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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 market meltdown that wiped more than $5tn dollars from US stock markets last week has left investors with few places to hide. From Big Tech to low tech, virtually every industry took … Read more
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 a professor at Harvard University and former chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers A hopeful endgame for the tariff fiasco is making the rounds on Wall Street … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I wasn’t running Asia ex-Japan funds in 1997, so I won’t count the Asia crisis that spanked economies and markets in the region and left many of my colleagues without a job. So by my … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Dreams are a strange phenomenon: often a conversational bore in real life, when transformed into fiction they become the bedrock for some of our most engaging literature. From Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland fantasies to the horrors … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The armed services have a long tradition of carefully calibrated deference. In the US, for example, a humble one-star general only merits a ceremonial eleven-gun salute. In contrast, crews fire their guns 21 times for … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the unfolding drama of global trade tensions, Japan once again finds itself a target of US pressure. But unlike the 1980s, when the conflict centred on a rising US trade deficit fuelled by Japanese … 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. Australian producers are often asked for “red dirt or white sand stories” when pitching TV shows to an international audience. The desolation and threatening aura of the outback, or the sprawling beaches festooned with surfies … Read more
