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FT Martin Wolf
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Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, reads his weekly column
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Why the Irish crisis is such a huge test for the eurozone
Dec 6, 201000:08:01Tap to summarizeThe 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 – and these are likely to be even worse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Assets matter just as much as debt
Nov 25, 201000:05:30Tap to summarizeBorrowing 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 acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Ireland refutes the German perspective
Nov 23, 201000:07:03Tap to summarizeBerlin’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 acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →How to chart a course out of the Sino-American storm
Nov 19, 201000:07:14Tap to summarizeThey 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 deflate themselves into economic health. The consequences of this folly are now evident in the eurozone. At the world level, the US will never accept it. But, beneath the radar, something more productive may be emerging. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →The IMF is giving some good fiscal advice
Nov 19, 201000:06:25Tap to summarizeThe 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 my side in the argument with the government. This is no small victory, not least because its latest report on the UK reads, in other respects, as if dictated to it by the Treasury. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →The Fed is right to turn on the tap
Nov 17, 201000:07:51Tap to summarizeThe 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 far more likely to prove ineffective than lethal. It is a leaky hose, not a monetary Noah’s Flood. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Current account targets are a way back to the future
Nov 4, 201000:08:17Tap to summarizeThe 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 conference of July 1944. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Britain has gone climbing without a rope
Oct 28, 201000:06:34Tap to summarizeMartin 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 acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Why US voters are suing Dr Obama
Oct 26, 201000:08:05Tap to summarizeA 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 W Bush bequeathed, explains the malaise. Does President Obama deserve blame? No and yes, says Martin Wolf. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →A spending review for a diminished country
Oct 19, 201000:06:08Tap to summarizeThis 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 acast.com/privacy for more information.
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