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News in-depthUK economy
Regional leaders welcome UK ‘investment zones’ but warn success rests on wider growth
...The area’s existing Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre — a successful 20-year R&D partnership between the University of Sheffield and industry — received a £29.5mn research grant from the Aerospace Technology...
August 14, 2023
InterviewChinese business & finance
Chinese robot maker says protectionism will not stop its march
...Dubbed “little Huawei” in the industry, Inovance was founded by a group of former Huawei engineers, including Zhu himself, and has an employee stock ownership plan and high R&D spend that are similar to...
April 4, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
World
And the winner is . . .
...First of all, since so many people were clearly stumped, here are the correct answers: This shows the estimated R* for the US economy (Laubech-Williams model, natch)....
December 4, 2023
Special ReportThe Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies
Its blockbuster cystic fibrosis treatment costs $300,000 a year. Now Vertex wants to solve the opioid crisis
...He says Vertex’s $4.8bn R&D budget is not about maximising “shots on goal”; it is instead focused on “a set number” of diseases where Vertex has “super-high conviction that they’re going to work”....
April 26, 2024
Republican Party US
Republicans’ climate stance sets up new 2024 election front line
...“The polling is pretty clear that younger Republicans care more about climate change,” said Philip Rossetti, a senior fellow at the free-market R Street Institute think-tank....
November 3, 2023
Megan Greene
Central banks shouldn’t relax about R-star just yet
...For over 20 years, Williams and company have been estimating the long-run neutral (or natural) rate — known to economists as r-star....
July 3, 2023
FT Live
Financial Times @COP
FT Live events coinciding with COP
Monday, 11 NovemberBaku, Azerbaijan
FT Alphaville
R-star rises again
...Williams has thought of this....
May 25, 2023
#techAsia
Huawei’s latest surprise and an unexpected avatar Premium content
...Apple has invested at least $1bn in microLED R&D and even made a push into the actual manufacturing of the cutting-edge display technology....
April 18, 2024
The Week Ahead
Opening arguments begin in Trump trial
...PepsiCo Q1, Philip Morris International Q1, RWS Holdings HY, Seagate Q3, Shimano Q1, Spotify Q1, Taylor Wimpey AGM & trading update, Tesla Q1, Texas Instruments Q1, United Parcel Service Q1, Visa Q2, W R...
April 21, 2024
Climate change
‘One climate disaster after another’: North America’s long hot summer
...Philip Rossetti, a senior fellow at R Street, a free-market think-tank, said that climate would enter the US political discourse when political parties realised that younger voters cared about the issue....
August 19, 2023
Energy Source
Unlocking the potential of superhot rocks Premium content
...Resources for the Future has elected William Pizer as its next president and chief executive....
March 21, 2024
US interest rates
The most important chart in the world
...Highlighting the messiness, the NY Fed — whose president John Williams is a guru of the field — suspended its calculations for R* during the Covid-19 pandemic, and when it resumed publishing updates last...
August 30, 2023
Global Economy
The fault in R-stars
...In a preface to Naked Lunch, William S Burroughs said the title refers to “a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.” The equivalent for economists is an R-star epiphany....
March 8, 2023
Trade Secrets
Brussels tests out perhaps its sharpest anti-China tool yet Premium content
...Next week I have a treat for you: Aime Williams, Trade Secrets alumna and now FT Washington climate reporter extraordinaire, will be in charge. Until then, I’m afraid, it’s me....
April 8, 2024
InterviewStyle
Pharrell Williams on his Louis Vuitton debut: ‘This is not a gig. This is a dream’
...There had been amazing black designers, a thousand per cent, but there hadn’t been musicians, and specifically the R&B, rap world, being able to come in and not just wear something, not just use something...
June 20, 2023
FT Live
The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition
FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government
Wednesday, 4 DecemberDigital Conference
Music
Sing it loud: Britain’s grassroots music scene is under threat
...They are the R & D department (of the music industry), where you figure out who you are as a songwriter,” he said, lamenting the dire straits many of these spots are now in....
June 23, 2023
UnhedgedEthan Wu
The Fed isn’t done breaking things Premium content
...The late economist John Henry Williams, as quoted last week by New York Fed president John Williams, wrote in 1931 that R-star is “an abstraction; like faith, it is seen by its works”....
May 25, 2023
ReviewAlbums
Jungle: Volcano — a solid summer soundtrack
...The breathy shimmy of “Good At Breaking Hearts” is enriched by the gorgeous vocals of UK R&B talent JNR Williams....
August 11, 2023
ReviewMusic
Mavis Staples, Union Chapel review — a singer channelling the Holy Spirit and a whole lot more
...Kelly Hogan and Saundra Williams also sang backing vocals, with the odd lead part when Staples rested in a chair sipping at a mug....
July 4, 2023
UK politics
UK to rejoin EU Horizon research programme
...Letter in response to this article: Rejoining Horizon puts Britain back in the global R&D race / From Sam Laidlaw, Chair, National Centre for Universities and Business, London SE1, UK...
September 6, 2023
UK Budget
Hunt scales back UK ‘investment zones’ plan
...The government said its approach aligned with its “levelling up” commitment to rebalance R&D spending outside the south-east....
March 15, 2023
Inside Politics
Ban on Gove’s ‘piggy bank’ risks stalling regional regeneration plans
...With Stephen away for some well-earned R&R, today’s Inside Politics is coming to you from 200 miles north in Manchester....
February 13, 2023
Britain after Brexit
Regional policy and the dash for green growth Premium content
...universities, accessing that cash is now very difficult and, as yet, the government has not acceded to the request of Universities UK for part of the prosperity fund to be ringfenced, despite science and R&...
February 16, 2023
News in-depthEnglish devolution
Mayors argue more autonomy will solve UK’s low productivity spiral
...This has allowed regions to carry out “complicated market-facing activities” such as attracting foreign direct investment and boosting R&D....
March 16, 2023
Holiday gift guide 2022
Jody Williams and Rita Sodi focus on foodie gifts — ‘because that’s where our head is at’
...Jody Williams and Rita Sodi are co-chefs and co-owners of Via Carota, an Italian trattoria in New York’s West Village...
December 1, 2022

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