BUSINESS

For whom does Trump govern?

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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Cui bono Trump? Whose interest does he serve? As Ivan Krastev has noted, he is serving his own interests in grotesque fashion. But what about other people? We know from the brutal closure … Read more

The death of the business card

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. By the time I joined the FT in 2021, business cards had mostly fallen out of fashion. Colourful stacks of embossed cards sat on the desks of my colleagues, gathering dust. Here in San Francisco, … Read more

European common debt is the way to topple the dollar

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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 Greetings. You will have noticed a drumroll of stories in all parts of the FT recently about investors … Read more

How a widow-maker bank trade is twisting the knife

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Betting against Australia’s Big Four banks has long been a source of painful losses in Asian investing circles. Now Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the largest of those outperformers, is rubbing salt in the wound. A … Read more

The economy in an uncertain world

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World In the third of this six-part series of The Economics Show, Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, discuss the dangers facing the world economy and ask what outcomes are possible at summits such as the G7 in times of significant political and economic risk when there are … Read more

At a mad moment, a dull Fed is good

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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

Return of the American assassin

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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world People are not always what they seem. Vance Luther Boelter is a Christian preacher with a residential security company. He is suspected of killing the former Speaker of the Minnesota legislature and her … Read more

Labour’s miscalculation on taxing non-doms

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Trying to outdo its Conservative predecessor in efforts to tax the wealthy has proved a costly own goal for Britain’s Labour government. A wave of “non-doms” — whose permanent home for tax purposes is outside … Read more