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The Week Ahead
US debt ceiling action switches to Congress
...If Biden can get the deal through Congress, that leaves financial markets to soak up a flood of US debt issuance in the coming weeks, according to the FT’s Kate Duguid....
May 28, 2023
Transcript
Transcript: Tories reel from by-election blows
...Most Republicans in Congress are against funding for Ukraine....
February 16, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
The Weekend Essay
Extreme tourism: ‘If it was safe, that’s not an adventure’
...Since 2009, the Extreme Traveler International Congress has run meetups for tourists wanting to go beyond the brochures....
June 24, 2023
News in-depthNorth Korea nuclear tensions
‘North Korea has already won’: US urged to abandon denuclearisation ‘farce’
...Town pointed to the intensifying arms race in east Asia and increasing tensions between the US and China....
October 9, 2022
FT SeriesThe HTSI Property issue 2022
Inside one of East Hampton’s most mysterious mansions
...The estate – and the Gardiner name – are as old as the town itself....
November 4, 2022
Transcript
Israel-Hamas war overshadows Labour conference
...There’s been talk of new towns, which was one of Starmer’s policies for the last decade. None have actually got built....
October 13, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
The Big Read
Is Peru becoming an ungovernable country?
...Within days of the announcement, the government had made a U-turn and allowed the mines to stay open....
March 27, 2022
ObituaryColin Powell
Colin Powell, US general and statesman, 1937-2021
...They were married in her home town in August, 1962 and had two daughters and a son....
October 18, 2021
Syrian crisis
Turkey launches offensive in Syria
...Videos on social media showed people streaming out of the town of Ras al-Ayn where early bombings were heard....
October 10, 2019
Lunch with the FT
Evo Morales: ‘We are not a country of beggars any more’
...Critics say the MAS controls Congress and a small media empire, and holds sway over the courts. If he completes another term, he will have been president for 20 years....
October 18, 2019
US immigration
Trump demands Mexico deport migrants massing on US border
...Do it by plane, do it by bus, do it anyway you want, but they are NOT coming into the U.S.A. We will close the Border permanently if need be. Congress, fund the WALL!”...
November 26, 2018
Shipping
A resident of New Bern, NC, may in fact have a new boat
...On Wednesday, after flying to the Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station in hurricane-hit North Carolina, the President drove a half-hour up the Neuse River to the town of New Bern, where among other things...
September 21, 2018
Retail sector
News in brief: TAG Heuer on tour in Asia
...(The Communist party opens its five-yearly congress on October 18.)...
September 28, 2017
World
Puerto Rico scrambles to evacuate residents after dam fails
...A financial oversight board established by Congress last year to oversee the island’s restructuring approved up to $1bn in changes to the Puerto Rican budget to pay for relief efforts....
September 23, 2017
FT SeriesChina: the soft superpower
Beijing’s endgame: football with Chinese characteristics
...It has also revealed a weakness in China’s politically driven and opaque system, as opportunistic entrepreneurs try to capitalise on a government policy prone to U-turns....
November 9, 2017
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
Syrian crisis
Trump launches military strikes against Assad’s Syria
...But some members of Congress raised concerns that Mr Trump had not sought Congressional authority for use of force when the US had not been attacked by Syria....
April 7, 2017
News in-depthThe Big Read
South Africa: Self-inflicted wounds
...The address at a stadium in Rustenburg, a platinum mining town, will mark the 104th anniversary of the founding of the ANC, the former liberation movement....
January 7, 2016
Books
Extracts from the 2015 shortlist
...“Yes, it is true that my spouse and my students and members of Congress don’t understand anything about economics, but when they have to interact with markets….”...
October 19, 2015
News in-depthThe Big Read
Brazil: At breaking point
...“Corruption has escalated from random cases to a state strategy — it now seems to be the official source of party funds, from the small-town mayor all the way up to the nation’s president,” he says....
March 20, 2015
World
Education cuts hit America’s poor
...Angst is palpable among parents who live in towns such as Fredericksburg and Stafford, an hour’s drive from Washington and a world away from the gusty political debates on Capitol Hill....
September 30, 2013
FT Magazine
William D Cohan on Wall Street whistleblowers
...He also wrote to Edolphus Towns, who had just replaced Waxman as the chairman of the oversight committee. He contacted the SEC’s inspector general....
May 30, 2014
FT AlphavilleLondon fights for its future
The (early) Lunch Wrap
...(Financial Times) (Bloomberg)(Reuters) Congress accuses Apple of avoiding billions in tax: US congressional investigators on Monday accused Apple of avoiding paying billions in taxes around the world by...
May 21, 2013
FT & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
Extracts from the 2013 shortlist
...Ben Bernanke, the chair- man of the U.S....
October 16, 2013
The World blogWorld
US Election round-up, Monday October 15
...The president wallops Romney 66-31 percent overall across the U.S....
October 15, 2012
beyondbricsOccupy protests
New York headlines
...embezzled by ousted regime haunt Morsi’s rule * Hong Kong fails on pollution targets * Markets: mixed New China leadership takes shape The Chinese Communist party pulled the curtains down on the 18th Congress...
November 14, 2012

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