**Martin Wolf *is associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times *, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 for services to financial journalism. Wolf won the Overseas Press Club of America's prize for Best Commentary in 2013 and the 2019 Lif...

**Martin Wolf *is associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times *, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 for services to financial journalism. Wolf won the Overseas Press Club of America's prize for Best Commentary in 2013 and the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Gerald Loeb Awards. He was a member of the UK's Independent Commission on Banking in 2010-11. Wolf is the author of The Shifts and the Shocks What We've Learned--and Have Still to Learn--from the Financial Crisis.