FTAV’s further reading
Year-ahead outlooks revisited; scam callers; vapes; Doge; LLMs; fact-checking; memes; and divorce
The Trump put is bad
Plus calm credit and paper pulped
Air France-KLM targets ‘unbelievable’ spending of American travellers
Surge in demand for premium leisure will help airline group boost profits, says chief executive Ben Smith
A frenzy of overvaluations is undermining the property market
With such inflated prices, vendors and buyers at all levels are left floundering. Why isn’t more property valued realistically from the start?
How Christina Ramberg morphed familiar objects, female forms and fetishwear
Philadelphia Museum puts spotlight on painter who distilled her private fixations into cool, elegant and exquisitely opaque works
Germany’s ‘whatever-it-takes’ spending push to end years of stagnation
Europe’s largest economy could return to pre-pandemic growth trend
How much does Brookfield really make?
One of the world’s most complex financial conglomerates is attracting scrutiny for circular flows of cash involving its global property portfolio
Thames Water has to keep borrowing and carry on
The public water utility cannot avoid a debt refinancing, despite the horrifying expense
Trump’s crypto embrace is a threat to Wall Street
Stablecoins will increasingly challenge bank deposits as a riskier place for people to park their cash
Billionaires race to seal a $23bn coup
Plus, Microsoft walks away from some CoreWeave commitments and two hedge fund giants grapple with their legacy