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The best books of the week
Default — the fight over Argentina’s $100bn debt crisis
...The case sent a shiver of fear through the sovereign debt world, given how it could potentially wreck any country’s attempts to extricate itself from a debt crisis....
April 20, 2024
InterviewUS financial regulation
US consumer finance watchdog raises alarm over credit card megadeals
...Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, warned about the effects of large deals on competition and financial stability....
April 24, 2024
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
Greensill Capital
Lex Greensill sues UK government over ‘misuse of private information’
...The findings of the probe are not yet public. Lex Greensill faces the possibility of being disqualified as a company director for up to 15 years....
March 5, 2024
US-China relations
Mintz staff stuck in China detention despite warming ties with US
...In the first confirmation of the Mintz employees’ plight since their disappearance during the March raid, people familiar with the matter said they were being held by the Beijing public security bureau,...
November 23, 2023
The FT ViewThe editorial board
The myth of victimless tax rises
...Stabilising the UK’s debt trajectory hinges on unrealistic cutbacks to public services after this year’s election. Whoever wins will need to find a way to boost revenues....
April 17, 2024
News updates from March 12: US House votes through bill to ban TikTok; Geert Wilders announces he will not be Netherlands PM
Argentina refinances $50bn of sovereign debt to relieve pressure on public accounts
...Argentina has refinanced 42.6tn pesos ($50.3bn) worth of sovereign debt in a record bond swap that should relieve pressure on public accounts and ease the path for lifting currency controls later this year...
March 13, 2024
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
Martin Wolf
The tree of debt must stop growing
...The global financial crisis that hit in 2007 and then the pandemic of 2020 and its aftermath caused huge jumps in ratios of public debt to GDP in high-income and emerging economies....
April 9, 2024
Undercover EconomistTim Harford
The surprising public health benefit of unemployment
...They examine the impact of the great recession of 2007-09 on death rates in different parts of the US, some of which suffered sharper increases in unemployment than others....
March 8, 2024
News updates from April 12: ECB keeps interest rates on hold; OJ Simpson dies aged 76
Biden administration raises cost of drilling on public lands
...The Bureau of Land Management said on Friday it had finalised a rule that would raise royalty rates companies must pay the government as well as increase the minimum bond associated with the clean-up of...
April 12, 2024
Martin Wolf
The looming threat of fiscal crises
...An update of an IMF chart published in 2020 shows the ratio of public debt to gross domestic product of high-income countries at 112 per cent in 2023, down from a recent peak of 124 per cent in 2020....
November 21, 2023
Markets InsightChetan Ahya
China faces the risk of a debt-deflation loop
...The risks to the inflation outlook are skewed to the downside, and the recent weakness in both the growth and inflation data suggests that the risk of a debt-deflation loop remains....
December 12, 2023
Global Economy
Investors warn governments about high levels of public debt
...Investors are warning governments around the world over “unmoored” levels of public debt, saying excessive pre-election borrowing promises risk sparking a bond market backlash....
January 8, 2024
Kalin Anev Janse
Celebrate that European safe assets have joined the €1tn club
...As this June’s elections loom, the question of how to finance European public goods is becoming unavoidable. In the past, we have seen that a joint response has yielded positive results....
March 25, 2024
News updates from March 26: Baltimore road bridge collapses; Trump’s social media business soars in market debut
Sunak promises to cut public debt through ‘strong controls’ on spending
...The Conservatives have committed to a rule that public debt should fall as a share of gross domestic product by the fifth year of official forecasts....
March 26, 2024
FT Asset Management
BlackRock’s transformational deal
...Chart of the week Investors are warning governments around the world over “unmoored” levels of public debt, saying excessive pre-election borrowing promises risk sparking a bond market backlash....
January 15, 2024
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
Embracer Group
Debt-strapped European games group Embracer plans 3-way split
...Embracer said in February that it had net debt of SKr16.1bn at the end of December and that it was “unlikely” to meet its target of reducing this to SKr8bn by the end of March....
April 22, 2024
Argentine economy
Argentina’s record bond swap aims to pave way to ending currency controls
...More than 70 per cent of the titles eligible for Tuesday’s debt swap were held by public sector entities, including the central bank and Argentina’s social security agency, almost all of which accepted the...
March 13, 2024
Letter
Letter: Don’t keep voters in the dark over Big Tech’s role
...Peter CalowProfessor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota,Minneapolis, MN, US...
April 15, 2024
Maldives
Pro-China Maldives president’s party sweeps parliamentary vote
...According to the Maldives Ministry of Tourism, the number of visitors from India, formerly its top source of tourists, plummeted 38 per cent in the first quarter of this year to 34,847....
April 22, 2024
UK politics
UK Treasury told to do more to track value for money on gilt sales
...The House of Commons public accounts committee, in a report published on Tuesday, recommended officials set out plans for improvement after finding the Treasury was “not able to fully monitor” its performance...
March 5, 2024
Letter
Letter: Why debt limits don’t work
...We all recall the argument of Harvard economists Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart who warned that growth declined dramatically when a country’s level of public debt exceeds 90 per cent of gross domestic...
April 19, 2024
Emerging market investing
Kenya seizes on bond market thaw to issue new US dollar debt
...doubts about future debt sustainability usually price countries out of the market....
February 7, 2024
UK government spending
Only 10% of UK levelling up funds spent, say MPs
...The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities could not provide “any compelling examples of what had been delivered so far”, according to a report published by the House of Commons public accounts...
March 15, 2024
Janan Ganesh
Voters don’t want to hear the fiscal truth
...Whether that nightmare materialises — small tweaks in policy can make big differences to public debt over time — it is the first of those two culprits, the electorate, that goes under-discussed....
December 5, 2023
News in-depthGermany
How Germany’s ‘debt brake’ broke the budget
...The crisis has highlighted how the unintended consequences of the debt rule, conceived as a way of strengthening confidence in Germany’s public finances, risk destabilising the country’s entire budgetary...
November 23, 2023

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