Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK financial regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is founding partner and CEO of Atlas Merchant Capital and former chief executive of Barclays I’m writing this in New York. If I take even a short journey from my desk, I can … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At least Keir Starmer is consistent in his ability to satisfy no one. Within minutes of Labour’s new immigration plan being unveiled, the right-wing media confirmed that it was never going to be enough to … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.” Thus taught Adam Smith. It is hard to see what else production is for, now or in future. Consumption must be the goal of international … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Much of the global attention around industrial self-sufficiency has focused on the US and China. Yet Japan, too, has been working to reduce its reliance on foreign suppliers in strategic sectors, and particularly when it … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bulls and Tigers and Moomoos — oh my! Online brokers, sensibly named and otherwise, have this year proved a better trade than betting on the broader market. On Wednesday, eToro joined the herd with an … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Renewable energy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ed Miliband, UK energy secretary, came to office promising to “move fast and build things” by unleashing £40bn of investment a year to convert Britain’s energy infrastructure to clean power by 2030. He remains a … 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 I have had two takes on US President Donald Trump’s trade war in the past month. First, I … Read more
