In cities across China, the country’s central bank has begun rolling out the e-renminbi—an all-digital version of its paper currency that can be accessed and accepted by merchants and consumers without an internet connection, credit or even a bank account.
Already having conducted more than $5 billion in e-renminbi transactions, China has opened its digital currency up to for…
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It almost goes without saying that the most important business story of the year has been and will continue to be rising interest rates and their ripple effects. This is a big topic with wide-reaching implications that we’re yet to understand fully. In this column, I want to touc…
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Like a mistreated starlet, nature often gets a bum deal in the movies. When the light is good, you can always just turn the camera on it and make a pretty picture. But it takes a great deal of care—your eyes need to learn to listen, perhaps, to all that’s in front of them—to capture its fierce, hushed awesomeness.
Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski does that, and more, i…
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In November, fans saved up hundreds of dollars and took days off work during pre-sales so they could wait in virtual queues to buy tickets to Taylor Swift’s upcoming tour. Some waited for hours on Ticketmaster’s website, only to see tickets they’d selected disappear from their carts or be booted out of line when the website glitched. Many of those lucky enough to secure ticket…
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Our global “new normal” appears to be a return to solving for basics—food, energy, and security— problems our global systems were thought to be on a trajectory to solve. How did we get here—and how can we move forward?
A return to old risks against a backdrop of new concerns
Against a backdrop of the persistent health and economic ove…
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Elon Musk might be the most interesting person on the planet. And given his passionate quest (so far surprisingly on track) to make humans into a multiplanetary species, he could someday become the most interesting person in the solar system.
O.K., those statements may be hyperbole. But Musk’s ability to turn hyperbole into reality is one of his superpowers. Through his intense focu…
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When Roman Martinez was growing up in El Zonte, a small coastal village in El Salvador, the American Dream loomed large. Beyond the local fishing industry, which Martinez’s parents worked in, there weren’t a lot of opportunities. “Young people just wanted to leave, to go to the U.S.,” he says. “But now we have a Salvadoran dream.”
It’s a dream ab…
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CJ Hauser has one of those faces. She just looks like someone you could talk to—and strangers tend to do exactly that, stopping her on the street or unloading their life stories on her on airplanes. It only adds to the phenomenon when, the day we meet in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, Hauser brings along her 6-year-old Bernese Mountain dog, a gentle giant named Moriarty. Within minutes o…
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Dakota Johnson and Melanie Griffith. Clara McGregor and Ethan McGregor. Maya Hawke and Uma Thurman. Whether they share the same last name or not, more and more kids of famous actors—or as the internet has taken to calling them “nepo babies”—seem to be taking over Hollywood alongside their famous moms and dads.
This list puts the focus on those parents teaming up with their childr…
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