Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is author of ‘Blood and Treasure, the Economics of Conflict from the Vikings to Ukraine’ Worries over geopolitical risks have regularly featured towards the top of polls of investor concerns over the past … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At a Barcelona economics conference last month, headlined “Europe: wake-up call?”, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez took to the stage and urged the continent to “wake up once and for all . . . take control of its destiny, … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Karthik Ramanna is a professor at University of Oxford Blavatnik School of Government. Robert Kaplan is Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School Much of companies’ carbon … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When I started digging into Russia’s central bank reserves, sanctioned after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I puzzled over why western governments didn’t publish the detailed amounts, nature and location of the assets they had … 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 Welcome back. This week, I turn to “creative destruction”. The concept was popularised by Austrian political economist Joseph … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The 22-year-old Wall Street graduate trainee: hot commodity, or tragic victim of artificial intelligence? At the moment, the answer is both. Earlier this week, Navid Mahmoodzadegan — incoming CEO of the boutique investment bank Moelis … 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 I keep on hearing about Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s failed “bromance”. Or is it their on-and-off again one? At the time of writing, Trump — having previously called Musk “crazy” — had gone … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Work & Careers myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. If your boss ever invites you and your spouse to a work party, do you accept immediately, confident your charming, supportive partner will boost your standing in the office? Or do you automatically turn … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. After hearing a jury convict two men for supplying the bomb that killed my mother, I told my father how anxious I’d felt while waiting for the verdict. “Yes,” he said. “You looked green.” My … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. In recent years, June Fridays have often been viewed by financiers as a good moment to work from home. Not now. As news spread about the Israeli air strikes on Iran, traders across Wall Street … Read more