Martin Sandbu

Oslo abruptly changed the ethics rules for the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund

The proposed reparation loan is a step forward but remains full of contradictions

Squeezed finance ministers should go big or go home

The US president is not making it easy, but it’s possible to call for rate cuts with integrity

A culture of financial caution stymies innovation and prevents the continent from competing with the US and China

Lessons from economic history point to the benign effects of ‘overcapacity’

Leaders must stop pretending that things are better than they are

A pan-European corporate code could unleash the scale and funding the continent’s businesses struggle to achieve

Paris political class goes round in circles while public finances fall behind those of other countries

Getting comfortable with division at home can strengthen Europe’s hand abroad

Gita Gopinath, the IMF’s outgoing number two official, reflects on six tumultuous years for the global economy

What masquerades as pragmatism is self-harming opportunism

Donald Trump has reset the global trading order. What happens next?

The good, the bad and the ugly of the bloc’s multiyear spending proposal

The bloc has the strength not to offer the US anything

Know your facts before conventional wisdom gets you

What will the global economy look like if it loses its monetary anchor?

The least expensive policy by far is to give the country enough now to win the war

Tariffs are not the only flashpoint; another economic policy war is shaping up

Society inevitably structures our choices but the resulting frustration feeds a yearning for magical rings