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The view that the stock market is in a massive bubble and bound to crash is incorrect over the medium term Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour. https://www.ft.com/content/3af620bb-6d5e-4281-879d-c3193e225803?segmentId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d9 After the so-called “liberation day” tariffs announcement, the conventional wisdom about the US economy became very pessimistic....

"They're taking Lloyd Dobyns off" That's how I felt about the move by NBC to introduce its new live Saturday night show bi-weekly alongside the newsmagazine "Weekend". "Weekend" was a show I had enjoyed during the previous 1974-75 season every week. I liked watching Lloyd Dobyns and his attempt to bring some attitude to television news... I read about this newfangled NBC Saturday Night Live show in the newspaper much hype about the reunion of Simon and Garfunkel which came on the second show in the series later in October. In all honesty I didn't watch the first show and...

The murder of a 31-year-old teaching assistant by a 14-year-old student using a knife triggering the responsive reflexes of the French secular state. Quick calls for action on 'knife crime'... Ahead of the now postponed conference on the Palestinians France is co-chairing with Saudi Arabia, President Macron getting a message... When it comes to Iran one sees France clearly in the US-Israel camp when all is said and done. France came in on the heels of President Trump's toughening attitude towards Iran at midweek... And that closeness to the US position again came out as Israel launched its attacks on...