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  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    Federal Reserve
    Trump says he will not remove Jay Powell from Fed before term ends

    President-elect also does not rule out higher inflation as a result of his tariffs

    Donald Trump and Jay Powell
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
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    US president-elect’s aids and nominees are getting ready to swiftly implement his main campaign pledges

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  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
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    Democrats must not abandon their morals

    Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter invites comparison to Donald Trump’s most censured actions

    Ben Hickey illustration of a blue donkey climbing up a blue line on a graph, while a red elephant is walking on a downward-sloping red line
  • Saturday, 7 December, 2024
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    Trump swoops into Paris as Europe prepares for a more transactional relationship

    US president-elect met Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy before reopening of Notre-Dame

  • Saturday, 7 December, 2024
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  • Saturday, 7 December, 2024
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    Cryptocurrencies used to be ‘anti-establishment’. Donald Trump might change that.

  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
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    TikTok fails to halt law that could lead to US ban

    Further appeal expected for bipartisan measure targeting video app owned by China’s ByteDance over security concerns

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  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
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    Video app owned by China’s ByteDance is hoping for a lifeline to avoid being sold or shut down in the US

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  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The use and misuse of the presidential pardon

    Both Trump and Biden have abused a power that needs to be reformed

    US President Joe Biden talks with his son, Hunter Biden
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Trump’s Middle East envoy met Israel and Qatar PMs to broker ceasefire

    Steven Witkoff held talks with Netanyahu and Sheikh Mohammed to discuss deal ahead of inauguration

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  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Victor Cha
    The resilience of South Korea’s democracy remains in doubt

    How this ends is uncertain, but the nightmare scenario would be a return of the military to the streets

    Protesters gather in protest against President Yoon Suk-yeol near the National Assembly
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Always follow the money with Trump Premium content

    Postmodern fascism may well be in our future but a new oligarchy is taking shape beneath our noses

    Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Musk donated more than $250mn to Trump campaign, electoral filings show

    Figures underscore lengths to which Tesla chief was prepared to go to secure victory in November

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  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
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    How the chip war could turn under Trump

    From tariffs to AI demand, US companies are pondering what comes next

    Ann Kiernan illustration of Manhattan skyline strewn with AI chips and dots
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
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    Trump picks former senator Perdue for ambassador to China

    President-elect says candidate’s international business career will help build relations with Beijing

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  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
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    ‘Crazy ideology’: US groups drop diversity efforts as conservative pressure grows

    Pullback is abrupt reversal from policies that appeared poised to influence corporate ranks

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  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Trump picks Musk ally David Sacks as crypto and AI tsar

    Ex-PayPal executive and VC investor hosted Silicon Valley fundraiser for president-elect

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  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
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    Chevron cuts capital budget for first time since Covid-19 oil crash

    Supermajor’s move comes despite Donald Trump’s pledge to unleash new US fossil fuel surge

    An oil well for Chevron in the Permian Basin near Midland, Texas
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Mike Johnson and Elon Musk tell US federal staff to get back to the office

    Republican House Speaker backs billionaire entrepreneur’s government efficiency drive

    Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, left, walks with Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, who is carrying his son, as they walk to a meeting to discuss president-elect Donald Trump’s planned Department of Government Efficiency, on Capitol Hill in Washington on December 5, 2024
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Explainer
    Trump’s cabinet picks: key players in the president-elect’s administration

    The US political establishment has been shocked by some of the candidates, who still have to be confirmed by the Senate

    Robert F Kennedy Jr, Pam Bondi, Donald Trump, Susie Wiles and Elon Musk
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Boeing Company
    Boeing’s Max plea deal rejected by court over DEI provision

    Ruling in Texas injects culture war into one of the country’s most significant corporate prosecutions

    Rescue workers at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing Max crash in Ethiopia in 2019
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    White House Watch
    Elon Musk-led effort to cut federal workforce risks stifling labour market

    Plus, does Trump spell good news for bankers?

    Elon Musk pumps his fist while wearing a Maga hat
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    EU defence
    Europe races to set up €500bn defence fund

    Initiative is open to UK and would tap bond markets to boost spending for Trump’s White House return

    Live firing of the British Army’s new Archer Mobile Howitzer gun near Rovaniemi in the Arctic Circle, Finland
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    US employment
    Effort to cut federal workforce takes aim at key US jobs engine

    Government and healthcare have emerged as biggest source of American employment, particularly for knowledge workers

    Elon Musk
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Marc Andreessen
    Marc Andreessen helps to recruit staff for Musk’s US cost-cutting body

    Venture capitalist has role in interviewing and identifying candidates for new Department for Government Efficiency

    Marc Andreessen, the billionaire co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz
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