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Monday, 6 July, 2020

FT Swamp Notes
Europe rising Premium
We might be about to see a resurgence of the Old World, even as the New World is diminishing
Sunday, 5 July, 2020

Big tech
Ad boycotts alone will not curb Big Tech
It will take more to convert social concerns into an equitable distribution of Silicon Valley’s wealth
Monday, 29 June, 2020

FT Swamp Notes
A tale of two statues Premium
Should a Boston memorial to a civil war hero come down?
Sunday, 28 June, 2020

US economy
Small business: a canary in the US economic coal mine
To really take America’s pulse, forget Wall Street and talk to the owner of a local café
Monday, 22 June, 2020

FT Swamp Notes
From Big Tech to Big Food Premium
The pandemic has paved the way for agriculture to become the world’s most contentious industry
Sunday, 21 June, 2020

Food security
The problem with Big Food
Coronavirus is forcing us to rethink our approach to agricultural production
Sunday, 14 June, 2020

US inequality
Black Lives Matter is about both race and class
Protests over racial justice also have the potential to seed a new labour movement in the US
Friday, 12 June, 2020

FT Swamp Notes
Will Democrats sweep Washington and Wall Street? Premium
Recent polling shows that Donald Trump has only a 39 per cent approval rating
Monday, 8 June, 2020

FT Swamp Notes
The future of cities Premium
It’s possible that New York will reset to something more like Brooklyn than Manhattan
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Sunday, 7 June, 2020

Facebook Inc
Facebook and the creation of a US oligarch
To stay this big and unregulated, the social media platform can’t afford to upset rulers
Wednesday, 3 June, 2020

History books
Books to illuminate the problems of race in America
As protests continue in the US, Rana Foroohar selects key works on the long history of racial inequality
Monday, 1 June, 2020

FT Swamp Notes
The long hot summer Premium
George Floyd’s death and the Covid-19 crisis encompass everything that is broken in the US today
Sunday, 31 May, 2020

US Dollar
We may be entering a post-dollar world
Continued erosion of trust in America politically could have an impact on the primacy of its currency
Tuesday, 26 May, 2020

US economy
US big business gets help first but who needs it most?
To avoid the mistakes of 2008, focus on individuals and smaller enterprises
Monday, 25 May, 2020

FT Swamp Notes
Trust and testing Premium
Fed chiefs are going out in masks to gauge public fear as part of their jobs. That’s a unique situation
Sunday, 24 May, 2020

Exchange traded funds
Small-time investing fuels real world consequences
Non-professionals have increased oil market volatility, and suffered from it too
Wednesday, 20 May, 2020

ReviewNon-Fiction
The Decadent Society — has the west run out of ideas?
Ross Douthat’s conservative critique suggests that rich, powerful nations have stalled culturally
Monday, 18 May, 2020

FT Swamp Notes
Who will pay for the government spending? Premium
We have to start considering whether we print money, tax wealth or do a combination of both
Sunday, 17 May, 2020

Technology sector
Big Tech’s viral boom could be its undoing
The industry might seem unstoppable in this crisis, but ultimately it will be curbed
Monday, 11 May, 2020

FT Swamp Notes
OK, Zoomer Premium
Why I fear young people will lose their future earnings potential as well as their shirts on stocks
Sunday, 10 May, 2020

US & Canadian companies
Gambling on US equities is becoming more difficult
Deglobalisation should make investors think twice about betting on index tracker funds
Thursday, 7 May, 2020

Coronavirus Diaries
A love letter to cleaning, by Rana Foroohar
‘Everyone is more appreciative of each other when we have to share chores. I can’t tell you how pleasant it is to watch my husband change sheets’
Monday, 4 May, 2020

FT Swamp Notes
From ‘just in time’ to ‘just in case’
If the past 40 years were about efficiency, the next 40 will be about resiliency
Sunday, 3 May, 2020

Behavioural economics
Economists need to abandon their comfort zones to deal with Covid-19
Complex and adaptive problems cannot be solved with the usual mainstream thinking
Friday, 1 May, 2020

Lunch with the FT
Kiril Sokoloff: ‘There will have to be massive debt relief’
The Wall Street strategist talks about debt, lessons from losing his hearing — and his latest predictions for the world