Can we still trust US economic data? With Erica Groshen
After the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a worse-than-expected US jobs report, President Trump fired the agency’s head, Erika McEntarfer, claiming her numbers were ‘wrong’ and manipulated. There’...
8 Aug 202530min
Development funding is in crisis. What now? With Mark Suzman
The first two decades of the 21st century were a golden age for global development. International co-operation and funding drove remarkable progress in the developing world. Now, that progress threate...
4 Aug 202536min
Has Argentina’s Milei proved his critics wrong? With Alejandro Werner
In the early 20th century Argentina was one of the world’s richest countries. For most of the past 50 years, it has been an economic disaster. But after nine debt defaults, 23 IMF programmes and two y...
28 Jul 202533min
Can Europe afford to rearm itself? With Jeromin Zettelmeyer
European countries have committed to higher defence spending to face down Russian aggression. But preparing for war isn’t cheap – and in many countries, budgets are already stretched. How will Europea...
21 Jul 202527min
What Trump’s tariffs deadline has (not) achieved, with Dmitry Grozoubinski
July 9 marked the end of President Trump’s 90-day pause on his so-called reciprocal tariffs. Now that deadline has passed … what has actually changed? The FT’s senior trade writer Alan Beattie discuss...
11 Jul 202537min
The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: your questions answered
In the sixth of this six-part series of The Economics Show, Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman tackle a selection of questions, and even ...
9 Jul 202543min
The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: The future of the postwar system
In the fifth of this six-part series of The Economics Show, Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman discuss the way American politics is crash...
2 Jul 202544min
The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: AI hype vs reality
In the fourth of this six-part series of The Economics Show, Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman ask if advances in artificial intelligenc...
24 Jun 202541min
