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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is chair of Rockefeller International. His latest book is ‘What Went Wrong With Capitalism’  Having tagged America’s inordinately large share of global financial markets as “the mother of all bubbles” in my last
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On a recent Friday morning in Alianza Industrial Park, dust billowed up as diggers and lorries cleared land near a site for Chinese tyre maker ZC Rubber. A crane was poised to lift material for lithium and lead battery maker Leoch. A sign at its entrance welcomed another new firm in Mandarin and English. Germany’s
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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. Confidence in the UK economy among manufacturers fell after Rachel Reeves’ tax-raising Budget at the sharpest rate since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, in another setback for the chancellor. Manufacturers’ confidence fell to 5.8
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Bashar al-Assad’s central bank airlifted around $250mn in cash to Moscow in a two-year period when the then Syrian dictator was indebted to the Kremlin for military support and his relatives were secretly buying assets in Russia. The Financial Times has uncovered records showing that Assad’s regime, while desperately short of foreign currency, flew banknotes
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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. UK home secretary Yvette Cooper has defended her government’s attempts to bolster economic ties with China, in spite of new claims of a suspected Chinese spy infiltrating the British establishment. Cooper said Britain continued to
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Financial planning. Budgeting. Expense tracking. Profit and loss analysis. Data analysis. Spreadsheet software. Productivity. Efficiency. Financial literacy. Personal finance. Business finance. Natalia Gdovskaia | Moment | Getty Images As Adinah Caro-Greene maps out her financial future, there’s a variable that may have held less weight for previous generations: her child. The employee benefits broker said
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As jubilant Syrians celebrated the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad this week, dire warnings proliferated across Arabic social media: that this joyful moment could lead to a bleak future. That the end of the Assad dynasty came at the hands of an armed Islamist group with former links to al-Qaeda, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, deepened alarm
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman is reckoning with an unpredictable force that threatens his ambition of transforming the start-up into a trillion-dollar company: Elon Musk. Since Donald Trump was elected president in November, executives at the ChatGPT-maker have been preparing to deal with the incoming US administration — a process complicated by Musk’s emergence as a pivotal
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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 drivel that flows through the average journalist’s inbox each week is a wonder to behold. Last week though, among the usual alerts about obscure middle managers moving to unremarkable jobs in companies you’ve never
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