After months of conflict and closed shipping lanes, a fragile framework has markets cautiously exhaling. Let me take you back to mid-June, to two words that briefly did what almost nothing else can — united the entire financial world in a single sigh of relief. US President Trump posted them: ‘Let the oil flow.’ Within […]
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Britain’s sixth prime minister in a decade steps down. Let me tell you what it means for your money. I was watching this morning when, outside that famous black door at Number 10, Keir Starmer announced he was resigning as Prime Minister and Labour leader — the sixth person to walk away from that job
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Investors have been borrowing cheaply in Japan and betting elsewhere for years. Let me tell you why the exit could get ugly. Let me let you in on a trade that’s quietly held up global markets for years — one almost nobody brings up at a dinner party unless they work in a hedge fund
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Stablecoins are getting a rulebook — and it might make them safer than your savings account. Let me tell you about the most interesting thing that happened this week that you almost certainly missed — because while political Britain was busy eating itself alive over who gets the keys to Number 10, the Bank of
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It started as the engine behind Bitcoin, and it is ending as the backbone of everything. Let me settle one thing before we go a single step further, because it trips up almost everyone — including me, once upon a time. Blockchain is not Bitcoin. Bitcoin runs on a blockchain, yes. But the technology underneath
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A French politician is already eyeing 2027 — and markets price elections long before the ballots are printed. Can I let you in on something that took me years to properly understand? The market often knows the ending before the story’s even been written. I say that because a French politician just gave us a
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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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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
May 5–7, 2026 · Miami Beach Convention Center · 20,000+ attendees I have a soft spot for the way people describe crypto’s big gatherings. If TOKEN2049 is the festival and the Bitcoin Conference is the revival meeting — all whooping and true belief — then Consensus is unmistakably the boardroom. Fewer laser eyes. Rather more
How Shiba Inu Grew Up, Went to Japan, and Got Serious After the meme came a Layer-2 blockchain, a seat on Japan’s most exclusive crypto list, and the longest waiting game in digital finance. Part Two of the SHIB story. If you missed the first instalment, let me catch you up in a breath: an
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