Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer chaired a review of post-18 education for the May government, 2018-19 The financial crisis facing English universities is the result of a failed free market experiment. Note the “free”. Three quarters are expected … 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 founder & CEO of Digital Self Labs and visiting scholar on financial technology at Georgetown University Law School In 1758, an English mail coach carrying banknotes was robbed. The robber used one … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Slapping tariffs on foreign films, US President Donald Trump’s latest wheeze, is a plot riddled with holes. Films, like cars, are often multinational affairs. Random example: The Apprentice, a biopic charting the rise of a … 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 contributing columnist, based in Chicago The US Midwest invented one of history’s most enduring art forms: the soap opera. They were created in the 1930s to sell soap to housewives, and … Read more
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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. Japan has long been known as a retail graveyard, where even global giants like Tesco, Walmart and Carrefour have failed. The rise of Chinese platforms signals a fundamental shift in one of the world’s most … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. 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 … 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 professor of economics at London Business School and vice-president of the Centre for Economic Policy Research The policy unpredictability of the Trump administration has accelerated questioning of the long-term viability of the … Read more
