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Summer books 2025: the best titles of the year so far

From politics, economics and history to art, food and, of course, fiction — FT writers and critics choose their favourite reads of the year so far

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Ken Griffin on Trump, Harvard and Why Novice Investors Won’t Beat the Pros

Trump SEC chair scraps proposed market rules as he charts new path

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FIA: Collateral Tokenisation at “Turning Point”

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William T. Bagley

William T. Bagley, the founding chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has died at the age of 96.

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FROM JOHN LOTHIAN NEWS

Russell Robertson: From the CME to Dubai and Singapore

After working at ICE for a number of years, Russell Robertson was looking for his next step. He got a job at the CME, even though “we didn’t really know what the CME was at that time,” he said. “We all knew what Nymex and Comex were, and the CBOT, but [the CME] was something that in the UK you really didn’t know.” He did know it was a competitor of ICE.

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Farm Broadcaster Max Armstrong Saw the Heartland—and the Airwaves—Change Before His Eyes

ELMHURST, IL-(JLN)-June 19, 2025—Max Armstrong remembers when farm broadcasters didn’t need to worry about lighting, camera angles, or video editing. “Many of them never imagined they would do video,” Armstrong told John Lothian News over Zoom. “Now, even the writers for big publications like Farm Futures and Prairie Farmer are out in the field shooting video. It’s a bit of a strange effort for them.”

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The Cab Is the New Studio: Max Armstrong on Why Farm Stories Matter

ELMHURST, IL-(JLN)-June 18, 2025—Max Armstrong, retired farm broadcaster and the voice many Americans grew up with, pondered the unlikely stardom of today’s young farmers in a recent interview with John Lothian News. “I will tell you, some of these folks are very good at it,” Armstrong says, his radio voice still warm and measured. “They have a great opportunity to show all of the work that goes into producing a crop.”

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From Tractors to Transmitters: How Max Armstrong Became the Voice of America’s Heartland

ELMHURST, IL-(JLN)-June 17, 2025—Before Max Armstrong became a legend in farm broadcasting, he was just a boy on a sunbaked Indiana tractor, dreaming of air-conditioned radio studios. “I wanted to be on the radio from the age of seven or eight,” Armstrong recalled. “I’d be out there in the heat of summer on one of those unairconditioned tractors, listening to that radio on the fender, thinking, ‘That guy’s in the air conditioning—he’s got the job. I’m out here sweltering in the heat.’”

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