There’s a lot of focus on Elon Musk’s Twitter Inc. purchase and plans to turn around the troubled social network. Most debates around the acquisition miss a crucial tenent of Musk’s glittering track record: He uses software to drive previously unimaginable advances in difficult problems, and then creates a virtuous spiral with investors and users. This approach is critical to ...

  For much of the past year, interest rate doves have been eager to make excuses for inflation, blaming obscure methodological quirks in the US’s consumer price index for a stretch of concerning reports. Now, another of those peculiarities is pulling reported inflation down, but the doves are happy to look the other way. While there were certainly positive developments ...

  Sam Bankman-Fried has in the past enjoyed media treatment akin to walking on water. Even amid the brutal cryptocurrency selloff, his exchange FTX was hailed as the buyer of last resort amid the wreckage. His geeky image, supposedly philanthropic motivations and crude online gags softened the edges of a billionaire whose business is risky crypto trading — most of ...