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Business | International

World Liberty Financial: The Borderless Casino Where Every Nation Gets a Seat at the Rug-Pull Table
ByDaveslocker 25 September 2025

World Liberty Financial: The Newest Crypto Casino Where Everyone’s a High-Roller Until They’re Not By Dave’s Locker’s Resident Chronicler of Collapse Zurich—In a nondescript WeWork above a fondue franchise, two twenty-somethings from three different passports just pledged their grandmothers’ pensions to a liquidity pool called “World Liberty Financial.” If that sentence makes you wince, congratulations:…

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Analysis | International

Funvisis: The Tiny Venezuelan Agency That Shakes Global Markets (Literally)
ByDaveslocker 25 September 2025

Funvisis: When the Earth Moves in Caracas, the World Checks Its Insurance Policies CARACAS – Somewhere beneath the avocado stands and black-market dollar traders of Sabana Grande, Venezuela’s Funvisis seismograph is quietly doing the one thing the rest of the country can’t: staying calibrated. To the untrained eye, the Fundación Venezolana de Investigaciones Sismológicas looks…

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Analysis | Sports

Lake Como Fog, Tobacco Money and a 1-0 Win: Global Capitalism’s Newest Football Fable
ByDaveslocker 24 September 2025

Como 1 – Sassuolo 0 Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia, Northern Italy, Saturday evening. The fog rolls off Lake Como like a hung-over diplomat slinking out of a five-star summit, and somewhere between the water and the floodlights a football match breaks out—apparently of interest to more than the 11,000 locals too polite to admit they’d rather…

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International | Sports

Tottenham vs Aston Villa: When a North London Grudge Match Becomes a Global Economic Mood Ring
ByDaveslocker 24 September 2025

Tottenham vs Aston Villa: A North London Derby That Somehow Matters to Your Pension Fund in Singapore By our man in the cheap seats, still waiting for VAR to overturn 2020 The world’s attention this weekend swivelled, briefly, from mushroom clouds over the Pacific and bond yields in Frankfurt to a rectangle of grass in…

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International | Technology

Blockchain Goes Global: How the World’s Favorite Overhyped Spreadsheet Is Quietly Fixing (and Breaking) Everything
ByDaveslocker 24 September 2025

Blockchain: The Digital Fidget Spinner the World Won’t Put Down By Hugo Marquez, International Correspondent, Dave’s Locker Somewhere in a fluorescent-lit room in Zug, Switzerland, a man in ergonomic shoes is sipping a single-origin espresso and congratulating himself for putting land-registry deeds on a tamper-proof ledger. Meanwhile, in Lagos, a bus driver is scanning a…

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Business | International

TradingView: The Global Neon Confessional Where Bulls, Bears, and Bots All Pray to the Same Candlestick God
ByDaveslocker 24 September 2025

TradingView: The Neon Church Where the World’s Money Prays to Itself By “Still-Shorting-My-Own-Sanity” Correspondent, somewhere over the dateline with spotty Wi-Fi and cheaper coffee than sense. Somewhere between the collapse of another regional bank in Zurich and the latest crypto-trading hamster flat-lining in Germany, an oddly soothing shade of black-and-green has become the lingua franca…

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Current Events | International

Meet the Savant: The One Kid Who Just Cancel-Published the Global Economy
ByDaveslocker 23 September 2025

THE SAVANT: A GLOBAL PHENOMENON THAT REMINDS US WE’RE ALL BASICALLY USELESS Bylines from the Bureau of People Who Still Pretend to Be Impressed Geneva, Switzerland – While the rest of us were busy doom-scrolling through war crimes and avocado shortages, the Savant slipped quietly onto the world stage like a magician who forgot to…

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Current Events | International

September Social Security Tsunami: How $113B of U.S. Pension Cash Floods Global Markets from Singapore to Sicily
ByDaveslocker 23 September 2025

September Social Security Payments Go Global: How 70 Million Americans’ $113 Billion Windfall Shakes Markets from Manila to Milan By the time the first electronic deposit hits a retiree’s account in Biloxi at 12:01 a.m. on the third of September, a bond trader in Singapore has already slammed three espressos and refreshed her Bloomberg terminal…

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International | Trending

Global Markets Throw a Tantrum: Why Crypto Is Down from Seoul to São Paulo
ByDaveslocker 22 September 2025

The Red-Chart Blues: A Global Postcard from the Crypto Abyss Dave’s Locker – International Desk Somewhere between Seoul’s neon trading cafés and a Berlin co-working loft that still smells of yesterday’s oat-milk flat whites, Bitcoin is sulking at a six-week low and every Telegram group from Lagos to Lima has mutated into a digital support…

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International | Technology

Global Groceries, Gangnam Apartments, and the ETH Price: One Chart to Rule Them All
ByDaveslocker 22 September 2025

The Ether Between Us: How a Line of Code in Zug Decides Whether Your Cousin in Manila Can Afford Dinner ZUG, Switzerland – Every morning at precisely 09:00 CET, the gnomes of Crypto Valley finish their cortados, crack their knuckles, and nudge Ethereum’s price a few basis points—just enough to make a grandmother in Lagos…

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International | Technology

XRP Drama Goes Global: How a Swiss Cow Town and a New York Courtroom Are Quietly Deciding the Future of Money Transfers
ByDaveslocker 22 September 2025

Zug, Switzerland – where the cows outnumber the regulators and every fondue pot doubles as a shell company – has once again become the unlikely stage for the world’s longest-running crypto-soap opera: the XRP melodrama. Just when you thought the Ripple-SEC lawsuit had settled into the comfortable rhythm of a Scandinavian slow-TV train ride, the…

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Business | International

Lloyds at 300: How a British Bank Outlived Empires, Pirates, and Its Own Scandals—And Still Charges Commission
ByDaveslocker 22 September 2025

LONDON – Somewhere between the third croissant and the fourth PowerPoint slide, the assembled dignitaries at Lloyds Banking Group’s tree-shaded headquarters remembered to mention that the institution had turned 300. The cake arrived in the shape of an outsized ship—an ironic confection, given that the City of London itself now resembles a vessel drifting without…

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