[ad_1] Ah, the sweet irony of great expectations. A digital currency born out of rebellionâcreated by an anonymous entity right after the 2008 financial crisis that America gifted the worldâis now being paraded around by the very institutions it was designed to overthrow. Bitcoin was meant to challenge financial systems under sovereign control. By offering…
[ad_1] At its most basic, a tariff is a tax or duty on an imported good or service. It can be on a single product, a category of products or applied on all imports from a specific country. In the first weeks of the new Trump administration, all these forms have been announced. For instance,…
[ad_1] Archimedes pledged to move the world, if only he had a lever long enough and a place to stand. The challenge for businesses, investors, and households is that there is no place to put our feet. That which we thought solid is melting. The dominant characteristic of the postâWorld War II period has been…
[ad_1] Geopolitical observers have had their jaws drop repeatedly in recent weeks by what looks like an extraordinary cosiness between Cold War arch-rivals Russia and the US. Also Read: The Russian invasion and the demise of the post-cold war dream On Monday, the US displayed another tilt away from Europe in favour of Russia at…
[ad_1] When I was a kid, I believed the West was a place. Then I realized that all of the West was not entirely the West. The West was an idea, an invention. When you put it this way, it looks as though it is some kind of subterfuge to overwhelm human instincts. But I…
[ad_1] AFTER A FORTNIGHT featuring 329 competitions, the battle for Olympic supremacy came down to the last event on the final day of the Paris games. When Americaâs womenâs basketball team beat Franceâs in the final on August 11th, they also helped their country equal Chinaâs tally of 40 golds at these games. As a…
[ad_1] In an era of wars, weapons proliferation and nuclear threats, missile defence is back in political fashion more than at any time since Ronald Reaganâs pursuit of space-based systems in the 1980s. It is not just MAGA politicians who are keen. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, recently promised âa…
[ad_1] Biden couldnât get that kind of crowd, nor could he provide the vision of youth, energy and optimism that Harris is giving a part of the country that is desperate to move past the era of old men. Even before she strode on to the stage, it was clear Harris was ready for this…
[ad_1] Unless US President Joe Biden lets another Democrat contest this yearâs election, Republican candidate Donald Trump seems all but sure to win the White House. Itâs not just opinion polls. Consider the contrast in optics: A visibly ageing Biden who looked stumped at a key debate versus a fist-pumping Trump who arose unshaken from…
[ad_1] How has it come to this? After victory in the cold war, the American model seemed unassailable. A generation on, Americans themselves are losing confidence in it. Feckless war-making, a financial crisis and institutional rot have let loose a ferocity in Americaâs politics that has given presidential contests seemingly existential stakes. Americans have heard…
