That the World Trade Organization (WTO) was able to come to any kind of deal at its 12th ministerial meeting last week was something of a miracle. The organisation has been dead for years as a location for trade governance — and even longer as a place for successful negotiations. In fact, reports of the WTO’s continued existence are greatly ...

When Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz’s startup LoudCloud clinched a fundraising round at an $820 million valuation even as the dotcom boom unraveled in 2000, management expected cheers from staff. Instead, the first question was: “Why didn’t we get a $1 billion valuation?” Unicorn envy — the quest for those nine zeroes that grab headlines and open wallets — has ...

  As you will doubtless have been informed, world equities are now in a bear market. What happens next? The most excessive speculation has already been washed out of the system. Those warning of bubbles in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, meme stocks, or the growth tech companies owned by the ARK Innovation ETF certainly seem to have had a point. ...