Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The US coastguard intercepted and boarded a tanker transporting Venezuelan oil in the Caribbean on Saturday, as Washington continues to ratchet up pressure on the regime of autocratic president Nicolás Maduro. Homeland security … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Donald Trump’s administration faced new criticism of its handling of documents related to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after the justice department removed 16, including an image of the president, from a trove … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Partners at the elite UK boutique advisory Robey Warshaw split £40.5mn of profits in the firm’s final full year before it was acquired by the US investment bank Evercore. Annual accounts published on Saturday showed … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Has public debt in the developed world become fundamentally unmanageable? The question is far from outlandish. Recent debt numbers starkly underline how far we have moved beyond the ancient public finance paradigm whereby debt was … Read more
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How many bubbles are there in a standard bottle of champagne? In fact, there are none. Until one pours out its golden contents, champagne’s signature globules of gas cannot form. But there are no concerns about a bubble in the market for premium vintage champagne. After two plus years of glum trading, some excellent fizz … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The justice department’s release of a trove of several thousand documents concerning Jeffrey Epstein contained no explosive new revelations about Donald Trump’s past association with the late sex offender. The most striking images … Read more
The US Department of Justice on Friday released thousands of its files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — just hours ahead of a congressionally mandated deadline. It followed months of pressure on President Donald Trump and Republican allies who had sought to block the files’ release, prompting anger within the US president’s Maga … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world US secretary of state Marco Rubio delivered a resounding endorsement of the Trump administration’s foreign policy, defending the president as a “peacemaker”, while downplaying expectations for what follows from the agreements the president … Read more