Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. What better place to test the health of the UK property market than a doctor’s office? A takeover battle for NHS landlord Assura — which involves a private equity bidder slugging it out with 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 The writer is editorial director and a columnist at Le Monde On two different occasions over the past few weeks, I have heard former top Biden administration officials make a surprising plea to … Read more
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 Good morning. South Korea has a new president — leftwinger Lee Jae-myung decisively won the country’s election. Will he put … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Kayla, 25, woke up one morning $40,000 in debt from gambling on online solitaire — her entire after-tax salary for a year. Kayla is not her real name, but she could be anyone’s child, sister … 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 editor-in-chief of the Polish weekly Kultura Liberalna and author of ‘The New Politics of Poland: A Case of Post-Traumatic Sovereignty’ On Sunday evening, Poland’s preliminary election results were announced based on an … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When one has manoeuvred oneself into a corner, frantic wriggling only causes further scrapes. That could reasonably describe the predicament of Thames Water. News that private equity group KKR has pulled out of a plan … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Russia’s war on Ukraine has thrown up a particular challenge for the defence industry: why use highly expensive missiles to take down cheap drones, especially when there might be hundreds of them? Military chiefs and … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. We’re a middle-aged couple with three children and a heavily US-focused investment portfolio. How can we better diversify our holdings to reduce geographic risk? Neil Wilson, investor strategist at Saxo UK, says it’s a common … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The asset cap under which Wells Fargo laboured for seven years — finally lifted on Tuesday — remains one of the weirdest, and harshest, penalties meted out to a rogue financial institution. Having extensively defrauded … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a professor at Columbia University and a Nobel laureate in economics The late Pope Francis was right to raise the alarm on the debt and development crisis facing developing countries. And he … Read more