Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A corner of the UK market is enjoying its best year in at least two decades, yet investors are in no rush to price in further good news. A strategic review of the country’s defence … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One of my regular tasks is monitoring newly published reports about the UK housing market for my weekly email. Recently, I’ve noticed that, while government releases have focused on their planning reforms, the private sector … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Crypto has got its claws into the White House and is swiftly growing into a global financial stability risk. Up to now, what happened in crypto stayed in crypto. If you buy a token of … 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 a Saudi author and political commentator In today’s world, the belief that physical territory is a nation’s most vital asset is increasingly outdated. While land once defined power in agrarian societies, the … Read more
World In part one 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 how trust in the postwar world economic system is being lost and weigh the costs and consequences
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin The war between Russia and Ukraine has escalated dramatically in recent weeks. Yet western policy remains anchored in the dangerously misguided … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Given that Google attracts more than 136bn visits a month — as much as the next 12 most popular websites combined — it is easy to see how a US federal judge concluded last year … Read more
The writer is professor of economics at Harvard University and author of ‘Our Dollar, Your Problem’ US fiscal policy is running off the rails, and there seems to be little political will in either party to fix it until a major crisis occurs. The 2024 budget deficit was a mind-blowing 6.4 per cent of GDP; … Read more
Gardens have had a prolonged two-tier spring. Blue skies, dry weather and minimal frost led to exceptional quantities of flower, whether on magnolias or crab apple trees or even in late May on hawthorns and pyracanthas, smothered in off-white blossom. I never remember such profusion, one that roses are carrying beautifully forwards. Garden watchers have … Read more
