Fewer voters are put off by the roots of some far-right parties
Four economic truths that explain the US’s bizarre election
One upside to the degradation of American political discourse is that, with little risk of missing an important detail, the economic positions of our rival parties can be summed up with a handful of words. So here they are: Donald Trump’s position is that the economy is apocalyptically terrible in every respect. Kamala Harris says […]
This luxury capitulation has barely begun
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The business of luxury is seduction. The aesthetics, the textures, the aura of exclusivity all conspire to turn savvy customers into true believers. That logic is not supposed to apply to hard-nosed investors. Yet their […]
Gambling Man — the remarkable, rollercoaster story of SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At the very beginning of Gambling Man, his biography of Masayoshi “Masa” Son, the founder of Japanese investment firm SoftBank, Lionel Barber concedes that his subject is “probably the most powerful mogul of the twenty-first […]