Why China Is Flashing Its Military Muscle

Two opaque corners of finance have joined forces: shadow banking and phantom debt. Put another way, private credit firms are backing Buy-Now-Pay-Later companies to finance their expansion into the US consumer market. On today’s Big Take podcast, guest host Stacey Vanek Smith join ...  Show more

For America’s 250th anniversary and our Weekend Listen, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore joins Mishal Husain to take her through her book on the US Constitution.We The People explores how the Constitution came about and, crucially, how there was an expectation tha ...  Show more

America may have avoided a government shutdown last month but its fiscal worries are far from over. And unease in <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/09/28/forget-the-shutdown-americas-real-fiscal-worry-is-rising-bond-yields?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podca ...

Bloomberg News Senior Editor for U.S. Health Care Drew Armstrong discusses how the fast-spreading delta variant has flooded hospitals across the South. Bloomberg City Lab Writer David Dudley shares his Businessweek Magazine story Surviving Pay Phones Evoke Lost U.S. Network of 2 ...  Show more

China has pledged “computing vouchers” to subsidise its AI startups, Bayer is still struggling to move past its Roundup woes, and an Israeli senior minister visits the White House. Plus, Warren Buffett is sounding the alarm over wildfires and the utilities industry. &n ...

The FT’s US financial commentator joins to discuss how investors are responding to unsettling new economic data, and Germany’s biggest sports retailer is considering relocating some manufacturing to China. Plus, US President Donald Trump is using tariffs to target Brazil’s judici ...  Show more