Show some respect. No more checking texts in important meetings — like mine

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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. 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

Trump threat awakens India’s ‘big bang’ spirit

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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. 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

Three ideas to energise British tech

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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. 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

Tariffs ignore the reality of global tech supply chains

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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

Imagine what would happen if America left the IMF

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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. 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Kennedy School and former assistant secretary for international affairs at the US Treasury Donald Trump has already withdrawn the … Read more

Tariffs without industrial policy won’t work

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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

Trump’s tariff policy has nothing to do with trade

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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The writer is the junior US senator for Connecticut Economists and pundits have spent the last two weeks frantically trying to decode what President Donald Trump’s ultimate aim is with tariffs. Last week’s … Read more

The Chinese Dream is to Xi what Maga is to Trump

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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. The writer is a faculty member at Yale, former chair of Morgan Stanley Asia, and author of ‘Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives’ Trade wars are political wars. The purpose of … Read more