Comment, analysis and other offerings from Tuesday’s FT,
Gideon Rachman ponders the question of a nuclear Iran
The world has already had to learn to live with a nuclear Pakistan and a nuclear North Korea. If it comes to it, we will have to live with a nuclear Iran. But nobody can be casual about that prospect.
Gillian Tett: Policymakers aim to raise oversight
The crucial issue now dogging global policymakers is the question of institutions that are too “interconnected” to fail, not those “too big” to fail.
Slumdogs can help themselves out of the mire
Robert Buckley, the managing director of the Rockefeller Foundation writes how nearly 90 per cent of the 2bn increase in the world’s population will locate to cities that are already home to hundreds of millions of slum dwellers.
A Russian ‘reset button’ based on inclusion
While there are plenty of specifics to talk about when Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, meets Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, the overarching concern in Washington and European capitals is that Russia is cracking down at home and throwing its weight around abroad. Not surprisingly, many are worried about a new cold war, writes Strobe Talbott president of the Brookings Institution and former deputy secretary of state in the Clinton administration.
Editorial comment on bailing out Dubai
Overextended as it is, Dubai is not in such bad shape. It should be able to engineer a soft-ish landing for its property market.
John Authers’ Short View on these testing times
If stocks fall from here, the psychological effect on traders, who tend to take long-term charts seriously, could be devastating.
Lex on De Beers
De Beers will not shatter this year, but even so, Anglo, the Oppenheimers and Botswana had better keep their chequebooks at the ready for further cash infusions.