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The Federal Reserve could start lowering interest rates as soon as next month, based on the latest inflation data. “We think that the time is approaching,” Fed Chair Jerome Powell said at a press conference after the last Federal Open Market Committee meeting in July. For Americans struggling to keep up with sky-high interest charges, a likely September rate cut may bring some
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This is an audio transcript of the Political Fix podcast episode: ‘How do you solve a problem like Elon Musk?’ [MUSIC PLAYING] George ParkerWelcome to Political Fix from the Financial Times with me, George Parker, standing in for Lucy Fisher, who’s off on her hols at the moment. Coming up in today’s pod, free speech
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Mariano Torras, writing in defence of the universal basic income, says he wants a system of economics “that privileges ideals over maths” (Letters, August 3). I presume the artists he mentions, when following their dreams, still want clean streets, parcels delivered and sewage systems, which all involve an amount of “drudgery”. Donna McBeath SmithEdinburgh, UK
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I fear somebody advising the Treasury may have got their sums wrong in your story about modernising works in the chancellor’s private toilet (“Down the pan: Reeves drops plan to scrap historic urinal”, Report, August 10). Applying for listed building consent is free of charge, not £8,000 as Rachel Reeves was advised according to the
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Jan Dalley notes that Rishi Sunak’s rain-sodden election announcement in Downing Street was interrupted by D:Ream’s “Things Can Only Get Better” — played by “some bright spark in the crowd” (“Could music win it for Kamala Harris?”, Opinion, Life & Arts, August 3). Credit where it’s due please FT. The bright spark was none other
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Municipals were slightly better on the short end Friday, reversing some of Thursday’s losses, while U.S. Treasuries made small gains across the curve and equities were up near the close. Triple-A yields closed out the week on better footing by one to three basis points, albeit in light secondary trading, ahead of a much larger
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The letters are flying in the partisan debate over environmental, social and governance issues. A group of 20 state attorneys general led by Florida have slammed the U.S. Treasury Department’s recent warning against some state banking laws that the department said could undermine national security. In the Aug. 1 letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen,
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