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   NEWS: FT.COM - COMMENT & ANALYSIS
FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 04, 2025

Labour is slow-marching working people to populism
Insurgent parties to left and right peddle nonsense economics but enjoy dramatically rising support

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 04, 2025

Etsy witches face a tough business spell
Like tarot card readings and psychics, digital magic is part of a booming metaphysical services industry

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 04, 2025

Stocks' irrational rate-cut rally
And the prospects for a Hassett-led Fed

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 04, 2025

China takes the baton in the humanoid robot race
Our delighted faith in the automatons raises the question of how they will integrate into human society

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 04, 2025

The rise of humanoid robots threatens political disruption
Our delighted faith in the automatons raises the question of how they will integrate into human society

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 04, 2025

The UK stock market concentration problem
Just two sectors explain the strong outperformance of the FTSE 100 over the broader FTSE 250 — bank and defence

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 04, 2025

Executive pay has gone galactic
Elon Musk's $1tn incentive plan supercharges a long history of rewards driving up executive pay

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 04, 2025

Bending Spoons raids the digital graveyard for paranormal returns
Italy-based company could be on to something

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

AI start-ups in the UK need more than money
In Silicon Valley, VCs offer both funding and advice from partners who built their own global businesses

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

The marketplace has superseded diplomacy in Ukraine talks
Kyiv is having to deal with actors who treat reconstruction as a money grab

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

Zara owner Inditex is the anti-fashion fashion house
Spanish group has powered its way through a choppy consumer environment

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

Zara-owner Inditex is the anti-fashion fashion house
The Spanish group has powered its way through a choppy consumer environment

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

Anthropic's IPO pitch: helpful, honest, harmless and hulking
An initial public offering could value the company at $350bn next year

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

Britain's big experiment with taxing EVs
Governments have to offset falling fuel duties without slowing electric car sales

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

The challenge for HSBC's new chair: make yourself utterly replaceable
The bank scoured the globe for candidates only to choose the person already doing the job on an interim basis

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

The food industry must face up to nature-related risk
Boardrooms need to acknowledge that without healthy soils and reliable seasons the system could face collapse

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

The economic miracle of China's midday naps
The wuxiu habit is regarded as traditional but its popularity has grown with rising incomes and longer working hours

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

Podcast: The Wolf-Krugman Exchange returns
How one year of President Donald Trump has reshaped the world economy, democracy and capitalism

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

The rise of unpopular populism
On birth rates, the lockdown and above all Brexit, the right is out of touch with the public

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

UK houses are not getting more affordable, despite what the data shows
It's not a Christmas miracle, I'm afraid

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: Maga man and Mamdani
Martin Wolf and Paul Krugman discuss Trump's promise to restore a ‘masculine' economy

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

Jancis Robinson's festive wine recommendations
Her top sparkling, white, rosé and orange wines plus a selection of affordable wines

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

More on crypto winter
And our readers on the essence of economics

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

Read the COP small print
The latest annual climate summit revealed changes on the ground are starting to outpace the UN talks themselves

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

Bitcoin faithful prepare for a bitter winter
The flywheel is difficult to maintain if crypto's animal spirits turn out to have been durably damped down

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

Governments cast a hungry eye over public piggy banks
Investors' first duty is to their stakeholders, not to politicians trying to fund spending and infrastructure

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

How can I protect my children's inheritance?
My partner and I are due to marry but have children from previous relationships

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

The wins of COP that nobody noticed
Latest annual climate summit revealed changes on the ground are starting to outpace the UN talks themselves

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

The super-rich who move for tax, and then move again
Swiss referendum on inheritance tax showed how readily some would consider their options for relocation

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

Advice to Elon Musk from Britain's aristocrats
The scions of ancient families say that posterity respects philanthropy and humility

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

Businesses must adapt to reach AI's promised Plateau of Productivity
Realising the tech's potential to boost productivity requires a shift in corporate culture and working practices

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 03, 2025

Generative AI's rapid journey through the ‘hype cycle'
Realising the tech's potential to boost productivity requires a shift in corporate culture and working practices

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 02, 2025

Britain must improve how it uses its fiscal watchdog
Weak buffers and poor support undermine the Office for Budget Responsibility

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 02, 2025

Andrew Bailey helps out UK banks — and maybe European ones too
The further Britain goes, the more pressure European regulators will come under to follow suit

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 02, 2025

It's time to sound the alarm on growing fiscal and financial risk
Rising public debt is one concern — another is how it is being financed

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 02, 2025

New capital rules from Bank of England will support growth
New standards will maintain resilience while ensuring regulation doesn't choke activity

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 02, 2025

Trump-style regime change in Venezuela
Conducting foreign policy, let alone war, by meme is dangerous and foolish

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 02, 2025

Checking in on the US consumer
Picky but still spending

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 02, 2025

Britain's brokers provide evidence of a knee-high market recovery
Sales of big slugs of stock have picked up in recent months

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 02, 2025

Let me count the ways in which Labour isn't working
The government's muddled thinking on the economy is causing it to haemorrhage support on all sides

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 02, 2025

UK Budget's energy price cut won't stop bills from rising
Neither the size nor the composition of the reduction addresses the system's underlying problems

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 02, 2025

The UK Budget's energy price cut won't stop bills from rising
Neither the size nor the composition of the reduction addresses the system's underlying problems

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 02, 2025

Videos are the new start-up pitch decks
The pandemic forced tech founders to record messages when fundraising, now slick trailers are becoming the norm

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 02, 2025

Europe should repeal the directive that's killing growth
It badly needs access to reliable fossil fuels from dependable allies like the US

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 02, 2025

Adanola's affordable leggings are chasing Lululemon
The gym-to-coffee shop womenswear brand from Manchester needs to stretch carefully

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 02, 2025

New finance needs a new kind of Treasury note
As blockchain activity rises, there is a case for a security that increases systemic resilience and lowers US borrowing costs

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

Barrick looks for gold in North American asset IPO
Elliott hasn't said publicly what it wants from the gold miner but the math supports the case for a partial listing

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

India's blockbuster labour reforms
The government's changes promise to liberalise the country's vast jobs market

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

BNP's Sudan scandal presents investors with a valuation puzzle
Seemingly large scandals can translate into unexpectedly small impacts

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

BNP's Sudan scandal presents investors with valuation puzzle
Seemingly large scandals can translate into unexpectedly small impacts

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

Why Australia loves muso politicians
An attempt to criticise the prime minister's tastes in rock and post-punk has fallen flat

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

Trump, Xi, Putin and the strongman race
The Chinese leader is ending the year in a better position than his American and Russian counterparts

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

The essence of economics
Why write about markets at all?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

HSBC and another chaotic chair search
Bank's board still riven over a replacement for Mark Tucker, 15 years after similar succession saga

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

EU watchdog must be given more power over fund managers, markets
Esma should be granted direct oversight of large cross-border entities and global crypto firms

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

EU watchdog must be given more power to supervise capital markets
Esma should be granted direct oversight of large cross-border entities such as asset managers and global crypto firms

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

Ask a stylist: how do I look good for work and parties this Christmas?
Day-to-night dressing in the holiday season

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

The best time to buy quality stocks is now
A generational opportunity in otherwise bubbly markets

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 01, 2025

The UK must escape the doom loop of low skills
Social mobility like my own is all too rare when so many are trapped in low-income jobs by lack of training

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 30, 2025

Learning to lead in a world of spiralling complexity
Recent research offers lessons in how to manage amid increasing complications

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 30, 2025

AI doesn't add up if you neglect the mathematicians
We are failing to invest in the mathematical community at a time when we need it more than ever

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 30, 2025

The EU should play its Russian assets card
There are ways to overcome a Belgian block and provide game-changing support to Kyiv

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 30, 2025

Labour has already broken its manifesto commitments
Tax rises, instability and a lack of pro-growth measures contravene the party's election platform

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 30, 2025

Europe needs a plan for decoupling from America
The EU must make itself minimally vulnerable to inevitable US pressure

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 30, 2025

Doge, crypto and the end of the lol era
Running the White House and launching memecoins once seemed so simple — more than that, it seemed hilarious

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 30, 2025

Leave me alone, AI
If I wanted your tedious advice on how to do the simplest thing online, I would have asked for it

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 30, 2025

Why the influencer economy deserves its fan club
This is a sector with blockbuster economics

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 29, 2025

The UK should enjoy the calming of the bond vigilantes
Rachel Reeves has steered the gilt market to a less skittish place with the Budget

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 29, 2025

This Budget's tax decisions will haunt the government
The buffer Reeves built into her plans is admirable, but no guarantee of avoiding the nasty dilemmas to come

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 29, 2025

Hybrid-car believers should bet on platinum's renaissance
With take-up of battery electric vehicles slowing in the US and Europe, catalytic converters will remain in demand

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 29, 2025

The coup de grâce for woke
The Booker Prize would not have gone to David Szalay's ‘Flesh' a few years ago

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 29, 2025

How the pope went pop
Efforts to attract young audiences to religion can be fraught but pizza-loving, Wordle-playing Leo XIV has struck a chord

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 29, 2025

Fill your boots before Budget tax changes kick in
Three money moves for higher earners to consider

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 29, 2025

EasyJet's taste for luxury flies the flag for the package holiday revival
Carrier hits medium-term pre-tax profit target of £250mn two years ahead of schedule

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 29, 2025

The lovelorn bards of London
Self-help musings are all over the city's streets — is this a sign that social media is leaking into the real world?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 29, 2025

The best white wines for Christmas, from £11.50 and up
Plus, Jancis Robinson's top rosé and orange wines

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

The MD moment in an investment banking career
It's a fraught and familiar time as banks select their new managing directors

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

Trial by jury is a right that needs protecting
Beware of restricting it to tackle England's huge backlog of criminal cases

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

Labour has trapped the British economy in a web of ‘doublespeak'
Reeves' Budget shows she's serious about spending other people's money — but not about growth or jobs

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

Ukraine's Catch-22 moment
Kyiv's choices are between bad now and worse later

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

It's not just gamblers taking a punt on prediction markets
Legal wrangling over ‘event contracts' has not deterred gaming groups and exchange operators from seeking a slice of the action

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

Hardy veterans have produced some of 2025's best gardening books
New gardeners have no need to reinvent the wheelbarrow — the best advice can be gleaned from years of experience, shared

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

Should I be myself at work?
The pros and cons of preserving a professional self

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

The housing crisis is pushing Gen Z into crypto and economic nihilism
Locked out of home ownership, young adults are turning to risky financial behaviour

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

Why I couldn't help torching my equity funds
My contrarianism always overwhelms common sense, experience and learning

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

The horror of the work blunder
Few mishaps compare to leaking a Budget, but many employees can relate to the OBR slip-up this week

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

Brazil offers lesson in winning the ‘Taco' trade
Global politicians need to understand that White House policy is driven by melodrama and instinct

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 28, 2025

Thames Water's lenders are not offering enough
The water industry regulator should not let the utility's bondholders take control too easily

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

Walmart reinvents itself as a growth stock
Nasdaq listing is testament to retailer's transformation under Doug McMillon

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

The UK's new gambling tax ups the odds of M&A
Profits are going to shrink in an industry already leaning towards tie-ups as gaming goes global

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

Steroid Olympics backers try for a superhuman feat of finance
The Enhanced Group, creator of the games, plans to go public at a mooted enterprise value of $1.3bn

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

This $166bn US retailer may just be the anti-tech stock
TJX, parent of TJ Maxx, Marshalls, and HomeGoods, thrives on discounts 365 days a year

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

Bubble talk has not damped Silicon Valley AI rush
Venture capital dealmaking on Sand Hill Road is still frenzied despite falls in tech sector shares

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

Why China needs to let the renminbi rise
A steady appreciation would boost domestic consumption and improve trade relations

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

The hot air of Trump's tariffs is approaching a ceiling of cold reality
Even before their full effect has hit, the duties are doing real damage

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

Taming the four horsemen of the infocalypse
Imposter accounts, lax moderation, extremism and synthetic content could destroy trust in everything we read online

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

Europe must be a rulemaker, not a rule-taker
Outsourcing EU environmental and economic strategy would be an act of self-harm

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

The OBR's careless leak has damaged us all
The fiscal watchdog's error is worse than other Budget leaks because it exists solely to improve the process

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

The OBR's carelessness has damaged us all
The fiscal watchdog's error is worse than other Budget leaks because it exists solely to improve the process

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Nov 27, 2025

Germany's Schumpeterian pains
Free Lunch readers diagnose the country's industrial problems

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