Smart Reads November 5, 2014
By Luisa Frey ♦ Foreign investors have the perception that it is getting harder to do business in China. By forcing multinationals to lower prices and improve their offerings, the Chinese government...
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By Luisa Frey ♦ “Assad is using starvation to commit his murders”, says FT columnist David Gardner. The many Syrians who face starvation are victims of a “silent massacre”, which does not seem to call...
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♦ Indian women are showing a new confidence and combativeness – a sign of India’s first genuinely popular feminist awakening. ♦ World Child Cancer helps bring birthday hopes to a young girl with cancer...
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♦ The Volcker rule is contentious, but it is not the knockout blow some people had expected. ♦ The economically sensible wing of the US Republican party doesn’t exist, says Paul Krugman. ♦ Iran and...
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♦ Cronyism is being blamed for the slow pace of reform in Ireland. ♦ An AP investigation reveals that a US citizen who went missing on a private business trip to Iran actually had ties to the CIA and...
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Smart Reads January 10, 2014
♦ Iraq’s prime minister is fighting a fire in Fallujah that he helped to start, says Roula Khalaf. ♦ People who once would have been gangsters can now be found in the darker corners of finance, writes...
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♦ Borzou Daragahi ventured into Libya’s badlands: a combination of guns, trafficking and inter-ethnic conflict. ♦ The winner of the Bodley Head/FT Essay Prize is an account of being a British Muslim...
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By Toby Luckhurst The Washington Post argues that the Obama Administration must end its tacit support for the military government in Egypt. Hindus face violence in Bangladesh following the general...
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François Hollande, under pressure about his private life, tried to steer the media towards his plans for the economy. See also Le Monde’s take on how he has shaken the left and disoriented the right....
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By Toby Luckhurst David Gardner explores the rebirth of the security state in Egypt, expressing fears that the west will once again support the governments that foster “Islamist delirium”. James...
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By Toby Luckhurst Roula Khalaf muses on the lionising of broker Jordan Belfort in Martin Scorsese’s film, The Wolf of Wall Street. Syrians have little hope for the talks in Geneva between the Assad...
View ArticleSmart Reads January 27, 2014
By Toby Luckhurst A BBC documentary will reveal former Libya dictator Colonel Gaddafi’s hidden rooms in which he sexually abused children as young as 14. The New York Times explores South Korea’s taste...
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By Toby Luckhurst New “blockbuster” drugs provide hope for a cure to Hepatitis C – an illness which now kills more in the UK than HIV. Neil Buckley explores the tent city that has sprung up in Kiev’s...
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By Toby Luckhurst John Kay’s open letter to Bill Gates restates his argument that the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor. Scarlett Johansson is at the centre of a growing storm surrounding a Soda...
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By Toby Luckhurst Scottish Nationalists seek to emulate Nordic social democracies. The Sochi Winter Olympics is inspiring a resurgence of Circassian nationalism. The lionisation of the Egyptian...
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By Toby Luckhurst The middle class customer base is shrinking in the US, as the top 5 per cent of earners drives consumption. Women have discovered an entrepreneurial streak in Spain in the face of...
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By Toby Luckhurst The Sochi Olympics will only temporarily distract from Russia’s increasing economic problems, writes Kathrin Hille. Figure skater Johnny Weir talks about the Russian obsession with...
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By Toby Luckhurst The USA can no longer rely on Egypt as a bulwark of stability in the Middle East, as jihadists return to the country to fight the military authorities. Oligarchs in eastern Ukraine...
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Banks that cheat people pay fines, but people who cheat banks do time: Gary Silverman profiles Carl Cole, who helped turn Bakersfield into one of the home foreclosure capitals of the US. Egypt’s...
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Glenn Greenwald has lunch with the FT and discusses his abrasive manner and new online venture. Rahm Emanuel has reinvented Chicago’s political machine: the FT’s Edward Luce looks at whether he’s now...
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