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  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    America: a healthy or healthcare economy?

    The sickness at the heart of US GDP

  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    Markets InsightKaren Ward
    In a year of elections, European bonds still seem a safer bet than US debt

    The risks of holding Treasuries are rising with increasing deficits

    The US Treasury building in Washington
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    US interest rates
    US Fed will cut interest rates just once this year, say economists

    FT-Chicago Booth poll respondents also raise their outlook for inflation

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  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    Inside BusinessPatrick Jenkins
    The US budget is like an aggressive leveraged finance deal

    Trajectory of America’s debt burden feels unsustainable

    A worker mans a crane beneath the National Debt Clock after it was restarted July 11, 2002 in New York City.
  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    This is what normalisation looks like Premium content

    And more on margins

  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    Central banks
    Political heat gives central bankers pause for thought on rate cuts

    Federal Reserve and Bank of England weigh case for reducing borrowing costs as voters prepare to go to polls

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  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    Rana Foroohar
    Charting trade chokepoints: a how-to guide

    Understanding what our supply chains really look like could help make friendshoring a reality

    Matt Kenyon illustration of two people shaking hands against a backdrop of pie charts and statistical graphs
  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    ‘The economy is all people care about’: Trump plays strong hand in Vegas

    Rampant inflation could push Nevadans to vote for Republican president for first time in 20 years

    Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Las Vegas on Sunday
  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    Federal Reserve
    What will be the Fed’s long-term outlook for interest rates?

    Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

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  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Biden cuts Trump’s lead on handling of US economy

    FT-Michigan Ross poll also finds Democratic president edging ahead of Republican among older voters

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  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    Supply chains
    European companies step up efforts to decouple from China

    Move comes as Brussels increases scrutiny of goods from world’s largest export economy

    Containers from China are taken between terminals in the Port of Duisburg, Germany
  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    Commodities
    The graphite fight: US tariffs trigger race to build non-Chinese supply chain

    Key material for electric vehicle batteries has been neglected by industry to date, giving China almost 100% of market

    A researcher examines graphite samples
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    IMF warns US on ballooning fiscal burden

    Gita Gopinath urges Washington and other advanced economies to reduce their debt

    Gita Gopinath, deputy managing director of the IMF
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Adam Posen
    The curious case of central bank convergence

    We shouldn’t let debates about who cuts rates and when distract us from the bigger picture

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  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    US employment
    US labour market powers past expectations with 272,000 jobs added in May

    Markets push back expected timing of interest rate cuts after data beats forecast

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  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Disrupted Times
    Hot jobs report suggests US rates could stay higher for longer

    Also in this newsletter: Europe goes to the polls, Mike Lynch acquitted, science round-up

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  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    ReviewEconomics books
    Shock Values — how inflation shaped American democracy

    Carola Binder’s monetary history uncovers the deep entanglement of price rises and politics

    A man in a suit, seen from behind, stands next to a fuel station where a sign says ‘No More Gas Today’. He holds out his thumb as a car approaches
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Chinese trade
    China’s exports surged in May

    Beijing’s focus on manufacturing has fuelled trade tensions with US and Europe

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  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    FT MagazineTim Harford
    What zebras can teach us about international trade

    US tariffs on Chinese goods are the result of a highly complex ecosystem

  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The ECB’s precautionary first cut

    Central bankers need to carefully assess the case for easing peak rate restrictions

    Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    US Election Countdown
    What’s the economic impact of restricting US immigration?

    Also in today’s newsletter, a tale of two economies in Michigan

    Migrants seeking asylum in the US are watched by Texas agents next to the border wall in El Paso
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Markets InsightRebecca Patterson
    Why the hurricane season matters for the Fed

    The US central bank increasingly needs an understanding of meteorology to see where the economy is headed

    A search and rescue team from Texas works outside a home destroyed by Hurricane Ida in 2021 in Golden Meadow, Louisiana
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    What swing state Michigan’s boom says about the Biden economy

    Not everyone is benefiting equally from the revival under way in a crucial 2024 election battleground

    A montage of photos of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; downtown Detroit; and Ashley Gilbert Winfrey
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    How to recognise a slowdown

    Ignore the noise and focus on employment

    Montage of dollar bills and Manhattan skyline
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    Martin Wolf
    Nationalism threatens the world order

    If America retreats from its security guarantee of Europe, the consequences for global stability will be dire

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a peacock with the flags of China, the US, the EU and Russia as if they were its tail feathers.
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