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“Spend less time on social media” is a New Year’s resolution that a lot of us are probably already breaking. In Europe, it’s a matter of...
There will be more humanoid robots than people by 2040, Elon Musk recently bragged. It’s a classic piece of Muskian bravado that will probably prove...
Elon Musk has crossed a line with his latest attacks on the UK government, Prime Minister Keir Starmer says. Are there any lines left? Musk has...
Every central banker has a make-or-break moment. As the euro crisis raged in 2012, then-European Central Bank boss Mario Draghi took to describing...
After Covid-19 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is Europe about to get its next existential shock in the shape of Donald Trump? From trade to...
The meteoric rise of Denmark’s Novo Nordisk A/S from century-old insulin producer to Europe’s most valuable company has been a feel-good story...
Francois Bayrou, the 73-year-old also-ran of French politics with three failed presidential bids under his belt, has been named prime minister by...
What is there to say with Bitcoin at $100,000 for those of us who thought $10,000 looked nuts. After 15 years of cryptocurrency boom-and-bust...
When 73-year-old center-right politician Michel Barnier was appointed French prime minister in September, few expected the man who kept the...
After Emmanuel Macron’s snap election gamble in July, his arch-nemesis Marine Le Pen is trying her own roll of the dice. The French far-right...
Yet Musk’s space successes have also been helped by European failures to adapt and compete. SpaceX’s rivals have exhibited classic incumbent...
“Overheated” is how short-sellers Citron Research described MicroStrategy Inc. on Thursday. That somehow understates the hype surrounding...
The ancients used oracles and inspected animal entrails to predict the future. Gen-Z has Polymarket, a crypto platform where (almost) anyone can...
We live in a nepo-baby world. New billionaires are accumulating more wealth through inheritance than entrepreneurship. For the first time in 15...
Extraordinary times bring extraordinary taxes. The US Civil War prompted the country’s first income tax; the Cold War led to its first exit tax....
One of the highlights of Ubisoft Entertainment SA’s Assassin’s Creed game series is the “leap of faith,” when the hooded main character takes...
Nothing is certain except death and taxes. The latter is on everyone’s mind in Europe, where France is embarking on an eye-watering round of...
Are the wheels coming off Europe’s bid to catch up to China and the US in critical industries? Swedish electric-vehicle battery maker Northvolt AB...
With only a few weeks to go before US elections, in a race where every vote and dollar counts, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are courting the...
The challenges facing new French Premier Michel Barnier make his previous job negotiating Brexit terms with Boris Johnson look easy. President...
Real-estate developers, rejoice. Amazon.com Inc. — once seen as the enemy of commercial property — is bringing workers back to the office five...
Irish rocker Bono once said Ireland’s low-tax, pro-Big Tech economic model had brought the country of 5 million the only prosperity it had ever...
Two decades ago, an expert report told the European Union that its lackluster growth stemmed from a failure to urgently adapt its economy to an...
After seven excruciating weeks, Emmanuel Macron has played his last zugzwang — an unwinnable and unavoidable chess move. Hemmed in by a hung...
Anyone who’s seen swathes of sunburnt German tourists harrying Greek workers for a beach towel this summer will know how wrong economic cliches can...
The subscription economy clearly got out of hand during the pandemic. The popularity of software and streaming as-a-service gave way to monthly...
Bill Ackman’s pitch for his bet on Universal Music Group NV in 2021 could have come straight from the trailer of a music biopic: “You need food...
For the better part of a year, a lot of Parisians have been planning for the Olympics — not to attend them, but to escape them. Fear of an...
The European Union’s $15 billion hammer against Big Tech is nearing completion, with regulation on artificial intelligence coming into force just...
Financial bubbles are inherently political. John Law’s doomed pumping of Mississippi Co. stock in 18th-century France came with the state’s...
Paris faces the test this week of launching the Olympic Games safely and affordably at a time of war, political polarization and social unrest....
For a sign of things to come for Europe, the place to watch this week isn’t Blenheim Palace or the European Parliament but the Republican...