7:51pm

Prepare for Osborne’s greatest gamble

An EU renegotiation referendum would help the chancellor defeat his rivals, says Paul Goodman

7:51pm

A diabolical mix of US wages and European austerity

Pursuing converging economic policies would have dire consequences, writes Robert Reich

7:51pm

End short-term financial reporting fudges

Earnings per share create an illusion of certainty, say Michael Mauboussin and Alfred Rappaport

Inside Business from COMPANIES May 30, 2012

Profits may elude mobile challengers

Apple’s margins unlikely to be available to all

Global Insight from WORLD May 30, 2012

Delays to Libya elections spark concern

NTC is steadily losing domestic legitimacy

May 29, 2012

How Romney should hurt the president

The economy is the president’s Achilles heel, writes Lloyd Green

The A-List May 29, 2012

Time to blackball Russia’s autocratic state

The US and EU should be talking to the reformists, write Nouriel Roubini and Ian Bremmer

May 28, 2012

A new New Deal to cut youth unemployment

We need a modern form of national service, writes John Studzinski

May 28, 2012

This is a fiscal straitjacket for Ireland, not a union

Weak countries are being punished when they most need help, writes David McWilliams

May 27, 2012

Only a new political order can rescue Greece

The electorate is livid at being led by those who dishonestly caused the problem, writes Pavlos Eleftheriadis

May 27, 2012

Cameron must quickly rediscover progressive conservatism

The offer being made is an invitation to Ed Miliband to occupy the seemingly vacated centre-ground

Global Insight from WORLD May 27, 2012

Case for Irish Yes is a hard sell

No one really wants to risk Ireland’s position in Europe

Undercover Economist May 25, 2012

An education on social mobility by degrees

Is Nick Clegg trying to rig the education market, asks Tim Harford

May 25, 2012

A proposal for the philosopher Beecroft

Richard Lambert presents a modest plan for making the working class beneficial to the public

May 25, 2012

Europe raises spectre of an ungovernable world

Co-operation in the EU is suffocating domestic political institutions, writes Mark Mazower

May 24, 2012

Time to ditch the Mexican stereotypes

Mexico has a sound economic footing, unlike its rich neighbour, writes Richard Fisher

Sebastian Mallaby Sebastian Mallaby May 24, 2012

Mr Obama, stop the attack on private equity

Bain was a blood bank to the steel plant in the campaign ad, not a vampire

May 24, 2012

Britain’s conundrum: no growth and no easy answers

The UK should implement some of the IMF’s ideas and keep the rest in reserve, writes DeAnne Julius

May 23, 2012

JPMorgan shows fighting complexity is futile

There is a thin line between prop trading, client facilitation and hedging, writes Sallie Krawcheck

May 23, 2012

We must break up the failing euro

All 17 eurozone members should decide to revert to their national currencies, writes Martin Jacomb

Comment Awards


The Financial Times has won four categories in the 2011 Comment Awards including best comment pages, business commentator: John Gapper, cultural commentator: Simon Kuper and foreign commentator: David Pilling

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