Untangling the spaghetti bowl of tariffs

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 president of Queens’ College, Cambridge, and an adviser to Allianz and Gramercy The image of business leaders, governments and investors having to drink out of a US policy fire hose … Read more

The problem with workers who can’t think for themselves

The writer is the author of ‘Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future’ I have recently started hearing a new complaint from employers: that their workers are not free thinkers. One said the highly educated graduates they hired from top universities were “well-credentialed and present effectively” and “excellent at taking instruction”. But the employer was concerned: … Read more

What China should do next

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US-China trade war has escalated to new heights. This week Donald Trump focused his protectionist zeal firmly on his longtime economic foe. On Wednesday, the US president paused “reciprocal” tariffs — above a 10 … Read more

Trump tests the American attitude to pain

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Two millennia ago, the Roman poet Decimus Junius Juvenalis (“Juvenal”) decried the political phenomenon of “bread and circuses”. Back in AD100, the Roman empire was crushed by so much debt and income inequality … Read more

Nostalgia for manufacturing will make the US poorer

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 Welcome back. Now that Donald Trump has paused his “reciprocal” tariff plans (as predicted in last week’s newsletter), … Read more

The US would be better off without the global dollar

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 senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace There has been justified concern this month that the chaos unleashed on financial markets around the world by the Trump administration’s “liberation … Read more

The UK must protect its drama sector

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 director and screenwriter In 2014, I directed the BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, both winners of the Booker Prize. In 2023, I shot The Mirror … Read more

The pain of doing business under Trump

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Bit by bit, one by one, they started to come out.  After days of market mayhem, America’s billionaires finally did something this week that few top bosses have done since Donald Trump took … Read more