2026

Richard Bookstaber, author of A Demon of Our Own Design, warns today’s financial system faces dangers even greater than 2008./ Image: Institute for New Economic Thinking Richard Bookstaber, the financial analyst and author who spent decades working inside hedge funds and the US Treasury before writing the book that foreshadowed the 2008 financial crisis, says…

A viral X post by Japanese comedian Eiko Kano, written in Japanese, shows a 1992 timestamp It has been 20 years since Jack Dorsey, co-founder of what is now X, posted “just setting up my twttr,” the first message on what would become Twitter. Considered the platform’s very first tweet, it represents the origin of…

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warns oil could hit $150 amid Iran‑US war, sparking a ‘global recession’/ Image: BBC Amid an escalating conflict involving Iran‑Israel‑US tensions, now more than three weeks in, with Washington deploying more than 4,000 Marines to the region and weighing further troop movements even as talk of a ceasefire surfaces, oil markets…