Friday, March 20

Friday, March 20

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French government in crisis mode after a weekend of riots

France is reeling after "unprecedented" violent riots, America’s debt-laden $10tn AI infrastructure boom is a reckoning for the data centre build-out underpinning the US economy, and Albertans gear up to vote today on whether to leave Canada.Mentioned in this podcast:France reels ...  Show more

 . 12min 38sec
Martin Wolf on the US midterms: Is American democracy safe?

As Americans prepare to vote in the November 3 midterm elections, FT chief economics commentator Martin Wolf asks what the result will mean for Donald Trump, the future of US democracy and America's place in the world. In the first of a six-part series of interviews with leading ...  Show more

 . 43min 27sec

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