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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 Good morning. Tired of uncertainty? Too bad: the Trump administration backtracked again on its tariffs on Canada and Mexico, giving … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Is Donald Trump’s White House giving up on trying to create a US national champion in chip manufacturing? And, if so, how can it guarantee a supply of the advanced semiconductors that are likely to … Read more
Europe must trim its welfare state to build a warfare state
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Call it a very big bazooka indeed, or Germany’s “whatever it takes” moment. There are few more striking signs of how Donald Trump is upturning the old world order than incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz’s epochal … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Isabel Berwick writes the FT Working It newsletter and is author of ‘The Future-Proof Career’ I have now lost track of how many US organisations have backtracked on their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. What … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I’m one of the vanishingly small number of people who think inheritance tax is a cracking idea and very rational. Almost all the rest of the UK population hates it, which helps explain why there … Read more
At least 15,000 people were ordered to evacuate, tens of thousands more were without power and flood rescues were already underway in a swath of Australia’s eastern coast in the track of Tropical Cyclone Alfred, projected to be the first to make landfall in the region in decades. Alfred was expected to come ashore Saturday … Read more
