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The FT View. Jay Powell’s defiant curtain call

The FT View. Jay Powell’s defiant curtain call

Kevin Warsh still needs to prove that he can stand up to the US president

thursday 10

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The great commodities disruption

The great commodities disruption

Trump’s attack on Iran has served as a reminder of how interconnected the global economy remains

29.04.2026 10

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The FT View. The Iran war shock for developing nations

The FT View. The Iran war shock for developing nations

Poorer countries face a triple whammy of crises in fuel, food and remittances

26.04.2026 20

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The golden age of arbitrage has begun

The golden age of arbitrage has begun

The law of one price is in retreat — with major consequences for profits, inflation and innovation

24.04.2026 20

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The FT View. AI should not drive today’s interest rate decisions

How the technology will affect prices is still uncertain

22.04.2026 10

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The Big Read. Six lessons from history’s greatest financial crises

The Big Read. Six lessons from history’s greatest financial crises

The Babylonians had debt defaults. The S&L scandal led to 2008. What else does the past tell us?

22.04.2026 20

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The FT View. Lessons from the China shock 2.0

The response should be better industrial strategies, not knee-jerk protectionism

19.04.2026 20

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Welcome to the age of hoarding

As global economic uncertainty mounts, stockpiling is back

17.04.2026 20

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Can global resilience trump disruption?

The world’s economy has managed to withstand a great deal of chaos, but new IMF forecasts show that things could get worse

15.04.2026 20

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Six lessons for investors on pricing disaster

Buy The Dip mantras ignore the fact that not all US market vulnerabilities have been accounted for

10.04.2026 20

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Shutting Hormuz is a template for China in Taiwan

Beijing will seek to replicate Tehran’s playbook in the Taiwan Strait — and the global economic impact could be even worse

01.04.2026 20

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The FT View. Price controls make a troubling return to the mainstream

Governments should focus more on boosting supply and productivity

31.03.2026 10

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Why molecules matter in the age of the Halo trade

Capital-intensive industries are taking their revenge on the service sector

27.03.2026 20

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The FT View. Iran war will scar the global economy

Scenarios that markets and policymakers hoped to avoid are now materialising

20.03.2026 20

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Trump’s ‘shock and war’ makes this economic crisis different

Conflict with Iran will leave deeper and more lasting scars than last year’s tariffs crisis

15.03.2026 20

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The FT View. How the Iran war will change global business

Damage from the conflict is already having an impact on corporate strategy

12.03.2026 20

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Which chokepoint wins in a game of geoeconomic Top Trumps?

It depends on its damage to the target, potential for blowback and durability

12.03.2026 20

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The economic consequences of war with Iran

There are lasting lessons about energy resilience to be learnt from this conflict

11.03.2026 20

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The FT View. The déjà vu of Europe’s energy shock

The UK and EU must raise their game on power security

09.03.2026 10

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Think geopolitics is bad? Look at geoeconomics

Markets suggest the lran ramifications are likely to drag on and spread

09.03.2026 20

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Forecasting the world in 2026

FT writers’ predictions for the new year, from the likelihood of higher Trump tariffs to the future of interest rates and the arrival of humanoid...

31.12.2025 30

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