The Amazon wage effect
The UK’s financial watchdog has ordered crypto exchange Binance to stop all regulated activities in Britain, and Denmark’s media industry is pioneering a new bargaining tactic to try and make Google a...
28 Juni 20218min
Biden strikes infrastructure deal, Bitcoin’s plunge
US President Joe Biden has secured a deal on an infrastructure package worth about $1tn to spend on upgrading roads, bridges and broadband networks over the next eight years, and the US Federal Reserv...
25 Juni 202110min
Meme ‘stonks’ and the market
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.comhttps://www.ft.com/content/eb36b605-47d9-465a-91f8-d47a4af45faeTech groups in Taiwan are accused of locking up migrant workers as coronavirus hits the sector...
24 Juni 202110min
Why Instagram is getting filtered out
House prices have set records in the US and parts of Europe, and the artificial intelligence-based drug-discovery platform Insilico has raised more than $255m from investors. Plus, the deputy head of ...
23 Juni 202110min
US student athletes’ Supreme Court victory
The head of the US Food and Drug Administration is under fire after approving a controversial Alzheimer’s drug, a Covid outbreak at a Chinese port has further disrupted global shipping, and the Tokyo ...
22 Juni 20219min
How artificial intelligence is reshaping the world
Reflation trade has been pummelled after the Federal Reserve unexpectedly signalled a shift in its stance on inflation, and, European Central Bank executive Fabio Panetta says the introduction of a di...
21 Juni 202111min
Black Americans’ unease with official embrace of Juneteenth
The premium above super-safe US Treasuries that investors demand to buy risky corporate debt has dropped to its lowest level in more than a decade, and tensions between Hong Kong and Taiwan threaten o...
18 Juni 202110min
Federal Reserve signals first rate rise in 2023
Federal Reserve officials expect to start raising US interest rates in 2023, Toshiba’s latest corporate crisis is a scandal over efforts to thwart activist shareholders, and the appointment of 32-year...
17 Juni 20219min
