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AI peak is peak AI
Is AI making everybody richer? Or just more entangled in each others’ business? Today on the show, Rob Armstrong and Lex editor John Foley try to unt…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Introducing Untold: Toxic Legacy
Introducing Toxic Legacy, a new season of Untold from the Financial Times. Host Laura Hughes uncovers a lead poisoning epidemic across the UK. You mi…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Gold now! Gold forever! Only gold! Gold! Gold!
Gold keeps hitting all-time highs, and no sober talk about speculation or productivity has stopped it. Today on the show, Rob Armstrong and Katie Mar…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
AI, shutdowns and shadow banks
Today on the show, Rob Armstrong and Katie Martin take on three things they’ve been thinking about: the markets' complete lack of worry about a gover…
6 months ago
The largest leveraged buyout in history?
Electronic Arts, a publicly traded company, was just purchased for $55bn by a consortium of investors led by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.…
6 months ago
Troubling signs in corporate debt
First Brands Group, a roll-up of car parts manufacturers, is preparing a bankruptcy filing after amassing as much as $10bn in debt. And last week, Tr…
6 months, 1 week ago
Hedging the dollar
The dollar is down almost 10 per cent since the beginning of the year. Yes, it has fallen from a very strong position, but the drop might also reflec…
6 months, 1 week ago
Should companies report only twice a year?
This week, President Donald Trump suggested that companies only report earnings twice a year. This would be a significant change to how markets in th…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Private equity’s public reckoning
With interest rates high, private equity has had a harder time finding investors … and making money. To solve this problem, the industry has found no…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
The mystery of the vanishing jobs
The annual jobs numbers are in. And they have been revised down by 911,000 positions. But in a quickly changing economy, with many laborers literally…
6 months, 3 weeks ago