The way that central banks responded to the global financial crisis almost 20 years ago is often derided as “printing money” and “debasement”. This shorthand is odd. Whereas a Roman emperor might deba

Stop telling me that ransomware is no longer business enemy number one. Or better still, start telling that nonsense to the likes of Logitech, which recently endured the data breach consequences of a

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Zipcar reverses out of Britain: Zipcar, the car-sharing group owned by US rental company Avis Budget, is leaving the British market. The UK unit swung to a £4m operating loss in 2024 from a £303,000 p

Bitcoin’s days are numbered, said Strategy’s (formerly MicroStrategy) CEO, Michael Saylor, in 2013, when the cryptocurrency was trading at around $100. “It seems like just a matter of time before it s

We are in a real-life game of Risk. In 2019, Fiona Hill, an official at the US National Security Council during Donald Trump’s first term, said the Russians had informally proposed a plan whereby they