As Oracle wins a bid for TikTok US, a look at how tech competition, culture competition and currency competition shape the business of geopolitics.
A reading of “How to Diagnose Your Own Dutch Disease,” a look at the problems of America’s dollar trade.
Recapping the biggest stories of the week, including Joe Biden’s China plan, a market holding pattern and, of course, the strange competitive saga of SUSHI.
A legacy of artificially low interest rates is not just the death of savings, but a forced buying into the perpetual growth machine of financial asset prices.
The Hedge Fund legend says in a new interview the Federal Reserve’s policies have created a massive asset bubble while making both inflation and deflation more likely.
Critiques of correlation between bitcoin and equities miss the fact that bitcoin adoption within traditional markets has been driven by a fiat collapse concern.
Whether the U.S. government likes it or not, the world is demanding crypto-dollars and the private market is ready to supply them.
A reading on revolutions from the late great David Graeber.
The markets kicked off the week with a 5-1 Tesla stock split rally and ended with major questions about tech company valuations.
From the U.S. presidential elections of 1896 to the dot-com bubble to housing markets in 2006, these historical moments help us make sense of a truly WTF year.
A look at the subculture and ethos driving the white-hot DeFi space, which has grown from $2 billion to $9 billion in total value locked in just two months.
The booming stock market is driven by perception of the Federal Reserve’s commitment to high prices and growing individual trading, but how sustainable is it?
The Winklevoss brothers make an argument that, in the long run, bitcoin is the only good safe haven.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell tried to make it seem like the end of an era, but didn’t inspire confidence in the central bank’s ability to lead in the era that comes next.
From COVID-19 relapses to election insecurity, these factors drive defensiveness up and demand down.