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    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      US trade
      Global trade ≠ globalisation

      What the IMF gets wrong about the global trade rebound

    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023
      Martin Wolf on his best economics books of the year

      Martin Wolf selects his best reads of the second half of 2023

      Montage of book covers
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Rana Foroohar
      Models can mislead us on the impact of global trade

      Predictions are only as good as the assumptions on which they depend

      Matt Kenyon illustration of a person’s face, with one eye as a globe and the other as a locator symbol
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      World Trade Organization
      WTO warns about fragmentation of global trade into allied blocs

      Countries are switching supply chains to less efficient exporters and risking higher costs and conflict, says report

      WTO director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
    • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
      Pinelopi Goldberg
      How to get industrial policy right — and wrong

      Trade restrictions and preferential treatment of US companies will hurt the people America’s new approach is meant to help

      The interior of a shuttered factory
    • Monday, 7 August, 2023
      Gideon Rachman
      Why Joe Biden is the heir to Trump

      The current administration has quietly built upon many Trump-era policies

      James Ferguson illustration of Joe Biden standing in front of a US flag in side profile with a spotlight casting a shadow that resembles Donald Trump’s face
    • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
      Ian Goldin
      To tackle inequality, start with cities

      Globalisation has not levelled the economic playing field — instead, wealth is more concentrated than ever

      A man walks past a homeless person’s tent on a street in London. If we do not reverse course, soaring inequality will continue to corrode our trust in institutions and one another
    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      ReviewPolitical books
      No Trade Is Free — Robert Lighthizer’s lessons from Trump’s tariff war with China

      The former US trade representative on how America must produce as well as consume — and win friends in the global economy

      Two men in suits and ties stand side by side, smiling
    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      Markets InsightDavid Lubin
      Has the global trade recession already started?

      Economic forces put risk appetite of investors towards emerging economies in jeopardy

      A container ship docked at the container terminal in Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico
    • Monday, 26 June, 2023
      Andy Haldane
      The global race to industrialise is just what we need

      Manufacturing is undergoing a revival around the world, sending several secular trends into reverse

      Matt Kenyon illustration of an arms manufacturing plant where workers and robot arms construct two tanks - one blue and the other red
    • Sunday, 18 June, 2023
      Rana Foroohar
      America is telling a very different story about trade

      A paradigm shift is under way — even if the details are still catching up with the narrative

      Illustration of the US flag, with the red stripes as arrows curving away from the floor, with two figures stood on them
    • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
      Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
      Why geopolitical tensions don’t threaten a fresh surge in inflation

      Economic globalisation hasn’t done much to hold prices down over the past three decades

      An employee works on a garment production line at Alibaba Group’s smart factory in Hangzhou, China, in 2020.
    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
      Global Economy
      OECD chief economist calls for governments to cut fiscal support

      Clare Lombardelli says measures must now target ‘those who really need it’

      Clare Lombardelli
    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
      Janan Ganesh
      The frictionless life goes on

      Deglobalisation is hardly inconveniencing me at all

    • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
      Bruce Katz
      Old industrial cities can be central to America’s economic future

      The legacy assets they retain may prove crucial to the country’s manufacturing

      Mill workers in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1917
    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      The Economic Government of the World — an end to globalisation?

      Martin Daunton’s history of trade liberalisation shows that capricious US opinion has always mattered most

      Cranes and containers line a stretch of waterfront
    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      Martin Wolf
      The G7 must accept that it cannot run the world

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

      James Ferguson illustration of a world globe that has been squashed out of shape, showing the Brics countries to the forefront
    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      Rana Foroohar
      A US foreign policy for the middle class

      Biden’s G7 appearance reveals the challenges and contours of his new economic order plans

      Matt Kenyon illustration of a person representing the US holding a lecture for a group of people across the ocean
    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      James Crabtree
      The west is in the grip of a decoupling delusion

      Trying to move production from China is much harder than many companies and governments think

      French president Emmanuel Macron, left, and Ursula von der Leyen meet Xi Jinping in Beijing
    • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
      Gillian Tett
      America must expand its friendship group in the interests of trade

      Restricting supply chains to trusted countries is fraught with danger

      Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of Uncle Sam giving handshakes with many hands while his head is turning left and right
    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      Martin Wolf
      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

      James Ferguson illustration of Uncle Sam separating two trains with his body - leveraging a blue bumper block with his back, while pushing with his legs against a red train bumper with a Chinese flag on it.
    • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
      Leo Lewis
      The politics of deglobalisation favours the robots

      As labour supply problems persist, automation sales are hotting up

      Illustration of robots sitting in rows on a production line with one human with a helmet sitting amongst them
    • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
      Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
      Insular India’s exporters will struggle to fill Chinese shoes

      National trade strategy will make it hard for Indian companies to take full advantage of Beijing’s geopolitical problems

      Workers at the Chinese smartphone maker Realme factory in Greater Noida, India
    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      Adam Tooze
      Three ways to read the ‘deglobalisation’ debate

      Proponents of business as usual and the new cold warriors are too confident of their ability to predict the future

    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
      Janan Ganesh
      The west will rue its embrace of protectionism

      It doesn’t just split the democracies, it grants the Chinese-Russian view of the world as a zero-sum game

      Joe Biden hands Senator Joe Manchin his pen after signing the Inflation Reduction Act last year. With them are, from left, Chuck Schumer, Senate majority leader, James Clyburn, House majority whip, and Democratic representatives Frank Pallone and Kathy Castor
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