Episodes

  • Why the Irish crisis is such a huge test for the eurozone

    Why the Irish crisis is such a huge test for the eurozone
    Dec 6 2010
    The 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.

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    8 mins
  • Assets matter just as much as debt

    Assets matter just as much as debt
    Nov 25 2010
    Borrowing is no sin, provided we use the funds to ensure that we bequeath a better infrastructure to the future, says Martin Wolf

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    6 mins
  • Ireland refutes the German perspective

    Ireland refutes the German perspective
    Nov 23 2010
    Berlin’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

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    7 mins
  • How to chart a course out of the Sino-American storm

    How to chart a course out of the Sino-American storm
    Nov 19 2010
    They 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.

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    7 mins
  • The IMF is giving some good fiscal advice

    The IMF is giving some good fiscal advice
    Nov 19 2010
    The 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.

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    6 mins
  • The Fed is right to turn on the tap

    The Fed is right to turn on the tap
    Nov 17 2010
    The 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.

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    8 mins
  • Current account targets are a way back to the future

    Current account targets are a way back to the future
    Nov 4 2010
    The 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.

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    8 mins
  • Britain has gone climbing without a rope

    Britain has gone climbing without a rope
    Oct 28 2010
    Martin 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

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    7 mins