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Trump’s reflecting pool saga is a neat metaphor for his presidency

The debacle is a murky reflection of grandiose unfulfilled promises, desperate blame-shifting and some scummy truth eventually floating to the...

Jemima Kelly

Even the “bitcoin president” has been unable to break the so-called currency’s inevitable fall. Soon the whole thing will be a mess on the pavement.

Crypto is not, and never was, a serious asset class. What we are seeing in recent wobbles is a gradual move away from the Donald Trump era of ‘lol’.

The US president’s psychology and his style of transactional, winners-and-losers statecraft do not exactly provide any kind of blueprint for...