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April 10, 2024

Georgia governor says Biden subsidies are hurting state’s booming economy

...“But the tax incentives are helping companies make the decision to speed up investment and to ensure manufacturing is happening in the United States.”...

February 18, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Borderlands

How Mexico’s ‘kabuki pantomime’ fails to stop US-bound migrants

...“They are stuck with this sort of kabuki pantomime of trying to put on a show of blocking people, which they’re kind of good at,” said Adam Isacson, a migration expert at the Washington Office on Latin America...

April 21, 2024

Sovereign bonds

The looming New York sovereign debt bills debacle

...Capturing the mood in Albany, New York State Senate finance chair Liz Krueger said at a recent press conference that: This is an international issue that is destroying the people of other countries....

April 22, 2024

Donald Trump

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

...“Honestly, it should be 100 per cent of the Black people [that] vote for Trump because I did more for Black people than any president other than Abraham Lincoln,” he said at an event in Georgia in March....

April 20, 2024

How To Spend It In...

Louis Sarkozy’s guide to Washington DC

...Then I’d kick back with friends and contemplate the beauty of western civilisation. I’m in awe of Washington, this handsome city, the cultural capital of the USA....

April 24, 2024

FT Live

Future of the Car

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

Martin Wolf

The US retains the economic advantage in its rivalry with China

...It is also home to slightly more of the world’s people (46 per cent, against 43 per cent)....

November 28, 2023

US society

Columbia University’s ‘Gaza encampment’ becomes centre of US stand-off

...“Today, in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, we are in high spirits. We are united in our cause. We are building community. We are eating together. We are keeping each other safe and warm....

April 24, 2024

Inside BusinessSujeet Indap

Delaware, Inc agonises about Musk backlash as its lawyers seek changes

...The lawyers are members of the Delaware state bar association that customarily makes such proposals to update the state’s corporate law....

April 23, 2024

ReviewVisual Arts

Walton Ford, Morgan Library — review: roars and whispers from the finest living painter of animals

...The real story ended in predictable carnage: six of the lions were killed in a barrage of bullets. The remaining two were recaptured and sent back to lives of labour in the circus....

April 24, 2024

US economy

Biden is not getting the credit

...Yet RealClearPolitics’ polling average for the state puts Trump 5.7 per cent above the president. And views of the Georgia’s economic progress are as diverse as the state’s economy itself....

March 19, 2024

FT MagazineJancis Robinson

Napa Valley is California’s wine barometer, an expensive one

...It’s no wonder that, in the 2024 version of SVB’s annual scorecard, Rob McMillan’s State of the US Wine Industry Report, by far the most important sales channel for premium wineries was the tasting room,...

April 20, 2024

US presidential election 2024

Biden’s energy policies are fuelling Trump’s campaign in Pennsylvania

...The electoral importance of Pennsylvania is illustrated by the fact that Biden spent three days in the state this week....

April 21, 2024

FT Magazine

Battle for the American West

...By the mid-1800s, the US bracketed the landmass called North America....

April 13, 2024

News in-depthDonald Trump

Trump masks his rage as ‘hush money’ trial starts

...Instead, he had to settle for the moral support of Andrew Giuliani, the son of the former New York City mayor and his erstwhile lawyer Rudy....

April 23, 2024

FT Live

Business Book of the Year Award 2024

The search for the best business book is under way

Baltimore

Big ships, big problems

...This is how that same path — the one the Dali took on Tuesday night — looks to the people planning for the future of the harbour....

March 28, 2024

Due Diligence

The $1mn fees roiling Miami’s golf clubs Premium

...York for Miami has put a strain on everything in the Sunshine State....

April 11, 2024

Education

Columbia president Minouche Shafik at centre of campus turmoil

...“We have seen an unprecedented combination of disastrous decisions. The biggest disruption has been the setting up of this mini-police state....

April 25, 2024

Property sector

Brooklyn’s super-tall ‘Sauron’ tower in clouds of uncertainty

...Depending on how things play out, Silverstein, the developer of the rebuilt World Trade Center, could take control of the unfinished building....

April 8, 2024

Haiti

Haitian premier Ariel Henry steps down amid gang crisis

...The council, backed by the United States and Caribbean countries, is expected to appoint a prime minister and convene Haiti’s first elections since 2016....

April 25, 2024

Bankruptcy

The US scourge of venue shopping

...Last October, the Chief Judge of the US of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found “probable cause” that a bankruptcy judge in Houston — who presided over a hugely disproportionate number of the...

March 28, 2024

US presidential election 2024

‘Trump did this’: abortion ruling hands Biden opening in Arizona

...Lake, who in 2022 described the territorial statute as a “great law”, has also reversed her position, saying on Thursday that the court’s ruling was “out of line with where the people of this state are”....

April 16, 2024

Reproductive rights

Arizona court bans almost all abortions in Trump-Biden swing state

...The state had previously banned abortions beyond 15 weeks of pregnancy....

April 9, 2024

ReviewNon-Fiction

— an ‘engrossing and startling movie show’ of identity in America today

...Whatever the caveats, the book provides a compelling overview of the belief systems underlying modern America....

January 3, 2024

Travel

The dark day of my dreams

...That I — of all people!...

April 13, 2024

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