Ricardo A. Rael

...But the leftist’s rhetoric and actions have become more strident throughout his six-year term, and his public confrontation with the country’s third-richest man, Ricardo Salinas Pliego, has become particularly...

March 27, 2024

Americas politics & policy

Panama presidential frontrunner ‘barred’ over money laundering case

...Panama’s former president Ricardo Martinelli will be unable to run in May elections despite leading the polls ahead of the vote, experts said, after the Supreme Court threw out a final appeal over his money...

February 2, 2024

FT Live

Brazil Summit

Building a resilient and sustainable economy

Ricardo Hausmann

How to tackle Lebanon’s economic crisis

...The government will need to chart a credible fiscal path, achieving a 3 per cent primary surplus by 2030 and a 6 per cent of GDP adjustment in six years....

November 30, 2023

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

Fitch downgrades Panama’s bonds to junk rating

...Fitch cut its rating on the bonds to BB+ from BBB- just five weeks before voters will choose a new president....

March 28, 2024

Letter

Letter: Iran and the parallels with Germany in 1914

...But if a wider war comes, it will be because Iran wants it. Hamas did not act independently of Iran, the timing of October 7 calculated to disrupt Saudi-Israel negotiations....

November 1, 2023

News updates from February 2: US adds 353,000 jobs in January, US hits Iraq and Syria after drone deaths

Panamanian presidential frontrunner barred from race by supreme court

...Panama’s former president and the frontrunner in May’s elections Ricardo Martinelli has been barred from the race after the country’s supreme court refused his final appeal over a money laundering conviction...

February 2, 2024

FT Live

Global Banking Summit

The world's top gathering of leaders in finance

Style

Flares are back, but I won’t be wearing them

...It has an impenetrable plot based on an hallucinogenic “journey of self-discovery” by a fictional protagonist called Rael, who is depicted on the album sleeve wearing a particularly flappy pair of flares...

October 18, 2023

Entrepreneurship

‘I just lost the fear’: why more older people are founding start-ups

...Ricardo, who had been an analyst at Lehman Brothers and held senior roles at Apollo Global Management and Anheuser-Busch InBev, says he would have liked to have started a business earlier....

November 5, 2023

Rana Foroohar

The global trade system is in desperate need of an overhaul

...Economists may infer from Ricardo that the US or parts of Europe simply have a comparative disadvantage in manufacturing, while parts of Asia have an advantage....

February 25, 2024

Investments

Directors’ Deals: Mike Ashley explores his options

...Ricardo reported a record order book this month, with order intake up 23 per cent year-on-year at £522mn....

September 29, 2023

European house prices

European house prices fall for first time in a decade

...,” said Ricardo Amaro at Oxford Economics....

April 4, 2024

Brazilian economy

Blackouts spark fears of grid ‘collapse’ in Brazil’s biggest city

...It is very clear that Enel is unable to continue,” said Ricardo Nunes, the centre-right mayor of São Paulo, adding that he had been told by experts that the city’s grid was at risk of “collapse” within three...

April 7, 2024

European prime property

Latin American homebuyers are drawn to Madrid’s elegance

...Madrid offered me the opportunity to set up a business more easily,” says Ricardo, who set up UNFLTRD, a coffee shop, in the city centre, and rents a flat in Chamberí with his wife....

February 29, 2024

Panama

Panama’s boom years fade as election looms

...For many Panamanians, the face of the boom years was former president Ricardo Martinelli, a supermarket magnate now living in the Nicaraguan embassy to avoid arrest....

April 18, 2024

Janan Ganesh

US Republicans aren’t good at nationalism

...He is now contemplating a general tariff on imports. Biden isn’t David Ricardo either, of course....

April 16, 2024

FT Live

Infrastructure Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean

Identifying opportunities for investors and asset managers

Letter

Letter: Lebanon’s gasfield deal with Israel offers a glimmer of hope

...Aside from shifting liabilities from the Banque du Liban to the government, Ricardo Hausmann’s proposed resolution for Lebanon’s economic crisis (“There is a realistic solution for Lebanon’s economic crisis...

December 7, 2023

HTSI

The best tech to set the mood

...“He had a great belief that attention should be paid to the way violins and cellos are made,” says Ricardo Franassovici, MD of British distributor Absolute Sounds and one of Serblin’s champions....

April 2, 2024

Goldman Sachs Group

Top Goldman Sachs executive Esposito to depart

...He was a positive influence, a mentor to many, a top-notch professional and his leadership will be missed,” Ricardo Mora, former Goldman partner who retired from the firm last year, told the FT....

January 29, 2024

Brazilian politics

Brazil’s supreme court orders probe of anti-corruption group

...Campaigners have also criticised Lula’s recent appointment of Ricardo Lewandowski as justice minister....

February 5, 2024

Argentine politics

Argentina’s unions pledge ‘total strike’ as Milei pushes reforms

...Ricardo Carpena, an Argentine journalist who has covered the labour movement for three decades, said the strike might intensify a stand-off between Milei and unions....

January 23, 2024

Janan Ganesh

How Europe should negotiate with Donald Trump

...He inhabits a world before David Ricardo, if not before Adam Smith, in which wealth is understood as a cake that nations compete for a cut of. More for thee means less for me....

February 20, 2024

InterviewMusic

Guitarist Paco Peña on flamenco, avoiding the limelight and Jimi Hendrix

...To this day he cannot read music but did his best to imitate his idols, flamenco legends Ramón Montoya and Niño Ricardo, hearing them on the radio....

April 6, 2024

Markets InsightTej Parikh

We are too obsessed with monetary policy

...This transfers wealth across financial markets,” said Ricardo Reis, a professor at the London School of Economics....

February 8, 2024

Panama

Panama to shut major copper mine after court ruling

...Panama will hold presidential elections in May, with former president Ricardo Martinelli leading the polls....

November 28, 2023

FT Globetrotter

Portrait of a park: exploring El Retiro, central Madrid’s storied green space

...Created in 1877 by Ricardo Bellver, who was inspired by John Milton’s Paradise Lost, it also happens to stand at 666 metres above sea level — although whether that was intentional or not is unknown . . ....

April 22, 2024

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