Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Iran’s reformist(ish) future
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A Russian missile that destroyed a children’s hospital in Kyiv used western technology, investment...
Nike’s new game plan
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nato leaders are meeting for its 75th anniversary summit amid tensions within their countries, and E...
The leftwing stuns France
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
France’s anti far-right alliance is on track to halt the rise of Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement N...
Labour wins UK election by a landslide
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rightwing populist party Reform UK makes inroads. Viktor Orbán set to hold meeting with Vladimir Pu...
Robo DJ: YouTube invests in AI-generated music
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
SoftBank is looking to invest in AI despite pressure to offer a share buyback, Shell is pausing cons...
Denmark’s cow tax is more than just hot air
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The EU is planning to impose duties on substandard Chinese goods, Panama’s president wants to clos...
Unpacking the US Supreme Court Trump immunity ruling
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Western banks have cut their workforces in China, the US Supreme Court ruled that former president D...
First round victory for French far-right
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marine Le Pen’s far-right party has battered President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance in th...
Martin Wolf on democracy’s year of peril
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Wolf is worried about the threat autocrats pose to liberal democracies. Across the world, bil...
Swamp Notes: After the debate, is this it for Biden?
29 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden went into Thursday night’s CNN presidential debate hoping to assuage concerns over his m...
A final goodbye to EY’s Project Everest?
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The US is inviting foreign ministers from Israel and Arab countries to the Nato summit next month, E...
Protests push Kenya to abandon tax rises
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
JPMorgan is adding India's sovereign debt to its emerging markets index, and violent protests in Ken...
Brussels strikes back against Big Tech
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shares of electric vehicle start-up Rivian surged in extended trading after Volkswagen announced a p...
UK’s wealthy foreigners look for the exits
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chinese executives are trying to avoid US tariffs by relocating manufacturing, a growing number of w...
India’s AI boom
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The EU has devised a legal workaround to sidestep Hungary’s veto on buying weapons for Ukraine, in...
Martin Wolf and Fiona Hill on democracy’s year of peril
23 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Across the world, billions of citizens are being asked to cast their vote in elections taking place ...
Swamp Notes: Biden’s climate agenda runs out of steam
22 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Americans have inflation and foreign policy on their minds this election. That means that President ...
The shifting tectonic plates of UK politics
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Credit agencies have misrated more than $100bn of commercial real estate debt, new election polls su...
Bank robberies in Gaza
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hamas-backed militants orchestrate bank heists, the ECB raises alarm over Eurozone debt, Malaysia co...
Nvidia claims top spot
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nvidia capitalises on investor excitement over artificial intelligence, Japan’s TDK is claiming a ...
Mr OpenAI goes to Washington
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
French business leaders are warming up to France’s far-right and Dubai is trying to optimise a clu...
Defence sector goes on a hiring spree
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Major defence companies are recruiting workers at the fastest rate since the end of the cold war, gl...
Martin Wolf and Raghuram Rajan on democracy’s year of peril
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Across the world, billions of citizens are being asked to cast their vote in elections taking place ...
Swamp Notes: Elections across the Atlantic
15 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret Thatcher’s election in 1979 foreshadowed Ronald Reagan’s a year later, and the Brexit v...
The target painted on Chinese EVs
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chinese electric vehicle makers look like they will survive the latest tariffs the EU announced this...
Fed lays out rate cut plans
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Federal Reserve held borrowing costs at a 23-year high yesterday, and Terraform Labs has agreed ...
Central banks are scooping up the US dollar
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shari Redstone has ended talks with Skydance Media over a deal to control Paramount, the number of c...
Can Apple catch up in the AI race?
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Apple on Monday said it has partnered with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into its devices, and private...
Far right makes big gains in Europe
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Far right parties make significant gains in the European Union elections, opposition politician Benn...
Martin Wolf and Anne Applebaum on democracy’s year of peril
09 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Across the world, billions of citizens are being asked to cast their vote in elections taking place ...
Swamp Notes: Silicon Valley warms to Trump
08 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Few of Silicon Valley’s biggest names supported Donald Trump in 2016 or 2020. Now, some of them ar...
The European Central Bank’s cautious first step
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The European Central Bank has cut interest rates for the first time in nearly five years, and the Eu...
The split road for South Africa
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nvidia’s market value briefly rose past $3tn to overtake Apple as the world’s second-most valuab...
Opec+’s production conundrum
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gazprom is unlikely to recover gas sales lost as a result of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion ...
Investors to delivery apps: where’s my profit?
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
US President Joe Biden is moving to sharply tighten immigration rules at the southern border with Me...
Russia-China pipeline deal stalls
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Russia and China are deadlocked over a deal to build a gas pipeline connecting the two countries, fa...
Martin Wolf and Robert Kagan on democracy’s year of peril
02 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Across the world, billions of citizens are being asked to cast their vote in elections taking place ...
Swamp Notes: The Trump verdict is in
01 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Former US president Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 felony charges of falsifying business record...
Donald Trump guilty on all counts
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump has been found guilty of conspiring to buy the silence of a porn actor and Saudi Arabia...
Private equity now says sharing is caring
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Europe has only a fraction of the air defence capabilities needed to protect its eastern flank, BHP’...
A pivotal election for South Africa
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hess shareholders approved a controversial takeover bid from Chevron, and South Africans vote today ...
Behind the Money: Berkshire after Buffett
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features a truncated version of a recent Behind the Money podcast as it travels to Omah...
The ECB readies for rate cuts
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The European Central Bank looks almost certain to be one of the first major central banks to cut rat...
Swamp Notes: Can you trust the polls?
25 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
American voters still say the economy is their most important electoral issue, and a growing number ...
Ukraine’s ‘Rosie the Riveter’ moment
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk’s xAI has secured new backing from three Silicon Valley venture capital giants, women in...
Sunak’s early election gamble
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rishi Sunak has taken a huge gamble by announcing a July 4 election, record sales of artificial inte...
PwC’s Evergrande audit comes back to bite
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UK deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden went on a secret trip to the UAE, PwC is bracing for penaltie...
ICC weighs stepping into Gaza conflict
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has dealt a shocking blow to the Islamic regime, and th...
Niger’s first oil exports
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi crashed on Sunday, Niger is on the verge of be...
FTNB Live! News Trivia at FT Weekend Fest
19 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A special live recording of the FT News Briefing at the FT Weekend Festival in Washington, DC on May...
Swamp Notes: Trading tariffs for votes
18 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden once criticised Donald Trump’s trade war with China, but things look a lot different in ...
It’s all about the dollar
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The US Supreme Court rejects an existential legal challenge to the country’s top consumer finance ...
The cult-like appeal of Modi
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The US inflation report sent stocks to record highs and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot o...
Will investors buy Anglo American’s break-up plan?
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Biden administration is encouraging Arab states to participate in a multinational force that cou...
Indonesia’s nickel is a gold mine
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The carmaker behind Fiat and Peugeot is in talks to invest in Indonesian nickel, the meme-stock move...
Rishi Sunak tries to rally Conservatives
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tries to revive Conservative morale with a speech in London, four Chin...
Swamp Notes: The Fed’s political pressures
11 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The US Federal Reserve is fiercely independent, but that doesn’t mean politicians always treat it ...
Pandemic winners turned losers
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anglo American’s crucial South African shareholders are open to a takeover offer from BHP, Nippon ...
Singapore wants to shake up its stock market
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shares in Arm drop after it reports lacklustre revenue projections, Singapore is studying proposals ...
Israel moves into Rafah
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reddit's first-quarter earnings as a listed company surpass expectations, Israel threatened to expan...
Paramount’s a long way from its peak
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
SoftBank is leading an investment of more than $1bn into a UK self-driving car start-up, and poppy a...
Xi’s balancing act with Europe
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Warren Buffett said Greg Abel should have the final decision on investments at Berkshire Hathaway, t...
Swamp Notes: The uproar at American universities
04 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Student-led protests against Israel’s war in Gaza have spread across the US in recent weeks, with ...
The murky moves behind the yen
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Apple’s revenue fell 4 per cent in the first three months of 2024, Japan apparently intervened sev...
Higher rates for even longer (and longer)
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Federal Reserve has signalled that US borrowing costs are likely to remain higher for longer, an...
Private equity’s green thumb
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Strong sales at Amazon’s cloud computing division helped the Big Tech giant beat analyst estimates...
Scotland’s first minister resigns
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Humza Yousaf is resigning as Scotland’s first minister, and WeWork’s senior creditors are poised...
Big Tech investors question AI pay-off
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Financial companies scramble to rework contracts after US Federal Trade Commission rule bans non-com...
Swamp Notes: The Supreme Court weighs presidential power
27 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The US Supreme Court set out to answer a big constitutional question on Thursday: can a president be...
A mining industry mega-deal
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft beat expectations for revenue and cloud sales, Alphabet shares rise by double-digits after...
What new US aid means for Ukraine
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meta’s revenues jumped by more than a quarter in the first three months of the year, Brussels raid...
Spotify grows up
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tesla reported a 9 per cent decline in first-quarter revenue, Spotify kicked off a more mature era f...
Taking the Byte out of TikTok
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The New York Stock Exchange is polling market participants on the merits of trading stocks around th...
Beijing bets on manufacturing
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tesla shareholders are bracing for the carmaker’s worst earnings performance in seven years, oil m...
Swamp Notes: How do you win Pennsylvania?
20 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden made campaign stops last week in Pennsylvania, whose 19 electoral vo...
Big business bets on Modi
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Netflix profits surged during the first quarter, global markets had a rocky week due to worries over...
AI’s electricity problem
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Iran is exporting more oil than at any time for the past six years, EU leaders are debating whether ...
A glow-up for China’s state-owned enterprises
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andreessen Horowitz hauls in one of the largest funds since the downturn in the tech sector, stocks ...
CVC hopes third time’s the charm
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Goldman Sachs surpasses profit estimates by almost $1bn, CVC’s revived listing plan follows years ...
Israel debates retaliation against Iran
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
US lawmakers face new pressure to approve military aid for Israel, and Tianqi Lithium’s strategy i...
Swamp Notes: What’s the Republican party’s position on abortion?
13 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump championed the reversal of Roe vs Wade. He even called himself the “most pro-life pre...
Prime money markets funds are in trouble
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Three more US regulators have opened probes into Morgan Stanley, managers are planning to shut or co...
Higher for even longer
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Traders slashed bets on Federal Reserve interest rate cuts, the US audit regulator issued its bigges...
Ecuador’s ‘unprecedented’ Mexican embassy raid
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI and Meta are on the brink of releasing new artificial intelligence models, police in Ecuador ...
TSMC doubles down on Arizona
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The US, UK and Australia on Monday said they were considering working with Japan in the trilateral A...
AI is coming for Google’s search
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Israel moves some of its troops from southern Gaza to prepare for an operation in the city of Rafah,...
Swamp Notes: Inside Trump’s new inner circle
06 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump’s first term as president featured mainstream Republican figures — respected milita...
Pressure builds for early elections in Israel
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The supply of equity shares on the market is shrinking, more people in Israel are calling for early ...
Tesla dip: blip or bust?
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lower than expected eurozone inflation number bolsters expectations of ECB interest rate cuts by sum...
Thames Water hits the gutter
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nato is trying to ‘Trump-proof’ funding for the war in Ukraine, Thames Water’s owners will sta...
US and UK team up to study AI
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Three senior members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were killed on Monday in an air strike, resear...
EU takes on fake news ahead of elections
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Online fake news and hybrid campaigns increase ahead of European elections, investors are concerned ...
Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years in prison
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the collapse of th...
A new day dawns for the yen
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The end of negative interest rates in Japan threatens to bring a new era of volatility for the yen, ...
Trump’s Truth Social hits the Nasdaq
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shares in Donald Trump’s social media business soared following its New York market debut, and Vis...
Why Russia was caught off guard
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, the Ukraine war distracte...
India’s quid pro quo trade strategy
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
US and Japan’s security alliance gets a makeover, a record amount of money has flooded into US cor...
Swamp Notes: Is Maga good for Biden?
23 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Democrats have honed in on a novel campaign strategy over the past few election cycles: elevate Trum...
US prosecutors take a bite out of Apple
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reddit shares soared during its public market debut, US prosecutors filed a landmark antitrust lawsu...
Why inflation is sticking around
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The west is focusing on new technology in nuclear energy to reduce reliance on Russia and carbon, an...