Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Flick through sell-side research notes from the end of last year and you’ll find plenty of analysts crowing about “US exceptionalism”, China’s “uninvestability” and Europe’s dull stock markets. In the two months since President Donald … Read more
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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The writer is the president of The New York Academy of Sciences and former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley During the tumultuous years I was chancellor of UC Berkeley, I thought … Read more
This article is an on-site version of Free Lunch newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Thursday and Sunday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Happy Sunday. Many thanks for your responses to the last newsletter, which went viral in Canada. I waded … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The other week I made the disturbing discovery that Google Maps thinks the London apartment building I have lived in for the last 19 years is located at an address I have never heard of. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In Haruki Murakami’s novel Norwegian Wood, the character Nagasawa dislikes books that everyone else is reading because “you can only think what everyone else is thinking”. Publishers don’t worry about that. Take Bloomsbury, a publisher … Read more
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is head of risk management policy at The Centre for Long-Term Resilience Investigators will doubtless need some time to understand the cause of the fire that closed down Heathrow airport on Friday, disrupting … Read more
JD Vance told a funny story at the American Dynamism Summit in Washington this week. He recalled a Silicon Valley dinner he and his wife Usha attended, before he became vice-president, where the talk had been of machines replacing humans in the workforce. According to Vance, an unnamed chief executive from one giant tech company … Read more