Posted earlier: My thoughts on why US "jobless growth" may have entered uncharted territory. The decoupling of US growth from employment looks more persistent—and consequential—than the three previous episodes we've seen over the last 40 years: www.ft.com/content/298a... #economy @financialtimes.com

Ed Miliband strikes clean energy deal with California’s Gavin Newsom-The two governments will also share expertise on protecting biodiversity and building community resilience… www.ft.com/content/9cc9... @kenzabryan.ft.com @financialtimes.com

I have thought about it carefully and decided that, for the sake of my mental health during rainmageddon, I’m just going to pretend I never read this. as.ft.com/r/4e857ae2-3...

Bad Bunny and the real America-Someone like Ocasio-Cortez arguably has more in common with, say, a German Green party member or a Mexican democratic socialist than with… www.ft.com/content/e68d... @ranaforoohar.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

As illustrated in these MacroMicro charts, China’s holdings of US Treasuries have continued to fall. Given the steady issuance of new securities by the US government, China’s share of total UST holdings has dropped even more -- to 7%, a quarter of the 28% peak reached 15 years ago. #economy #china

If the liberal world order is fading, it should get its proper due as the most successful system in history, says Janan Ganesh: ft.trib.al/s9PKFp2

The Gates Foundation’s chief executive said he feels 'sullied' by its association with Jeffrey Epstein, as he seeks to manage the fallout from the sex offender’s interactions with the philanthropic body and its chair Bill Gates. ft.trib.al/t4ejYgr

as.ft.com/r/ad9dd520-b... India seeks to broker consensus on global ‘AI commons’

Politics is now driving the dollar—This is where the erosion of US institutions, particularly the central bank, shows up in investment portfolios. www.ft.com/content/7bd2... @katie0martin.ft.com @financialtimes.com

The age of the disposable leader–a boss who could be out the door tomorrow is also a recipe for morale-sapping discontent, not least for managers trying to figure out strategic priorities. www.ft.com/content/8998... @pilitaclark.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

Simon Kuper invites you to picture your street in 2100, 'presuming climate change hasn’t washed it away'. ⁠ ⁠ Could the future inhabitant of your home, born in 2026, find life cornucopian? ft.trib.al/3QPJxt1

This man is completely unhinged.

Never been a better time to be a pervert or a stalker or both. Ban the pervert glasses

That time when, two months into World War 1, the FT asked its readers to predict the impact the conflict would have on the map of Europe. As a game. With cash prizes: great @ftweekend.com piece by @theboysmithy.ft.com www.ft.com/content/79a4...

Canada missing climate targets after ‘slackening’ green policies–Canada is failing to meet its climate targets after “slackening” over the past year, an independent review found…. www.ft.com/content/429b... Ilya Gridneff @financialtimes.com

Marco Rubio, Trump’s diplomat www.ft.com/content/c33b... with James Politi & Amy Mackinnon

What America forgets about the UN ft.trib.al/HcM7twu

Where do parents find the time to parent? Less sleep, work and screens. Amazing chart feat. in @alphaville.ft.com Further Reading. homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-p...

Top Goldman Sachs lawyer Kathy Ruemmler to resign over Epstein links trib.al/odsrZRD #FTEdit

This sounds like a fascinating if flawed production as.ft.com/r/da1fbd25-1...

Mustafa Suleyman plots AI ‘self-sufficiency’ as Microsoft loosens OpenAI ties-In particular, Suleyman said Microsoft’s goal is to capture more of the enterprise market… www.ft.com/content/f1ec... @melissahei.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

I know no one cares, but isn't breaching capital controls illegal? www.ft.com/content/7b60...

One in eight would choose dentist trip over retirement planning https://www.ftadviser.com/content/1dc3d978-1dd4-42ca-a5da-bda94417e7e1

Keep Alphaville free by giving us money: tin rattling edition. www.ft.com/content/07c0...

@stephenkb.bsky.social by writing a great newsletter than loads of people enjoy… (that)?

UK awards 189 revenue-guarantee contracts for wind and solar projects-Combined, the projects should be able to generate enough electricity to supply the equivalent of 16mn homes, the officials said. www.ft.com/content/930e... Rachel Millard @financialtimes.com

Anas Sarwar's failed coup has stabilised Keir Starmer's position, but for his leadership to actualy recover, here are the first things he'll need to do:

Russian army casualties in Ukraine surge as.ft.com/r/8faacf94-5... @maxseddon.bsky.social

Absolute banger of a long read from @bondhack.ft.com, ostensibly about Epstein, but ends up solving the qn on who triggered the GFC. (No spoilers, but you have heard of the actual person.) Where else but @alphaville.ft.com. www.ft.com/content/6901...

Investors pour billions into Europe’s AI and defence start-ups ft.trib.al/e9TVy7w

The head of the world's biggest chemicals company BASF has said that the EU's flagship emissions trading system is "obsolete" and must be reformed. Interview with Markus Kamieth @basf.bsky.social ahead of a major industry summit on Wed www.ft.com/content/226c...

Whatever happened to not interfering in business

‘It feels like a betrayal.’ Germany’s painful estrangement from the US-The recent unravelling of transatlantic ties has come as a profound shock in Germany, where the bond with the US runs deep. www.ft.com/content/ef3c... @chassnews.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

On the Big German transatlantic heartbreak : “The transatlantic relationship has a far more emotional foundation than in the UK or in France...The Americans taught the Germans democracy. It feels like a betrayal," says Claudia Major www.ft.com/content/ef3c...

Nice hit from @rachel-rees.bsky.social on retail investors pouring into silver despite those massive price falls www.ft.com/content/3183...

Big news: the European Commission has told Meta that its exclusion of rival AI assistants from WhatsApp is anti-competitive, and ordered it to reverse the policy. This is very fast by the EC's standards; the original investigation was only opened in December. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Retail investors just keep buying silver, even after it plunged 27% in one day and deepened its falls last week Great chart by @jonathanvincent.bsky.social, showing how retail poured $430mn into the metal's ETF as & after the price collapsed, drawn by its "sex appeal" as.ft.com/r/415c75be-1...

An Aim-quoted miner, the quote being Mark Twain's. as.ft.com/r/bfe4f37c-2...

Commentators have argued it is as much of a transition as adolescence. Though isn’t all life a work in progress? Some, conscious of their mortality, have an urge to make their jobs more meaningful, or less stressful. I know women desperate to make up for lost ambition after their kids have left home

Keir Starmer faces crunch week in battle to hold on to power ft.trib.al/IkL3ZAg #FTEdit

‘Devastated and exhausted’: Washington Post looks to life after Will Lewis–For Bezos, who owns the Post, Lewis’s Super Bowl partying during mass job cuts was one mis-step too many, according to company insiders. www.ft.com/content/2002... @grimeslikedimes.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

Ariane de Rothschild ousted her husband as CEO of his family’s storied bank, negotiated a big DOJ settlement and examined several mergers Behind every move was none other than Jeffrey Epstein, who had found his backdoor into one of Europe’s most powerful banking dynasties www.ft.com/content/0d70...

Japan goes to the polls after shortest campaign in postwar era-Polls suggest that Takaichi’s brand of blunt populism, and pledges of wholesale change to her party and to Japan, have won… www.ft.com/content/1d67... @urbandirt.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

China’s aluminium smelters embark on green long march—moving millions of tonnes of production from the northern coal country, its stronghold for seven decades, to pockets of the south and west rich in renewable energy. www.ft.com/content/1e6e... Edward White @financialtimes.com

New on FT website: Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract. www.ft.com/content/5bba...

Good morning and welcome to your FT Weekend highlights giftlink thread. First the Weekend Essay "both Putin and Trump know that we live in a world where being able to impose your story is what matters". Peter Pomerantsev writes that Europe needs to change the story as.ft.com/r/1b2d55d0-8...

The table which says so much about Epstein and his social network as.ft.com/r/8b7dfff1-8... Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s social Ponzi scheme

New documents suggest Prince Andrew privately lobbied UAE officials to engage with Jeffrey Epstein even after his crimes were known. Another reminder that elite protection doesn’t stop at borders, it travels first class. Via Financial Times.

US taxpayer “slush fund to get MAGA-style things going” & “fund European organisations to undermine government policies”, says Reform UK source. www.ft.com/content/f869...