Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
China’s middle class dreams of leaving
01 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The US Supreme Court cut back the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse...
How the beauty industry left Revlon behind
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chinese stocks are set for their largest monthly rise since 2020, Meta frustrates app developers by ...
A new legal battleground in US abortion wars
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A former White House aide testified that former President Donald Trump tried to commandeer his limou...
Russia heading for first default in decades
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Russia is on course to default on its debt for the first time since 1998, and Credit Suisse has beco...
Listener question: Should the UK cut arts funding?
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nato is to agree an overhaul of its battle plans to offer better protection to the alliance’...
FT Weekend: A Strange Loop, the Tony-winning queer black best new musical
25 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we speak with Michael R. Jackson, playwright of A Strange Loop, which just won the Tony aw...
Ukraine in the EU?
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The EU recognizes Ukraine as an official candidate for membership, Russian businessmen look to work ...
Can all of Africa get access to electricity?
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
US stocks stay fairly flat after Fed Chair Jerome Powell testifies in Congress, a Ukrainian-ma...
Schrödinger’s dead cat bounce
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The S&P 500 rose by 2.4% on Tuesday, Russia is threatening Lithuania over enforcing EU san...
Jeff Bezos vs the bridge
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
China is the leader in initial public offering fundraising this year, Jeff Bezos’s superyacht igni...
Tim Sweeney on Epic's metaverse
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Passively managed index funds have overtaken actively managed funds’ ownership of the US stock mar...
FT Weekend: What Warhol’s Marilyn tells us about the art market
18 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Last month, Andy Warhol's "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" sold for $195mn, making it the second most expens...
Switzerland’s historic rate rise rattles markets
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stocks fall following rate rises in the US, UK and Switzerland and Russia restricts gas flow to Germ...
The biggest US rate rise in almost 30 years
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark policy rate by 0.75 percentage points for the first time si...
A make-or-break meeting for the WTO
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The World Trade Organization is facing a credibility crisis during its first meeting since 2017, the...
Bad news bears (market)
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
US stocks dipped into bear market territory, two major cryptocurrency players blocked withdrawals, a...
FT Weekend: The rich interior lives of pigs
11 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we explore new scientific research behind: pigs! They have far more sentience and complex...
ECB to raise interest rates for first time since 2011
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
US consumer prices are set to have registered another large monthly advance, the European Central Ba...
SEC chair reviews ‘uneven’ US equities market
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission has outlined plans to overhaul what he descri...
Ukraine’s president: ‘Stalemate is not an option’
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a stalemate in the war with Russia was ‘not an option...
Boris Johnson’s bruising no-confidence vote
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Boris Johnson on Monday night survived a bruising no-confidence vote, and Elon Musk’s legal team h...
The war on ‘woke’ capitalism
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
ECB governing council members are expected to support a proposal to create a new bond-buying program...
Behind the Money: Tether’s path to the spotlight
05 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Behind the Money, our in-depth business podcast, has just relaunched! We wanted to share one of our ...
FT Weekend: Tina Brown and Simon Schama on the royal family
04 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This weekend, we're marking the Queen's Platinum Jubilee with a spirited discussion on what’s next...
Can Africa grow without fossil fuels?
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Global investors are returning to China’s stock markets after a widespread sell-off earlier this y...
Russian business hit by tech sanctions
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Export controls placed on supply of chips and hardware over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine dent the pr...
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and his ‘superbank’
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The head of EY’s US business quit the Big Four accounting firm after a power struggle with its glo...
Race at work since George Floyd
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
US chipmaker Qualcomm wants to build a stake in Arm alongside rivals, and how does commodities trade...
What’s the crypto vibe?
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The FT podcast “Behind the Money” digs into whether the tide has really turned in cryptocurrenci...
FT Weekend: The story of a stolen cookbook. Plus, Elizabeth Strout
28 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1930s, Alice Urbach wrote a beloved cookbook in Vienna. But during the Holocaust it was stole...
Guerilla. Economist. Colombia’s next president?
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
China has offered “a few hundred million dollars” in lending to Sri Lanka to help alleviate a sh...
Investing’s cults of personality
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hedge funds are trying to reposition themselves in the middle of this year’s heavy tech stock sell...
America’s hiring headache
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Australia’s new prime minister met with world leaders to discuss climate change and Hungary’s pr...
The end of globalisation at Davos
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Three decades of globalisation risks are going into reverse, according to company executives and inv...
Can Boeing’s move towards the Pentagon solve its problems?
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Saudi Arabia has signalled it will stand by Russia as a member of the Opec+ group of oil producers, ...
FT Weekend: Why US abortion rights are under attack
21 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s about to become much harder to find safe abortion care in America, in a country where some st...
US tensions with Latin America are a boon for China
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Canada is banning Chinese telecom giant Huawei from its 5G network, US plans to host the Summit of A...
Why Ukraine and Russia are fighting over a teeny island
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wall Street stocks fell hard on Wednesday after the retailer Target warned that inflation and supply...
Salary advancements: a double-edged sword?
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cash holdings among global fund managers have risen to their highest level since 9/11, China’s eco...
Musk toys with Twitter deal at lower price
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk acknowledged on Monday that he would pay a lower price for Twitter, hedge fund Tiger Globa...
Behind the Money is back!
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Behind the Money is back with all-new episodes! From hostile takeovers to C-suite intrigue, Behind t...
Francesca McDonagh heads to Credit Suisse
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brussels is set to cut its growth forecasts further and boost its inflation outlook, and Sweden will...
FT Weekend: How Shakespeare gave actor Michael Patrick Thornton his life back
14 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This weekend, Lilah talks to actor Michael Patrick Thornton, who appears in the buzzy new Broadway p...
Stablecoins aren’t so stable after all
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Norway’s oil fund has slammed “corporate greed” and excessive executive pay, some former Ukrai...
Ping An calls for HSBC break-up
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Description: Turkish authorities have raised the pressure on the country’s banks to limit corporat...
Musk would let Trump back on Twitter
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said he would reverse Twitter’s ban on Donald Trump, and all but one of th...
Sinn Féin’s historic victory
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Volkswagen chief Herbert Diess has called for the EU to pursue a negotiated settlement to the Ukrain...
The cost of China’s zero-Covid lockdown
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Xi Jinping’s renewed commitment to zero-Covid policy rattles investors in China, Africa’s top Co...
US-China Tech Race: The great decoupling
08 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode of this season of Tech Tonic, we ask if the growing tensions between the US and...
FT Weekend: 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' with Daniels
07 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Lilah interviews Everything Everywhere All at Once directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Schei...
London’s push to control the British Virgin Islands
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wall Street stocks suffered steep declines on Thursday with the Nasdaq’s biggest fall since 2020 a...
Markets sing after Federal Reserve raises rates
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The US Federal Reserve raised its benchmark policy rate by half a percentage point for the first tim...
Draghi urges EU to abandon unanimity requirement
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
BP recorded its highest quarterly earnings in more than a decade, Italy’s prime minister, Mario Dr...
Federal Reserve poised to raise rates a half-percent
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon workers at a warehouse in New York have rejected efforts to form a union, the US Federal Rese...
Italy’s tough new approach to Russia
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Italy’s tough new approach to Russia marks one of the biggest foreign policy shifts in Europe in y...
US-China Tech Race: brave new world
01 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Tech Tonic, how a mysterious death in Belgrade prompted Serbia to embrace Chinese...
FT Weekend: Morality in the Twitter era. Plus: China’s language revolution
30 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This weekend, we think about morality in the age of social media. According to writer Dan Brooks, we...
Yen sinks as dollar rises to 20-year high
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The US dollar surged to its highest level in two decades on Thursday, the US economy contracted unex...
Putin’s economic war on Europe
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
EU leaders accused Moscow of “blackmail” over gas exports, and Spotify tries to distance itself ...
China’s moves in the South Pacific
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
US tech stocks fell to their lowest level in more than a year, the Brexit trade deal has caused a “...
Twitter CEO Elon Musk?
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
EU member states are looking at whether to impose a ceiling on what they would pay for Russian oil a...
Emmanuel Macron elected to second term as French president
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Emmanuel Macron has been elected for a second term as president of France, the EU will force Big Tec...
US-China Tech Race: Shock and Awe
24 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode of this Tech Tonic season about US-China tech rivalry, the FT’s US-China cor...
FT Weekend: The good life, with chefs Daniel Humm and Alice Waters
23 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This weekend we’re returning to the first-ever episode of the FT Weekend podcast, from September. ...
Introducing: the FT Climate Game
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk unveiled a $46.5bn financing package to fund his takeover bid for Twitter, Netflix lo...
Algeria struggles to meet Europe’s rising demand for gas
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
FT correspondents provide insight on the latest developments in Ukraine, why Algeria cannot supply m...
Who will back Elon Musk?
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk’s $43bn bid to take Twitter private is struggling to draw interest from private equity g...
US Treasury ‘real yields’ about to eclipse inflation expectations
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bank of America gave a bullish revenue outlook as the second-largest US lender reported better than ...
A year after Greensill Capital’s collapse
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many people with lingering symptoms of Covid-19 struggle to work or have been forced to leave the wo...
US-China Tech Race: Chips with Everything
17 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest season of Tech Tonic continues, with a deep dive into the semiconductor industry and Taiw...
FT Weekend: The story behind one of reggae’s most sampled songs
16 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we bring our classic Life of a Song series to your ears, with the dramatic story behind '...
Is the US headed for a recession?
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
US president Joe Biden announced yesterday he would send $800mn in additional military aid to Ukrain...
Volkswagen’s U-turn
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stockpiles of some of the world’s most important industrial metals have dropped to critically low ...
The rise of conservative shareholder activism
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Investors are bracing for another tough report on US inflation, Putin’s war in Ukraine has sparked...
A French presidential election rematch
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Incumbent Emmanuel Macron and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen will advance to the final round of v...
US-China Tech Race: Spies and Lies (Part Two)
10 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the second episode of this season of Tech Tonic, James Kynge, the FT’s Global China Editor, ask...
FT Weekend: How Cameo is changing celebrity. Plus: designing your home
09 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This weekend, we delve into the world of celebrity via the app Cameo. What does it mean that we can ...
Will sanctions create a backlash against the dollar?
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
French bank shares and bonds were rattled this week after the recent poll showed stronger results fo...
Did AutoX risk safety to look good for investors?
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The US has imposed its most severe level of sanctions on Russia’s Sberbank and Alfa-Bank, and Braz...
Shanghai lockdown forces bankers to camp in offices
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
US and eurozone government debt sold off on Tuesday as traders weighed the prospect of stronger sanc...
Atrocities prompt more calls to ban Russian energy
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The venerable venture capital firm, Sequoia Capital, has announced a change in leadership, Elon Musk...
EU prepares new sanctions after reports of Russian atrocities
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
EU prepares more sanctions against Russia after apparent atrocities near Kyiv, French president Emma...
Tech Tonic, the US-China Tech Race: Spies & Lies (Part One)
03 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of this season’s six-part series, the FT’s Global China Editor James Kynge ...
FT Weekend: Poet Maria Stepanova. Plus, Inside the FT newsroom
02 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, guest host Marc Filippino discusses the FT's war coverage in Ukraine with our Editor, Rou...
Biden’s move to lower oil prices
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The White House announced a “historic release” of about 180mn barrels of oil from the US emergen...
Russia squeezes Germany over gas
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
SoftBank will slow down further investments amid a scramble for cash, journalist and “Putin’s Pe...
The global impact of Putin’s war
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Russia has decided to “dramatically” scale back its military activities in the Kyiv area, and Ba...
Can the Kremlin track me?
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Russia’s biggest internet company has embedded code into apps found on mobile devices that allows ...
Introducing Tech Tonic: The US/China Tech Race
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A new six-part series of Tech Tonic brings you stories from the frontlines of the battle between the...
The US-China technology rivalry heats up
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
HSBC has repeatedly edited its analysts’ research publications to remove references to a “war”...
FT Weekend: Art in times of war, plus Anish Kapoor
26 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This weekend, guest host Taylor Nicole Rogers talks to Ukrainian filmmaker Iryna Tsylik, director of...
Bargain hunting for bonds in Russia and Ukraine
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The US is finalising a plan to supply the EU with up to 15bn additional cubic metres of liquefied na...
Ukraine’s army of volunteers
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Oil exports from a crucial pipeline on Russia’s Black Sea coast were fully halted on Wednesday, Vl...
Dispatch from Kyiv
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Writer Tim Judah talks about life in Kyiv as Russian forces advance on suburbs of Ukraine’s capita...
Why some Western companies are staying in Russia
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Moscow reopens markets, Pakistanis face crippling inflation and their prime minister Imran Khan face...
Panicked Russian consumers stock up on staples
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Germany said it sealed a long-term agreement with Qatar for liquefied natural gas supplies, prices o...
FT Weekend: How Russia weaponizes disinformation
19 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This weekend, we discuss the power of disinformation, and how Russia has been using it in Ukraine. W...
The Great Nickel Pickle
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The US secretary of state has poured cold water on hopes of a diplomatic settlement to the war in Uk...
The Federal Reserve finally raises rates
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Federal Reserve has lifted its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, Europ...
EU and UK impose new sanctions on Russian oligarchs
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Oil prices fell and share indices in Hong Kong and China dropped amid investor jitters over potentia...