Obama for America

April 24, 2024

India seeks to secure critical mineral resources in race for lithium

...New Delhi is pushing state-owned mining groups to pursue mineral reserves in South America and Africa as well as inviting bids to develop domestic mining blocks as it seeks to expand industries such as electric...

April 23, 2024

FT Live

Infrastructure Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean

Identifying opportunities for investors and asset managers

Management consulting

Peter Mandelson’s advisory firm valued at £30mn in deal with ex-Obama aide

...Messina and another former Obama staffer Tara Corrigan will join Global Counsel’s board....

April 17, 2024

US presidential election 2024

Donald Trump aims to outraise Biden-Obama event with $33mn fundraiser

...Obama has been stepping up efforts to help Biden’s cause....

March 28, 2024

The best books of the week

Melting Point — an émigré Jewish family on a quest for a home

...strife (“America is God’s crucible, the great melting pot where all the races of Europe are fusing and reforming”)....

April 26, 2024

FT Magazine

A personal history of America’s historian-in-chief

...In 2008, her inveterate fan, Barack Obama, decided to appoint Hillary Clinton, his onetime rival for the presidency, as his secretary of state....

April 20, 2024

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards North America

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

FirstFT

FirstFT: Obama and Clinton back Biden’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza

...Could ESG better account for a company’s climate governance?...

March 29, 2024

ReviewFiction

Great Expectations — on the Obama campaign trail for a Dickens-inspired debut novel

...Great Expectations — a conscious callback to Charles Dickens’ novel of the same name — is the story of David, a young Black man who dreams of being a writer and is instead swept up in Obama’s campaign for...

February 28, 2024

OutlookPatti Waldmeir

Syphilis: an age-old disease stalking modern America

...In today’s America, too few of those who are most at risk have any way of finding that out....

April 1, 2024

US employment

Employee non-compete agreements barred by US regulator

...said Russell Beck, an attorney who sat on a working group tackling the noncompete issue during the Obama administration....

April 23, 2024

News updates from March 28: Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years; US GDP growth in Q4 revised higher

What to watch in North America today

...Biden: The US president will attend a star-studded fundraiser in New York City with former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton as he prepares for a rematch with Donald Trump in November’s election....

March 28, 2024

Edward Luce

Why no one will lend to Trump

...But his financial woes create two novel headaches — one for him, and one for America. For Trump, it undermines his reputation for being rich, which he and his base value highly....

March 20, 2024

Pilita Clark

The danger of the very serious person

...Todd Stern was Barack Obama’s climate envoy and the chief US negotiator at the 2015 COP climate conference that delivered the Paris Agreement....

April 21, 2024

Israel-Hamas war

Obama and Clinton defend Biden’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza

...Obama’s support for Biden’s stance on Israel is particularly significant because he had a more tense relationship with Netanyahu while in office between 2009 and 2017, and some of the former Obama administration...

March 29, 2024

Rana Foroohar

America now has a high-pressure economy

...America has 1.4 jobs available for every unemployed person — far above the historical norm. That makes this the strongest labour market since at least the 1960s....

February 11, 2024

FT Live

Future of Asset Management North America

New models for the next age of fund management

FT Swamp Notes

Israel exposes Obama-Biden friction Premium

...Leave Israel aside for a moment. My point is that there is not much love lost between Obama and Biden....

December 1, 2023

US presidential election 2024

Joe Biden to propose big tax rises for billionaires and corporate America

...The Biden administration will target billionaires and corporate America with sweeping tax rises as part of a plan to cut the US’s record national debt and boost the president in the polls ahead of November...

March 7, 2024

Donald Trump

Trump finds a sympathetic crowd in New York’s Harlem neighbourhood

...Nor has Hendrix forgotten how Trump encouraged the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama, the first Black president, was not an American citizen. “We were, like, ‘Wow....

April 20, 2024

FT Swamp Notes

Left brain, right brain Premium

...In the account of many in Bidenworld, this “chippiness” is long-held, but reached its apotheosis during the Obama administration, when a lot of Obama’s team (and, by some accounts, Obama himself) belittled...

February 12, 2024

Letter

Letter: A sham and a travesty — Trump’s tweet about 2012

...“We have to make America great again!” (November 7, 2012)....

April 19, 2024

Rana Foroohar

America needs straight talk on trade

...There’s a strong case to be made, for example, that America’s clean energy subsidy system could work better for the Global South than Europe’s carbon border adjustment mechanism — particularly if technology...

January 15, 2024

The World 2024

Latin America has its best chance for a generation

...Predictions of a bright new dawn for Latin America tend to elicit polite scepticism, at best. The region has disappointed citizens and investors alike over the past decade....

January 17, 2024

Edward Luce

Putin’s good friends in America

...Ukraine’s defeat would thus be good for Republicans. America’s exploitable divisions give Putin an edge over Biden, which threatens to outweigh America’s huge advantage over Russia....

December 13, 2023

Zainab Usman

America should not allow its trade programme with Africa to die

...The writer is a senior fellow and director of the Africa programme at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace It is often said that Africa does not matter to America....

February 8, 2024

Special Report

Investing in America

This second annual FT-Nikkei Investing in America ranking is an updated snapshot of the best US cities for foreign multinationals to do business in.

November 7, 2023

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