Bankruptcy adviser Jay Alix ends long lobbying crusade against McKinsey
Jay Alix, founder of the bankruptcy adviser AlixPartners, has ended a $5mn Washington lobbying campaign against McKinsey, bringing down the curtain on one of the consulting industry’s longest running ...
What does Taiwan have to do with US mortgage rates?
Formosa bonds are listed in Taiwan but issued by foreign companies and denominated in US dollar. Their name — a 16th century-vintage Portuguese term for Taiwan meaning “beautiful island” — was chosen ...
‘This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us’ — the 1974 track that turned Sparks into a sensation
Marc Bolan is playing a song with Adolf Hitler.” “This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us” was the first single on Sparks’ ...
China’s migrant dorm entrepreneur capitalises on housing affordability
Columbia’s Wu pointed to a long tradition of employer help for accommodation in China. “A lot of these companies are willing ...
Mining CEO Jonathan Price: ‘It takes a lot to knock me off course’
Head of Canadian Teck Resources on fending off a hostile takeover by Glencore and learning from the night shift ...
Residents oppose China’s London embassy plans in ‘David and Goliath’ fight
After early victories in the long-running battle, including a decision by Tower Hamlets council to block the Chinese state’s first planning application on security grounds in 2022, Nygate and his ...
Kenya — a window into Africa’s demographic future
People are getting educated, and that changes perceptions about childbirth’ © Brian Otieno/FT As the decline in fertility rates across most continents has gathered pace — to a point where many ...
Welcome to the ‘mask-off’ era
My intrigue was especially piqued by the fact that this came not from some boorish commentator on GB News or free speech bro on X, but from the young man who voices Spider-Man himself: the ...
EU fertiliser companies push for steeper tariffs on Russian imports
Blocked from selling pipeline gas into the EU in the wake of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has instead used the gas to increase its production and exports of fertiliser, which is not ...
India turns to private sector for rocket launches
Two private Indian start-ups, Skyroot Aerospace and Agnikul Cosmos, have successfully completed suborbital tests of launch vehicles. Goenka said India was still “in the process of identifying who will ...
Latin America’s biggest airline targets lift from region’s growth
Latin America’s biggest airline is targeting ambitious growth in the coming decades, hoping to profit from expectations that the region will be among the world’s fastest-growing for air travel.
The Baby Gap
This series examines the looming global demographic crisis as population levels are set to shrink in most countries ...