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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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  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    Free LunchForeign direct investment
    Has the US really diverted green investment from Europe? Premium content

    The data shows otherwise

    Wind turbines at a wind farm in Germany
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    Free LunchRussia
    The empty threat of dumping western assets Premium content

    The west has nothing to fear but fear itself over decision to make Russia pay

    The Spasskaya Tower and St Basil’s Cathedral with a barbed wire in the foreground
  • Sunday, 19 May, 2024
    International tax
    We are a step closer to taxing the super-rich

    What once seemed like an impossibility is now being considered by G20 finance ministers

    Gabriel Zucman speaking at the G20 in February 2024
  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    Free LunchUS-China trade dispute
    Tariffs against America Premium content

    The EU should not be tempted to respond in kind

    Electric cars in a Chinese port for shipping
  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    EU-China relations
    A missed opportunity for a China-EU grand bargain

    Differences over Russia and economic frictions cast a shadow across Xi Jinping’s tour of European capitals

    Two men hold umbrellas as they walk on the tarmac of an airport
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    Free LunchGlobal inflation
    Are US and euro inflation pressures parting ways? Premium content

    US prices are from Mars and the Eurozone’s are from Venus — or maybe not

    Two elderly shoppers at a fruit and vegetable stall in Barcelona getting money from their purses
  • Sunday, 5 May, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Authoritarians fear transparency — liberal democracies should embrace it

    There is a first-mover advantage to openness on Russian assets

    Soldiers stand in a trench
  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    Free LunchRussian business & finance
    Ethical business in an evil world Premium content

    How western corporates should (belatedly) think about their Russia exposure

    The Grand Kremlin Palace and office buildings in the Moscow International Business Center
  • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
    Free LunchWar in Ukraine
    The screws are turning on Russia’s state assets Premium content

    EU resistance to confiscation is unsustainable

    Supporters of Ukraine holding a sign saying ‘Thank you USA’ and waving Ukrainian and American flags
  • Sunday, 21 April, 2024
    EU economy
    Europe still fails to make enough of its size — here’s how to fix that

    EU leaders must match the boldness of Thatcher and Delors

    Enrico Letta presents his report on the future of the EU’s single market last week
  • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
    Free LunchGerman economy
    Germany’s doomed China strategy Premium content

    The corporatist spell must soon break

  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
    Free LunchInternational Monetary Fund
    Good uses for public money Premium content

    Arguments for subsidising green innovation

    A coal-fired power plant in Germany
  • Sunday, 7 April, 2024
    European Union
    The EU’s recovery fund is already shaping its future

    Economic convergence is back and will affect the politics of the bloc’s next budget

  • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
    Free LunchGlobal Economy
    Three economic zombies worth fighting Premium content

    Bad policy ideas that are surprisingly widely held

    A worker inspects solar panels at a solar plant in China
  • Friday, 29 March, 2024
    ObituaryDaniel Kahneman
    Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize-winning psychologist, 1934-2024

    An accidental invader of economics, his insights changed the discipline forever

    Picture of Daniel Kahneman in glasses, coloured shirt and sweater standing on the balcony of a building at Princeton University
  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    Free LunchEuropean Central Bank
    Where does the ECB go next? Premium content

    As the monetary cycle looks set to turn, the policy framework for the next phase remains unclear

    Christine Lagarde speaking at the ‘ECB and Its Watchers’ conference
  • Sunday, 24 March, 2024
    European manufacturing
    Europe is making trade conditional on production methods

    Businesses are upset by the extra regulation resulting from the restrictions

    An employee fits doors on an electric VW vehicle on an assembly line
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    Free LunchBank of Japan
    Japan will remain the new normal Premium content

    Closing a monetary cabinet of curiosities

    The Bank of Japan headquarters
  • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
    Free LunchRussian assets
    Taking but not confiscating: getting creative with Russian state assets Premium content

    How Moscow can be made to compensate Ukraine without confiscation

    People at Moscow’s Red Square
  • Sunday, 10 March, 2024
    EU budget rules
    When fiscal rules create a perverse political trade-off

    Attempts designed to encourage probity from politicians mostly end up pushing them to game the system

    Judges on Germany’s constitutional court. The country’s green investment strategy was thrown into disarray in November when the court struck down a trick used by politicians to create notional ‘funds’ that can later borrow freely outside the main budget
  • Thursday, 7 March, 2024
    Free LunchEU economy
    Parsing Europe’s productivity stagnation Premium content

    Where did the EU fall short of the US’s recovery?

    Pedestrians on the Champs-Élysées in Paris
  • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
    Free LunchUS economy
    Understanding America’s productivity boom Premium content

    How the US soared ahead of Europe

    Workers assemble components of a pick-up truck
  • 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
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