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Tax the Oligarchs. Don't Just Seize Their Yachts.

The history of economic sanctions is one of “disappointment,” given they often fail, writes Nicholas Mulder in his book The Economic Weapon. The...

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KISS Follows ABBA Into the Musical AI Afterlife

Gene Simmons is one of the shrewdest marketing minds ever to wear face paint and lick a bass guitar. The KISS co-founder and his bandmates pioneered...

12.04.2024 10

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Ask What the Boomers Can Do for Your Country

America’s youngest-ever elected president, John F Kennedy, put civic duty at the heart of his 1961 call to “ask what you can do for your...

11.04.2024 9

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Zimbabwe’s ZiG Currency Is More Glitter than Gold

Zimbabwe has a painful relationship with money. At the height of hyperinflation in 2008, the African economy’s billion- and trillion-dollar...

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The American Dream Is an Easy Sell for German Factories

It’s the end of an era for Swiss solar-panel maker Meyer Burger Technology AG, whose shareholders last week backed a $220.5 million fundraising to...

29.03.2024 2

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Sam Bankman-Fried's Sentence Is a Warning to Crypto

The sentencing of cryptocurrency wunderkind turned convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in jail along with the forfeiture of more than...

28.03.2024 1

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Germany Is Europe’s Sick Man, But Others Are Coughing

Germany, the sick man of Europe, is about to end a quarter it would rather forget. The first three months of 2024 probably marked its second straight...

27.03.2024 10

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Waiting for a ‘Whatever It Takes’ on European Defense

“As long as it takes.” That was the pledge last week by European Union leaders on supporting Ukraine as Vladimir Putin embarks on a fifth...

25.03.2024 7

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Putin and Trump Force Defense Rethink in Europe

With Vladimir Putin set for a fifth term as Russian president and Donald Trump possibly on track for a second win in the US, Europe needs a mindset...

18.03.2024 20

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Chip Titan ASML Suffers New Strain of `Dutch Disease’

The bigger they are, the harder they lobby. Europe’s largest tech firm, chipmaking-machine supplier ASML Holding NV, has sent the Dutch government...

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The ECB Must Act Ahead of a Possible Trump Return

On Feb. 23, Austrian central banker Robert Holzmann issued a warning that it was “too early” to talk about interest-rate cuts in the euro zone....

07.03.2024 10

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Bitcoin Is Up But the Future of Money Lies Elsewhere

A new form of digital money is going viral, capturing tens of millions of users, billions of transactions and the attention of global central banks....

05.03.2024 10

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Taylor Swift Super Bowl Bets Are the Tip of the Iceberg

This weekend is the mother of all tentpole events for the gambling industry: the Super Bowl. Sports betting has boomed since the Supreme Court...

09.02.2024 3

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Coders and Analysts Feel AI’s Breath on Their Necks

Are white-collar workers — think analysts, coders and even the odd opinion columnist — going the way of the medieval scribe? Finance and...

08.02.2024 10

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Billionaire's Grab for French Tech Prize Falters

If corporate Paris is a moveable feast, Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky is a regular diner. The Francophile investor known for his tough...

02.02.2024 3

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From Farm to Pitchfork? A Very Parisian Siege

The so-called “siege of Paris,” which has seen angry farmers block highways around the French capital, is a far cry from the violent “Gilets...

31.01.2024 2

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Ban the Far Right? Better to Unmask Its Failings

Five months ahead of European parliamentary elections, the far right’s long march into mainstream politics has hit the buffers in Germany. More than...

26.01.2024 8

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The US Stock Market Is Eating the World. Just Look At Your Shoes

The “Birkenstock spread” might sound like an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction. But it’s one way of seeing how two European footwear companies...

18.01.2024 1

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Mad Over Russian Billions? Tax, Don’t Confiscate

European nations more famous for long holidays and plentiful healthcare than waging wars have broken a lot of taboos since the Russian invasion of...

15.01.2024 5

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Bitcoin ETF Hype Is More Memestock Than Gold 2.0

The regulatory approval of an exchange-traded fund isn’t supposed to be a mass-media event worthy of Wrestlemania. Yet here we are. The hype around...

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Red Sea Dangers Grow for America's Wary Allies

Last week, America’s allies put up a united front against the Houthis in the Red Sea. Well — not quite. France, which has the European Union’s...

08.01.2024 3

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Peak Paris? Macron’s 2024 Soft-Power Challenge

The most obvious thing Paris has to get right this year is the Olympics. If the immense hurdles of security, logistics, crammed metros and overpriced...

04.01.2024 6

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Spotify’s Billionaire CEO Has a Broken Profit Record to Fix

It’s 15 years since Sweden’s Spotify Technology SA, co-founded by Daniel Ek, launched its music streaming service as a legal all-you-can-eat...

26.12.2023 4

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Orban Hasn’t Totally Derailed the EU, But Danger's Not Over

Hungarian strongman leader Viktor Orban is said to be a fan of Charles De Gaulle. But unlike the Frenchman’s 1960s European boycott that paralyzed...

15.12.2023 4

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AI FOMO Is Alive and Well in Paris and Berlin

For Europeans worried about decline in a time of war and economic slowdown, last week’s OECD international education rankings didn’t help. French...

11.12.2023 3

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Bitcoin Hype Will Clash With the Rolex Recession

“BUY BTC.” The logo stamped on this week’s leaked version of the Grand Theft Auto VI trailer, depicting a faux glamorous world of speedboats,...

06.12.2023 2

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What Musicians Like Grimes Can Teach Us About AI

When I saw songwriter and producer Grimes perform live a decade ago, there was plenty of onstage tech equipment but clearly in the service of human...

01.12.2023 3

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Where Dutch Voters Go, Other Countries Will Follow

All is not well in the land of ASML Holding NV, Europe’s most valuable tech firm. Dutch snap parliamentary elections on Wednesday will mark the end...

21.11.2023 10

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Portugal’s ‘Sardine Capitalism’ Enters Choppy Waters

Portugal (population: 10 million) has enjoyed a miracle recovery since the dark days of its 2011 euro-crisis bailout. Sun, sea and tax breaks have...

10.11.2023 20

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A Klarna IPO Would Be a Bit Like ‘Buy Now, Regulate Later’

After failing to persuade chipmaker ARM Holdings Plc to float on the London Stock Exchange, Rishi Sunak’s government will no doubt be eager to...

08.11.2023 4

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Sam Bankman-Fried Won't Be the Last Crypto Mogul Behind Bars

Justice has been served – and swiftly, too. A jury found fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of seven counts of fraud and conspiracy after...

03.11.2023 5

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Macron's Anti-Hamas ‘Coalition’ Is a Lonely One

After fruitlessly pleading with the Global South to see things his way on Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron has spent the past week in the Middle East...

31.10.2023 3

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Fintech Firms Like Worldline Caught Naked as Tide Goes Out

A rising tide lifts all boats, but only when it goes out do you see who’s been swimming naked, as Warren Buffett famously said. So it is for the...

26.10.2023 2

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Springsteen Shows Private Equity Who's Boss

Bon Jovi fans may have been aghast at seeing guitar hero Richie Sambora dressed as a giant baked potato on The Masked Singer TV show in February,...

24.10.2023 10

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Crypto Is a Small Slice of Hamas’ Funding — But It’s Deadly

As lawyers and prosecutors rake over the ashes of Sam Bankman-Fried’s fallen FTX cryptocurrency empire, another reckoning for digital currencies is...

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Poland's Populist Playbook Didn't Work This Time

Pro-European forces have caught a break where they might have least expected it. Poland — whose eight years of euro-skeptic, conservative rule under...

17.10.2023 4

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Trump Helps Macron Find a Friend in Starmer

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21.09.2023 20

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Mario Draghi’s Back — With a Lot of Work to Do

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18.09.2023 7

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Italy and Britain Get Tongue-Tied Over Xi Jinping

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13.09.2023 3

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Airbnb Hosts Feel the Heat, From NYC to Paris

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07.09.2023 3

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