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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. Marks and Spencer will knock down its flagship art deco store on London’s Oxford Street after it received approval from UK housing secretary and deputy prime minister Angela Rayner. The retailer said it had secured

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK tax myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The number of individuals being taxed at 60 per cent on part of their earnings has risen by almost half in two years, new figures seen by the Financial Times show. The numbers, revealed by

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. French Prime Minister Michel Barnier has resigned after his government was ousted by MPs in a vote of no confidence. The Élysée said on Thursday Barnier had handed in his resignation but that President Emmanuel

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped Gail Slater, an antitrust veteran and economic adviser for JD Vance, to lead the Department of Justice’s antitrust division and take charge of a full docket of blockbuster monopoly cases against companies including Google, Visa and Apple. Slater is expected to continue the department’s crackdown on Big Tech, including cases brought during Trump’s first

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said Wednesday that he is optimistic about President-elect Donald Trumps second term and expressed some excitement about potential regulatory cutbacks in the coming years. Im actually very optimistic this time around, Bezos said on stage during a wide-ranging interview at The New York Times DealBook Summit in New York. He seems

Bitcoin rose above $100,000 for the first time on Thursday as the election of Republican Donald Trump as president of the United States spurred expectations that his administration will create a friendly regulatory environment for cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin has more than doubled in value this year and is up about 45% in the four weeks since Trump’s sweeping

Share Tweet By Tr Goins-Phillips Editor December 4, 2024 Not to be outdone by Christians, a group of self-described “non-theistic satanists” are offering elementary-age students at a public school in Ohio the chance to participate in a class hosted by The Satanic Temple. The program, named “Hellion Academy of Independent Learning,” or “HAIL” for short,

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world EU countries are discussing a €500bn joint fund for common defence projects and arms procurement, tapping bond markets to boost spending in anticipation of Donald Trump’s White House return. Trump’s threat to withdraw

Interest rates on credit cards have been unusually high for a while and have become an occasional target of politicians. In 2020, during Kamala Harris’ first presidential campaign, she proposed forbidding credit card companies from charging interest altogether during the pandemic. In September this year, during a campaign rally in New York, Donald Trump proposed

Share Tweet By Tr Goins-Phillips Editor December 4, 2024 At Christmastime, churches plan for larger crowds but those preparations might not pan out this year, at least for some congregations across the country. A just-released survey from Lifeway Research found just under half of Americans (47%) say they typically attend church services during the Christmas

The Department of Energy is a breeding ground for fraud and abuselike most government agencies. In its recently released Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 performance report , the agency’s Office of Inspector General identified nearly $1 billion of wasteful spending this year. In 2024, audits from the Inspector General found more than $814 million of questioned

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped Gail Slater, an antitrust veteran and economic adviser for JD Vance, to lead the Department of Justice’s antitrust division and take charge of a full docket of blockbuster monopoly cases against companies including Google, Visa and Apple. Slater is expected to continue the department’s crackdown on Big Tech, including cases brought during Trump’s first

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Silicon Valley visionaries dream of making mega-money out of cool, futuristic products that thrill consumers, such as the metaverse, self-driving cars or health-monitoring apps. The duller reality is that most venture capitalists generate the best

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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. Regular readers of FT Alphaville may have formed the impression that its current and former writers are united in scepticism about crypto in general and bitcoin in particular. This is correct.  FTAV posts between June