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    Martin Sandbu

    European Economics Commentator

    Martin Sandbu is the Financial Times's European economics commentator. He also writes Free Lunch, the FT's weekly newsletter on the global economic policy debate. He has been writing for the FT since 2009, when he joined the paper as economics leader writer.

    Before joining the FT, he worked in academia and policy consulting. He is the author of three books, on business ethics, the euro, and on the economics of belonging.

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    • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      Western timidity has only emboldened Putin

      Ukraine is paying a higher price in blood and devastation because of two years of cautious military and economic aid

      A Ukrainian woman stands in front of the ruins of a house destroyed in a Russian missile attack
    • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
      Free LunchUS economy
      The strange lack of electoral reward for the success of Bidenomics Premium content

      Why is it not the economy, stupid?

      Joe Biden shaking hands with a man at a café
    • Sunday, 11 February, 2024
      Russian economy
      There are lessons from Russia’s GDP growth — but not the ones Putin thinks

      Moscow is exploiting a possibility that liberal market democracies ignore

      Russian servicemen in fatigues with red berets and white gloves march in Red Square
    • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
      Free LunchEU economy
      The strategic crossroads for the EU’s single market Premium content

      An interview with Enrico Letta

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    • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
      ReviewEconomics books
      The limits of wealth — calling time on the super-rich

      The rich have always been with us. Is that a good thing?

      Big boats
    • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
      Free LunchGlobal inflation
      Lessons from our past inflationary episode Premium content

      Supply, demand and Jedi central bankers

      People shop in a supermarket
    • Monday, 29 January, 2024
      EU economy
      Europe is too shy about using its economic power

      The EU can stand up for itself and be true to its multilateralist ideals at the same time

      James Ferguson illustration of a blue and yellow cap with MEGA written on it
    • Thursday, 25 January, 2024
      Free LunchGlobal inflation
      Lies, damned lies, and year-on-year inflation rates Premium content

      Don’t fall for the ‘disinflation wobble’ scare

      Shoppers queue at a fruit and vegetable stall in London
    • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
      Free LunchRenewable energy
      China’s green tech surge could turn global climate politics on its head Premium content

      Beijing’s industrial policy gives it an interest in forcing others to decarbonise more

      A solar farm in China’s Hebei provinde
    • Sunday, 14 January, 2024
      EU common budget
      A grand bargain on the next EU budget is possible

      The need for boldness didn’t pass with the bloc’s post-pandemic recovery fund

      Ministers in charge of social affairs and employment pose for a family picture during an EU informal meeting in Namur, Belgium, on Friday
    • Thursday, 11 January, 2024
      Free LunchEurozone economy
      The euro at 25 Premium content

      The single currency is still too often scapegoated

      A woman holds six fanned out 10-euro banknotes
    • Thursday, 4 January, 2024
      Free LunchRussian assets
      Russian central bank reserves: the numbers Premium content

      Getting the most we can out of available public sources

      The headquarters of the Bank of Russia, viewed through metal gates
    • Friday, 29 December, 2023
      The Weekend Essay
      Effective altruism was the favoured creed of Sam Bankman-Fried. Can it survive his fall?

      From Oxford university to Silicon Valley, the ‘do good’ philosophy has enjoyed an improbable rise — but faces an uncertain future

    • Thursday, 21 December, 2023
      Free LunchMacroeconomics
      A new start for Europe’s stability and growth pact Premium content

      Hopefully, an end to ‘computer says no’ budgeting

      The EU flag next to the flags of individual nations in the bloc
    • Sunday, 17 December, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      ‘Ukraine fatigue’ is a problem of western leaders’ own making

      The public in allied countries has been led to expect war to be easier than it is

      Volodymyr Zelensky stands at a podium and holds his hand across his chest
    • Thursday, 14 December, 2023
      Free LunchUS economy
      A Bidenomics score chart Premium content

      A boastful administration that has much to be boastful about

      Electrician apprentices practice working on a programmable logic controller in Kentucky
    • Thursday, 7 December, 2023
      Free LunchMacroeconomics
      The IMF would like the EU to please get a move on Premium content

      The fund’s number-two policymaker talks to Free Lunch

      Gita Gopinath gestures with both hands as she speaks
    • Monday, 4 December, 2023
      European Union
      Trivial concerns threaten big decisions on Europe’s future

      EU leaders must display political will at this month’s summit and push ahead on aid to Ukraine, enlargement and budget

      Charles Michel and Volodymyr Zelenskyy
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      Free LunchWar in Ukraine
      Can financial engineering solve the dilemma over Russia’s blocked reserves? Premium content

      Special purpose vehicles for victory

      A girl stands near her destroyed building
    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      Free LunchUK public finances
      Autumn Statement: a very British (tax) affair Premium content

      The problems with letting the fiscal rule tail wag the budget dog

      The Treasury building in London
    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      German economy
      Berlin is hoist with its own legalistic petard

      The repercussions of Germany’s top court striking down a domestic budgetary manoeuvre will spread to EU politics

      Three judgeds in red robes put their hats on
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Free LunchChinese economy
      Can China get its economic mojo back? Premium content

      Beijing’s path back to growth may be a European one

      People at Shanghai’s commercial and tourist area
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      Free LunchArtificial intelligence
      In AI, focus on technocrats not terminators Premium content

      Boring regulation, not sci-fi heroism, is what is needed

      Members of the press outside the Bletchley Park Estate where the AI Safety Summit was being held
    • Sunday, 5 November, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      The west must not prevaricate when it comes to seizing Russian reserves

      Confiscating and deploying them for Ukraine’s benefit is the morally obvious next step

      People walk past a poster depicting Ukrainian servicemen and a slogan which reads “Bring the victory soon” in Kyiv
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      Free LunchUS economy
      What the US got right that Europe did not Premium content

      America’s post-pandemic recovery has left Europe in the dust

      Pedestrians on Wall Street
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