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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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