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The English town that can’t wait to be a theme park

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Funny you should ask. As part of this column’s constant efforts to improve our service (save money) and because the author quite fancied a long bank holiday weekend, this week’s column is being brought … Read more

The writer is chair of the European Risk Management Council If someone set out to design a rigorous stress test for the financial system, it would be hard to come up with a better one than the scenario emerging from the actions and policies of the current US administration. When President-elect Donald Trump last year … 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. Yesterday, on the first of May, Donald Trump sacked his national security adviser Mike Waltz, after Waltz embarrassed … Read more

In climate science, the US is now a rogue state

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The Trump administration has already dented the dollar’s status as a key load-bearing pillar of global finance. It would miss it greatly if it went. It still feels wild to be discussing all … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Blackouts are common in parts of the developing world where grids are often inadequate. But, earlier this week, Europe experienced one of its worst ever power outages in Spain and Portugal, stretching from around midday … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Who says equality wasn’t a thing 30 years ago? When I first began as a portfolio manager my colleagues were evenly split between Cambridge and Oxford graduates. Can’t be fairer than that. And our trading … Read more

Beware Giffen-ish vibes in the money markets

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is president and chief investment strategist at Yardeni Research When the US stock market was hitting new record highs last year, led by the Magnificent Seven group of technology companies, the financial media … Read more