The trade deficits will remain roughly unchanged - the globe will just end up poorer

An economic renaissance is unlikely, not least because the US economy is very far from the disaster he proclaims it to be

There is a danger that animal spirits and the propensity to invest expire in a vicious downward spiral

Opportunities exist for the UK and its European neighbours, but they must grasp the nettle of economic reform

Are American pathologies the necessary price of economic dynamism?

The deal on financing agreed at Cop29 is too little, too late

It is so much easier to blame the disappearance of US jobs on China than on domestic consumers and automation

The UK chancellor should explain how her programme is going to work

Plutocrats must understand that wealth is only a source of power if it is protected by a law-governed state

The option of temporary worker contracts is not embraced by either side but it may be the solution

Its hostility to debt is folly or hypocrisy. It should use more of its surplus savings at home

Some 100 years from now people are likely to remember our era as the time when we knowingly bequeathed a destabilised climate. The market will not fix this global market failure

Politicians should acknowledge how much we could lose in the new era of suspicion, protectionism and interventionism

There are excellent reasons why we may want to intervene in the economy but these taxes will rarely be the best way

Neither major political party wants the debate that the country needs about taxes, spending and structural reform