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View MoreChristopher Altman saw it in the same way that most small business owners do: in the quiet of an inbox that used to fill up on its own, rather than all at once. His Oakland tree-trimming crew scheduled three weeks off for years without his involvement. Then, the reservations simply…
The atmosphere changed somewhere between a half-empty diesel station outside Hamburg and the screens of a London trading floor. Like these things often do, it happened quietly. In January, Brent crude was trading at about sixty dollars. It was close to 120 by the second week of March. Ten weeks.…
When a homeowner answered the door in a peaceful Scottsdale, Arizona neighborhood early on January 31, she saw two young men in delivery uniforms carrying a package and a dolly. Nothing out of the ordinary. Deliveries arrive on Saturday mornings in the Sweetwater Ranch area, and no one seems to…
Somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, a woman enters a few local currency notes into a slot machine at a phone recharge kiosk and receives airtime. The solar-powered kiosk, which is located on a dusty roadside, is owned by Tether if you follow the ownership chain through a number of subsidiaries and…
You almost instantly notice something when you pull up a chart showing the recent performance of the U.S. stock market. Fifty-five percent of the market’s growth can be attributed to ten companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Broadcom, and six others riding the wave of AI enthusiasm. Not a widespread demonstration.…