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  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Business leaders’ myopic reversal on Donald Trump

    The hunt for lower taxes and less regulation ignores major economic risks

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  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    LexProperty sector
    Be wary of Berkeley’s shift from housebuilder to landlord Premium content

    Managing tenants is very different to building and selling a house, it could find

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  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    LexLuxury goods
    Golden Goose shows how not to generate a luxury buzz Premium content

    Postponement of fashion group’s IPO shows that, even in the luxury world, gimmicks can have a limited shelf life

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  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Chris Giles
    Labour can increase spending without raising tax

    It involves austerity, some quirks in UK fiscal rules and ensuring government action requires private investment

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  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Shahin Vallée
    France’s unbalanced power structures are storing up trouble

    The chief risk is not reckless far-right economic policies but a president and prime minister so at odds that chaos follows

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  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Sophie Heawood
    Why can’t my parents see the upsides of downsizing?

    ‘We have an older generation often rattling around in large properties filled by possessions rather than people’

  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    LexTrade disputes
    Europe’s carmakers won’t suffer most from tit-for-tat tariffs Premium content

    Many auto groups are well hedged, while Beijing turns its attention to European pig farmers

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  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Edward Luce
    The mother of all US presidential debates

    A set piece clash between Biden and Trump will turn less on policies than on each candidate’s manner and appearance

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  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Robert Shrimsley
    No, Keir, the real opposition is behind you

    Forget the Conservatives, it is his backbench MPs who will put pressure on Starmer

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  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    LexAdobe Systems Inc
    Adobe’s AI-powered future hits a roadblock Premium content

    Regulator’s lawsuit threatens to disrupt design software group’s focus on artificial intelligence

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  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Ian Smith
    Wanted: country risk officers to tackle climate threat

    Insurance industry idea could help address protection gap for developing economies

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  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Laurence Boone
    Europe must prepare for five years of radical change

    It otherwise risks being left behind by the US and China

    Mario Draghi, former president of the European Central Bank
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Anjana Ahuja
    Invested in the WFH argument? Home in on the evidence

    Empirically robust trials are particularly important in evaluating social and economic interventions

    Andy Carter illustration of a person working comfortably and productively from his home environment, while other in office workers around are tired and burnt out.
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Markets InsightHilary Allen
    The dark side of tokenisation

    The financial industry needs to think of resilience as much as efficiency when putting real-world assets on to blockchains

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  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Global InsightAndy Bounds
    The EU has a chicken feet problem with China

    A transformed trade relationship has left Europe’s farmers vulnerable to retaliation

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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Inside BusinessJohn Reed
    Will Modi 3.0 be good for business?

    Coalition politics might make it harder to pursue reforms in areas including education and agriculture

    Indian PM Narendra Modi
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    LexElectric vehicles
    Fisker collapse shows difficult tech can’t find easy money now Premium content

    EV manufacturer joins a list of firms who have run out of road

    Fisker shows SUV Ocean at LA Auto Show
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Britain’s broken public services

    Neither Tories nor Labour are being upfront about what is needed to fix them

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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Martin Wolf
    How not to do industrial policy

    Politicians should acknowledge how much we could lose in the new era of suspicion, protectionism and interventionism

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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    LexPrudential PLC
    The Pru’s challenge is a break-up gone bad Premium content

    Chief Anil Wadhwani should resist throwing too much cash at shareholders and stay the course with growth

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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Janan Ganesh
    Don’t blame neoliberalism for the rise of the hard right

    Populism is often strongest in big-spending social democracies

    President Emmanuel Macron
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    LexDigital Media
    Digital comics are a serious business for private equity Premium content

    A Blackstone tender offer for Infocom could set the tone for rivals looking to list

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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    Printer does not go brr any more Premium content

    And the market goes up anyway

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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    LexEuropean banks
    Contagion risks scare off investors in French banks Premium content

    The major Eurozone economy has been mired in political turmoil

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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Andy Haldane
    Post-election, Britain will once again waive the rules

    Self-imposed fiscal constraints risk starving the economy of the investment needed to boost growth

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