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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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
April 20–26, 2026 · Fiera Milano, Rho & citywide · 1,900+ exhibitors, 32 countries Once a year, Milan drops the act and admits what it quietly is the rest of the time: the design capital of the world. I have a real soft spot for this one. The 64th Salone del Mobile anchored a citywide
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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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How Shiba Inu Was Born, Went Viral, and Built an Army Let me set the scene for you. It’s August 2020. Someone leans over and tells you about an exciting new cryptocurrency. It was launched anonymously. It has no roadmap, no product, and a starting budget of about $3000. Its entire brand strategy amounts to
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When the music stops in crypto, it stops hard Every few years, crypto throws a party so loud the neighbours start banging on the walls — and then, with grim inevitability, someone marches over and yanks the plug clean out of the speakers. In October 2025, the music didn’t just stop. It stopped hard. And
