Europe seeks to stay the course and avoid backlash from wounded Trump
Also in this newsletter: Billions for EU deep-tech groups
How demographics can distort economic narratives — redux
Per capita perspectives
The Democrats’ moment of truth
Democrats poised to win control of Congress
Transcript: France’s colonial battle to control African money
Gillian Tett and Robin Wigglesworth speak with Ndongo Samba Sylla
James Talarico’s historic Texas Senate victory deals blow to Elon Musk
Billionaire had ploughed $47mn into bankrolling Republican Ken Paxton’s campaign while fuelling conspiracy theories about his opponent
FirstFT: Blue wave sweeps US
Also in today’s newsletter: Iran war and Qatar’s US LNG purchases
The views of the frontrunners to succeed Lagarde at the ECB
Monetary Policy Radar looks at the leading candidates’ voting history and views on the central bank’s broader toolkit
The Story of Money with Gillian Tett and Robin Wigglesworth
They say money makes the world go round, but was it always this way? Join Gillian Tett and Robin Wigglesworth on The Story of Money as they revisit the pivotal moments when money shaped history.
Trump’s American slapdown for the ages
In multiple midterm races the president’s heavy-handed input boomeranged
London’s trading wunderkind faces a rout
Swashbuckling trading style that fuelled Hamza Lemssouguer’s rise has ensnared his firm in brutal sell-off in riskiest reaches of corporate debt markets
The golden age of cheap European flights was good while it lasted
The margin squeeze will be worse for budget airlines, which start out with less room to cut costs
Top ICC official urges Europe to shield court from US sanctions
Trump administration’s order gave most companies 180 days to stop trading with the war tribunal
The economics of cheating is worth studying
The Ig Nobel Prize remains the best guide to what makes economists tick
Honking hippos and windy walruses — the best new environment books
Wilderness Songs brings animal sounds to life via QR codes, while an oil engineer’s son takes in ‘the living ruins of extractive capitalism’
How audacious London debt trader Hamza Lemssouguer came unstuck
Arini Capital Management went from start-up to Mayfair mainstay in four years. Now it is fighting to hold on to its bets
The economic risks of the AI boom
The longer the investment surge and the associated financial engineering continue, the bigger the negative impact is likely to be when it ends
Three Honey & Co recipes from the olive groves of Greece to the kitchen table
Celebrate the new season’s oil with pillowy bread, tender tuna and gloriously rich chocolate brownies
Charleston plots a £15mn endowment campaign amid a Bloomsbury revival
The Sussex retreat has commenced a fundraising drive — the first £1mn comes courtesy of Vanessa Bell’s granddaughter
Tall Tales and Murder TV review — a fun, foul-mouthed, century-hopping Irish noir
Ella Lily Hyland and Casey Walsh have an irresistibly zingy energy as two care-home workers dragged into a sprawling historical saga
Smarter savers pose a challenge to the UK’s big banks
British consumers are conserving more of their income and giving more thought to where they stick the extra cash
AI cyber breach of a bank is a matter of when, not if
Binance hack is a warning of potentially far worse things to come
Accenture accused of publishing AI paper littered with AI hallucinations
Consultancy says it will correct report but blames ‘human error’ for problems
Britain’s era of rapid population growth is ending
With migration falling, the number of people living in the UK may peak in a decade
The Ronald Lauder legacy
Inside the Estée Lauder heir’s $2bn art giveaway