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FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 13, 2026

Show me a leader who doesn't love a crisis
Global events hide mistakes, confer agency and are exciting to boot

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 13, 2026

Iran war will further damage fragile inflation psychology
Business and households alike are worrying — the Fed should be too

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 13, 2026

How Labour should deal with the backbench rebel alliance
Their influence is not inherently problematic — but such visible challenges to key policy proposals are

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 13, 2026

Iran and the rising perils of AI in warfare
Limits on the use of lethal autonomous weapons systems are urgent

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 13, 2026

Private credit has half the ingredients of a financial crisis
Worries arise that valuations shown on balance sheets don't match reality

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 13, 2026

Lessons from an unwise banking photo shoot
An interview with four young men in finance dressed in Armani jackets and Hermès ties exposes several tensions

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 13, 2026

Should I go to the reunion?
If you're even halfway happy with your life choices, I say go for it

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 13, 2026

The US consumer is OK
But if oil stays expensive?.?.?.

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 13, 2026

Oil price shocks create many losers, but some winners too
Offsetting the higher prices, energy companies have to contend with disruption where they have people and assets

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 13, 2026

How spreadbetter IG went from fringe to FTSE 100
IG shares are up almost 90 per cent since the arrival of Breon Corcoran as chief executive in early 2024.

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 13, 2026

Iran is playing a long game
An asymmetric war that brings the global economy to a standstill could exhaust the US and force a ceasefire

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 13, 2026

Should investors worry about a 2008-style shock?
From Iran to private credit, things are unnerving but the wider financial system is better prepared

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 13, 2026

Iran, private credit and the echoes of 2008
The investor exodus is unnerving, but the wider financial system is better prepared for shocks

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 13, 2026

After all the rain, it's time to mulch
The next two weekends are an opportunity to future-proof the garden by keeping moisture in the soil, blocking weeds and deterring slugs and snails

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 12, 2026

Why China's renminbi push matters even if it never rivals the dollar
If renminbi settlement becomes cheaper and more trade migrates, firms will have less need to generate or hold US currency

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 12, 2026

How the Iran war will change global business
Damage from the conflict is already having an impact on corporate strategy

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 12, 2026

An uncomfortable truce in the AI platform wars
Anthropic and Microsoft have struck an alliance on agents but the tussle over the future of the technology will only intensify

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 12, 2026

Silence is not golden when it comes to science and AI
The scope of scientific inquiry is contracting as research focuses on data-rich problems

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 12, 2026

British politicians have the wrong kind of money on the brain
Westminster struggles to talk seriously about most topics and in particular about the economy

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 12, 2026

Senior loans, like airport lounges, are losing their elite status
First-lien is not so special any more due to changes in leveraged finance markets

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 12, 2026

Trump's choices are only pushing China and Russia closer together
Beijing and Moscow look to one another for energy and economic security amid geopolitical turbulence

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 12, 2026

Trump's foreign policy will only push China and Russia closer together
Beijing and Moscow look to one another for energy and economic security amid geopolitical turbulence

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 12, 2026

Worthwhile American initiative (on bank regulation)
For once, some constructive ideas are coming out of Washington

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 12, 2026

How Paris beat the car
Though chaotic, the city's transition has become a global role model

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 12, 2026

China's forgotten consumers
Plus more on private credit and BDCs

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 12, 2026

Trump's Iran folly is handing Xi Jinping weapons in the trade war
Despite China being a huge oil importer, US mismanagement will give Beijing the upper hand in upcoming talks

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 12, 2026

UK's water utilities may finally be worth a dip
Despite a recent price bump, valuations are still relatively low

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 12, 2026

Which chokepoint wins in a game of geoeconomic Top Trumps?
It depends on its damage to the target, potential for blowback and durability

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 12, 2026

America risks financial credibility with payments deficit obsession
Imposing tariffs in response threatens to create a problem where none exists

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 12, 2026

Should you lie to your kids about their Junior Isas?
Parents worry about their children getting access to a lump sum at an early age — some choose to keep it a secret

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 11, 2026

Europe needs to stop bickering to compete with China
The fight over ‘Made in Europe' versus ‘Made with Europe' is a pointless one

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 11, 2026

Nasdaq finds SpaceX's gravitational pull hard to resist
Proposed change to index-inclusion policy would benefit Elon Musk ahead of IPO

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 11, 2026

Turbulence tests South Korea's stock market revival
Sharp swings are a reminder to Seoul that its reform agenda is incomplete

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 11, 2026

In LA's ‘Tehrangeles', Trump's war is popular
The largest community outside Iran danced in the streets but diverges with the president on a return to monarchy

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 11, 2026

Trump's revolutionary sense of time is changing politics
The US president doesn't think in terms of long-term strategy but rather in terms of deadlines

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 11, 2026

China and Russia are capturing the global space sector
Beijing and Moscow are exploiting the extraplanetary ambitions of less developed countries

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 11, 2026

The lucrative private equity pay scheme under challenge
Shareholders are challenging a contentious form of financial engineering that rewards founders

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 11, 2026

Farage forgets which country he aims to govern
In domestic and foreign policy, the British right's vulnerability is its America-worship

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 11, 2026

Oil fears hit Asian stocks harder than profits
Reaction reflects possibility of sustained supply disruption and prolonged surge in crude prices

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 11, 2026

Does private credit have a credit quality problem?
The stock market thinks so

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 11, 2026

How to fight deepfakes
People are now little better than chance at telling what's real and what's not

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 11, 2026

Is intergenerational inequality unfair?
Sloppy assumptions do not help Millennials — or their Baby Boomer detractors

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 11, 2026

The usefulness of useless knowledge
Politicians aren't the best judges of the merits of scientific research

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 11, 2026

UBS's new private equity deals confront an old problem
A firm should think carefully about which risks are worthwhile and tolerable to their clients

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 11, 2026

The economic consequences of war with Iran
There are lasting lessons about energy resilience to be learnt from this conflict

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 11, 2026

Rising sulphur prices carry whiff of unintended consequences
Global efforts to phase out fossil fuels will erode supply of cheap sulphur over time

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 11, 2026

How can I get my money out of a third-party account?
The return on my investment hasn't materialised and I'm worried there may be fraud on the account

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 11, 2026

Ask a stylist: how do you pack for business travel?
Do your pre-trip homework, focus on neutrals — and take nothing that isn't multifunctional

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 10, 2026

No snow, no refund: weird weather tests Big Ski's business model
Vail's attempt to lock in revenue with its annual pass has come adrift because of rising prices amid less of the white stuff

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 10, 2026

There is no easy exit to Trump's war
The US and Israeli attacks on Iran will leave the Middle East in greater turmoil

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 10, 2026

There is no return to normal on oil any time soon
Even if the Iran war ends quickly, governments will need to prioritise security of supply

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 10, 2026

America has become an agent of chaos in world energy markets
A succession of US foreign policy choices has destabilised the oil industry

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 10, 2026

Taco on Iran will come too late for Trump
The US president has already done lasting damage to international trust in America

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 10, 2026

The thing that everyone expected to happen has happened
Trump wants the war to be over

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 10, 2026

What the UK should learn from this energy crisis
There is little doubt that the windfall tax has hit investment in the North Sea

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 10, 2026

Iran is a crucial test case for the American way of war
The conflict in Ukraine seemed to cast doubt on a military model based on overwhelming air power

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 10, 2026

Berkeley confronts the crisis in London homebuilding
The FTSE 100 group specialising in brownfield development faces tax and regulatory obstacles

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 10, 2026

Britain's safety net isn't set up for a widespread jobs shock
The state does not offer a temporary cushion to support those who were previously in work

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 09, 2026

Japan's playbook on raw materials security is worth taking global
The country has been ahead of others in heeding the danger of China's stranglehold on critical minerals

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 09, 2026

SoftBank's bet on OpenAI is starting to weigh
Japanese group has suffered from recent share falls and a negative outlook from rating agency S&P

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 09, 2026

The déjà vu of Europe's energy shock
The UK and EU must raise their game on power security

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 09, 2026

The new food fad sweeping Korea
Purchase limits had to be imposed on Dubai chewy cookies

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 09, 2026

The UK's public leadership pipeline has fallen into disrepair
Institutions are failing to deliver basic commitments because of failures of leadership

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 09, 2026

Trump's Venezuela strategy has failed in Iran
The appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei has dashed the US president's hope of picking Iran's new leader

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 09, 2026

Stagflationary forces are building
A weakening US labour market and financial strains come as the Iran war and surging oil prices spark concerns about inflation pressures

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 09, 2026

A bad jobs report
Plus, AI and productivity

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 09, 2026

Drones: a strategic tool for defence and markets
Tech groups such as Quantum are winning investor support in Europe, boosting the region's venture capital industry

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 09, 2026

Iran war will leave a complex geoeconomic legacy
Markets suggest the ramifications are likely to drag on and spread

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 09, 2026

Think geopolitics is bad? Look at geoeconomics
Markets suggest the lran ramifications are likely to drag on and spread

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 09, 2026

You can turn this to your advantage if every news story has ‘tax exile' in it
A behind-the-scenes look at the work of Rutherford Hall, critical communications strategist

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 09, 2026

China's growth target is a global problem
Beijing's export offensive could be more destabilising than Trump's tariffs

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 08, 2026

Latin America's lithium triangle is now in the hands of the right
A reversal of political fortune in the region has major implications for critical minerals

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 08, 2026

Europe's impotence extends to energy
The political momentum behind decarbonising the continent's energy system has dissipated

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 08, 2026

Should we aim for a frictionless world?
Humanity's pursuit of speed drives progress, but eliminating delay has risks

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 08, 2026

Why California's plan to tax billionaires is misguided
In America's federal system, the rich can easily shift to more competitive states

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 08, 2026

Liberals should be less shy about saying what they stand for
Failure to defend their ideology has created an intellectual vacuum on the American left

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 08, 2026

Car insurance bills are going up before they go down
Costs have been driven up by a combination of skills shortages, supply-chain issues and complicated modern cars

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 08, 2026

America chose this war — and must now choose how to end it
However this conflict concludes, the US and Iran's new leaders will have to revisit the same issues that sparked hostilities

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 08, 2026

Why it's time to end the grim march of the touchscreen
Self-service kiosks make us buy more stuff and feel more lonely

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 07, 2026

Chart of the Week: Europe's extra energy tax
A weaker euro deepens the pain from higher oil prices

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 07, 2026

Price is now the main ingredient in the office-lunch slop bowl
Many chains have raised prices to absorb rising costs — which works as long as customer loyalty, or indifference, endures

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 07, 2026

The war of unintended consequences
Israel and the US have achieved many military aims in Iran, but the unpredictable fallout poses threats to everyone

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 07, 2026

We'll always have Dubai
Why the newly endangered city will endure

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 07, 2026

Britain is now the home of the Middle Man
Rules don't even have to be effective to provide gainful employment for advisers

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 07, 2026

Allowing 401ks to invest in private markets is a bad move at a bad time
The move might help asset managers but hurt savers and the economy more broadly

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 07, 2026

America rethinks how to train its workforce
A ‘skills gap' is not some blight on free enterprise that someone else will fix

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 07, 2026

Amid European energy fears, coal creeps back into favour
A protracted conflict in the Middle East would dent expectations that global coal consumption will start to fall

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 07, 2026

How mackerel became Schrödinger's fish
We sure as hell aren't buying that much in Waitrose

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 07, 2026

Are attention spans really shrinking?
Bear with me for 47 seconds — here's why our fizzing brains still have the ability to focus

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 07, 2026

Notebook, Abu Dhabi: the Keralan chain restaurant where the UAE's working classes eat
Forget the flash options. This Malayalee mainstay in a mall is your key to the city

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 07, 2026

Notebook, Abu Dhabi: Where the UAE's working classes eat — restaurant review
Forget the flash options. This Keralan chain restaurant in a mall is your key to the city

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 07, 2026

Why we should embrace human complexity
Sometimes we forget to acknowledge our multiple identities

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 07, 2026

It's time for wine lovers to get over ‘Zinfandel cringe'
You'd be hard-pushed to find better-value old vine wine

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 06, 2026

A turbulent week for financial markets
Investors risk being too complacent about war in the Middle East

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 06, 2026

Is the nightmare scenario for global energy here?
The Iran crisis is unfolding in a world in which oil and gas supplies are more diversified than in previous decades

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 06, 2026

Investors are not ready for a true shock
The consensus view of the impact of the Iran war on equities and bonds may well prove too sanguine

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 06, 2026

Robinhood brings private markets' valuation problem to the masses
The startup landed a deal with the Department of Defense hours after Anthropic was blacklisted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 06, 2026

It's time to end Britain's first-past-the-post election lottery
The Gorton and Denton by-election confirmed just how capricious our electoral system has become

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 06, 2026

Are you financially ‘prepped' for higher inflation?
Don't panic about gyrating markets, work through this personal finance checklist instead

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 06, 2026

What is your true exposure to the Iran war?
Think like a family office and take an intergenerational view

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