Myth of the big, bad megacity

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Donald Trump attacks “our crime ridden and deadly Inner Cities”. Alabama’s Senator Tommy Tuberville calls their inhabitants “rats”. Rightwingers reckon that New York’s likely next mayor, Zohran Mamdani, supports terrorism. Trump’s aide Stephen Miller … Read more

How much money does Ukraine need?

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 How much money does Ukraine need? I ask the question because the IMF has just dropped the report … Read more

The trades that will shape a new financial crisis

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a former banker and author of ‘Traders, Guns & Money’, ‘Extreme Money’ and ‘Banquet of Consequences’ In the lead up to the global financial crisis, the systemic risks building in markets were … Read more

Stop telling women they are cautious investors

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At my girls’ grammar school in the 90s, our maths teacher introduced us to trigonometry by saying that female brains often found it hard. At least half the class promptly switched off and probably never … Read more

Whose job is safe from AI?

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. As artificial intelligence becomes ever more capable, is any job secure? “I’ve sort of convinced myself that the safest job in the world is probably gardener,” the FT’s chief economics commentator Martin Wolf recently … Read more