our fundamental mistakes include piecemeal policy and an over-reliance on simplistic ideology

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      UK Budget
      Luck has given Jeremy Hunt some room for manoeuvre

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      The EU’s future in a world of deep disorder

      In adjusting to today’s crises, the bloc needs to decide whether it wishes to be an ally, a bridge or a power

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      UK economic growth
      The UK economy has two regional problems, not one

      Now the country is suffering something worse than geographic inequality: national stagnation

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      War in Ukraine
      The west must give Ukraine what it needs

      This war is a vital national interest of European countries and the US

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      Illiberal democracy comes to Israel

      The government’s proposed legal reforms look rather like a power grab

    • Sunday, 19 February, 2023
      UK business & economy
      Britain can learn from Singapore on savings

      The UK’s low rate of national savings makes it dependent on foreign ones to finance its investment

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