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  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    Simon Edelsten
    Investors must not let the tariff drama cloud their judgment

    Buying the best companies regardless of their country of origin might be the right policy

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  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    Investors ChronicleRosie Carr
    A public route for investors into growing private finance

    Companies offering funding deals to start-ups often raise capital on stock exchanges

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    LexCompanies
    For Pop Mart, tiny blind boxes are big business Premium content

    Gen Z shoppers are driving a collecting frenzy for Labubu across Asia, the US and Europe

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    The Long ViewKatie Martin
    US stock rally faces some stiff tests

    Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ budget bill could make or break the market trend

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Francis Fukuyama
    Why doesn’t government work in the US?

    Most Americans used to think of it as a force for good — not any longer

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    America’s courts versus Donald Trump

    US judges are a vital restraint on the president’s attempts to rule by decree

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Robin Lane Fox
    ‘Unearthed’ at the British Library is unhistorical — but not uninteresting

    This celebration of gardening in the UK is an entertaining but puzzlingly limited survey that omits more than it includes

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Emma Ashford
    Europe has a weaker hand than it thinks on Ukraine

    The ‘coalition of the willing’ sounds impressive but remains paper thin

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    LexNissan Motor Co Ltd
    Nissan’s big problem is not profitability — it’s BYD Premium content

    The Japanese carmaker’s road as a standalone company may soon run out

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Andy Haldane
    Governments are chasing the wrong rainbows

    Opportunity and upward mobility are more important than GDP growth

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
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    How to submit a letter to the editor

    Keep it short and free of jargon

  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Ask ShrimsleyRobert Shrimsley
    Is it time to reappraise Boris Johnson, father of the nation?

    In his seventh decade, the former PM has gone from bringer of Brexit to father of nine

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    Tariff revenues and the deficit Premium content

    And South Korea looks cheap

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    LexMcKinsey
    McKinsey & Co runs the consultancy playbook on itself Premium content

    Letting staff leave and not replacing them reduces the headcount without the hassle

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Rich People’s ProblemsJames Max
    How rich is rich, anyway?

    Earning a six-figure salary is enough for the government to strip you of benefits and allowances — but it hardly makes you wealthy

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    John Gapper
    Welcome to the age of cyber insecurity in business

    The hacking attack on Marks and Spencer shows breaches are inevitable and firms must focus on resilience

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Gillian Tett
    There’s a ticking time bomb in Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’

    Investors are fretting about a clause that would penalise foreign holders of US assets

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Undercover EconomistTim Harford
    Can we ‘nudge’ our way to higher growth?

    It’s time to ask whether behavioural science can tackle big problems

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  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Crypto wins a champion in the White House

    Trump family’s enthusiasm for digital assets creates a glaring conflict of interest

    A cut-out of US President Donald Trump holding a bitcoin is displayed on a group of servers
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Elisabeth Braw
    How cheap steel endangers Europe’s defence build-up

    Without its own industry, the continent will be forced to depend on foreign firms that could cut off supplies

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  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    LexUS retail
    Abercrombie and Gap get a boost from ’90s revival Premium content

    Having regained their street cred, the challenge for the two retailers will be to remain relevant

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  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Business InsightTabby Kinder
    The emerging reality of the OpenAI-SoftBank grand plan for data centres

    The financing and future of the Stargate project hailed by Trump are far from straightforward

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  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    LexTesla Inc
    Tesla board considers something new — overseeing Musk Premium content

    The electric-car maker is an anomaly, and for many investors that is the point

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  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    John Thornhill
    The VC industry needs a geopolitical reboot

    AI is rewriting the rules of the technological and investment game

    A model of a unicorn
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Richard Florida
    America needs to make its cities family-friendly again

    The pandemic accelerated an urban exodus that was already well under way

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