Government of Louisiana

China blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers

...The stricter government procurement guidance also seeks to sideline Microsoft’s Windows operating system and foreign-made database software in favour of domestic options....

March 24, 2024

News in-depthMike Johnson

Inside House Speaker Mike Johnson’s conversion on aid for Ukraine

...In the last week of February, a large billboard appeared across the street from Mike Johnson’s home church in Benton, Louisiana....

April 24, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Thames Water

Thames Water lenders face losses of up to 40% in event of nationalisation

...In 2014 Network Rail’s £30bn of debts were added to the government’s balance sheet after the ONS reclassified it as a public body....

April 18, 2024

Person in the News

Mike Johnson, another House Speaker under attack from his own side

...“It is a very tough job,” says Tom Arcenaux, the mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, who has known Johnson for more than two decades....

April 12, 2024

UK immigration

House of Lords insists on further changes to Sunak’s Rwanda bill

...As a result of the government’s new immigration rules 40,000 people in the UK were “stuck in a Kafkaesque perma-backlog of inadmissible [asylum] cases”, he added....

April 17, 2024

Environment

‘Sacrifice zone’: booming US LNG sector leaves its mark on the Gulf

...Dozens other LNG projects have been proposed, most of them for them around the Texas-Louisiana border....

November 27, 2023

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

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The pursuit of happiness

...These drivers of fulfilment are a far better basis for policy. An equivalent approach is to see the role of government as reducing the causes of unhappiness....

March 22, 2024

Donald Trump

Trump shows his influence over Congress in election of Mike Johnson as Speaker

...Emmer had voted to certify Joe Biden’s 2020 election win and also supported a deal to avert a government shutdown this autumn....

October 27, 2023

HS2

Lack of orders puts future of HS2 train factories in doubt

...Train companies are technically in charge of making rolling stock orders, but their budgets for these are set by the government....

March 23, 2024

Post Office scandal

Campaigner Alan Bates accuses government of ‘vindictiveness’ in treatment of Post Office victims

...The role of Sir Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats and former postal affairs minister in the 2010 coalition government, has been under scrutiny since an ITV drama about the scandal in January sparked...

April 9, 2024

Photo essay

Record amounts of sewage flow into UK rivers

Data from Environment Agency prompts calls for government to declare national emergency

April 4, 2024

Paul Killik

Why buying company shares has gone out of fashion

...I believe successive British governments bear a good deal of responsibility for what has happened....

April 5, 2024

UK Government

Former UK prime ministers call for reform of ‘centre’ of government

...The review, which will be launched by former Conservative and Labour prime ministers Major and Brown, is the result of a year-long “commission on the centre of government” convened by the IfG....

March 10, 2024

On Wall StreetBrendan Greeley

The easy dream of someone else’s dollars

...When you are a taker of someone else’s dollars, all the macroadvantages of an exporter don’t matter if local banks and local governments scratch each others’ backs....

December 23, 2023

UK agriculture

Limits placed on removal of land from food production in England

...than the government intended....

March 25, 2024

FT Live

Future of the Car

The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive

US politics & policy

Republican firebrand moves to oust US House Speaker

...Johnson, a congressman from Louisiana, was only elected Speaker last October after a Trump-aligned faction of lawmakers ousted Kevin McCarthy after he struck a deal with Democrats to keep the government...

March 22, 2024

US House of Representatives

Republicans select fourth Speaker nominee after Trump torpedoes Emmer bid

...Congress is also facing the looming threat of a costly shutdown in less than a month, unless lawmakers can agree on a new plan to fund the federal government....

October 25, 2023

Letter

Letter: Why Biden’s ratings should improve before US election

...Paul WhiteleyEmeritus Professor of Government,University of Essex, Boxford, Suffolk, UK...

March 29, 2024

Republican Party US

Donald Trump ally Mike Johnson elected US House Speaker after weeks of gridlock

...He vowed to “serve the people of this country” and “restore their faith in this Congress, this institution of government”....

October 25, 2023

Martin Wolf

The tree of debt must stop growing

...Overall, they note, debt sustainability depends upon four elements: primary balances, economic growth, real interest rates and debt: “Higher primary balances — the excess of government revenues over expenditures...

April 9, 2024

Europe Express

What Bulgaria’s government collapse means for the rest of the EU Premium

...In February the Dutch government accused China of hacking into a military network last year....

March 27, 2024

ReviewAlbums

Leyla McCalla: Sun Without the Heat — from Greek myth to Brazilian tropicalia

...Its 10 songs were recorded in a nine-day sprint in Louisiana and retain that experimental freshness....

April 17, 2024

News in-depthHaiti

Haiti nears transitional government in stand-off with gangs

...During negotiations over the transitional administration, gangs have taken advantage of the lack of effective government to attack energy infrastructure, terrorise the streets and launch assaults on public...

March 22, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

Nigeria’s kidnapping racket is a symptom of a failing state

...The discovery of oil did not help, transforming the business of government into divvying up rent, not creating wealth....

March 12, 2024

News in-depthSociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA

China’s Tianqi Lithium’s $4bn bet on Chile at risk of backfiring

...But Tianqi’s investment to solidify its position in Latin America, home to the “lithium triangle” of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile, is in jeopardy as the Chilean government works to exert more control over...

April 10, 2024

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