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   NEWS: FT.COM - COMMENT & ANALYSIS
FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 28, 2026

US manufacturing is booming — but it's no thanks to Trump's tariffs
This is not the nostalgic, protectionism-fuelled return that the president promised

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 28, 2026

Warsh settles some nerves at Jackson Hole
Speech gave a crisper picture of how he reads the economy but leaves open questions over Fed ‘reaction function'

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 28, 2026

The age of the e-bike
There are ways to make them safer without banning them from city centres

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 28, 2026

Why banks find it so hard to manage reputational risk
It is one thing to assess facts, another to weigh up the public reaction to them

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 28, 2026

Have you got 10 minutes?
The fightback against online ‘life-hacks' starts here

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 28, 2026

The US consumer is showing some strain
Spending is rising, but not on the right stuff

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 28, 2026

Is China's ‘wise camel' the winner from the US-Iran war?
Beijing has threatened to retaliate with ‘all necessary measures' if the US hits it with sanctions

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 28, 2026

Letting tax cheats off the hook is costing America
Politicised enforcement is targeting minnows while allowing the wealthiest scofflaws to escape unscathed

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 28, 2026

Meta's $18bn settlement shows the wrong way to keep kids safe
Relying on mutual compromise is a flawed way to protect young users

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 28, 2026

A divine garden in a former coal-mining town
Historical spectacle and harmonious drifts of flowers and foliage bring a longstanding project in County Durham to fruition

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 27, 2026

De-dollarisation may not be over
Recent pick-up in dollar's share of global foreign exchange reserves does not amount to a trend reversal

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 27, 2026

Warsh goes to Jackson Hole
The Fed chair must reassure markets in his forthcoming speech

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 27, 2026

In asset management, the race for scale is becoming urgent
Even with markets at record highs, the pressure to find new clients is mounting

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 27, 2026

‘Headless software' signals further AI-led shake-up
The SaaS-pocalypse might be easing but industry change is accelerating

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 27, 2026

Why 5% Treasuries aren't crushing emerging markets
Owning EM bonds has not been so terrible in the past year

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 27, 2026

Don't draw the wrong conclusion from Treasury yields
Investors are marking up their expectations for long-run economic growth in the US

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 27, 2026

Humanoid robots will be useful, just not as we imagined
Bipedal robots may look impressive doing tricks on YouTube, but the real value lies with their less flashy, highly functional industrial cousins

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 27, 2026

AI's hacking capabilities are severely underestimated
It is now startlingly easy to put together a cheap and destructive cyber attack

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 27, 2026

Autumn can't come soon enough for home sellers
The housing market is highly seasonal — and understanding that might be the key to getting the best deal

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 27, 2026

Is AI making workers more vulnerable?
A new study could be the missing link between reports that AI is leading employers to rethink roles and the dearth of evidence on job displacement

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 27, 2026

The battle plans in Trump's tariff wars look more witless each time
Canada was right to resist US intimidation

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 27, 2026

Thames Water saga undermines case for more market solutions
Privatisation has become associated with failures, such as in the water industry, rather than its successes

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 27, 2026

The political cost of Thames Water
Privatisation has become associated with failures, such as in the water industry, rather than its successes

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 27, 2026

AI revenue reporting: slop
Plus, more on bad weather

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 27, 2026

Burnham's energy challenge: getting more UK households off gas
The prime minister could make electricity more attractive to incentivise switching

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 27, 2026

Harry and Meghan — are you ready for the sequel?
The Sussexes have landed. The frenzy reignites

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 27, 2026

‘Drill, baby, drill' rings out in Norway
Scandinavian country is looking to double down on oil and gas despite EU green rhetoric

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 27, 2026

Are economists making themselves too useful in the AI boom?
The rush to collaborate with these tech companies comes with risks

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 27, 2026

Price wars come for sneakers today, AI giants tomorrow
A race to the bottom may benefit consumers, but profitability can collapse in the process

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 27, 2026

The US is gambling with its role as the world's investment hub
If being overweight America is not the default option, it will upset the country's economic equilibrium

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 27, 2026

Have you discovered the magic of Merlin?
A free app has propelled birdwatching into the mainstream, offering a portal to a hidden world

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 27, 2026

How political fragility affects markets
Moves in the risk premiums on sovereign bonds depend on how power is organised

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 27, 2026

The price of political fragility in markets
Moves in the risk premiums on sovereign bonds depend on how power is organised

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 26, 2026

Dating, delinquents and the power of second chances
Japanese Netflix show ‘Badly in Love' puts 11 troubled young people in a confined space and waits for Eros to light the touchpaper

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 26, 2026

El Niño's looming threat to the global food system
The world must be better prepared for big recurring shocks to agriculture

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 26, 2026

Dolly Parton's lessons for business
The singer will be remembered mostly for her records, but she was also an entrepreneur

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 26, 2026

What businesses can learn from Dollynomics
Parton will be remembered mostly for her records, but she was also an entrepreneur

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 26, 2026

‘Cool Britannia' is back — but it needs patrons
Targeted investment in culture would help the UK keep up with US and Asian philanthropy in the arts

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 26, 2026

Life inside an American coal mine
Operators are trying to make familiar an industry that seems consigned to another era

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 26, 2026

What I learnt 800ft underground in an American coal mine
Operators are trying to make familiar an industry that seems consigned to another era

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 26, 2026

The end of Trumpsplaining
The pretence that America's leader is a grand strategist will not survive the Iran fiasco

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 26, 2026

Prediction markets revisited
Plus: salt caverns

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 26, 2026

Random is as random does
Just don't ask a human what it means

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 26, 2026

Saga's over-fifties holidays are finally turning silver into gold
Swapping insurance underwriting for selling other companies' policies and refocusing on its brand and customer base was a good decision

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 26, 2026

Ignore Jane Austen, income investing has big drawbacks
Living on investment income alone no longer constitutes a financial strategy for most better-off Britons

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 26, 2026

Why today's markets are not as contradictory as they seem
What looks like a breakdown in historical correlations may simply reflect a different macroeconomic regime

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 26, 2026

Note to the prime minister: you won't find the future in the past
Forward-looking ideas are being crowded out on all sides by myths about a better yesterday

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 26, 2026

Britain can't afford to fail on social care reform
Lack of support for family carers holds back the economy by reducing earnings and high costs distort consumer spending

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 26, 2026

It is time to think about updating your trust
Geopolitics and evolving family relationships militate towards reconsidering how and even where a trust is run

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 25, 2026

America's economic war on Iran has a China problem
The US cannot fully isolate Tehran unless other trade partners co-operate

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 25, 2026

Will Iceland join the EU?
A consultative vote next week could rekindle membership talks and pave the way for a new axis of expansion

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 25, 2026

How First Brands' billion-dollar rescue hit the skids
Hedge funds that funded the bankruptcy have been left with a ‘clunker' as this was no ordinary debt-induced collapse

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 25, 2026

Could nuclear fusion become economically viable?
Some scientists have come up with a way of measuring its commercial value

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 25, 2026

Trade disruptions give container shipping a temporary reprieve
Disruptions at sea and bottlenecks on land are pushing rates up and ensuring the industry remains buoyant

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 25, 2026

The drip-drip US debt crisis
Rising deficits and debt-servicing costs no longer seem to have the power to restore prudence

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 25, 2026

The problem with buying the dip in bonds
Plus, shelter cats

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 25, 2026

Skipton tries to show that building societies still matter
The mutual financial group based in the Yorkshire Dales wants to emphasise the personal touch

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 25, 2026

Socialists and Maga are both wrong about economic liberalism
People are not puppets responding to the string pulls of market forces — free enterprise gives us agency

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 25, 2026

Austerity denial and the mystery of Britain's shrunken state
There is a ready supply of explanations on offer at Westminster

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 25, 2026

China could rescue the oil market again — if it wanted to
People's Republic has ample spare capacity

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 25, 2026

Britain needs to pay more attention to its crumbling churches
Our places of worship face soaring repair costs, dwindling congregations and volunteer burnout

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 24, 2026

Shein's IPO pitch should be more Meta than H&M
Its rivals are not just clothes retailers but any business that provides screen-addicted users with a dopamine hit

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 24, 2026

Treasury market interventions are only a band-aid
Bessent's moves on the yen and long-dated bonds do little to assuage markets long-term

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 24, 2026

Meloni wants a snap election to hide her economic failures
Her proposed electoral reform could shore up the governing coalition despite its poor record in power

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 24, 2026

As dieters slim down, protein prices bulk up
A lot of people are finding an appetite for whey

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 24, 2026

High asset prices, not low interest rates, are driving inflation
Wealth distribution in the US has rendered the Federal Reserve's usual tools less effective

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 24, 2026

Revisiting the Lockerbie bombing, 37 years later
For the first time, a US court will try one of those alleged to be responsible for the attack

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 24, 2026

An offer Canada could only refuse
Saint Mark Carney's canonisation owes much to Donald Trump's inept bullying

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 24, 2026

The new world order? Every man for himself
Now that America has hung up its hat when it comes to championing democracy, it is springtime for tyrants

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 24, 2026

The great re-equitisation and the dollar
Plus, weathernomics

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 24, 2026

A ‘democratised' financial crisis is still a crisis
Private credit's insurance boom could have hidden costs

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 24, 2026

Climate is driving new geostrategy
Environmental changes are reshaping trade, commerce, logistics and geopolitics

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 24, 2026

My summer without running water
Drought and heatwaves have played a part in shortages but the main culprit is years of under-investment in the water industry after privatisation

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 23, 2026

An economic D-Day is coming for Iran
Countries that calculate appeasement of the regime to be a safer choice should reconsider

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 23, 2026

Why every French politician is now a Gaullist
The revival of de Gaulle's legendary role in the second world war coincides with an increasing number of claims to his legacy

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 23, 2026

Healey's first Budget is a chance for radical change
Two good reasons why this chancellor has a better chance than I had of boosting public-sector productivity

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 23, 2026

Government can bring robotics to life
Without policy, there are few incentives to automate business functions where labour costs are low

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 23, 2026

Trump's South Korea snub raises questions in the Asia-Pacific
Scaling back military exercises has undermined faith in America's reliability

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 23, 2026

Why is the far right so obsessed with knights?
Medieval military monks have become a regular sight at political rallies and marches

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 23, 2026

Europe can do better than US-style air conditioning
The instinct is to bolt a dripping box to every building but there is a smarter, cooler way

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 23, 2026

Legal tech start-ups put AI disruption in a risky new wrapper
Legora is betting AI giants will leave lucrative niches unconquered

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 23, 2026

Meet the nepo parents
Celebrity examples abound, but more ordinary people are following their children into new mid-life careers

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 22, 2026

Who owns government bonds?
As governments borrow more, the buyers of their debt are changing

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 22, 2026

Klarna's stock crash shows the price of being a small fish in a big pond
The European fintech has been hit by weak German consumer spending

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 22, 2026

Europe's fatal beauty
A less seductive continent would not attract so many enemies

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 22, 2026

Big running shoe brands are regaining their lead
Nike and Adidas are back in the race after challenger brands such as On Holding and Hoka start to lose momentum

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 22, 2026

Bossing the bond market around never works
Despite Scott Bessent's efforts, investors worry something is up

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 22, 2026

Burnham must reveal his hand on immigration
Labour MPs dislike tough proposals to limit rights to settle and collect welfare but voters' trust has run out

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 22, 2026

The financial question most couples cannot answer
There are sound reasons to rethink how couples approach investing for the future

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 22, 2026

‘Claridge's has either given up, lost its mind or both' — Jay Rayner reviews Dante, Mayfair
London's grandest hotel has installed an expensive, oddly lifeless offshoot of the NYC favourite

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 22, 2026

On the road back to routine
There's something reassuring and even anticipatory about the end of summer

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 22, 2026

The age of authentic perfection
Musicians are turning to technology to make live performances sound both flawless and plausible

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 21, 2026

Italy's MPS thinks three takeovers are better than one
Crunching two banks together is challenging, and takes time; to attempt the same feat with four calls for some truly magical thinking

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 21, 2026

The US techlash is real
AI companies and social networks should respond to the shift in the public mood

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 21, 2026

The bond scare and the balance of power
After the dreamworld of the 2010s, the link between power and fiscal capacity is back

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 21, 2026

What retail investors need to know before jumping into Anthropic's IPO
Don't rush in, there are many business risks for the maker of Claude

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 21, 2026

Should I use an alias?
A nom de guerre or a nom de plume — both would allow you to explore the road less travelled

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 21, 2026

Nellie Liang: ‘Ultimately the goal is to signal that high rates are a concern'
Former Treasury official on what Scott Bessent is up to

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 21, 2026

Burnham should beware the perils of cost of living policy
Like Starmer and Sunak before him, he risks focusing too much on things beyond his control

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 21, 2026

Feminism didn't kill the male breadwinner model, the economy did
Young non-graduate men face unique setbacks

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