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FT Big Read

An audio version of the best of the Financial Times's Big Reads — in-depth reporting from FT correspondents around the world. Listen to longform stories that explore and explain key themes in world ne... Read more

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Real estate: The global luxury condo glut

Real estate: The global luxury condo glut

Has the party ended for high-end housing developers, asks Judith Evans. After a five-year boom, they are feeling the ch... Read more

8 Jun 2017

13mins

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Martin Wolf: The west's global order unravels

Martin Wolf: The west's global order unravels

We are at the end of both an economic era and a geopolitical one, says Martin Wolf. What lies ahead? Will the post-world... Read more

5 Jan 2017

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Market risk: Gambling on volatility

Market risk: Gambling on volatility

The Vix index is known as Wall Street's 'fear gauge' and was once just a measure of market movements. But volatility has... Read more

19 Apr 2017

12mins

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Breitbart News: from populist fringe to the White House and beyond

Breitbart News: from populist fringe to the White House and beyond

Matthew Garrahan, the FT's Global Media Editor, looks at how the US presidential election has catapulted the conservativ... Read more

9 Dec 2016

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Universal basic income: Levelling the playing field

Universal basic income: Levelling the playing field

As inequality grows, welfare costs soar and technological disruption escalates, many people are growing warmer to the id... Read more

27 May 2016

11mins

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Brexit: Theresa May's struggle

Brexit: Theresa May's struggle

The UK prime minister's grip on power is fragile, says George Parker. Weakened by the election, vulnerable to rebellion ... Read more

5 Jul 2017

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Biotechnology: The US, China and gene data security

Biotechnology: The US, China and gene data security

America is building up a genetic database but there are concerns about the risk of the information leaving the country, ... Read more

2 Aug 2017

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Digital coin mania

Digital coin mania

More than $1.8bn has been raised this year by initial coin offerings by developers who want to create a generation of in... Read more

15 Sep 2017

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Venezuela's mounting refugee crisis

Venezuela's mounting refugee crisis

Thousands of Venezuelans are fleeing disease, violence and economic collapse — creating the worst refugee crisis in rece... Read more

20 Apr 2018

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Spanish politics: Mass appeal of Podemos

Spanish politics: Mass appeal of Podemos

Having started out in a Madrid theatre just over 12 months ago Podemos has ridden a wave of anti-establishment feeling i... Read more

19 Feb 2015

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Craft versus Kraft

Craft versus Kraft

Big US food groups have missed a major shift in the nation's tastes, says Gary Silverman. Brands as famous as Campbell's... Read more

20 Mar 2015

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Hillary Clinton and the permanent campaign

Hillary Clinton and the permanent campaign

More than two and a half years before the 2016 election, the scaffolding to support a Hillary for president campaign is ... Read more

29 May 2014

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Xi Jinping’s China: Power play

Xi Jinping’s China: Power play

Xi Jinping, China’s leader since 2012, came from humble beginnings. How has he grown to have such power in such a short ... Read more

25 Jul 2016

18mins

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Pensions: The dark future

Pensions: The dark future

A dramatic decline in bond yields has added to the pressures of longer lifespans and falling birth rates to create a loo... Read more

23 Aug 2016

13mins

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Why Chinese migrants are doing so well in Spain

Why Chinese migrants are doing so well in Spain

Chinese businesses are expanding in some of the European countries hit hardest by the crisis. Tobias Buck, the FT's Madr... Read more

10 Oct 2014

13mins

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Gig economy: Corporate consultants break free

Gig economy: Corporate consultants break free

A growing number of business advisers are seeking the flexibility and creativity of working for themselves independent ... Read more

7 Oct 2016

12mins

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Beating the billionaires: How Unilever fought off Warren Buffett, 3G and Kraft Heinz

Beating the billionaires: How Unilever fought off Warren Buffett, 3G and Kraft Heinz

Warren Buffett and 3G were taken aback by the harsh rejection of the takeover offer they had backed but people close to ... Read more

22 Feb 2017

12mins

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Italian banks: Rome and Brussels on collision course

Italian banks: Rome and Brussels on collision course

The Brexit shock not only sent Italian bank shares sliding and raised doubts over reform of the industry. It also sharpe... Read more

12 Jul 2016

16mins

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Cobalt: the crisis facing electric vehicles

Cobalt: the crisis facing electric vehicles

Electric cars are the future, and so are the batteries that power them. Yet, these batteries are dependent on cobalt, wh... Read more

22 Aug 2018

12mins

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Volvo: Geely's gamble

Volvo: Geely's gamble

Six years after the deal that is still seen as a test case for Beijing's industrial ambitions, the Swedish carmaker is b... Read more

21 Jun 2016

13mins

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