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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Private Credit Didn’t Replace the Bank. It Replaced the Depositor With a Retiree.

In January 2026, Blue Owl Capital did something a lender proud of its stability is not supposed to do: it told investors in one...

The AI Boom’s Real Risk Isn’t a Bubble. It’s a Depreciation Schedule Nobody Wants to Touch.

When a report surfaced in late 2025 suggesting that talks between Nvidia and OpenAI over a fresh compute commitment had stalled, Oracle's share price...

Chips Were Never the Constraint. Electrons Are, and That Changes Who Wins the AI Race.

In November last year, Satya Nadella said something that should have unsettled every boardroom running an AI strategy, not just Microsoft's. Asked why Azure's...

What a $2.9 Billion Hydrogen Write-Off Reveals About the Next Decade of Climate Capex

In the same quarter this year, Air Products and Chemicals made two decisions that looked contradictory and were not. It walked away from its...

Cyber Insurance Isn’t a Backstop Anymore. It’s the Rulebook Boards Never Ratified.

When Jaguar Land Rover's systems went dark in the autumn of 2025, the shutdown ran for more than a month, wiped out roughly 50,000...

The AI Spending Illusion: Why Capex Is No Longer Proof of Advantage

In the same fortnight this year, two sets of earnings calls told opposite stories about artificial intelligence. Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Alphabet told investors...
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