Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world For years, private equity’s expedient playbook for making money out of flipping businesses has been a simple formula: raise cash, buy low, add cheap debt, exit high, return capital, and repeat. This flywheel … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Social affairs myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is chief executive of Centre for Homelessness Impact, a charity Prevention is better than cure, or so the saying goes. The US version is more specific: an ounce of prevention is worth a … 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 Three years ago, Sebastian Majstorovic, a German historian and data scientist, embarked on a striking rescue mission. After Russia invaded Ukraine, he co-created a 1,000-strong network of fellow nerds — two-thirds of them … 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 In one Palestinian territory, Gaza, Israeli forces have this week fired on people rushing desperately to collect food aid. In the other, the West Bank, Israel’s far-right government last week announced plans to … 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 Hello readers. If there is one thing US President Donald Trump obsesses over even more than the size … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Another quarter, another blow for London’s faltering stock market. On Thursday, UK fintech Wise said it planned to switch its primary listing to New York to improve liquidity in its shares. On Wednesday, Cobalt Holdings, … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is an FT contributing editor and writes the Chartbook newsletter Europe is in the midst of a huge surge of spending on defence. Over the past decade, military budgets in the EU have … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the world of K-pop, tattle about the latest scandal or rumour involving a Korean pop star is not just light entertainment — it’s market-moving information. Even the smallest details of a star’s personal life … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Imagine waking up one morning and lying in bed, checking your overnight emails before you have to make a work call to France, when you see a message from your company’s chief executive. It says … Read more
Wine styles have evolved enormously this century, from concentrated and beefy to fresher and lighter. But no varietal wine has changed as much as Chardonnay. The Chardonnay that featured so frequently in Bridget Jones’s Diary was big, bold and comforting. It wouldn’t be now. White burgundy is the classic (and most expensive) example of Chardonnay, … Read more