Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/efcae358-e439-4135-9600-55b23dcd7dc8 Australia’s nuclear submarine deal with the US and UK is set to provide a political boost for Scott Morrison’s conservative government, and UK business and energy secretary Kwasi Kwarteng is due to meet energy suppliers on Monday amid fears that dozens of companies could go bust in the coming weeks due to record high gas and electricity prices, and Beijing has pushed through reams of regul...
Sep 20, 2021•11 min
Introducing our new FT Weekend podcast. New episodes every Saturday. We will soon stop publishing FT Weekend on this feed, so you if want to keep listening, subscribe now before you forget! Search FT Weekend in your podcast app of choice. In this episode, Life & Arts columnist Enuma Okoro explores what our cities tell us about ourselves. Then Lilah speaks with Elif Shafak—the most widely read woman novelist in Turkey—about writing in countries without freedom of speech, and her new book, The...
Sep 18, 2021•31 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/8e3784f8-5605-40aa-a8b5-3d0e5bdae9a9 An unpublished internal model seen by the FT shows that the European Central Bank expects to hit its elusive 2 per cent inflation target by 2025, and Myanmar’s shadow government is fighting back against the military junta. Plus, the FT’s markets editor, Katie Martin, explains why Laos is allowing cryptocurrency mining. Unpublished ECB inflation estimate raises prospect of earlier rate rise...
Sep 17, 2021•9 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/91b4abd2-1ef7-4069-ac25-a4759a2ddfb8 Washington has launched a security partnership with London and Canberra which will support Australia’s plan to build a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines and strengthen the allies’ ability to counter China, and Canada holds an election next week with prime minister Justin Trudeau facing unexpected competition, and Amazon plans to become just as ubiquitous in healthcare as it is in other m...
Sep 16, 2021•9 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/24c2b733-9dca-4dcf-81d2-ca90583a3ac9 US consumer prices in August rose at a more moderate pace in a sign that inflationary pressures associated with the end of Covid-19 lockdowns are easing, and bank executives say consumer spending is outpacing pre-pandemic levels as shoppers shrug off the Delta variant, and Blackstone abandoned a large deal in China after Beijing’s antitrust regulators refused to sign off on it within the a...
Sep 15, 2021•9 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/63d65f6a-045d-4da8-b170-c30642cea5cc Chinese police are using a new anti-fraud app installed on more than 200m mobile phones to question people who have viewed overseas financial news sites, and Brazil’s first openly gay state governor enters the country’s race for president. Plus, the FT’s Houston correspondent, Justin Jacobs, explains why new biofuels refineries are creating headaches for the food industry. China uses app t...
Sep 14, 2021•10 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/40cef59a-441b-4b97-bea8-7a3ec838bc4b Beijing wants to break up Alipay and create a separate app for the company’s highly profitable loans business, Norway’s voters will weigh in on the country’s petroleum production in what’s being called a “climate election,” and a new analysis found that Ireland is failing to keep US Big Tech companies in check. Plus, the FT’s Laurence Fletcher explains why hedge funds are muscling into Sil...
Sep 13, 2021•10 min
Twenty years after the Twin Towers were brought down, FT Weekend podcast host Lilah Raptopoulos explores where 9/11 sits in our memories. The FT’s New York correspondent Joshua Chaffin introduces us to billionaire developer Larry Silverstein, who bought the World Trade Center in July of 2001 and had to rebuild on the site of a tragedy. How do spaces change in meaning over time? The FT’s former Kabul correspondent Jon Boone introduces us to the “New Afghanistan” generation, what they were promise...
Sep 11, 2021•28 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/0b052bc2-c481-49c7-a645-c83e90f45ff1 A poll shows leading economists believe the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in 2022 due to inflationary pressures, the ECB says it will move to “a moderately lower pace” in its €1.85tn pandemic emergency purchase programme, and one of China’s largest property developers, Evergrande, faces the risk of default. Plus, the FT’s US Legal and Enforcement Correspondent, Stefania Palma, ...
Sep 10, 2021•10 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/7344543b-aefa-4715-8494-7c92e1e531f2 A court heard opening arguments in the case against the founder of the failed blood-testing technology start-up Theranos, Janet Yellen has warned that the US Treasury could run out of cash next month, and PayPal has acquired the Tokyo-based buy now, pay later company, Paidy. Plus, the FT’s environment and clean energy correspondent, Leslie Hook, explains how the world’s largest CO2 direct ...
Sep 09, 2021•10 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/7a545b87-55eb-4dbd-b9a0-c80def4bdcf8 Pfizer’s chief scientific officer Philip Dormitzer denied that the company should have developed a more potent Covid-19 vaccine, and the Taliban has announced Afghanistan’s first government since the US left the country, and James Bullard, president of the St Louis Fed pushed back on concerns that the US labour market recovery is faltering. Plus, the FT’s Beijing bureau chief, Tom Mitchell...
Sep 08, 2021•11 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/768cdb61-a131-42de-b8d6-42c3c757cb82 Prime minister Boris Johnson will announce a tax rise of more than £10bn a year today, and the military junta that overthrew Guinea’s president is urging mining companies to keep operating. Plus, the FT’s emerging markets correspondent, Jonathan Wheatley, explains why developing countries have provided fertile ground for cryptocurrencies to take hold. Johnson set to unveil £10bn tax rise t...
Sep 07, 2021•10 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/6b286858-b05a-4211-8e04-315b4e8bac38 A frantic summer of dealmaking has put 2021 on track to break records, and Japan’s future is uncertain after prime minister Yoshihide Suga abruptly announced his departure. Plus, the FT’s private capital correspondent explains how a prominent British private equity firm went public this summer but has kept its executive pay opaque Global dealmaking set to break records after frenzied summe...
Sep 06, 2021•11 min
In this first-ever episode of the FT Weekend podcast, host Lilah Raptopoulos talks to Eleven Madison Park’s Daniel Humm and Chez Panisse’s legendary Alice Waters to discover how the world’s top chefs are finding purpose beyond their restaurants. Humm created a buzz in May when he announced that his world-famous restaurant would be going entirely plant-based. Has that risk paid off? And what does it mean to do good as a chef? Plus: the FT’s design critic Edwin Heathcote gives us a tour of the wor...
Sep 04, 2021•27 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/0b603fa8-7afc-46f3-bae6-46b89a0def8f Bankers and investors are bracing for a bumper month of debt issuance in the US, and Germany’s Dax is welcoming 10 new companies to its index. Plus, the FT’s Lilah Raptopoulos talks about the launch of her new show, the FT Weekend podcast. Banks and investors gear up for US corporate debt binge https://www.ft.com/content/dff0ebdf-1d64-4e9a-9261-6957455d856d Germany’s Dax undergoes makeover...
Sep 03, 2021•10 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/385a236d-c829-47e8-b3a3-c0c3ef2d5387 YouTube has netted 50m paying subscribers for its music streaming services, and the dearth of truckers has become so severe in the US that some fleet owners are petitioning officials to let more foreign operators into the country. Plus, the FT’s US banking editor Josh Franklin explains that top American banks have avoided cannabis companies so a niche finance sector has sprouted up to serv...
Sep 02, 2021•9 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/53441ca2-a824-4f2c-8a76-c10ebde4840b Brussels is drafting a proposal for a €600m package to help Afghanistan’s neighbours host refugees fleeing the Taliban, and luxury brands are uncertain about their future in China after President Xi Jinping’s call for wealth distribution. Plus, the FT’s global finance correspondent, Robin Wigglesworth, explains why investors could become more excited about emerging markets. EU plans €600m ...
Sep 01, 2021•9 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/86c5ce53-69cb-4bf2-b79e-7e67f1b71cfa QR codes have replaced service staff in the pandemic and experts worry that means many jobs lost during the coronavirus pandemic will not return, and Germany’s inflation has risen to its highest level since 2008. Plus, the FT’s US banking correspondent, Imani Moise, explains how Bank of America is fighting a worker shortage by retraining its own employees. QR codes replace service staff as...
Aug 31, 2021•10 min
We'd like to introduce you to our new show: FT Weekend. Turn off your email alerts and settle in. Every Saturday, from September 4, join host Lilah Raptopoulos for inspiring conversations, in-depth storytelling, a bit of escapism and a lot of fun. Brought to you by the award-winning Life & Arts journalists at the Financial Times. You can subscribe in your podcast feed of choice by searching for FT Weekend. Sound design and mixing is by Breen Turner, with original music by Metaphor Music. Hos...
Aug 30, 2021•4 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/e03bcc3e-c418-47e6-9037-0f0030529af0 The US tomorrow will withdraw all of its troops from Afghanistan and the country faces a potential economic catastrophe. The International Monetary Fund’s chief economist warns that emerging market economies can’t afford another ‘taper tantrum.’ Plus, FT contributing editor, Brendan Greeley, explains how US community banks played an instrumental role in keeping small businesses alive durin...
Aug 30, 2021•9 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/3e727154-099c-4af8-b3a0-5aa2742bcdca US military officials are blaming Isis for an attack near Kabul airport yesterday that killed at least 13 service members and an unknown number of civilians, and the Federal Reserve is preparing for today’s virtual Jackson Hole economic symposium under the cloud of the Delta variant, and Brussels has warned that it could sever a data-sharing agreement with the UK. Plus, the FT’s Najmeh Boz...
Aug 27, 2021•10 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/a2aabbbe-070f-48f1-92f2-5ed1ec85cf2b Turkey’s military has begun withdrawing its troops from Kabul airport while the country’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country can’t handle more migrants, and global regulators are imposing heavy fines on financial institutions for failing to stop anti-money laundering. Plus, the FT’s consumer industries reporter, Patricia Nilsson, explains OnlyFans’ ban on sexually explicit con...
Aug 26, 2021•10 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/03108ae2-9645-4849-a165-52eee0272790 US President Joe Biden is defying international pressure and sticking by his plan to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan by the end of the month, and the UK will roll out new regulations to protect children’s data online. Plus, the FT’s legal correspondent, Kate Beioley, talks about the lawsuit that Lebanese lawyers have filed against a UK-registered chemicals company over the 2020 B...
Aug 25, 2021•8 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/f23d324d-b17e-4f6a-bacd-dad8fed54493 At an emergency G7 meeting US president Joe Biden will hear calls from western allies to negotiate with the Taliban for an extension to the US-led evacuation from Afghanistan while facing the humiliating prospect that the Islamist militants may veto the idea, and a US pandemic assistance programme is set to end early next month, leaving millions of gig workers without the support they’ve c...
Aug 24, 2021•10 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/94500fca-aef3-4ab6-82d5-08005ee49c49 UK prime minister Boris Johnson will on Tuesday host crisis talks on Afghanistan with world leaders as Britain presses the US to extend the evacuation timetable amid chaos and deaths at Kabul airport, US cinema owners meeting in Las Vegas this week hope a slate of blockbusters will draw the curtain on Covid slump, and the spread of non-disclosure agreements, or NDA’s, is bad for companies ...
Aug 23, 2021•9 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/243efeb3-032a-4282-b83a-24f566ea1161 The chip shortage hobbling the auto industry has worsened as a wave of coronavirus cases spreads across south-east Asia with three of the world’s largest automakers announcing new disruptions on their assembly lines, Europe remains scarred by the memory of the Syrian refugee crisis and the bloc’s message about Afghan refugees is different, and FT Management Editor Andrew Hill shares highli...
Aug 20, 2021•9 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/b1c4e938-b959-4767-aba9-2aedc1f44005 The former head of Afghanistan’s central bank has warned that the country is facing “dire” financial prospects and an acute shortage of dollars and higher inflation will fuel the flow of migrants out of the country; the Taliban’s takeover hands China and Russia an opportunity to project their power after Washington’s chaotic withdrawal; and a majority of Federal Reserve officials believe t...
Aug 19, 2021•11 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/9950c2c0-f75c-4098-aa1f-01e3ffc38644 In the Islamist group’s first official press conference since it took Kabul, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said the militants would not seek revenge against government officials or the Afghan soldiers it has fought for the past two decades, and WhatsApp has shut down a complaints helpline set up by the Taliban after the messaging app came under pressure to block the group from us...
Aug 18, 2021•9 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/76ae831e-7a74-4429-8bbb-2b947a04cb44 Biden made his first comments on Afghanistan and blamed the chaos in Kabul on the country’s deposed leaders, and desperate Afghans overran the airport trying to flee. Pakistan’s international bonds came under selling pressure on Monday as emerging market investors braced themselves for the fallout from the crisis in Afghanistan, and the Taliban has pledged to create an open and inclusive g...
Aug 17, 2021•9 min
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com https://www.ft.com/content/b1e7f141-e281-4bee-81e3-b11eaf9d767d Afghanistan’s president fled the country as the Taliban advanced on Kabul, and tropical storm Grace headed towards Haiti as rescue workers scrambled to reach people trapped under rubble after a massive earthquake, and as the super-infectious Delta variant spreads around the world many governments are facing the delicate question of how to get hesitant citizens to take the jab. US and allie...
Aug 16, 2021•8 min
