World’s biggest corporate Bitcoin holder now worth less than its BTC — what happened as Wall Street stunnedMicroStrategy Bitcoin holdings: MicroStrategy's stock value has dropped below its Bitcoin holdings. The company's market cap is now $10 bil...
03 Dec, 2025, 02.01 AM IST
Global trade system 'at risk of derailment': UN chiefThe future of international trade is under serious threat, as pointed out by UN leader Antonio Guterres. He warns that escalating debt leve...
22 Oct, 2025, 07.51 PM IST
After losses in FTX, which went bankrupt in 2022, Temasek slashes early-stage startup investments by 88%Singapore's Temasek, a major global investor, has significantly cut its early-stage startup investments by 88% since 2021, reducing from $4...
04 Jun, 2025, 10.28 PM IST
Ray Dalio joins Jamie Dimon in warning U.S. debt nearing point of no return, approaching death spiralBillionaire investor Ray Dalio predicts a potential debt crisis for the United States. He suggests the nation is heading towards a 'death s...
04 Jun, 2025, 08.16 PM IST
Dollar forecast: US currency is sliding everyday. What to expect in 2025?Dollar is down on the year against every major currency. Donald Trump's tax bill would add $3 trillion to $5 trillion to the country's debt.
21 May, 2025, 10.31 PM IST
Ray Dalio's grave warning: President Donald Trump has only 3 years to slash fiscal deficit by over half before bond markets plunge the U.S into a debt death spiralBillionaire investor Ray Dalio warned the US has three years to reduce its fiscal deficit or risk a debt crisis. The national debt is over ...
15 Feb, 2025, 01.31 AM IST
Zero to hero? UK narrative switches yet againBritain's economic outlook for 2025 has seen a significant shift from impending disaster to emerging opportunity. The recent positive devel...
05 Feb, 2025, 12.53 PM IST
Can Twitter, uh, X, survive Elon Musk?Elon Musk's influence on Twitter, now known as X, may be causing a decline in its usefulness as a nexus for information sharing. Under Musk...
20 Oct, 2023, 10.27 AM IST
Families of covid victims in debt trap as insurers reject claimsInsurers are contractually obligated to settle only those diseases included in the scope of coverage and Covid-19 is absent from most such ...
05 Aug, 2021, 11.46 AM IST
Explained: The cost of ten years of devastating war in SyriaAs Assad prepares for a fourth term in office, here is a summary of the human and financial cost of the conflict according to data from Uni...
26 May, 2021, 04.52 PM IST
Pakistan emulates ‘Chinese model’ of social distancingHowever, videos of people violating the social distancing measures have gone viral, according to media reports in Pakistan. In this situati...
03 Apr, 2020, 08.50 AM IST
It is possible to break negative spirals: Jonathan Stubbs, Citi"We are starting to see some sort of fiscal easing here in Europe this year, not the UK but the Euro area and it will be very helpful if we...
03 Mar, 2016, 09.56 AM IST
Puerto Rico's 'death spiral' has officially begunPuerto Rico's Public Finance Corp. (PFC) has officially failed to make a payment due August 1st. This means a bunch of painful events are a...
04 Aug, 2015, 11.48 AM IST
If Puerto Rico is going down, it could start this weekendPuerto Rico could go into default on a chunk of its $72 billion debt on Saturday, August 1st. That's when the island owes hundreds of milli...
01 Aug, 2015, 03.39 PM IST
Parties must rise over politics to fix accountability for farmer deathsIf agriculture occupies a pivotal role, why have governments for the last 65 years not been able to improve the plight of the agricultural ...
27 Apr, 2015, 11.16 AM IST
- Europe's new plan does not address the real issues
A cost-benefit analysis indicates this would be less costly than a disorderly break-up of the euro zone and an integrated European monetary...
04 Nov, 2011, 05.17 AM IST
- Europe faces debt contagion fear
The euro slid further amid fears that Greece's debt crisis would spread across the continent, after a ratings agency warned that contagion ...
06 May, 2010, 05.12 PM IST