Brooke Masters
@brookeamasters.ft.com
US Managing Editor of the Financial Times
"A lot of Trump’s moneymaking takes place in broad daylight. Far more is thus likely to be under the cover of darkness." My swamp notes with @brookeamasters.ft.com Gift link as.ft.com/r/c34dccde-8...
When a president’s thoughts are for sale
Trump is openly monetising privileged access to his musings
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Without the threat of government prosecution, unscrupulous people will keep trying to profit from inside knowledge. www.ft.com/content/155c... via financialtimes.com
The high price of insider information
Without tough enforcement, prediction platforms provide fertile ground for manipulation
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Streaming poses a cultural threat. If the vast majority of original music, art and literature is stored on the servers of a few big corporations, no one can stop them from erasing less profitable items or bowing to government censors www.ft.com/content/13ae... via financialtimes.com
Streamers ignore omnivorous consumers at their peril
Sony’s plan to drop physical discs endangers the company and its customers
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Apparel retailers, malls and department stores could be big winners if weight loss makes shopping for clothing fun again. www.ft.com/content/50d4... via financialtimes.com
Can GLP-1 drugs save the mall?
The advent of diet-driven shopping comes at a crucial time for many retailers
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US corporate executives should look beyond their own convenience when it comes to quarterly reporting www.ft.com/content/8a42... via financialtimes.com
Why scrapping quarterly earnings is a bad idea
US chief executives should be wary of putting their own convenience ahead of transparency
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“There’s an awful lot of short-term thinking going on here." www.ft.com/content/8927... via financialtimes.com
A troubling plan to revive the frozen US property market
Buyers should beware the real estate dark pools
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Congrats to the @financialtimes.com’s Alexandra White who will be a Knight Bageot this year! talkingbiznews.com/media-news/k...
Knight-Bagehot Fellows selected for 26-27 - Talking Biz News
The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism announced Thursday its new class of ten fellows for the 2026-2027 academic year. The fellows represent local, national and global new...
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Check out our fabulous new financial history podcast starring @robinwigglesworth.ft.com and Gillian Tett www.ft.com/tsom?syn-25a... via financialtimes.com
Introducing: The Story of Money
A new video podcast from The FT exploring the history of finance
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Zampolli's pitch remains the same, whether delivered in a Budapest ministry or a Central Asian capital: big numbers, quick timelines and a clear message about how to get what you want: “Buy American." www.ft.com/content/2a7f... www.ft.com/content/2a7f...
‘$20bn in 20 minutes’: the man turning Donald Trump into a global deal machine
Paolo Zampolli provides access to the US president and his officials — at a price
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US Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito has moved from being an articulate dissenter to an intellectual leader, with all of the pressures that entails. I reviewed two new books exploring how and why that happened. as.ft.com/r/ffc0237b-4...
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The fights over prediction markets highlight the conflicts that emerge when innovative businesses blur the lines — or exploit the holes — between national markets regulation and day-to-day activities that traditionally fall within state control. www.ft.com/content/d5ce... via financialtimes.com
The big state gamble on prediction markets
Fights over regulation could reshape the US federal system of government
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Want the big picture on private credit? Tune into a special FT webinar with my colleagues on April 16 at 1200 GMT/1300 BST/0800 EST. It's exclusively for Financial Times subscribers. Come ask questions of @bondhack.ft.com, @pollard.bsky.social, @antoinegara.bsky.social and @johnsfoley.bsky.social
This fantastic @financialtimes.com piece by @alisonkilling.bsky.social just won an @sabew.bsky.social award for explanatory journalism. Enjoy! ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
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Before private credit gets anywhere near the $9tn retirement market, the industry must get serious about protecting retail customers from making terrible mistakes. as.ft.com/r/62f67877-a...
Private credit’s game of footsie is getting riskier
[FREE TO READ] Stronger guardrails are needed before these funds seep into the $9tn US retirement market
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Are Reese’s candies made without real milk chocolate or actual peanut butter “innovation” or “skimpflation”? as.ft.com/r/8368e378-b...
Can Reese’s have too many pieces? The line-extension conundrum
[FREE TO READ] The company has come under fire for its use of ‘chocolate coating’ and ‘peanut butter creme’
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@derekbrower.bsky.social explains why the @financialtimes.com is delving into the economy and politics of Bethlehem PA www.wfmz.com/news/area/le...
'A really fascinating place': British media giant basing multi-year political series in Bethlehem
What's a British media mainstay to do when it needs to find a U.S. city that has sway in a political swing state?
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The guardrails have held, at least when it comes to Trump’s unprecedented claim that he could impose and lift tariffs basically on a whim. as.ft.com/r/fc0c9968-f...
Half of CEOs believe that their job stability rests on getting AI right. www.ft.com/content/837b...
Why absolutely everyone is peddling an AI application
We are either on the verge of widespread adoption or a terrible crash
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"What we are seeing is federalism at work" -- state AGs take on Trump www.ft.com/content/74dc...
Watch out for America’s activist attorneys-general
Top state lawyers are joining together to challenge Trump and rein in big business
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We are in the midst of another pullback. The question is can we calibrate it? on.ft.com/4pwtDrP
Making IPOs great again has its pitfalls
[FREE TO READ] The US needs more public listings but the regulatory pendulum may be swinging too far
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Blue Owl block retail owners of one of its private credit funds from redeeming, & propose a merger that wipes out 20% of their capital value? on.ft.com/47VwL9t
Blue Owl private credit fund merger leaves some investors facing 20% hit
Asset manager blocks redemptions from one of its first private debt vehicles targeting wealthy individuals
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Companies are working overtime to stratify consumers, separating the haves from both the have nots and the have yachts on.ft.com/4p6brF8 How the American dream turned out to be pay to play
How the American dream turned out to be pay to play
[FREE TO READ] Big brands from Disney to American Express are profiting from economic divisions and making them wider
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Getting that bubbly feeling at ABS East in Miami — my @financialtimes.com column on.ft.com/3LaKe5L
Deregulation will pour extra fuel on the private credit bonfire
The Trump administration’s looser rules could breed more ‘cockroaches’ in the lending market
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👂POD TIME👂 In which @robarmstrong.bsky.social goes all fanboy about Scott Bessent Featuring possibly the greatest potential famous last words of all time, from SB: "Where the hell is the market risk?" www.ft.com/content/e36c...
The vigorous nods of Bessent
How the US Treasury secretary manages up
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Scrapping quarterly earnings would clearly widen the gap between ordinary investors on the one hand, and company insiders or those with private sources of information on the other. on.ft.com/422X6jT
Trump’s quarterly reporting move is the wrong idea at the wrong time
[FREE TO READ] These disclosures are no passing regulatory fad but a bedrock of US markets
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🇺🇸👂🏼 POD TIME 👂🏼 🇺🇸 me and fast-talking New Yorker @brookeamasters.ft.com on: -the all-American shakedown economy 💰 -chicken-fried steak 🤔 -pumpkin-spice latte 🤢 -ANZ, you're fired 😱 ⛔ Please note this podcast is a Liz Truss-free zone ⛔ open.spotify.com/episode/74eJ...
The people’s chip manufacturer
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No more Mr Nice Guy. Five years after the Covid pandemic forced employers to embrace empathy and flexibility, bosses are back to laying down the law. www.ft.com/content/605b... www.ft.com/content/605b... via financialtimes.com
The boss is back
As AI bites and job cuts surge, employees are losing ground — for now
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The Gods of New York — Jonathan Mahler's new book is a fraught trip down memory lane for those of us who grew up in the city in the 1980s www.ft.com/content/8773... via financialtimes.com
The Gods of New York — four fraught years that transformed the Big Apple
A compelling portrait of the city argues that the ‘gladiatorial arena’ of egos in the late 1980s fractured its promise of a better life
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