Charles E Samuels, Jr

July 20, 2023

How digital cash got caught up in the culture wars

...Robert F Kennedy Jr, who is running for the Democratic nomination, said in April that “CBDCs grease the slippery slope to financial slavery and political tyranny”....

September 6, 2023

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

News in-depthUK economy

FT economists survey: ‘anaemic’ economy needs ‘investment, investment, investment’

...Happily, the Frelimo slogan did go on to say: “Victoria e Cerba!”....

January 2, 2024

FT Magazine

In 1961, MLK taught a college class. Its syllabus might be contentious today

...W E B Du Bois? Mahatma Gandhi?...

February 26, 2022

FirstFT

FirstFT: Biden predicts Russia will ‘move in’ on Ukraine

...Neglected by government recycling targets, the mass of plastic, copper, circuit boards, magnets and batteries join the planet’s trove of e-waste once they die....

January 20, 2022

The Weekend Essay

From the box to the bubble: what happened to festive TV?

...Charles Dickens had helped to revive the holiday with A Christmas Carol, whose jollier characters break out dancing on December 24....

December 24, 2021

FT Live

FTWeekend Festival

Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life

Apollo Global Management LLC

Michael Milken’s son leaves private equity group Apollo

...They included leveraged buyouts of the Mexican food chain Qdoba last year, the parent company of Chuck E Cheese in 2014 and CKE Restaurants, which owns burger chain Carl’s Jr, in 2010....

January 27, 2019

InterviewMusic

Ringo Starr on turning 80, racial equality and the coming Beatles film

...For “Ringo's Big Birthday Show” he has summoned musicians including fellow Beatle Paul McCartney, All Starr Band guitarist Joe Walsh, Gary Clark Jr, Sheryl Crow, Sheila E and Ben Harper to give performances...

July 6, 2020

The Art of FashionArt of Fashion: jewellery

‘All my rings and bracelets have an emotional value’

...Charles Jeffrey creative director, Charles Jeffrey Loverboy We sent these bracelets to people as little gifts for International Transgender Day of Visibility, then we got a lot of people on Instagram asking...

June 26, 2020

FT Magazine

A new exhibition explores masculinity, from the tough to the tender

...In 1975, aged 13, Samuel Fosso set up his own photography studio in the Central African Republic, having fled the Biafran war in Nigeria....

January 31, 2020

UK business

Why the ‘Boris bounce’ is likely to be shortlived

...Charles Nolan: Domestic uncertainty has held back investment lately....

January 1, 2020

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

How an innovative agency helped change the world

...One was JR Licklider, a visionary psychologist who saw that the future of computing lay in a more intuitive real-time interface between humans and machines....

July 27, 2018

News in-depthWorld

Liberians vote in elections that will decide Sirleaf’s successor

...Samuel Doe killed in 1990 1997 Charles Taylor elected president 2003 Second Liberian civil war....

October 9, 2017

Sebastian Payne

Opinion today: The American geopolitical void

...Basel confusion Simon Samuels argues that confusion remains over the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s capital requirements....

February 23, 2018

FT Magazine

Jeremy Paxman on the Church of England’s fight to survive

...The society begins its annual meeting with a lusty rendition of “The Church’s One Foundation”, the Victorian priest Samuel John Stone’s great anti-schismatic marching song....

September 6, 2017

FT Live

The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition

FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government

Simon Schama

America’s immigrant dream collides with nativist nightmares

...He gushed over Hitler and handed the slogan on to Charles Lindbergh’s campaign....

February 3, 2017

FT Globetrotter

Britannia’s new wave: Ten Trinity Square reinvents itself as a luxury hotel

...Charles Dickens Jr, son of the author, wrote about it in his 1879 Dictionary of the Thames. “The upper floors are set apart for Indian and the lower for Chinese teas,” he noted....

February 3, 2017

Life & Arts

From masterpieces to selfies: Simon Schama on portraits of a nation

...We chuck the snap or the selfie into the brimming e-bin of images and immediately its uniqueness is lost in the crowd. In minutes the face, if transmitted on Snapchat, will auto-liquidate....

September 11, 2015

Global Economy

Annual FT economists’ survey: Former MPC members urge rate rise

...Medium term B of E should encourage competition in financial services to raise return to savers and move away from fixation on one central interest rate to more flexible and varied market level rates....

January 1, 2015

Life & Arts

Best books of 2014

...This enormous, picture-heavy tome, which covers 250 of the world’s most exceptional gardens, has a western bias but is strong on the Middle East and Asia, from the 19th-century Iranian masterpiece Bagh-e...

November 28, 2014

Global Economy

Question 7: Scotland

...Charles Goodhart, former MPC member: The uncertainty up to September will be a minor headwind....

January 1, 2014

ReviewLife & Arts

Search for the Unicorn, The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum, New York – review

...But the exhibition, for all its charms, is merely a gloss on the Cloisters’ prize hoard, the set of tapestries that once adorned the home of John D Rockefeller, Jr....

May 29, 2013

ReviewLife & Arts

Burke & Sons

...“Burke’s talk is the ebullition of his mind; he does not talk from a desire of distinction, but because his mind is full,” said Samuel Johnson of his friend....

May 31, 2013

Global Economy

Question 5: Labour market and productivity

...Charles Goodhart, former MPC member: I would hope that much of the puzzle will have been resolved by the end of next year....

January 1, 2014

Global Economy

Question 6: Housing

...Samuel Brittan, Financial Times: Simply taper off official support. Peter Dixon, Commerzbank: The housing market is less in need of restraint than a significant supply boost....

January 1, 2014

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