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Pioneers sometimes get undue credit for simply being the first of many trying to reach the promised land. Even if they had never been born, their discovery would have happened around the same time anyway. Other times they become the figurehead of what was really a collective breakthrough. But if there was a true father
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is an external member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee An old mentor used to consult women’s dress sales when he wanted to know what was going on with the economy,
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The main character in Coriolanus, which is on at the National Theatre in London, is what we would nowadays call a fascist. He respects very little in the field of human endeavour outside of
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The “Japanification” of China continues to be a big theme, with a lot of eerie parallels right down to stimulus proving wanting. Here’s the latest symptom: Yep, the 30-year government bond yields of China and
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Unlock the US Election Countdown newsletter for free The stories that matter on money and politics in the race for the White House I never used to look at airline route maps too closely. But now, when I journey from one peaceful country to another, I take a keener interest in where exactly we are
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Israeli military deployed thousands more troops in Lebanon and signalled an expanded ground offensive against Hizbollah, even as the militant group launched one of the largest rocket barrages into northern Israel since the conflict
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​​When Wall Street scrambled to launch bitcoin funds earlier this year, there was just one trading company named in regulatory filings as an anchor market-maker for every single one: Jane Street.  The move underscored how a quirky and opaque New York firm has used its dominance in exchange traded funds and embrace of more finicky
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After Bill Clinton’s first official meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996, he turned to an aide and said: “Who is the fucking superpower here?” Four US presidents later, nobody would think of posing that question about Israel’s pugilistic prime minister. Netanyahu long ago established what military analysts call “escalation dominance” over whoever sits in the
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