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  • Friday, 20 January, 2023
    The Long ViewUS politics & policy
    The $1tn coin: a silly idea to resolve the US debt ceiling wrangles

    The proposal is a response with uncertain outcomes to a threat with known and catastrophic consequences

  • Saturday, 24 December, 2022
    On Wall StreetMarkets
    One last eggnog on credit

    What a 235-year-old ledger can teach us after a year of chaos in digital money

  • Saturday, 19 November, 2022
    On Wall StreetSovereign bonds
    Forever is a long time to finance anyone

    Perpetual gilts would need a dedicated fund to pay them back

  • Saturday, 5 November, 2022
    On Wall StreetFederal Reserve
    It’s still Ben Bernanke and Milton Friedman’s Fed

    Central bank policymakers do not seem to want to find new tools that work

  • Saturday, 8 October, 2022
    On Wall StreetCentral banks
    Are we expecting sovereign debt to do too much?

    Somehow we have forgotten fully half of what a central bank could do

  • Saturday, 10 September, 2022
    On Wall StreetCurrencies
    Countries do not control their own currencies

    We are taught that money comes from the nation state. This was never true

  • Saturday, 18 June, 2022
    On Wall StreetFinancial services
    Banks are still not your friends

    Crypto aside, consumer finance needs fixing

  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
    FT SeriesThe HTSI Escape issue 2022
    The world in our PocketShip

    At 4.5m, a ‘stitch and glue’ dinghy is the exact opposite of a superyacht. But it’s a happy little daydream regardless

  • Saturday, 21 May, 2022
    On Wall StreetCryptocurrencies
    The eternal dream of automatic money

    A currency that cannot be corrupted by bad decisions is not what humans really want

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    The Long ViewFederal Reserve
    The Fed’s balance sheet is normal and political

    Central bank choices will always help some people more than others

  • Saturday, 26 March, 2022
    On Wall StreetWar in Ukraine
    A superyacht is a terrible asset

    Russians hold a disproportionate number of the biggest ones

  • Saturday, 12 February, 2022
    On Wall StreetStablecoins
    Stablecoin firms should be regulated like the banks they are

    Holders of the digital assets should have similar protections to depositors

  • Saturday, 8 January, 2022
    On Wall StreetBitcoin
    Crypto world divide exposed by ‘bividend’

    BTCS Nasdaq-listed company distributes capital in bitcoin — an asset with value, but no purpose

  • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
    FT SeriesHow to eat and drink it this Christmas
    Our 25 favourite hotel bars

    We asked FT writers to nominate the best destinations for the perfect drink. Here are the top picks

  • Saturday, 20 November, 2021
    The Long ViewDigital currencies
    MiamiCoin, a currency without sovereignty

    City-states have always had their own money, but they have also controlled it

  • Saturday, 9 October, 2021
    The Long ViewUS economy
    The $1tn coin is a poor replacement for US treasuries

    Platinum currency is a short-term tactic for the White House but not a long-term fix 

  • Saturday, 11 September, 2021
    FT readers respond
    ‘Surviving 9/11’: FT Readers share their thoughts

    Join the conversation in the comments below to tell us your memories of the day.

  • Wednesday, 8 September, 2021
    FT MagazineTerrorism
    ‘I am still captive’: surviving 9/11

    When the Twin Towers fell, Brendan Greeley ran. This is his story 

  • Monday, 6 September, 2021
    ReviewHistory books
    How Europe went from backwater to global dominance

    'The Verge’ takes up the question of the Great Divergence, exploring how for a time, the continent grew faster than the rest of the world

  • Monday, 30 August, 2021
    Transcript
    How community banks were small business saviours during the pandemic

    US community banks played an instrumental role in keeping small businesses alive

  • Monday, 30 August, 2021
    FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
    Afghanistan faces economic catastrophe, US community banks

    The US withdrawal and Taliban takeover leads to inflation, cash shortages and economic insecurity

  • Sunday, 29 August, 2021
    The Big Read
    How US community banks became ‘irreplaceable’ in the pandemic

    Local lenders played an outsized role in dispensing loans to small businesses but must continue to adapt as banking moves online

  • Friday, 20 August, 2021
    The Long ViewSovereign bonds
    A quality theory of Treasuries

    To value US sovereign debt, think about what it buys

  • Tuesday, 27 July, 2021
    Federal Reserve
    The Fed should stop treating all money the same

    As a cash pile mounts in the financial system, the central bank’s interest rate policy is working less well than it used to

  • Saturday, 3 July, 2021
    On Wall StreetFederal Reserve
    Let’s all please stop calling dollars ‘fiat money’

    Currencies are not memes that only have value because governments say they do

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