The London Metal Exchange discovered that a bunch of bags that it thought were full of nickel were in fact full of something else. Italy held an emergency meeting after an unexpected price increase created a public outcry. The average Italian citizen eats 23 kilograms or 50 pounds of pasta every year, which is like 10 pounds less than the price. I'm going to put you on a real cryptocurrency called Filecoin.
A special live recording of the FT News Briefing at the FT Weekend Festival in Washington, DC. Our terrific colleagues played a friendly game of news trivia, and the FT’s Ethan Wu gave us a preview of his new podcast Unhedged, which comes out June 13.
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