New measures extend a post-Lehman crisis legacy of distorted risk premia in markets

The pushback against globalisation will come from protectionists, national-security hawks and greens

ETFs of BlackRock, Vanguard and others traded at large discounts to net asset value in recent days as coronavirus roiled markets

Congress has all the firepower it needs. It just needs to send spending instructions to the Federal Reserve, as it always does.

Funds are designed to perform well at all times but some say they exacerbate sell-offs

Government revenues plummet as crude prices sink and private sector cuts jobs

Traders blame volatility on measures put in place after the last financial collapse

Aimed at boosting returns during the long bull market, the idea functioned well until the coronavirus pandemic sent markets into turmoil

Gabriel Jiménez hated the Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro. But he loved cryptocurrency. When he built the regime a digital coin, he nearly paid with his life.

If the western models fail, we could potentially see, not only the implementation of technology-driven authoritarian regimes that will effectively use artificial intelligence for surveillance, but also authoritarian regimes controlling the distribution of resources (it starts in the least prepared and most unsuspected places: yesterday in Manhattan, no one was allowed to buy more than two packs of rice).