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Yuval Noah Harari: Trump’s world of rival fortresses

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Fresh spring days encourage even the laziest to get back on their bikes. Shares in UK cycling and motoring retailer Halfords have recently enjoyed a moment in the sun following a better than expected update. … Read more

Mapping the high tariff world

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world You’ve got to give it to them: bankers are good salesmen. Despite a world of mayhem — in trade, geopolitics and markets, much of it caused by US President Donald Trump — the … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Messages from the archive of Rutherford Hall, critical communications strategist WhatsApp to Stephen: That meeting was terrible. Staff were on their phones at different points of the session. I’m pretty sure Alice was playing Candy … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. India faced a wrenching balance of payments crisis in 1991 that forced the country to embark on “big bang” reforms that unlocked two decades of rapid growth. Is another external shock about to jolt India’s … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Two disputatious tribes are currently arguing about the outlook for UK tech: call them the Fullies and the Empties, depending on whether they view a glass as half-full or half-empty. Fullies see massive potential for … Read more

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Six months ago, the chipmaker Nvidia epitomised what investors liked about the American economy: it had sky-high profits, impressive innovation, and a charismatic — leather jacket-clad — founder, Jensen Huang. Now, however, the … 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 research fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government in the Harvard Kennedy School and former assistant secretary for international affairs at the US Treasury Donald Trump has already withdrawn the … Read more

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Resilience is a good thing. We’ve learnt that over the past two decades or so — pandemics, wars, trade decoupling and climate-related disasters have made the risks of over-concentrating production capacity in any … Read more