Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Bank of Japan ditches negative rates
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft has hired the co-founder of Google’s DeepMind, the Bank of Japan raised interest rates f...
What Putin’s victory means for Russia
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nvidia announced a new “superchip” and Vladimir Putin’s expected electoral victory is an infle...
It’s central bank week!
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Central banks take centre stage this week, Benjamin Netanyahu defies western allies over his strateg...
Swamp Notes: The play for union power
16 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Union workers used to be a reliable pillar of the Democratic party’s voting coalition. Then Donald...
Can Telegram clean up its act?
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The UAE is in talks to invest in OpenAI’s chip- making business and an Uber courier makes an app t...
Ukraine strikes targets deep in Russia
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Far-right firebrand Geert Wilders has conceded he will not become prime minister of the Netherlands,...
The surprise winner of the US-China chip wars
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The EU and US found some stop-gap funding for weapons for Ukraine, China is scrapping a number of in...
Reddit hits the road ahead of IPO
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reddit’s public offering could set the tone for start-ups looking to list in 2024, and the EU want...
What we learned from the collapse of SVB
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
America’s regulators say new rules will help maintain the dominance of US Treasuries, and there ar...
Swamp Notes: Did Biden's State of the Union hit the mark?
09 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden was in the spotlight this week as he made his annual State of the Union address. It was hi...
A look at Temu’s murky business model
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Instagram overtook TikTok in new app downloads last year, US President Joe Biden announced a plan to...
Is private equity actually worth it?
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bayer chief executive Bill Anderson has ruled out a fresh capital increase and Ghana’s finance min...
China hopes for a big economic rebound
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will on Wednesday put a £10bn personal tax cut at the heart of his Budget, a...
The politics behind the UK Budget
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gold prices have surged close to record levels, and the EU has fined Apple €1.8bn as it boosts its...
Cracks widen in Israel’s war cabinet
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
China has pledged “computing vouchers” to subsidise its AI startups, Bayer is still struggling t...
Swamp Notes: Biden and Trump’s immigration duel
02 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The issue of immigration might be Donald Trump’s biggest political boon ahead of the US election i...
Formula One’s road map to success
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The cost of Rishi Sunak’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda could exceed £580mn by the end of...
McKinsey’s China problem
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Uber chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi has received about $136mn in stock options after hitting a pe...
Should western troops go to Ukraine?
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vladimir Putin’s forces have rehearsed using tactical nuclear weapons at an early stage of conflic...
Sweden set to join the Nato club
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sweden is set to become a Nato member, the UK Financial Conduct Authority is planning to name firms ...
Biotech is back
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Israel plans to raise debt and taxes to fund its war in Gaza and global house prices are on the rise...
Swamp Notes: Trump’s legal troubles
24 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Former US President Donald Trump is the subject of four criminal cases and several civil suits. That...
Russia’s failed efforts to rebuild in Ukraine
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The UK and EU will on Friday sign a deal to co-operate more closely in tackling illegal immigration ...
HSBC profits nosedive
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nvidia’s net income soared nearly 800 per cent in the latest quarter compared to the same period i...
Discover what’s in Capital One’s wallet
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump is losing support from small donors, US lender Capital One has agreed to buy rival Disc...
Israel’s economy slumps
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ukraine withdraws from Avdiivka, lacking weaponry and ammunition, and there are questions about Open...
What next for Russia after Navalny?
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The European Union plans to hit Apple with a €500mn fine over music streaming, German companies ma...
Swamp Notes: Donald Trump takes on Nato (again)
17 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump picked plenty of fights with Nato during his time in office. Now, even as war rages in ...
Asset managers cool on climate group
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
European Commision president Ursula von der Leyen says Europe’s military needs to step up and two ...
Will Germany lead Nato?
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt is considering slashing public spending to fund pre-election tax cuts, Ger...
Arm’s share price goes crazy
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Investors scaled back bets that the US Federal Reserve will begin cutting interest rates in May,&nbs...
Wall Street fell out of love with equity hedge funds
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
US law firm Latham & Watkins is cutting off automatic access to its international databases for ...
Imran Khan rises again in Pakistan
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
EY took on $700mn in debt for its failed “Project Everest” plan, and tech companies are shedding...
Untold: The Retreat, Ep. 1 - Dear Madison
11 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing Untold: The Retreat, a new podcast from the special investigations team at the Financial...
Swamp Notes: Is it the economy, stupid?
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, common political wisdom has held that Americans vote based on their satisfaction with t...
Chill out. Netflix is winning the streaming wars
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismisses his top commander, Gaza’s last refuge is Israe...
Your Uber profits have arrived
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is set to announce the party is abandoning its target to spend £28bn...
The story behind the money going to Mexico
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Standard Chartered has sounded out UK political heavyweights Sir Charles Roxburgh and Sir Sajid Javi...
Pakistan’s Imran Khan fights an election from jail
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
China’s national chip champions expect to make next-generation smartphone processors as early as t...
Turkey’s central bank chief steps down
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Plans for a code on how AI models can use copyrighted materials have stalled in the UK, and US force...
Swamp Notes: How money is shaping the 2024 US election
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Business leaders backed away from Donald Trump after his supporters attacked the US Capitol in 2021....
Big tech continues to rock
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meta will reward shareholders with its first-ever dividend and an additional $50bn in share buybacks...
Viktor Orbán: the EU’s chief disrupter
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The US Federal Reserve held interest rates at a 23-year high, the EU’s battle with Hungarian prime...
Palestinians pay the price for UN allegations
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft reported record quarterly revenues, the IMF projects the Russian economy and the global ec...
China’s not so Evergrande
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Binance has bowed to pressure from customers who want to hold their assets with an independent custo...
The challenges to a ceasefire in Gaza
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brussels threatens to hit Hungary’s economy if Viktor Orbán vetoes Ukraine aid, the UN’s highes...
Swamp Notes: GOP primaries and the power of incumbency
27 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
So far the Republican primaries have had very few surprises. Former President Donald Trump continues...
How airlines are handling the Boeing fiasco
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Federal Trade Commission has launched an inquiry into the partnerships between Big Tech cloud pr...
There’s active interest in passive funds
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The US aviation regulator has blocked Boeing from expanding production of its most popular plane, th...
Resuscitating Hong Kong’s stock exchange
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Turkey’s parliament has voted in favour of Sweden joining Nato and Arab nations are about to unvei...
Can the yield curve still predict recessions?
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An inverted yield curve is sending jitters across the US economy, Japanese IT conglomerate Fujitsu i...
What’s next for Bitcoin ETFs?
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Poland secures EU concession to limit food exports from Ukraine, Ron DeSantis ends his bid for the W...
What if AI knows your death date?
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt has signalled he wants to cut taxes further in the coming months, the conf...
China is not out of the woods yet
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A top IMF official has warned that central banks need to move cautiously on cutting rates this year,...
The uphill battle to beat Trump
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wage growth is slowing in the world’s largest economies, a federal judge stopped JetBlue’s plann...
US-owned ship attacked off Yemen
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Red Sea shipping route remains dangerous. What's behind Chinese carmaker BYD's success in the electr...
Taiwan defies China in election
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Taiwan’s presidential election shows that voters are willing to defy China, the 2024 US presidenti...
The world’s biggest mining project finally gets off the ground
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The US and the UK have carried out military strikes against Iran-backed Houthi rebels, US inflation ...
What ETFs mean for bitcoin
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
US President Joe Biden plans to send a high-level delegation to Taipei after the election in Taiwan ...
The scramble for a new EU leader
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chinese companies are resorting to chips repurposed from standard PC gaming products to develop arti...
Can Boeing get back on track?
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shares in Boeing and supplier Spirit AeroSystems tumbled after a mid-flight accident, and tens of th...
Football clubs are pouring billions into stadiums
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A pile up of bad debt threatens to sour investors’ growing optimism about the prospects for the US...
Local Chinese banks get a lifeline
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the world’s top gold producers fired its chief executive for serious misconduct, Chinese pr...
Convertible bonds are so hot right now
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Minutes from the December Federal Reserve meeting show that officials were committed to higher-for-l...
BlackRock and Vanguard duke it out over ETF market
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Russia has fired a second massive barrage of the new year on Ukraine’s capital and the country’s...
Markets, elections and AI in 2024
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The FT’s Peter Spiegel, Katie Martin and Elaine Moore preview what could happen in geopolitics, ma...
From “What Next”: Wait, China’s Taking Our Pandas Back?
29 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
FT News Briefing presents a special episode from Slate’s “What Next” podcast, hosted by M...
Superintelligent AI: can chatbots think?
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are generative AI systems such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT really intelligent? Large language models such ...
Culture chat: ‘Napoleon’ with historian Simon Schama
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Historian Sir Simon Schama and FT deputy arts editor and film expert Raph Abraham join Lilah to disc...
Hot Money: The New Narcos
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When a Dutch crime reporter makes an unbelievable discovery, a small-town murder case begins to look...
The year of weight-loss drugs
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt raised the prospect of the Bank of England reducing interest rates in 2024 in...
This bond market rally is epic
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A global rally in government debt has driven yields past many Wall Street targets for the end of 202...
India’s digital transformation
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Copper is set to finish the year as the top-performing industrial metal, and the FT’s John Paul Ra...
US Steel gets a new owner
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Activist investor Cevian Capital has taken a €1.2bn stake in UBS, and Nippon Steel has agreed to b...
A Chinese spy in Europe’s midst
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Corporate bankruptcies are increasing at double-digit rates in most advanced economies, and TSMC is ...
UAW strike kicks off new era for US labour
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Central banks are charting different courses for interest rates in 2024, and EU leaders have agreed ...
The west is losing patience with Israel
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday held interest rates at a 22-year high, countries reached a deal at ...
Is Signa’s downfall a canary in the coalmine?
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak headed off a Conservative revolt over his flagship Rwanda migration bi...
Wealthy donors and campus speech
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Investors poured record sums into high-yield bond exchange traded funds in November, Rishi Sunak wil...
The Big Four’s year of layoffs
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
French immigration reforms put Emmanuel Macron’s leadership to the test, Pisa rankings show sharp ...
US oil is keeping Opec on its toes
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The EU is set to pave the way for completely ending gas imports from Russia and Belarus, and a recor...
The humanitarian crisis worsens in Gaza
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Moody’s Investors Service advised staff in China to work from home ahead of its cut to the outlook...
The crackdown on Ukraine’s oligarchs
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Leading economists say the Federal Reserve will hold off on interest rate cuts until at least July 2...
Hot Money: The New Narcos - Ep. 1, Murder Brokers
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hot Money is back with a brand new season. On the first episode of Hot Money: The New Narcos, a Dutc...
Venezuela votes for a land grab in Guyana
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The UK will make it harder for employers to hire overseas staff in an attempt to reduce record immig...
Wealthy Argentines flock to Uruguay
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Israel has ordered Palestinians in Gaza to evacuate a large area of land in the south of the strip, ...
Introducing Hot Money: The New Narcos
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hot Money is back with a new season that begins with a mysterious murder in a small town and leads t...
Why markets had a stellar November
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Washington is aiming to halve Russia’s oil and gas revenues by the end of this decade, and markets...
Nato says don’t underestimate Russia
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nato’s secretary-general is warning the west not to underestimate Russia, Cigna is in talks to mer...
Germany’s €60bn budget hole
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A record number of Chinese people have defaulted since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, a c...
Israel-Hamas truce extended
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Qatar said mediators had secured a deal to prolong the temporary truce between Israel and Hamas by t...
COP28: Climate summit tries to kick fossil fuel habit
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Turkey’s exports to Russia of goods vital for Moscow’s war machine have soared in 2023, and nati...
What the Dutch far-right win means for the EU
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Voters in the Netherlands elect Geert Wilders; UK immigration numbers reach new high; Plus, senior C...
Ousted OpenAI board member on AI safety concerns
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Altman returns and OpenAI board members are given the boot; US authorities foil a plot to kill S...
OpenAI and Sam Altman’s superpowers
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Israel and Hamas have agreed a deal to release hostages, Dutch voters head to the polls today, and B...
Argentina is in its Milei era
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A majority of OpenAI employees sent a letter demanding that the board reinstate former CEO Sam Altma...
Milei elected president of Argentina
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Radical libertarian economist, Javier Milei, has won Argentina’s presidential elections, investors...
Life and Art: Nathan Fielder and ‘The Curse’
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing Life and Art, a new podcast FT Weekend. Join host Lilah Raptopoulos for two episodes eac...
EY’s new leader has her work cut out for her
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
More than half of low-income UK households with mortgages have fallen behind on one or more of their...
Sunak grapples with ruling on flagship asylum plan
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is attempting to save a plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda; an EU...