Trump’s incoherent economic agenda

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world It now appears that neither a slowing economy nor plunging stock prices are enough to deter US President Donald Trump from his radical economic agenda. Beyond promising to buy a Tesla to prop … Read more

Make public service work again

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 non-executive director at the UK Department of Health and Social Care  It’s not a chainsaw. Even as Sir Keir Starmer was promising to reshape the state this week, his science secretary … Read more

When super-prime worlds collide . . . 

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Real estate is cheap.” It was a surprising comment to hear in response to a talk I gave recently in New York on luxury residential markets — especially given I was discussing Manhattan apartments, which … Read more

Unlocking Canada’s superpower potential

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 Happy Sunday. In a 2023 column, I asked why Canada was not an economic giant. The musing stirred … Read more

Tariffs on goods may be a prelude to tariffs on money

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world This month, many investors feel dazed and confused. No wonder: as the US government flirts with another shutdown and President Donald Trump intensifies his trade war, indices of economic uncertainty have skyrocketed above … Read more