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Martin Sandbu

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Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com · 19/06/2026
Striking fact about the Makerfield election: left-right divide has barely budged in the last three GEs (7 years). Lab+LD+Green have gained 53-56 per cent of the votes each time; Con+Ref+Restore 43-47. All the action has been voter movements within each tribe. (Table from @peterkellner.bsky.social)
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Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com · 19/03/2026
Glad advice was heeded. Here is what I wrote on 11 January. as.ft.com/r/65d6828b-e...
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Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com · 19/03/2026
Warnings heeded then. as.ft.com/r/65d6828b-e...
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Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com · 21/07/2025
Did you know that the bilateral current account between the EU and the US is roughly zero? You thought the EU had a massive surplus, didn't you, just like Donald Trump does? on.ft.com/4eW25Ik
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Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com · 02/07/2025
It's working! Now would be the stupidest time to give up on the green transition.
Chart showing the supply of fossil fuels fell while renewable and nuclear rose in 2024.
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Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com · 27/06/2025
What deindustrialisation?
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Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com · 23/05/2025
I know Trump thinks only goods trade matters, but is anyone going to tell him that the EU's bilateral current account surplus with the US in 2024 was a grand total of... €3 billion?
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Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com · 25/04/2025
This is true. But in the US case, the accumulation of promises is only very partially caused by deficits. Huge drop in net int'l investment position started after Trump tax cut - coincidence? - and in recent years is almost entirely driven by outperforming USD and US stocks. tinyurl.com/mspymhde
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Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com · 05/11/2024
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Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com · 30/10/2024
The most important thing to note about today's UK Budget is just how much it expands the footprint of the state in the economy - by up to £76bn by the end of the parliament, or nearly 3% of national income, permanently. That amounts to a fundamental shift in how the UK works.
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Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com · 26/09/2024
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Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com · 23/08/2024
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Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com · 16/07/2024
Excessive Capitalisation is a bad German Influence on the Republican Party Platform. cdn.nucleusfiles.com/be/beb1a388-...
Common Sense tells us clearly that if we don’t have Domestic Manufacturing with low Inflation, not only will our Economy—and even our Military Equipment and Supplies—be at the mercy of Foreign Nations, but our Towns, Communities, and People cannot thrive. The Republican Party must return to its roots as the Party of Industry, Manufacturing, Infrastructure, and Workers. President Trump’s economic policy to end Inflation and return Manufacturing Jobs is not only what the American Economy and American Workers need right now, it is also what they want right now.
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Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com · 22/02/2024
Low hours = sign of slack/reason to doubt the notion of an "overheated" labour market. But we are talking about earnings here, not eg dividend income. And there is more recent data than 2022 which shows that real weekly earnings are indeed above pre-pandemic levels fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1hgnq
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Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com · 31/10/2023
Higher for longer! (Or is it... ketchup-bottle economics?) www.ft.com/content/03ac...
Eurozone inflation falls more than (most) economists expected
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