In the grand, gilded circus tent that is the United States Senate, where septuagenarian lions still roar and octogenarian tight-rope walkers refuse to install a net, one act keeps drawing the world’s gaze: Chuck Grassley, the 90-year-old Iowan who has spent more cumulative hours on the Senate floor than most of us have spent on…
ETH Price: The World’s Favorite Schrödinger’s Asset By Our Correspondent in an Undisclosed Jurisdiction ZURICH—It’s 3:17 a.m. local time, which means every time zone currently awake is either trading, doom-scrolling, or pretending to be above both. Somewhere between a Swiss private bank’s subterranean server farm and a Manila internet café that smells of instant noodles…
Tokyo’s salarymen, Lagos’s side-hustlers, and Frankfurt’s fund managers all woke up this week to the same notification: XRP is on another tear—or tumble, depending on which timezone you happen to be doom-scrolling in. At 06:14 UTC the token flickered 5 % higher, then slid 7 % by the time Jakarta’s mosques issued the second call…
Rahul Chopra, a name that sounds like a polite cough in a Mumbai elevator, has quietly become the poster child for a very 2024 kind of global panic: the fear that your résumé might one day read “CEO, My Own Life, until the algorithm noticed.” Last month the 31-year-old data scientist was escorted out of…
Gold: The Only Thing That Glitters When Everything Else Burns By A. Correspondent, filing from three time zones and still jet-lagged ZURICH—At 9:17 a.m. local time, the electronic board above the UBS bullion desk flashed USD 2,073.42/oz. A collective sigh rippled through the room, equal parts relief and existential dread. For the rest of the…
The question “What channel is the Champions League on?” sounds innocent enough—like asking where one might find a decent cup of coffee in a new city. Yet behind that query lies the entire architecture of 21st-century soft power, geopolitical sausage-making, and the quiet surrender of human attention to whichever media conglomerate has shoveled the most…
Shawn Levy: The Canadian Export Who Conquered Hollywood While the World Burned By our correspondent, filing from a hotel bar where the mini-bar charges more than most people’s monthly rent It is, perhaps, the most Canadian invasion in history: quiet, polite, and carried out under the polite fiction that it’s merely “cross-border collaboration.” Yet the…
Somewhere between the IMF’s latest growth-downgrade press conference and a Moscow bar accepting satoshis for vodka, Bitcoin decided to stage another one of its interpretive-dance routines with gravity. One minute it flirted with $72,000, the next it face-planted to $66,000, and by the time Tokyo traders returned from their third cigarette break, the digital deity…
Liverpool’s Match Today: A Global Séance in Red and the Quiet Collapse of Time Zones By Our Man in the Departure Lounge, Thursday Somewhere between the Indian Ocean and the Irish Sea, a Sri Lankan call-center worker named Ranjith is watching Mohamed Salah ghost past a defender on a cracked Samsung J5. The feed lags,…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average: Humanity’s Favorite Slot Machine with a Flag on Top By Santiago “Santi” Vargas, International Correspondent at Large They ring a bell in New York at 9:30 a.m., and by 9:31 someone in Jakarta has already refreshed a brokerage app four times. This is the miracle of globalization: a 19th-century index—patented…
Ajax vs Inter: the Champions League quarterfinal nobody asked for but everybody will watch anyway, because the modern attention economy demands we rubber-neck at every head-on collision between legacy brands that peaked when fax machines were cutting-edge. On paper it’s a clash of continental aristocracy: Amsterdam’s once-revolutionary nursery against Milan’s faded La Scala of calcio….
Spy Stock: When the World’s Second-Oldest Profession Meets Its Youngest Obsession By Our Man in Geneva, still waiting for his expense-account martini to arrive GENEVA – From the mirrored towers of La Défense to the dim sum parlors of Sheung Wan, a quiet consensus has emerged among the people who move real money: the only…
