As the story goes, von Neumann solved the problem instantly by computing the sum of a geometric series, which is the hard way. Harford ends by writing: “I almost hope the story is true”, as it ...

From Jonathan Haskel, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics & Public Policy, Imperial College Business School, London SW7, UK ...

Regarding the report that WHSmith will disappear from the high street (March 29), I recently visited my local Smith’s. Inside the store was a rack full of daily newspapers but the FT’s section was ...

With reference to “Is this the end of soft power?” ( Life & Arts, March 8), and “Radio Free Europe, Trump and the fight for ‘sharp power’” ( Life & Arts, March 29), it’s worth recalling that Joseph ...

Congratulations to FT Weekend on the Magazine’s new food offering and the decision to embrace a wide variety of tastemakers like culinary legend Brooklyn Peltz Beckham (“Rules of modern dining”, ...

The caption for a picture of Simon Schama at Auschwitz in an article in Life & Arts on March 29 should have specified he was standing in front of the Auschwitz 2-Birkenau gatehouse ...

A regulatory filing by Trump Media and Technology Group said large shareholders, including a trust holding President Trump’s shares in the group, could potentially sell them ...

The BEA puts the end-2024 US net international investment deficit at USD 26.2 trn (and the sum of assets and liabilities at ...

Sanctioned Russian oligarch asks London’s High Court to compel intelligence unit of CT Group to divulge information ...

The Vix index, which tracks the expected turbulence of the blue-chip S&P 500, stood at 44.2 by mid-morning in New York, the ...

And there is of course the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, which the US introduced, imposing huge raft of tariffs across the board and it plunged the world basically into a recession which fanned the ...

Donald Trump’s bid to upend the international trading order with huge tariffs has wiped $5.4tn from US stocks in two days, as ...