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1. Martin Wolf on the US midterms: What’s at stake for the world?

   24 oktober 2026 · 32 min

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   As Americans prepare to vote in the November 3 midterm elections, FT chief economics commentator Martin Wolf asks what the result will mean for Donald Trump, the future of US democracy and America's place in the world. In the second of a six-part series of interviews with leading historians and political analysts, Martin speaks to Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author Anne Applebaum about the global stakes of November’s elections. They discuss the parallels between Trump’s America and other authoritarian regimes and what the US’s changing role means for Europe and Ukraine. Even if Trump suffers a political setback, can the US ever regain the trust of its allies? Lees meer

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   Host: Martin Wolf

   Producer: Mischa Frankl-Duval

   Senior producer: Laurence Knight

   Executive producer: Manuela Saragosa

   Video editor: Claire Justin

   Audio engineering: Breen Turner

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2. Martin Wolf on the US midterms: Is American democracy safe?

   17 oktober 2026 · 43 min

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   As Americans prepare to vote in the November 3 midterm elections, FT chief economics commentator Martin Wolf asks what the result will mean for Donald Trump, the future of US democracy and America's place in the world. In the first of a six-part series of interviews with leading historians and political analysts, Martin speaks to the scholar and former Republican adviser Robert Kagan, who has spent a decade warning about Trump's authoritarian ambitions. They discuss how Trump has accumulated so much power, whether America's democratic institutions can still constrain him, and what might happen if Republicans lose control of Congress. Could these elections mark a turning point for American democracy or has the country already gone too far down the road towards authoritarianism? Lees meer

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   Host: Martin Wolf

   Producer: Mischa Frankl-Duval

   Senior Producer: Laurence Knight

   Executive Producer: Manuela Saragosa

   Video Editor: Richard Topping

   Audio engineering: Breen Turner

   Broadcast engineers: Andrew Georgiadis

   Podcast development: Laura Clarke

   FT Global Head of Audio: Flo Phillips

   Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com

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3. Martin Wolf on saving democratic capitalism

   29 mei 2023 · 43 min

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   In the first of this four-part series, the renowned FT columnist and economist Martin Wolf tells the FT’s executive opinion editor Jonathan Derbyshire why he fears the marriage of liberal economics and democracy may be facing its toughest test in decades. Drawing on arguments in his latest book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, Martin explains how his own life story and career have shaped his views. Lees meer

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   This episode is presented by Jonathan Derbyshire. The producer is Laurence Knight. The executive producer is Manuela Saragosa and the sound engineer is Breen Turner. The FT's global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. Clips: BBC, CNN, Fox News

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4. Why the Irish crisis is such a huge test for the eurozone

   6 december 2010 · 8 min

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   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. Lees meer

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5. Assets matter just as much as debt

   25 november 2010 · 6 min

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   Borrowing is no sin, provided we use the funds to ensure that we bequeath a better infrastructure to the future, says Martin Wolf Lees meer

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6. Ireland refutes the German perspective

   23 november 2010 · 7 min

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   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 Lees meer

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

   19 november 2010 · 7 min

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   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. Lees meer

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8. The IMF is giving some good fiscal advice

   19 november 2010 · 6 min

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   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. Lees meer

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9. The Fed is right to turn on the tap

   17 november 2010 · 8 min

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   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. Lees meer

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10. Current account targets are a way back to the future

    4 november 2010 · 8 min

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    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. Lees meer

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