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  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    HS2
    HS2 costs set to jump as inflation undermines rail project’s future

    Price tag set to rise to a figure closer to £91bn, according to calculations by the Financial Times

    Montage of artist’s impression of an HS2 train with £50 notes and a map of the route in the background Undated artist impression handout  issued by HS2 of a early visualisation of an HS2 train. Designs of HS2’s 225mph trains have been recognised for their environmental credentials, according to the company building the high-speed railway. PA Photo. Issue date: Sunday September 3, 2023. HS2 Ltd said its trains are the first in the world to achieve the British Standard Institute’s PAS 2080 global accreditation. See PA story RAIL HS2. Photo credit should read: HS2/PA Wire
  • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
    The Big Read
    How British chicken got caught in the country’s economic storm

    The poultry industry is facing an onslaught of different upheavals that have thrust the once fast-growing sector into crisis

  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    FT SeriesThe Return of Big Government
    Big government is back. How will we pay for it?

    Countries are spending heavily on defence, welfare and the green transition. With debt levels already high, taxes look certain to rise

  • Monday, 21 August, 2023
    The rise of the middle powers
    The à la carte world: our new geopolitical order

    With the US and China at loggerheads, a range of ‘middle powers’ see an opening to pursue their interests

    Monuments representing the countries
  • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
    The Big Read
    Why productivity is so weak at UK companies

    Longstanding problems of low investment and skills gaps exacerbated by overconfidence and lack of management time

  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    The Big Read
    How Japan got its swagger back

    Helped by an escape from decades of deflation, the stock market is at a 33-year high and the economy rebounding. But can this rally last?

  • Sunday, 14 May, 2023
    The Big Read
    How Ghana’s economy became a cautionary tale for Africa

    The decline of a regional champion rings alarm bells for other countries on the continent that overspent when debt was cheap

    A montage image with a green background, lines of a graph and a protester holding a sign reading, ‘Inflation is too high, why Nana Akufo-Addo?’
  • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
    The crisis in European equities
    Britain’s ‘capitalism without capital’: the pension funds that shun risk

    The first part of a series on the crisis in European equities explores how a rush into safer assets has left the UK listing market moribund and is driving companies overseas

    A montage of stacked gold coins flanked by blue-hued London skyscrapers and wind mills, with a black and white lock and chain in the foreground
  • Sunday, 19 March, 2023
    Visual and data journalism
    Unchecked corporate pricing power is a factor in US inflation

    Other charts of the week: marriage and remote working, Europeans love SUVs, Britons approve of EU leaders and they support nurses and ambulance strikes

    Dollar bills overlaid with a line chart
  • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
    The Big Read
    Rebuilding Pakistan: how much should rich nations help?

    The disastrous floods offer a test case for what wealthy, polluting nations owe those at the mercy of extreme weather events

    Traffic over a temporary bridge built after floods washed away the original in Sindh province, southern Pakistan
  • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
    The Big Read
    How Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro outfoxed the west

    The repressive leader has weathered an economic crisis, sanctions and an uprising. What should the US do with him now?

    Montage of images with cutout of Nicolás Maduro in the foreground and smaller cutouts of Juan Guaidó and Joe Biden in the background, against squares coloured dark blue, red and yellow respectively
  • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
    Special ReportInnovation in Energy
    In charts: are governments doing enough to back green energy research?

    Spending levels may need to rise if the world is to achieve its climate goals

  • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
    The Big Read
    What it would take for Apple to disentangle itself from China

    The tech giant increasingly finds itself beholden to America’s biggest geopolitical rival. But is diversification even possible?

  • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
    The Big Read
    How Apple tied its fortunes to China

    The company spent two decades and billions of dollars building a supply chain of unprecedented sophistication. Now, a reckoning is coming

    Tim Cook, an Apple logo and a map of China, with red lines going into the country, centring on Zhengzhou
  • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
    News in-depthUK labour disputes
    Are Britain’s striking public sector workers underpaid?

    FT analysis shows that many key occupations have seen their pay squeezed over the past decade

    A woman holding a sign that says ‘It’s time to pay nursing staff fairly’
  • Thursday, 29 December, 2022
    The Big Read
    War, inflation and tumbling markets: the year in 11 charts

    A sampling of the FT’s data and visual journalism from 2022 illustrates the key events of a tumultuous 12 months

    A young Ukrainian soldier, with a backdrop of charts and a map showing recaptured territory
  • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
    Special ReportChemicals and Manufacturing
    Chemicals: core to a net zero future

    As a major supplier to so many sectors, the industry plays a crucial role in the green transition

    FT Montage: an Asian scientist operates in a laboratory
  • Saturday, 22 October, 2022
    UK politics
    How the markets broke ‘Trussonomics’

    A visual journey through the collapse of Liz Truss’s ill-fated economic project

    Liz Truss
  • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
    Special ReportSustainable Food and Agriculture
    Can the world feed itself sustainably? A primer in seven charts

    Feeding a population of over 10bn this century doesn’t have to cost the Earth

  • Wednesday, 21 September, 2022
    ExplainerUK economy
    Behind the cost of business crisis hitting UK plc

    Despite the government’s energy package, spiralling costs and falling consumer spending mean the stage is set for recession

  • Friday, 9 September, 2022
    Queen Elizabeth II
    The Queen’s 70-year reign in 10 charts

    From dramatic shifts in migration, to economic transformations after the collapse of empire, the FT examines the changes that shaped the UK

    Queen Elizabeth II photographed in January 1956
  • Friday, 12 August, 2022
    News in-depthFootball
    Buzz around Lionesses’ Euro victory drives growth of Women’s Super League

    Tickets sell out in hours but the use of small stadiums continues to hold back the game in England

  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    Cricket
    How the England men’s Test cricket team have transformed their fortunes

    Bold change of approach under new coach and captain has delivered a striking improvement in results

  • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
    News in-depthUK inflation
    UK set for highest inflation among G7 until 2024, say economists

    Price rises to outstrip other nations as Britain combines worst aspects found in mainland Europe and North America

    Montage of a graph and a shopping basket
  • Friday, 17 September, 2021
    ExplainerCoronavirus economic impact
    Pandemic crisis: Global economic impact tracker

    Alternative indicators give an early picture of how the global economy is faring in the face of headwinds from new restrictions as case counts climb

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