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Donald Trump picks RFK Jr. for HHS; Bond market : NPR
Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a former independent presidential candidate, to run the Department […]
Inflation worries seep back into US bond market
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A closely watched bond market indicator is pointing to rising price pressures in the US, in anticipation of policies from president-elect Donald Trump that are seen as likely to fuel inflation. So-called break-evens on US […]
US economy could ‘overheat’ under Donald Trump, warns bond giant Pimco
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Pimco, one of the world’s biggest bond fund managers, has warned that US president-elect Donald Trump’s economic plans could lead to the economy “overheating” and could halt interest rate cuts, posing a danger […]
Total Propaganda, James Bond, ‘The Crown,’ British Propaganda Film Q&A
“All art is propaganda, but not all propaganda is art.” The saying from 1984 and Animal Farm author George Orwell features in The Story of British Propaganda Filma new book in the British Film Institute (BFI)’s British Screen Stories series at Bloomsbury Publishing written by Scott Anthony, the deputy head of research at the U.K. […]
The Last Dance Director Added Tom Hardy/James Bond Easter Egg
Kelly Marcel and Tom Hardy are fitting dance partners for Eddie Brock and Venom’s final go-round in Venom: The Last Dance. The longtime screenwriter turned director has been friends with Hardy since the early 2000s, as they both worked across the street from one another in Southwest London. Marcel was employed at a video rental […]
Two decades of EM bond history
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s now almost exactly a quarter-century since the economists Barry Eichengreen and Ricardo Hausmann first argued that the “original sin” of the developing world was borrowing in overseas currencies like the dollar. For centuries, this […]
Rami Malek Is So Good at Dressing Like a Bond Villain
Not many contemporary actors can channel a Bond villain quite like Rami Malek. In 2021’s No Time to Diehe masked up as the slightly insane but slickly dressed Lyutsifer Safin—and while a lot’s happened since then, the actor is still checking into good bad-guy fits. At the Saint Laurent runway show during Paris Fashion Week […]