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News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics

America has long used sanctions to coerce adversaries, but Iran and China can wield powerful economic weapons too

The more it penetrates our daily lives, the less we seem to understand the “system that runs the world”

Governments are now at the mercy of unseen investors

Featuring Thea Riofrancos on Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. The green energy transition requires a vast array of inputs: copper, cobalt, rare earth elements, and the focus of this disc...

Trump and the Federal Reserve.

This article offers a new account of Liz Truss’s premiership by analysing the political economy of the 2022 mini-Budget crisis. Engaging with literature on depoliticisation, statecraft, and the Cit...

Bank governor responds to investors and politicians after value of its holdings of UK government bonds fell

Prime minister declines to rule out higher income taxes as Treasury lays foundations for bigger fiscal buffer

Should Zohran Mamdani become the next mayor of New York City, he will be restricted by the municipal bond market.

Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Balanced budget conservatism and supply side populism engineered a politics of austerity and budget deficit...

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It makes no difference to growth and policymakers are always in hock to someone

Danielle Smith, Alberta’s leader, is fusing libertarian dogma with oil-soaked grievance politics. It’s Canada’s version of the New Right, dressed up in provincial pride.

Historically low levels of inflation and a defeated labor movement made the era of central bank independence possible. But the 2008 crash repoliticized the institution. Donald Trump’s attack on Lisa Cook is a backlash that has been brewing ever since.

Higher yields look probable, forcing countries to pay more to fund their ever-growing deficits

Factions of capital in the second Trump administration

Tim Lankester, Thatcher’s private secretary for economic affairs for the first two and a half years of her tenure,...

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There is nothing accountable or legitimate about unelected officials setting taxation and spending policy

In this article, we survey the literature on central bank action on climate change, focusing particularly on how the combined crises of COVID-19, inflation, and Ukraine have affected this action. W...