Economy & Policy

The SaaS Crash Isn’t About AI Replacing Software. It’s About Software Finally Being Asked to Prove It Worked.

In the first quarter of 2026, something happened to enterprise software stocks that had never happened before: the forward earnings multiple on the average listed software company fell below...

The $725 Billion Question Big Tech Doesn’t Want Boards Asking: How Long Does a GPU Actually Live?

Every CEO who has ever sat through a capital allocation review knows the quiet power of a single...

Return-to-Office Was Never a Culture Policy. It’s a Leverage Test, and the Results Are In

Every return-to-office mandate issued since 2023 has come wrapped in the same language: rebuilding culture, sharpening collaboration, restoring...

SpaceX’s $1.77 Trillion IPO Wasn’t a Democratization of Ownership. It Was the Final Markup Before the Correction.

On June 12, 2026, SpaceX priced its initial public offering at $135 a share, valuing the company at...

Shadow AI Was the Warning. The Real Risk Is a Workforce of Agents No One Supervises

Every CISO has a version of the same story by now: someone in finance pasted a draft term...
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The Treasury Backdoor: Why the Stablecoin Boom Is a Currency War Dressed as a Payments Upgrade

A vendor in Lagos gets paid in USDC because the naira is rationed and the parallel market is where the real exchange rate lives....

The Rare Earth Rescue Is Repeating the Mistake It’s Meant to Fix

In April 2025, Bajaj Auto's leadership told reporters that a batch of Chinese paperwork was about to shut down part of its production line....

The Power Crisis Is Being Solved. The Water Crisis Isn’t — and It Will Decide Who Wins the AI Race

Every CEO building data centres or chip capacity in 2026 has, by now, internalised the power problem. Utilities are signing multi-decade power purchase agreements...

The GLP-1 Shock Isn’t a Health Story. It’s a Warning About How Fragile Corporate Demand Models Really Are.

A snack company in Minneapolis is redesigning its portfolio around portion size and protein density. An airline's fuel-planning team is quietly revising its per-seat...

The Quantum Threat to Your Company Isn’t the Computer. It’s the Migration You Haven’t Started.

No executive team has ever had to defend a security budget against an attacker that doesn't exist yet, using a technology that may or...

Sovereign Capital Isn’t Just Bankrolling AI. It’s Quietly Buying Control, and Most Cap Tables Don’t Price It.

Anthropic spent much of 2024 telling anyone who asked that it would not take money from the Gulf. The reasoning, laid out internally and...
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