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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. When you are the Japanese minister of agriculture and millions of citizens conditioned from birth to revere rice are agonising over record-high prices and depleted supermarket shelves, you have a couple of choices. You could … Read more
Trump and Farage are politicians for the post-TV age
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Cyber attacks take longer to fix, and are more of a distraction, than bosses of afflicted companies tend to think at the outset. That’s what fellow chief executives have told Stuart Machin of Marks and … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When a company wins a cute nickname from its customers, it’s usually a sign something is going right. That was true for Target, the US retailer of trendy but affordable fashion and home goods widely … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Imagine an experiment in which the (otherwise identical) views of senior male or senior female economists are presented to the public. Which would you expect to be more persuasive? I think my first guess would … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world If Donald Trump performs another of his spectacular U-turns and agrees to attend the G20 summit in South Africa in November, his host, President Cyril Ramaphosa, should promptly insist on entertaining him in … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world “Vladimir, STOP!” was Donald Trump’s plaintive message after a recent Russian bombing of Kyiv. But Vladimir Putin is unlikely to stop. The Russian president thinks that time is on his side in his … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. About 70 per cent of Chinese household wealth is estimated to be tied up in real estate. That is high by global standards. In the US, the share is closer to 27 per cent. This … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It looked like an easy win for Xi Jinping in the superpower battle for global influence. The Chinese leader played host to three Latin American presidents and a gaggle of foreign ministers at a regional … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters … Read more