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The multiple tragedies of Myanmar

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world “Just tell me how things will end up!” It’s a question on many minds as the global economy undergoes a genuine paradigm shift that goes well beyond the US tariff announcement currently shocking … Read more

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented attack on US universities. How far will it go? Will it trigger a brain drain? And could other countries replace what’s lost? I discussed this with Lee … 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 Greetings. US “liberation day” has come and gone, as have all the pre-announcement takes. Frankly, there was little … 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

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is president of the World Bank The World Bank was not born of altruism, but of strategic design. Its original purpose, shaped by US interests, was to forge a global economic landscape ripe … Read more

Ten weeks that shook the world

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is founder and chair of Dimensional Fund Advisors When markets feel as shaky as they do now in the US, it is normal to ask: is this time different?  After all, the S&P … Read more

Anime lessons in the limits of AI

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Japan has a safety deposit box problem. It is just not clear whose problem it is, exactly. For decades, safety deposit boxes have been where Japanese customers stashed hard cash, jewels, housing deeds and whatever … Read more