Swamp Notes: Elections across the Atlantic
Margaret Thatcher’s election in 1979 foreshadowed Ronald Reagan’s a year later, and the Brexit vote in 2016 took place just months before Donald Trump’s stunning presidential victory. The FT’s Whiteha...
15 Kesä 202413min
The target painted on Chinese EVs
Chinese electric vehicle makers look like they will survive the latest tariffs the EU announced this week, and UK Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer laid out his party’s manifesto. Plus, Toyota is caught ...
14 Kesä 202411min
Fed lays out rate cut plans
The Federal Reserve held borrowing costs at a 23-year high yesterday, and Terraform Labs has agreed to pay $4.47bn in a case brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Plus, tech companies ...
13 Kesä 20248min
Central banks are scooping up the US dollar
Shari Redstone has ended talks with Skydance Media over a deal to control Paramount, the number of central banks seeking to increase their exposure to the US dollar has increased sharply this year, th...
12 Kesä 202411min
Can Apple catch up in the AI race?
Apple on Monday said it has partnered with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into its devices, and private equity groups are snapping up US accounting firms. Plus, President Emmanuel Macron stunned France o...
11 Kesä 202410min
Far right makes big gains in Europe
Far right parties make significant gains in the European Union elections, opposition politician Benny Gantz has resigned from Israel’s emergency government, and Iranian authorities have disqualified p...
10 Kesä 202411min
Martin Wolf and Anne Applebaum on democracy’s year of peril
Across the world, billions of citizens are being asked to cast their vote in elections taking place in more than 50 countries, making this a pivotal year for democracy. But these polls come as populis...
9 Kesä 202436min
Swamp Notes: Silicon Valley warms to Trump
Few of Silicon Valley’s biggest names supported Donald Trump in 2016 or 2020. Now, some of them are holding multimillion- dollar fundraisers for him. The FT’s US business and politics correspondent, A...
8 Kesä 202413min
