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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.In part one of this six-part series of The Economics Show, Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman discuss how trust in the postwar world economic system is being lost and weigh the costs and consequencesVideo: The cost of losing trust in the US Source link
US President Donald Trump doubled tariffs on steel to 50 per cent this week. He’s also allowing Japan’s Nippon to buy the US Steel Corporation. The moves are meant to bring back manufacturing to America’s steel industry. But will they? FT senior trade writer Alan Beattie and Zehra Munir, the FT’s industrial reporter, discuss whether Trump can make good on a popular promise. Mentioned in this podcast:It’s always steel — tariffs provide Trump with a familiar trade weaponDonald Trump’s US Steel gamble: Pennsylvania workers warm to Nippon tie-upSign up for the FT’s Trade Secrets newsletter hereSign up for the FT’s…
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Beijing has agreed to fast-track approvals for rare earth export licences for some European companies after China’s strict controls on shipments of the critical minerals rocked global supply chains.European officials and industry groups have complained that a new licence system for rare earths and related magnets, introduced in the wake of Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs in April, risked causing widespread factory stoppages. However, according to a statement published by China’s commerce ministry on Saturday, Beijing is now “willing to establish a…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.BT’s Openreach has threatened to block TalkTalk from putting new customers on its broadband network in a move that could derail the struggling telecoms operator’s turnaround efforts. The warning, issued this week, is the latest step in an escalating financial dispute between TalkTalk and the UK’s largest broadband network. The heavily indebted telecoms provider has missed several monthly payment deadlines to Openreach, its biggest supplier, because of cash flow issues, the Financial Times reported this week. The late payments have varied in…
In a few seconds of flickering Super 8 film footage, an elderly woman, dressed in black with grey hair tied back, walks down a New York street, briefly pausing to chat outside a shop. Superficially unremarkable, this was in fact the final cinematic appearance of Greta Garbo, shot without her knowledge from the apartment of Peter De Rome. A Hollywood publicist by day, pioneering gay pornographer by night, he used the clip in his 1974 erotic film Adam & Yves. Although forgotten for decades, De Rome’s work — both at the time and since — has been regarded as art-house cinema…
This article is an online version of our Scoreboard newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Saturday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newslettersScoreboard turned five this week, and we’ve been doing a quick spot the difference with our first edition. Back then, the conversation was about when sport might return — lockdown meant most live action had been suspended worldwide. Now it’s about when sport might take a breather. It’s less than a week since Paris Saint-Germain brought the curtain down on the European football season with its…
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Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Airlines myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.What a switch for British Airways. In news that will astonish the many people I know who still insist on flying Abba, or Anyone But BA, one of the airline’s most high-end offerings is on a roll.Its sales of the short-haul business class seats that everyone said would be throttled by Europe’s budget airlines have instead exploded. They’ve “defied our best expectations”, Sean Doyle, BA’s chief executive, said this week.The premium cabins built for the sort of person who can pay up to…
Donald Trump may have been mocked as the president who “always chickens out”, but when world trade ministers gathered in Paris this week the message from Washington was clear: we are going it alone.For the first time since Trump imposed his “liberation day” tariffs, the OECD annual meeting brought together a quorum of the world’s leading trade ministers in one place — and the collective challenge was clear. While ministers queued up in public to defend and reform the multilateral “rules-based” system, behind closed doors, in the splendour of the OECD’s Parisian château, the mood was dark. Governments seem busier…