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Gillian Tett/Frontline Q&A
The FT and the Frontline correspondent Martin Smith and producer Marcela Gaviria join for a discussion of Money, Power and Wall Street, the special investigation into the struggles to rescue and repair a shattered US economy following the financial crisis, being aired on the PBS network
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Jun 7, 2013
Thank you, Singapore
The country’s healthcare system is not just lowcost but also very effective in terms of saving lives
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May 31, 2013
Addressing the issues
Commencement speeches at US universities have become secular sermons
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May 26, 2013
In with the ‘on’ crowd
Having a Bloomberg terminal has become tantamount to being part of the club of the modern global financial elite
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May 24, 2013
No more rules
A physicist argues that time is the only constant. A review of ‘Time Reborn’, by Lee Smolin
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May 23, 2013
Venture capital misses out on bull run
Decline raises questions about who will fund big speculative innovation bets
©Shonagh Rae
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LIFE & ARTS
May 17, 2013
The ducks are coming home to roost
The issue of farm labour cuts to the heart of much bigger ideological divides in America
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May 16, 2013
Phoney QE peace masks markets’ fragility
Profound tensions lurk beneath surface calm
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May 10, 2013
Gillian Tett: How the Fed lost its cred
A new book reflects the increasing sense of unease about the US central bank
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May 9, 2013
Americans ahead in paying down debt
Eurozone households have higher debt to income ratio
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May 3, 2013
The cost of hand-to-mouth living
A silent, dark underbelly of economic pain is stalking America’s current ‘recovery’
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Apr 26, 2013
Gillian Tett: The physics of terror
Statisticians are borrowing models from seismology and physics to forecast future patterns of war and terrorism
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Apr 25, 2013
US mortgage market depends on state support
Private sector involvement in the mortgage-backed securities market has practically disappeared
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Apr 19, 2013
Sheryl Sandberg
The fearless Facebook chief has infuriated both sexes with her new book on women in the workplace. ‘Do I mind the criticism? No!’ she tells Gillian Tett. ‘We need emotion, anger, debate’
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LIFE & ARTS
Apr 19, 2013
The precious letters of DNA
For today’s newly rich elite it is all too easy to buy art, but grabbing a one-of-a-kind piece of ‘real’ history carries cachet
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MARKETS
Apr 18, 2013
Wake up to the #Twitter effect on markets
Investors need to spend more time thinking about the way social media can affect financial markets
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Apr 12, 2013
Gillian Tett: Blue-jeans thinking
We tend to think they are all young but the age of entrepreneurs is rising
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Apr 11, 2013
Japan should heed lessons of Volcker’s war
The former Federal Reserve chairman knows well the limits of central bank powers
ABOUT GILLIAN
Gillian Tett is markets and finance commentator and an assistant editor of the Financial Times. In her previous roles, she was US managing editor and oversaw global coverage of the financial markets.
In March 2009 she was Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards. In June 2009 her book Fool’s Gold won Financial Book of the Year at the
inaugural Spear’s Book Awards.
In 2007 she was awarded the Wincott prize, the premier British award for financial journalism, for her capital markets coverage. She was British Business Journalist of the Year in 2008. She joined the FT in 1993 and worked in the former Soviet Union and Europe, and in the economics team. In 1997 she was posted to Tokyo where she became the bureau chief, before returning in 2003 to become deputy head of the Lex column.
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