The conventional wisdom says liquified natural gas is the future of energy — bridging the gap between the world abandoning fossil fuels and renewable supplies coming online. But that rosy outlook faces a reckoning. LNG is threatened by a pincer movement involving, ironically, the two old and new sources it’s supposed to bridge: coal and solar.

A recent campaign video for the Czech Motorists Party opens in an auto-repair shop. A female driver throws her keys to a ripped, square-jawed mechanic, who summons his team with a nod. Sparks fly, carburetors change hands and a rock groove kicks in as the head grease monkey — played by car enthusiast and party figurehead Filip Turek — ticks off the party’s priorities: no to the Green Deal, yes to supporting the car industry.

As a retired admiral and former supreme allied commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, I was thrilled when Sweden and Finland joined the alliance. My first thought was about the vast coastline the two Nordic states provided, essentially turning the Baltic Sea has into a “NATO lake.”

Mexico is emerging as one of the biggest fronts in the US-China economic rivalry.

If there’s one force that’s shaped the past few decades, it’s the relentless willpower of the Chinese Communist Party.

How AI will reshape our lives is clouded with uncertainty. Researchers are debating what it means to achieve artificial general intelligence, or AGI, or whether the neural-network systems that drive chatbots like ChatGPT can lead us to that big prize. But smart investors should avoid trying to predict future breakthroughs of a technology that is still at an evolutionary stage.

As gold climbs, investors should tune out warnings about the greenback’s dwindling influence.

A decade ago, stablecoins were conceived as a bridge for speculators to travel between risky digital assets like Bitcoin and the less turbulent world of fiat money. That is changing fast. In the hands of a crypto-loving Trump administration, these dollar clones are shaping up as a highway that will carry America’s influence around the world. China’s President Xi Jinping is not taking this new front of geopolitical competition lightly.

P(doom), STAAR Surgical projections, Bitcoin life insurance and YouTube self-help.

It’s been a week since the government shut down, and at some point, one side will have to cave and compromise. Republicans are betting that they can get five more Senate Democrats to back the House bill, while Democrats are betting that President Donald Trump will live up to his TACO nickname and start to negotiate around health care and bring other Republicans along. Trump seemed to telegraph as much on Monday, then backpedaled. The official GOP line is that there will be no negotiation until t

In the history of Wall Street, few have been as successful as Ken Griffin. Over the past three decades, he has built his Citadel hedge fund into a global financial behemoth, helping Griffin accumulate a personal net worth of about $48 billion. So when he makes a market call, it’s worth paying attention.

This has not been a vintage year for Tesla Inc. product launches. This summer, it launched a long-delayed robotaxi service that came with a free human. Now, it has unveiled two long-awaited cheaper el...

Some athletes do more than compete — they change the game itself. Billie Jean King battled for pay equity. Curt Flood fought Major League Baseball for the right of free agency. And last Tuesday, five-time WNBA all-star Napheesa Collier joined their ranks by publicly exposing the patronizing attitudes and systemic inequalities that keep Women's National Basketball Association players undervalued and undercompensated.

Mexico is emerging as one of the biggest fronts in the US-China economic rivalry.

Every now and then you come across a piece of evidence that feels strong enough to cut through the noise and change minds.

The destruction of South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein’s home in a fiery inferno over the weekend immediately led to speculation that it was an act of political violence. South Carolina officials are still investigating, and they said on Monday that “there is no evidence to indicate” that the cause of the explosion “was intentionally set.” But it says something about this moment that a judge being violently targeted was so easy to imagine.

With funding expired, new appropriations bills stalled and progress on a stopgap nonexistent, Congress has for the 15th time since 1981 allowed the federal government to shut its doors. Don’t expect this round to be any more edifying than the others.

The boom in capital expenditures related to generative artificial intelligence is generating lots of questions about whether it is sustainable. Coming up with definitive answers to them is something of a fool’s errand. Quantifying the size of the capex surge seems like a more productive endeavor — and one that may offer some hints as to its sustainability.

Activist investing doesn’t have a great track record in the banking sector. In 2021, Edward Bramson sold his 6% stake in Barclays Plc after three years of agitating. A few months later, Cerberus Capital Management LP gave up on an attempt to encourage a merger between Deutsche Bank AG and Commerzbank AG, crystallizing a loss of around €400 million ($467 million) on its holdings. Ping An Insurance Group similarly failed in its campaign for HSBC Holdings Plc to spin off its Asian operations.

As the world (including the self-styled peacemaker-in-chief in the White House) holds its breath for the announcement of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, spare a moment to ponder the growing risk of war, including world war.

However much Trump touts coal, data centers need all the power renewables can generate.

Just as Donald Trump’s MAGA movement carried out a hostile takeover of the US Republican Party a decade ago, the UK’s Conservatives are watching as the new firm next door pitches policies to voters that are shinier and claim to cost half as much. Nigel Farage’s upstart populist Reform UK party is driving the Tories out of business.

It’s still not uncommon for a domestic builder or plumber to ask for payment in cash. Soon, they might ask for Tether or another stablecoin instead.