There is a very particular silence to a market holiday, and I’ll admit it: I’ve come to love it the way some people love a Sunday with the phone in another room. Today is Juneteenth, a US federal holiday marking the day America marks the end of slavery, when word of emancipation finally reached the […]
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Some news stops you mid-scroll, thumb hovering, tea going cold. Sad news reached me from the Dominican Republic: an Italian tourist lost her life in a fire that tore through a beach resort. The kind of story that quietly punctures the illusion every glossy brochure sells us: that a holiday is a place where nothing
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Let me guess what you picture when you hear “heatwave.” Melting pavements. Frazzled commuters draped over train seats. And that gloriously European argument that resurfaces every single summer is: air conditioning a luxury? Or a basic human right? France is living it right now, sweltering through its third heatwave of the year, mercury nudging 40°C.
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The office is pretending to work, group chats have descended into tactical warfare, and somewhere a nation’s entire emotional wellbeing is balanced on a 22-year-old’s left foot. The World Cup has well and truly taken over. And what a tournament it’s turning out to be. We’re into the quarter-finals now, and the graveyard is stacked
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I’ll tell you the moment I knew quiet luxury wasn’t a passing phase. It was when I stopped feeling the tiniest pull toward the shiny, logo-stamped things I once thought I was supposed to want and felt something close to relief instead. The logo, it turns out, stayed dead. And something far more interesting quietly
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Every good story needs a true believer. Crypto’s was Michael Saylor. If conviction had a patron saint, it was him, the executive chairman of Strategy, who hoovered up more than 800,000 bitcoin and built its entire identity around one deceptively simple mantra, repeated like scripture at conference after conference: never sell. Two words. Diamond-handed permanence.
November 2025 · MARKETS Let me tell you something I’ve learned the hard, expensive way: every crypto bull market ends in more or less the same fashion. Not with a gentle, dignified fade, but suddenly the floor vanishes beneath everyone’s feet at once. And the trapdoor is always built from the same material. Leverage. The
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Throughout 2025 · INSTITUTIONAL FINANCE I want to tell you about the most important thing happening in crypto right now, and I’ll warn you up front: it is gloriously, almost defiantly boring. No meme dogs. No overnight millionaires. No laser eyes. Just the quiet, unglamorous business of the world’s biggest financial institutions moving the actual
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Throughout 2025 · MENTAL HEALTH 2025 marked the moment mental health shifted from a topic people talked about to one they actively invested in, with a growing industry For years, the advice was the same, wasn’t it? Just talk about it. And it was good advice, genuinely. Breaking the silence around mental health was a
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March–April 2025 · POLICY & REGULATION Every so often, a piece of lawmaking comes along that accidentally exposes just how little the rule-makers understood the thing they were trying to rule. The IRS’s “DeFi broker rule” was one of those, and its unwinding in 2025 tells you something rather important about where crypto regulation is
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