Year in Review 2006
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FT writers look back at some of the key events and most striking images of 2006 and offer a glimpse into what to expect in 2007
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FT predictions for 2007
Our specialists had a better than fair result in predicting the outcome of events in 2006. As for 2007, therefore, we invited them to play what is still a game of roulette a shade more ambitiously, or even recklessly.
The hunt for the next web winner
Blogs and social networks made 2006 the year of user-generated content; now the race is on to spot the next trend that will shape how millions operate online, writes Richard Waters.
Culture’s swagger is back
It will be hard indeed for the arts and culture in 2007 to match the sheer exuberance that has been on show in the past year, writes Peter Aspden
America’s year of normality – despite Borat and MySpace
American exceptionalism appeals to both America-lovers and haters, to foreigners fascinated by the ‘otherness’ of the world’s lone superpower and to natives who rejoice in their own distinctiveness, writes Christia Freeland.
Behold Marx’s twitch
What does it take to kill an idea whose time has passed? It seems Karl Marx’s lips are beginning to twitch again in Europe as fresh attempts are made to reanimate his ideas, writes John Thornhill.
The shape of things to come
The US asks China to buy more dollars to prop up the sinking currency and offers the Seventh Fleet as collateral, says Guy de Jonquières, in FT’s light-hearted scenario of imaginary events in Asia in the year ahead.
