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Edward Luce
Robert Kennedy Jr’s perilous voyage of discovery
...The winner was George W Bush. This time it would be Donald Trump. If there is anything damaging out there about Shanahan, Joe Biden’s campaign will be motivated to find it....
March 27, 2024
UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
Where increasing returns come from Premium content
...Then I read W. Brian Arthur’s paper “Increasing Returns and the New World of Business”....
February 5, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Transcript
Transcript: The dilemma of the supercompany
...So, W Brian Arthur, in his famous paper on this topic, talks about the “halls of production”, which is like the stable world of production businesses, and the “casino of technology” where you just don’t...
February 15, 2024
Oil
Oil tops $80 a barrel after Houthi threat diverts tankers from Red Sea
...Bob McNally, founder of Rapidan Energy and a former adviser to the George W Bush White House, said that he calculated oil prices could jump by about 15 per cent if the conflict showed further signs of spreading...
January 12, 2024
US society
Columbia’s ‘Gaza encampment’ becomes centre of US stand-off
...We are putting our principles into action,” W declared before a small gathering of journalists....
April 24, 2024
Letter
Letter: Foreign policy is constant, America’s parties waver
...But when Republicans were in office, such as with Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan or George W Bush, they promoted foreign military interventions, international trade and even openness to immigration....
January 25, 2024
FT Live
Commodities Asia Summit
Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows
Wednesday, 6 NovemberSingapore
News in-depthSupreme Court US
Trump gives US Supreme Court its biggest election test since Bush vs Gore
...The question is whether Roberts can put together a bipartisan court majority on this.”...
February 7, 2024
Supreme Court US
US Supreme Court appears wary of keeping Trump off Colorado ballot
...Chief justice John Roberts challenged Murray, saying the lawyer was implying that the power of disqualification was “implicitly extended to the states under a [separate constitutional] clause that doesn’...
February 8, 2024
US Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC hands out $79mn in fines over latest round of messaging violations
...Robert W Baird & Co agreed to pay $15mn, and William Blair & Company and an affiliate paid $10mn. The other businesses included Nuveen Securities and Fifth Third Securities....
September 29, 2023
Oren Cass
Republicans are misremembering their record of ‘fiscal discipline’
...Robert Doar, president of the business-friendly American Enterprise Institute, cited approvingly Danforth’s “case for traditional conservative principles against the caterwauling of the populist New Right...
November 2, 2023
Letter
Letter: Learning the lessons of Versailles is the key to Europe’s security
...Robert HunterFormer US Ambassador to NatoNegotiator of Nato-Ukraine CharterWashington, DC, US...
August 11, 2023
Unhedged
Potemkin rate increases Premium content
...Email me: robert.armstrong@ft.com. Potemkin rate increases A Potemkin village is a facade designed to impress, but without any real substance....
July 18, 2023
US Election Countdown
Trump rallies for donations as Biden’s campaign racks up record cash pile
...By this metric, the 2020 election was slightly closer than Trump’s 2016 victory, and the closest since 2000, when George W Bush beat Al Gore in Florida by just a few hundred votes....
February 20, 2024
News in-depthRepublican Party US
Republicans reckon with Reagan’s global vision in insular era of Trump
...Pointing to Trump’s former national security adviser Robert O’Brien, Panetta said: “Your president hasn’t unified the country, he’s split the country . . ....
December 4, 2023
Transcript
The Biden scorecard
...Robert ArmstrongYes. Ethan WuNobody does the equivalent for their W-2. Robert ArmstrongNo, indeed. Ethan WuWhere it’s Joe Biden saying, I did this. No, it’s the worker that did that....
October 5, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
The Weekend Essay
A new road for Russia?
...George W Bush said he could “get a sense of his soul” and found Putin “straightforward and trustworthy”....
July 1, 2023
ReviewAudio books
Genre round-up: the best new audio books
...— in other words, W Somerset Maugham....
June 5, 2023
The Trump machine
The Trump machine: the former president’s dash for campaign cash
...Francis Rooney, a former Congressman and ambassador to the Vatican under George W Bush, opposes Trump’s “isolationism” and tariffs, and has deep concerns about his authoritarian tendencies, from when he...
April 2, 2024
Janan Ganesh
‘Oppenheimer’ is a great film about the wrong man
...The fact that J Robert Oppenheimer agonised over his part in the creation of the atomic bomb is not interesting. Was he meant to whistle to work?...
July 25, 2023
UnhedgedEthan Wu
Why the term premium is rising Premium content
...Let us know your thoughts: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
October 9, 2023
ReviewTheatre
Operation Mincemeat review — wartime subterfuge makes a joyous West End musical
...The script and songs (written by Cumming, Hodgson, Roberts and Felix Hagan) trip along briskly, laced with a kind of wartime delirium....
May 17, 2023
The Trump machine
Inside Donald Trump’s new inner circle
...Robert O’Brien, the former national security adviser who has continued to praise Trump, may well be in the mix for a top job....
March 26, 2024
In the footsteps of . . .
Across Iceland, in the footsteps of WH Auden
With 1930s Europe in turmoil, Auden and his friend Louis MacNeice found escape in a journey to the strange, spectacular Westfjords
January 28, 2023
Transcript
Transcript: Global threats — contrasting views in Europe, Asia and the Pacific
...When you look at George W’s presidency, you don’t just think about W, you think about on the foreign policy side, Condi, Rumsfeld, Powell. You think about the people around them....
February 29, 2024
Letter
Letter: Action is needed to let Ukraine use Russia’s frozen assets
...Arseniy Yatseniuk Chairman, Kyiv Security Forum; Prime Minister of Ukraine 2014 and 2014-2016 Lawrence H Summers President Emeritus of Harvard University, US Treasury Secretary 1999-2001 Amb Robert B Zoellick...
November 3, 2023

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