Paul W Derksen

May 8, 2024

Bridge - Card game

Cheap first trick subsequently costs contract

...BiddingDealer: South E/W Game The bidding went well....

April 23, 2024

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

US-China relations

CIA chief made secret trip to China in bid to thaw relations

...Paul Haenle, a former top White House China official, said one advantage of sending Burns was that he was respected by Democrats and Republicans and also well known to Chinese officials....

June 2, 2023

Bridge - Card game

Bridge: Silence from opponent marks partner with key card

...BiddingDealer: SouthE/W Game East could have raised to 2S — and many would — but, at this vulnerability, it seems a risky option. West led K♠....

March 20, 2024

Bridge - Card game

Bridge: fine slam relies on controls, long suits and some decent fortune

...Paul Mendelson’s new book, ‘The Joy of Bridge’, is out now...

February 28, 2024

Bridge - Card game

Bridge: excellent lead challenges declarer to think carefully before initial play

...Paul Mendelson’s new book, ‘The Joy of Bridge’, is out now...

February 7, 2024

FT Live

FTWeekend Festival

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Bridge - Card game

Deduction from silence reveals position of missing cards

...Paul Mendelson’s new book, ‘The Joy of Bridge’, is out now...

December 6, 2023

HTSI

19 ways to say it with bouclé

...top, €440 Airei wool-mix trousers, £1,045, selfridges.com Pols Potten terry-loop fabric Clover pouf, £255, madeindesign.co.uk The inspiration: Romy Schneider at Coco Chanel’s studio, Paris, c1960 A.W.A.K.E...

January 6, 2024

Bridge - Card game

Recognise suits which offer maximum tricks only if led by opponents

...BiddingDealer: SouthE/W Game West led 2♥; declarer won, and drew the remaining hearts with a second round. Rather than tackling clubs himself, he sought to compel East-West to assist him....

September 13, 2023

Bridge - Card game

Lacking both entries and confidence, declarer must enlist help of unwilling opponent

...BiddingDealer: NorthE/W Game The singleton A♦ may have put some off from raising no-trumps but, once bid, South is maximum, and must try for game....

August 16, 2023

Oren Cass

Republicans are misremembering their record of ‘fiscal discipline’

...George W Bush saw increases of 31 per cent and 36 per cent in his two terms as president. On the one hand, percentage growth may not be the right measure....

November 2, 2023

Bridge - Card game

Unfortunate declarer stymied by key defensive plays not found elsewhere

...Astonishingly, at over 20 other tables, E/W recorded a plus score. Read Paul’s previous Bridge columns at ft.com/bridge-card-game...

May 30, 2023

News in-depthOil & Gas industry

Oil and gas profits triple under Biden even as industry decries him

...It’s more the fundamentals,” said Bob McNally, president of consultancy Rapidan Energy and a former energy adviser to George W Bush....

February 27, 2024

Airlines

Airlines rush to avoid cancellations after engine recall

...Paul Geaney, chief commercial officer of lessor Avolon, said aviation’s “fundamental supply and demand imbalance” would last for several years....

August 14, 2023

ReviewBiography and memoir

The Maverick — George Weidenfeld, publisher to saints and sinners

...Saints or sinners, newsworthy names found a welcoming home between W&N covers....

September 27, 2023

FT Live

Investing in America

Foreign companies as drivers of US growth, resilience and competitiveness

Special ReportUS Manufacturing

Doubts linger over Biden’s industrial push

...“I certainly think the clean energy stuff is entirely driven by policy,” says Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former official in the George W Bush administration who is now president of the American Action Forum,...

October 18, 2023

ReviewNon-Fiction

The Money Kings — the profound legacy of America’s Jewish banking dynasties

...Readers are carried through the US civil war and its aftermath, multiple financial panics in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Paul Warburg’s contribution in establishing the Federal Reserve in 1913, the...

December 5, 2023

UnhedgedEthan Wu

Why the term premium is rising Premium

...The oil embargo that followed ultimately led to the unanchoring of US inflation and forced the Federal Reserve, under Paul Volcker, to crush the economy. Is that antecedent the right one?...

October 9, 2023

Bridge - Card game

Bridge: delay play of crucial suit until distributional information is revealed

...BiddingDealer: SouthE/W Game If clubs divide 3-2, all is easy but, if they break 4-1, you can still capture J♣ and score four tricks: you just have to know which opponent holds the length....

March 9, 2023

FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: geopolitics

Nato’s dilemma: what to do about Ukraine’s bid to join?

...At an early morning meeting on the second day of the alliance’s summit that year, then secretary-general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer met with US president George W Bush and his French and German counterparts Nicolas...

July 10, 2023

Bridge - Card game

Relative size of card reveals partner’s true intention

...Read Paul’s previous Bridge columns at ft.com/bridge-card-game...

February 15, 2023

The Art Market

Collectors adopt a more cautious approach

...Top-billing is John Singer Sargent’s 1891 “Egyptian Woman (Coin Necklace)”, $1.2mn-$1.8mn, while the collection also includes Frank W Benson’s glamorous portrait of one of his sisters, “Firelight” (1893)...

November 2, 2023

Bridge - Card game

When showing shortage in partner’s suit is essential for reaching slam

...Read Paul’s previous Bridge columns at ft.com/bridge-card-game...

January 31, 2023

The Trump machine

The Trump machine: the former president’s dash for campaign cash

...Billionaires Ken Griffin, Stanley Druckenmiller, Paul Singer, and Warren Stephens spent combined more than $13mn helping Trump’s rival Nikki Haley in the primaries; Jeff Yass spent roughly $5mn for Vivek...

April 2, 2024

Summer Books 2023

Best summer books of 2023: Architecture and design

...Animal Architecture: Beasts, Buildings and Us by Paul Dobraszczyk (Reaktion) Whether we want to share our dwelling spaces with animals or whether — as in the case of rats, mice, spiders, mosquitoes and...

June 24, 2023

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