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Before we get into today's episode, I want to highlight something pretty cool happening at the FT.

Usually, there are a couple of ways you can access the FT.

Buy a physical newspaper, be a paying digital subscriber, or hey, you can even listen to this podcast.

But today, September 18th, we are lifting the paywall, which means that you can access all the great journalism the FT does for free.

If you take a look at today's show notes, you'll find links to all the stories we covered in today's

briefing.

Plus, some of my favorite FT reads to get you started. And now

today's news.

Today is Wednesday, September 18th, and this is your FT news briefing.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York plans a second intervention to ease a funding squeeze in short-term lending markets.

Benjamin Netanyahu fails to clinch an outright majority for his Liqueud Party in Israel's second election of the year.

And researchers find that a number of smart TVs are leaking user data to Netflix and Google.

Plus, the F.T's chief economics commentator Martin Wolf has diagnosed a problem with the way the economy

works today.

He'll explain and tell us what corporations can do to fix it.

I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day.

On Tuesday the Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced plans to inject another $75 billion into the

U.S. financial system. The announcement came just a day after it made its first

intervention of this kind in more than a decade. Joe Renison is a markets reporter for the F.T. in the US.

He has more on short-term lending markets and why the intervention is a big deal.

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