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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. The policy choices of the Trump administration have emphatically put the dominance of the dollar’s global reserve status in doubt. The big question is whether anything else is ready to take up the slack. A … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is not often that habitual complacency makes you an astute judge of world events, particularly those involving geopolitical conflict. But for decades a shrug has been the best response to the perennial panics over … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The main reason I found Day of the Triffids terrifying as a boy was the realisation that I would have for sure been one of the first people to gawp skyward at the green meteor … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Pumped up Olympics are on. Next year sees the inaugural Enhanced Games — literally, sports on steroids — in Las Vegas. It is not just ripped bodies that will be on show. The event spotlights … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Happiness is a good bowl of noodles, and right now we have many reasons to be happy. At first glance it’s a simple dish: the combining of flour and water to make a dough, which … Read more
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