Should we be putting this on recording? Well, let's start. This is the fifth in our series, the Wolf Krugman Exchange. I'm Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator of the Financial Times. And I'm Paul Krugman, professor at the City University of New York and author of an independent Substack newsletter. And today's episode is being recorded on Monday, June 30th, uh, at 9 in the morning in Massachusetts, where I am now, and 2 p.m. in London. Um, tell us where you've been recently, Paul. Yeah. Um, um, occasio ...

Previously on Hot Money. I don't know. It's a kind of almost like a a Sharon Stone moment from Basic Instinct, you know, the plot of Basic Instinct where she uh she murders her husband, but uh uh but that's also the plot of the book she's written.So, it couldn't possibly be true. Do you know about this life-sized Trump figure in the office and his in Marshall's office and his um altar of of Russian officers caps and shanka kind of Yeah. Yeah.All those heads. Yeah. I think the biggest tragedy of Yan Masale i ...

US President Donald Trump's trade policies and escalating tensions between the US and China have underscored the vulnerability of Vietnam's economy. Hanoi's recent economic success has been driven primarily by exports to the US and surging investments from companies fleeing China. However, its China plus one success has backfired as Trump takes issue with trading partners with large surpluses with the US.Vietnam has the third largest surplus after China and Mexico, and it was hit with a 46% tariff rate on T ...

In Denmark, they’re trying to change a nation’s appetite. Well, this is kind of a Danish traditional dish. It's an open sandwich the Danish call smørrebrød.Smørrebrød. Yes, exactly. Well done.Traditionally, this dish is served with meat. But the version I’m eating at this soil-to-fork restaurant northwest of Copenhagen, is entirely plant-based. That's lovely.So good. The beetroot’s so flavourful. It may be tasty, but right now the average Dane is far more likely to be tucking into food like this, given they ...

Japan's newfound openness to hostile M&A risk seeding and indispensibility to global supply chains that has been carefully built up over decades. Analysts say hostile bids pose both a threat and an opportunity for Japan's government, which views M&A as a way to encourage consolidation in fragmented industries, shake up complacent boardrooms, and improve corporate governance. But some Japanese officials are rushing to prevent the nation losing control over its most advanced and sensitive technologies.Industr ...

In the fourth of this six-part series of The Economics Show, Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman ask if advances in artificial intelligence will reshape the working world. Or are we hearing an old familiar story that has been told many times before? #globaleconomy #globaltrade #internationaleconomics #trump #trumptariffs #worldtrade #worldeconomy #paulkrugman #economicsystem #martinwolf #usa #washington #eu #china ► Enjoying FT content? Get a dai ...

What does it take to lead two lives. In 2020, the Financial Times exposed the German financial payments giant Wire Card as a huge corporate con. The biggest fraud in German history.But it was also the beginning of a more elusive tale. A story about Ward's chief operating officer, Yan Marcel. Young, charismatic, wealthy, a model of modern German corporate success.a fraudster and a spy. My name is Sam Jones and I'm the Financial Times's European security correspondent. I was the first journalist to expose Yan ...

Yeah, obviously you're not going to have a lot of capital flows to Mars because it's not possible to get transfer any goods there, but also I just think if you were a a European banker, wouldn't you be at least a little worried about uh the possibility that your phone might contain some texts critical of Donald Trump. I agree. In in the medium to long term, there's no doubt the effect will be be very very bad.You know, if the links all break down, the system doesn't work. This is the canonical description o ...

Singapore is in the midst of a scam demic. The city state of 6 million people saw a 70% rise in the value of money lost to online scams by its citizens up to 1.1% billion Singapore dollars. Now, Singaporeans have been seen as especially vulnerable to certain types of fraud, things like job fraud or uh or romance scams.A lot of these are being operated out of scam factories across Southeast Asia, many of which are populated by people who themselves are victims of human trafficking. Now, a lot of the people i ...

The oil giant is once again at the centre of government plans for economic growth and job creation. But Petrobras has a chequered past, including damaging corruption scandals and debt. Critics say it should stick to high-value oil production rather than expanding into refining and shipbuilding #petrobras #brazil #oil #brazilpolitics #brazileconomy #brazilsociety #oilproduction #corruption #companies #scandal 00:00 - Introduction 00:54 - How important is Petrobras? 01:41 - Petrobras and the Brazilian economy ...