‘We are used to having the grandchildren regularly in our house. When will that happen again? We have no idea. That is painful’

To address the pandemic, China and the US must not only function. They must function together

After blundering, the government must admit that the lockdown will not be over in three weeks

To avert disaster, solidarity between countries must be as strong as within them

As borrowers and spenders of last resort, governments must act now to avert a depression

The thrust of the UK chancellor’s Budget is welcome. Yet it will not transform prospects in the near term

Britain’s new chancellor would be wise to treat it as a holding operation

Achieving zero emissions by 2050 would require unprecedented global co-operation

The FT's chief economics commentator says Boris Johnson's levelling-up mission will come at a cost

The UK’s dire productivity performance since the financial crisis needs to improve

The notion of the west as an alliance with moral foundations would evaporate if the president wins

Britain’s demands for its negotiations with the EU are unrealistic

Favourable trends in employment relative to population are not going to be repeated

The UK is entering a new world, going its own way while superpowers dominate

A large problem remains: Washington does not know what it is trying to achieve

Might we all be better off if government loans were fast converted into equity?

Technology means small shareholders need not — and should not — be excluded from emergency equity fundraisings

‘The old globalised order is fracturing. We are seeing wartime-style falls in GDP’

Cuts are painful for investors, but don’t write off investment trusts just yet 

We may have passed peak uncertainty and there is definitely a reason to start buying again — carefully

The hum of the helicopters needs to start getting louder

We have no real sense of how to value stocks in this environment

The chancellor need beware that policies introduced in a crisis are hard to end later

All portfolios should at least nod to the idea that there’s more to life than short-term profits. But how?

The global economy was already looking a bit ropey and vulnerable to shocks

You might not like the thought of paying tax on your pension contributions — but it’s coming 

It’s time for unloved UK equities to take their place in investors’ portfolios

From social mobility to how tax policy has shaped our history — and future

Look at the numbers and you can see how much age matters when it comes to wealth

If you fall for a scam, who is to blame — you or your bank?

Investment trusts pass the longevity test and could provide the answer 

The struggles of Uber provide a stark lesson of the dangers of buying new issues

In an overleveraged world headed for economic slowdown, don’t rely on the heavily indebted for rescue

The route to success these days is not chasing profits but hoarding market share

Could Retirement Interest Only mortgages be an option for many older people?

The failures of loose monetary policy could prompt a fall from grace

One third of over-55s don’t even have a will — but they can get one for free in October

Costs are falling — but it still looks far more expensive than it should

Investing for good gains traction, but the yields on oil stocks remain compelling

Todd Chaffee has long been one of the most senior members of the late-stage venture firm Institutional Venture Partners. Chaffee joined IVP in 2000 after logging six years at Visa, and went on to lead rounds in numerous prominent later-stage companies, many (but not all) of which have gone public, including Coinbase, Compass, Klarna, Kayak, […]

Deep Render, a London startup and spin-out of Imperial College that is applying machine learning to image compression, has raised £1.6 million in seed funding. Leading the round is Pentech, with participation from Speedinvest. Founded in mid-2017 by Arsalan Zafar and Chri Besenbruch, who met while studying Computer Science at Imperial College London, Deep Render […]

Twitter announced today it’s introducing a new layout for replies that will use lines and indentations to make it easier to understand who you’re replying to and how the conversation is flowing. The company will also test putting engagement actions — including likes, Retweet and reply icons — behind an extra tap to make replies […]

In its latest effort to deal with rampant harassment on its platform, Twitter will look into giving users a second chance before they tweet. In a new feature the company is testing, users who use “harmful” language will see a prompt suggesting that they self-edit before posting a reply. When things get heated, you may […]

Oxwash, a UK-based laundry startup that’s aiming to disrupt traditional but environmentally costly washing and dry-cleaning processes by using ozone to sterilize fabrics at lower temperatures, along with electric cargo bikes for hyper local pick ups and deliveries, has bagged a £1.4 million (~$1.7M) seed. Backers in the funding round include TrueSight Ventures, Biz Stone […]

Weeks after Facebook invested $5.7 billion in Jio Platforms, India’s top telecom operator, private equity firm Silver Lake is following suit — and is willing to pay a premium for it. Silver Lake announced on Monday it will be investing 56.56 billion Indian rupees (about $746.8 million) in Jio Platforms for about 1.15% stake in the Indian […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted Friday that the company’s stock price was “too high” in his opinion, immediately sending shares into a free fall and in possible violation of an agreement reached with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last year. Tesla shares fell nearly 12% in the half hour following his stock price tweets […]

Let's about a16z's new crypto fund, recent economic data, the Ebang F-1, Lime's layoffs, Procore's IPO delay and fresh valuation, stocks, Luckin, and, if we have time, Twitter's changing jobs data.

By the summer of 2016, Marie Outtier had spent eight years as a consultant advising media agencies and martech companies on marketing growth strategy. Pierre-Jean “PJ” Camillieri started as a music software engineer before joining one of Apple’s consumer electronics divisions. Inspired by Siri, he left to start Timista, a smart lifestyle assistant. When the […]

Despite traffic for many online properties being at an all-time high, advertising has fallen off a cliff because of the downturn in consumer activity outside the home and the wider economic pressures resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. And today, Twitter reported quarterly earnings that bore this trend out. The ad-based social networking and media company said that […]

Twitter is making it possible for developers and researchers to study the public conversation around COVID-19 in real time with an update to its API platform. The company is introducing a new COVID-19 stream endpoint to those participating in Twitter Developer Labs — a program that offers access to new API endpoints and other features […]