Latest on China’s Economy: What Xi Jinping Is Really Doing and Why

Latest on China’s Economy: What Xi Jinping Is Really Doing and Why

Xi Jinping’s quest to rewrite the playbook that drove China’s economic miracle for a generation is facing its sternest test yet. The $18 trillion economy is decelerating, the property crisis deepening, consumers are downbeat, exports are struggling and more than one in five young people are out of work. But where President Joe Biden is … Read more

Xi Jinping Is Running China’s Economy Cold on Purpose

Xi Jinping Is Running China’s Economy Cold on Purpose

Xi Jinping’s quest to rewrite the playbook that drove China’s economic miracle for a generation is facing its sternest test yet. The $18 trillion economy is decelerating, consumers are downbeat, exports are struggling, prices are falling and more than one in five young people are out of work. Country Garden Holdings Co., with 3,000 pending … Read more

My Crypto Hell Journey Started With a Wrong Number Scam Text

My Crypto Hell Journey Started With a Wrong Number Scam Text

The mysterious WhatsApp message arrived one night in August 2022, while I was out at a bar with a friend: “Hi David, I’m Vicky Ho don’t you remember me?” This was strange. My name isn’t David, and I didn’t know anyone named Vicky. But I’d been getting a lot of seemingly misdirected messages on my … Read more

How Much Did Hindenburg Make From Shorting Adani, Dorsey, Icahn?

How Much Did Hindenburg Make From Shorting Adani, Dorsey, Icahn?

Gautam Adani, Jack Dorsey, Carl Icahn. Nate Anderson has picked them off one by one. In mere months this year, he erased as much as $99 billion of their combined wealth while knocking $173 billion off the value of their publicly traded companies. In an era when prominent short sellers have retreated from the limelight … Read more