Author: Lionel Laurent

After 15 years of cryptocurrency boom-and-bust cycles, a carnival mood is back and hushing the naysayers.

Elon Musk’s meteoric rise to the top of US politics as efficiency tsar is generating high anxiety in Europe.

Navigating space is hard. And yet you have to hand it to Elon Musk: his SpaceX firm makes it look easy.

The subscription economy clearly got out of hand during the pandemic. A consumer revolt may be coming next.

Bigging up bitcoin is a way of doubling down on a key demographic for Donald Trump and his running mate.

Donald Trump’s comments that Taiwan hollowed out the US semiconductor industry are incorrect.

Are white-collar workers — think analysts, coders and even the odd opinion columnist — going the way of the medieval scribe?

The regulatory approval of an exchange-traded fund isn’t supposed to be a mass media event worthy of Wrestlemania.

The bull case preached by the laser-eyed crowd is, as before, driven by sentiment and speculation rather than utility.

While FTX is certainly not crypto’s biggest case of fraud, it undoubtedly won’t be the last.