Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Science myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The biggest optimist about the UK I’ve recently met is Ilan Gur. Naturally, he’s American. His buoyancy may owe much to his fun job as the founding chief executive of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At the height of Macau’s gaming boom in 2013, the city’s casinos generated over $45bn in gross gaming revenue, seven times that of Las Vegas. That surge in demand overwhelmed the city’s casino infrastructure, paving … Read more
The writer is a former central banker and a professor at the University of Chicago President Donald Trump recently met Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell, seeking to persuade him to lower interest rates, reminiscent of the political pressures US presidents applied to the Fed in the 1970s. Some investors may worry that US economic institutions … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world “Anyone slobbering for the US to become fully involved in the Israel/Iran war is not America First/Maga . . . We are sick and tired of foreign wars.” Those are the words of congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. This is simple. Go first class or business, and get someone else to pay for you. Take this advice and you will find flying is considerably less of a chore. Business class is more … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Friends suspect the root of my rude mental health is a Sydney upbringing. Who can ponder their inner selves on the dunny when redback spiders lurk under every seat? As anxious as Steve Waugh, they … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Three decades ago I became fascinated by the concept of “social silence” — or the idea advanced by intellectuals such as Pierre Bourdieu that what we do not talk about is more important than what … Read more
It was 25 years ago that the world of investment and funds in Europe experienced a revolution, with the arrival of the continent’s first exchange- traded funds (ETFs). The choice available now is staggering and, as with all transformative changes, there is a mix of hype, extremely useful stuff, and frankly, scary elements. I wrote … Read more
