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FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

Barrick looks for gold in North American asset IPO
Elliott hasn't said publicly what it wants from the gold miner but the math supports the case for a partial listing

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

India's blockbuster labour reforms
The government's changes promise to liberalise the country's vast jobs market

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

BNP's Sudan scandal presents investors with a valuation puzzle
Seemingly large scandals can translate into unexpectedly small impacts

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

Why Australia loves muso politicians
An attempt to criticise the prime minister's tastes in rock and post-punk has fallen flat

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

Trump, Xi, Putin and the strongman race
The Chinese leader is ending the year in a better position than his American and Russian counterparts

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

The essence of economics
Why write about markets at all?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

HSBC and another chaotic chair search
Bank's board still riven over a replacement for Mark Tucker, 15 years after similar succession saga

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

EU watchdog must be given more power over fund managers, markets
Esma should be granted direct oversight of large cross-border entities and global crypto firms

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

EU watchdog must be given more power to supervise capital markets
Esma should be granted direct oversight of large cross-border entities such as asset managers and global crypto firms

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

Ask a stylist: how do I look good for work and parties this Christmas?
Day-to-night dressing in the holiday season

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

The best time to buy quality stocks is now
A generational opportunity in otherwise bubbly markets

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

The UK must escape the doom loop of low skills
Social mobility like my own is all too rare when so many are trapped in low-income jobs by lack of training

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 30, 2025

Learning to lead in a world of spiralling complexity
Recent research offers lessons in how to manage amid increasing complications

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 30, 2025

AI doesn't add up if you neglect the mathematicians
We are failing to invest in the mathematical community at a time when we need it more than ever

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 30, 2025

The EU should play its Russian assets card
There are ways to overcome a Belgian block and provide game-changing support to Kyiv

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 30, 2025

Labour has already broken its manifesto commitments
Tax rises, instability and a lack of pro-growth measures contravene the party's election platform

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 30, 2025

Europe needs a plan for decoupling from America
The EU must make itself minimally vulnerable to inevitable US pressure

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 30, 2025

Doge, crypto and the end of the lol era
Running the White House and launching memecoins once seemed so simple — more than that, it seemed hilarious

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 30, 2025

Leave me alone, AI
If I wanted your tedious advice on how to do the simplest thing online, I would have asked for it

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 30, 2025

Why the influencer economy deserves its fan club
This is a sector with blockbuster economics

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 29, 2025

The UK should enjoy the calming of the bond vigilantes
Rachel Reeves has steered the gilt market to a less skittish place with the Budget

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 29, 2025

This Budget's tax decisions will haunt the government
The buffer Reeves built into her plans is admirable, but no guarantee of avoiding the nasty dilemmas to come

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 29, 2025

Hybrid-car believers should bet on platinum's renaissance
With take-up of battery electric vehicles slowing in the US and Europe, catalytic converters will remain in demand

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 29, 2025

The coup de grâce for woke
The Booker Prize would not have gone to David Szalay's ‘Flesh' a few years ago

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 29, 2025

How the pope went pop
Efforts to attract young audiences to religion can be fraught but pizza-loving, Wordle-playing Leo XIV has struck a chord

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 29, 2025

EasyJet's taste for luxury flies the flag for the package holiday revival
Carrier hits medium-term pre-tax profit target of £250mn two years ahead of schedule

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 29, 2025

Fill your boots before Budget tax changes kick in
Three money moves for higher earners to consider

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 29, 2025

The lovelorn bards of London
Self-help musings are all over the city's streets — is this a sign that social media is leaking into the real world?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 29, 2025

The best white wines for Christmas, from £11.50 and up
Plus, Jancis Robinson's top rosé and orange wines

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

The MD moment in an investment banking career
It's a fraught and familiar time as banks select their new managing directors

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

Trial by jury is a right that needs protecting
Beware of restricting it to tackle England's huge backlog of criminal cases

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

Labour has trapped the British economy in a web of ‘doublespeak'
Reeves' Budget shows she's serious about spending other people's money — but not about growth or jobs

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

Ukraine's Catch-22 moment
Kyiv's choices are between bad now and worse later

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

It's not just gamblers taking a punt on prediction markets
Legal wrangling over ‘event contracts' has not deterred gaming groups and exchange operators from seeking a slice of the action

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

Hardy veterans have produced some of 2025's best gardening books
New gardeners have no need to reinvent the wheelbarrow — the best advice can be gleaned from years of experience, shared

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

Should I be myself at work?
The pros and cons of preserving a professional self

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

The housing crisis is pushing Gen Z into crypto and economic nihilism
Locked out of home ownership, young adults are turning to risky financial behaviour

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

The horror of the work blunder
Few mishaps compare to leaking a Budget, but many employees can relate to the OBR slip-up this week

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

Why I couldn't help torching my equity funds
My contrarianism always overwhelms common sense, experience and learning

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

Brazil offers lesson in winning the ‘Taco' trade
Global politicians need to understand that White House policy is driven by melodrama and instinct

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

Thames Water's lenders are not offering enough
The water industry regulator should not let the utility's bondholders take control too easily

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

Walmart reinvents itself as a growth stock
Nasdaq listing is testament to retailer's transformation under Doug McMillon

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

The UK's new gambling tax ups the odds of M&A
Profits are going to shrink in an industry already leaning towards tie-ups as gaming goes global

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

Steroid Olympics backers try for a superhuman feat of finance
The Enhanced Group, creator of the games, plans to go public at a mooted enterprise value of $1.3bn

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

This $166bn US retailer may just be the anti-tech stock
TJX, parent of TJ Maxx, Marshalls, and HomeGoods, thrives on discounts 365 days a year

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

Bubble talk has not damped Silicon Valley AI rush
Venture capital dealmaking on Sand Hill Road is still frenzied despite falls in tech sector shares

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

Why China needs to let the renminbi rise
A steady appreciation would boost domestic consumption and improve trade relations

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

The hot air of Trump's tariffs is approaching a ceiling of cold reality
Even before their full effect has hit, the duties are doing real damage

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

Taming the four horsemen of the infocalypse
Imposter accounts, lax moderation, extremism and synthetic content could destroy trust in everything we read online

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

Europe must be a rulemaker, not a rule-taker
Outsourcing EU environmental and economic strategy would be an act of self-harm

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

The OBR's careless leak has damaged us all
The fiscal watchdog's error is worse than other Budget leaks because it exists solely to improve the process

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

The OBR's carelessness has damaged us all
The fiscal watchdog's error is worse than other Budget leaks because it exists solely to improve the process

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

How flattery became a big, beautiful industry
Never before have there been so many rich people to be boosted

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

Germany's Schumpeterian pains
Free Lunch readers diagnose the country's industrial problems

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

Reeves has reassured the bond vigilantes but tests to come
Investors welcomed Budget's fiscal rigour, giving the chancellor the benefit of the doubt on implementation, productivity and growth for now

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

France isn't ready to send its children into battle
A speech by a leading general hinting at the need for conscription has taken the French out of their comfort zone

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

Agentic AI is the hacker's new accomplice
The automation of attacker-defender dynamics is a long-standing fear among cyber defence specialists

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

How GLP-1s changed Thanksgiving
Obesity medications are diminishing appetites for the foods that American holidays are known for

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

Santa Claus is still a woman
There is something particularly stubborn about gender roles at Christmas

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 26, 2025

Japan needs to end its dangerous debt delusion
The country has to face up to the hard truth that it has maxed out on its fiscal flexibility

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 26, 2025

Rachel Reeves' case of risky risk aversion
It is depressing that a government with such a huge majority dares do so little to transform economic prospects

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 26, 2025

A tax-raising British Budget with no long-term solutions
The chancellor's failure to drive growth and cut spending leaves future levy rises on the cards

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 26, 2025

Pets at Home chews through investors' goodwill
Dog demographics have aged out since Covid pup purchase boom

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 26, 2025

The new nuclear age needs to make the right business case
To turn investor interest into necessary flows of capital, projects must be demystified

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 26, 2025

Reeves leaves Britons poorer but no wiser about Labour's strategy
She and Starmer remain torn between the convictions that got them into politics and economic principles

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 26, 2025

Reeves' fiscal ‘smorgasbord' was a dish best served early
Chancellor's long-awaited second Budget upstaged by OBR's premature publication of forecasts

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 26, 2025

Podcast: The Wolf-Krugman Exchange returns
How one year of President Donald Trump has reshaped the world economy, democracy and capitalism

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 26, 2025

A horrid Budget for the ‘Henrys'
Tax squeeze set to hit higher-earning young professionals at key point in their careers

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 26, 2025

Citi reshuffles deckchairs but investors would rather it made waves
US bank's shareholders would prefer progress over process

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 26, 2025

How not to botch a Budget: lessons from the corporate world
At the very least, Rachel Reeves should control the message rather than allow leaks that have frustrated businesses

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 26, 2025

Altice USA bridles at an outbreak of creditor-on-creditor congeniality
Company says that bare-knuckle restructurings outside court, like the one it would like to achieve, are better for all parties

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 26, 2025

Nigeria's problem is bigger than Trump thinks
Its government is failing to protect everyone, not only Christians

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 26, 2025

How Greece's recovery can be an inspiration for Europe
The Eurozone's former problem child is now borrowing more cheaply than much of the continent

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 26, 2025

Can South Korea's hot streak continue?
And securitising AI debt

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 26, 2025

China is making trade impossible
Europe has nothing to offer and difficult decisions to make

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 26, 2025

Can a drone wall really work?
International co-ordination, not technology, is the major barrier to Europe's defence against unmanned aerial vehicles

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 26, 2025

Should I make a career move to the UK?
I'm worried about the tax implications as well as the practicality of getting a visa

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 26, 2025

The fatal flaw in using bitcoin as a currency
There is a crypto parallel in the aftermath of Europe's 14th century bubonic plague

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 25, 2025

The AI cycle will crack first in Asia
Big US tech companies are more diversified than Korean and Taiwanese chipmakers

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 25, 2025

A COP of clumsy compromises
It is left to a coalition of the willing to start the hard work of phasing out fossil fuels

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 25, 2025

Kingfisher gives a pre-Budget vibe check for the UK economy
When consumers worry about their future incomes, they retreat into home comforts

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 25, 2025

Kingfisher gives pre-Budget vibe check for UK economy
When consumers worry about future incomes they retreat into home comforts

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 25, 2025

A ‘family portrait' of India, captured in its many languages
Granta magazine's latest special issue on the country reflects three decades of shifting freedoms and fissures

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 25, 2025

The fracturing of the world economy
Will the US or China abandon their current follies sooner?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 25, 2025

Making IPOs great again has its pitfalls
The US needs more public listings but the regulatory pendulum may be swinging too far

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 25, 2025

Private equity can help lawyers grow as rich as their clients
Curbs on outside capital are just another problem to be solved for the smartest legal and financial minds

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 25, 2025

The UK must remove the pension triple lock
With each economic shock, it ratchets up the value of state retirement payments relative to average earnings

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 25, 2025

How not to retire
You don't have to become a lady or gentleman of leisure — here's a guide for the unretired

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 25, 2025

Valuations and returns revisited
In the short and very long terms, ignore equity market valuations. In between, watch carefully

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 25, 2025

The minimum wage is not a cure all — we're asking too much of business
Politicians spend too much time uttering cheap rhetoric about cheap labour

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 25, 2025

A shrinking world will turn our problems upside down
The political and economic priorities of a depopulating society could be very different from today's

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 25, 2025

Tech trumps tariffs: why US exceptionalism will last
The view that the stock market is in a massive bubble and bound to crash is incorrect over the medium term

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 25, 2025

The ring is a sideshow for the London Metal Exchange
Open outcry is not the biggest obstacle to the growth of the historic trading venue

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 25, 2025

You can place too much trust in trusts
They need to be carefully constructed to protect your wealth, otherwise they are vulnerable to challenge

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 24, 2025

What the UK Budget needs to get right
Reeves must deliver credible savings, calibrated tax rises and a pro-growth signal

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 24, 2025

The death of the diplomat in Trump's America
Sidelining the state department and relying on dealmakers will come at a cost

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 24, 2025

Why ‘Henrys' are turning their back on the Tories
The Conservative party has lost touch with affluence — and with the generation that would like to enjoy its benefits

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 24, 2025

BHP's fleeting Anglo bid shows race for copper is heating up
It was second time unlucky for the Australian miner but a third attempt at a later date might be the charm

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 24, 2025

BHP's fleeting Anglo bid shows the race for copper is heating up
It was second time unlucky for the Australian miner but a third attempt at a later date might be the charm

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 24, 2025

Is Fuse's $5bn funding the start of the ‘Revolut mafia'?
This network could embody the Silicon Valley ‘flywheel' metaphor and boost economic growth in Europe

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