Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The writer is president of Queens’ College, Cambridge, and an adviser to Allianz and Gramercy It did not take long after last week’s UK fiscal drama for the typical political response to emerge. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Economists love to tell each other stories about perverse incentives. The “cobra effect” is a favourite. It describes an attempt by the British Raj to rid Delhi of its cobras by paying a bounty for … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UBS may have been handed an early win in its battle to moderate stringent new capital requirements imposed by the Swiss government. Who to thank? The pragmatic and slow-moving Swiss political system. The fierce debate … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Kraken, named for a giant cephalopod, is the stuff of myth. Can a software platform of the same name bring forth riches from the deep? Octopus Energy, its current owner, hopes so. Octopus plans to … Read more
The writer is a historian and public speaker “We once had seven castles,” says Jean Christophe, Baron von Pfetten. “All were sold — so I’ve bought one back!” The baron, a Frenchman with a Germanic title and a deep love of England, blames the loss of his family’s patrimony on the Code Napoleon, which prescribes … 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 the author of ‘Chip War’ and adviser to Vulcan Elements Shortly after Beijing announced new restrictions on exporting rare earth minerals and the specialised magnets they make, the world’s auto industry warned … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Uncle Sam has a copper problem. In very round numbers, the US produces 1mn tonnes of the red metal, and consumes 2mn. The deficit is filled from overseas, creating a potential geopolitical vulnerability. Yet even … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world For America’s private health insurers, President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is turning out to be not so pretty. Among the many provisions in the giant tax and spending package were the ones … Read more
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