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MicroStrategy Inc. is two things: a publicly listed enterprise-software company whose annual revenue has barely budged in five years, and a publicly listed Bitcoin trading vehicle that has borrowed money to buy volatile cryptocurrency and lost a cumulative $2 billion in the process. The results…

Everybody knows you should never let a good crisis go to waste, and Nancy Pelosi gave China all the hardware it needed to construct a golden chariot of crisis and ride it to glory. But the People’s Republic promptly crashed its crisis chariot into a ditch. Today was Day Two of our long national…

How many patents on a single drug is too many? Scholars, activists, and politicians have debated the question for decades. This week, a panel of the US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit gave a firm answer. As long as the owner doesn’t use what’s known as the patent estate in a way that violates…

The Iranian theory, explicit sometimes and implicit at others, is founded on the idea that Tehran, since its 1979 revolution, has been supporting the Arab effort to liberate Palestine and wipe Israel out and that Iran was the one to revive this project after the Arabs had abandoned it in succession…

Much like Osama bin Laden was killed among his wives and children in Pakistan in 2011, Ayman al-Zawahiri, another terrorist, was killed in hiding among his wife and children in Afghanistan last Sunday. According to the New York Times, al-Zawahiri was killed in hiding at a safe house belonging to…

Israel will be a big factor in a primary election on August 2 where two Democratic Party nominees are competing to be the Democratic candidate next November against a Republican Party candidate to represent a Congressional district in Michigan. The national lobby that rejects criticism of…

The other day, my CUNY and Stone Center colleague Branko Milanovic suggested that it would be interesting to “compare Napoleon’s continental blockade against Great Britain to the current sanctions against Russia.” As it happened, I was already on the topic. I had just read Andrew Roberts’s …

If you want to know why Europe’s largest economy is a digital laggard — indeed, if you want to know why progress is difficult anywhere — regale yourself with a trip into the fine print of a new German law governing employment contracts. The occasion for the anecdote is a directive from Brussels…

For a market that has typically been seen as concentrating on the future, investors can sometimes take a surprisingly backward view. Consider their upbeat reaction to Alphabet Inc.’s earnings, reflected in the stock’s 5% jump in early trading last week. As encouraging as it might be that second…

After all the false starts and dashed hopes of the past two years, I’m reluctant to count my chickens before they’ve actually been signed in the Oval Office. Still, it appears that Democrats have finally agreed on another major piece of legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act. And if it does…

The experience of driving across America, which my family just recklessly embraced, is an experience of America but, of course, also an experience of driving. In the last three weeks I’ve spent roughly 55 hours behind the wheel, counting all our detours and side trips, in a rented American minivan …

As the battery provide chain will get concentrated within the palms of some international locations, a forgotten metallic might assist rising and growing markets keep away from getting left behind The world’s largest battery firm is popping to abundantly obtainable supplies because it seems to…