Bill Gates: how international development can survive the Trump presidency
Over the past 25 years, the Gates foundation has given away more than $100bn. Much of that money has gone to healthcare and education projects outside the US – and the organisation plans to give $200b...
12 Maj 202527min
Martin Wolf talks to Kenneth Rogoff: Trump is accelerating the dollar’s decline
The US dollar has been in slow decline for around a decade – so says Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard professor, and former chief economist of the IMF. Donald Trump’s trade policies have raised a lot of questi...
5 Maj 202530min
Should we be optimistic about the US economy? With Michael Strain
Almost a month since ‘liberation day’, the potential impacts of President Donald Trump’s tariff regime are starting to sink in. US hard data isn’t yet showing much negative impact from changes to US t...
28 Apr 202531min
Martin Wolf talks to David Autor: could AI be a bigger threat to US jobs than China?
When China joined the World Trade Organization at the start of this century, its surging exports rattled US manufacturing. Prices fell, jobs became less lucrative, and communities that relied on these...
21 Apr 202531min
Martin Wolf talks to Mervyn King: why central banks got inflation wrong
Former Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King has never shied away from expressing his opinion. Here, he sits down with his friend Martin Wolf — the FT’s chief economics commentator — to discuss som...
14 Apr 202530min
Are US tariffs just the beginning? With Abraham Newman
As Donald Trump declares a trade war on the rest of the world, it’s time to learn about a field of economic research known as “weaponised interdependence”. The bad news is that the US president’s weap...
7 Apr 202531min
Can Germany escape its economic doldrums? With Ulrike Malmendier
For the past few years, Germany has begun to look like the ‘sick man of Europe’ again. Its economy has barely grown since 2019, while its famous manufacturing sector has shrivelled. But earlier this m...
31 Mars 202532min
How big a fiscal hole is the British government in? With Paul Johnson
The UK’s Labour government had already inherited a tricky fiscal situation when it came to power last July. But since then, growth has stagnated, borrowing costs have risen, and now the government has...
24 Mars 202531min
