Ministers can raise taxes if they come out fighting. But no one in this cowardly Labour government seems able | Aditya Chakrabortty

Scroll back three years. The person sitting opposite me is yet to take their place at the top of Keir Starmer’s government. Instead, they are a star of the Labour opposition, for whom power advances or recedes with every poll and front page. They have just done a spot of electoral marketing, a photo op…

Read More

Coinbase’s (COIN) Brian Armstrong Made Prediction Markets Look ‘Fun.’ Bill Ackman Made Them Look Real

Brian Armstrong’s last-minute crypto shout-out turned a $4,000 prediction market into a punchline. With a few words, the Coinbase CEO made every bet on “Bitcoin,” “Ethereum,” and “Web3” pay out at once. It was a thin market, where the largest winner took home only $111, according to Poymarket Analytics. But if Armstrong’s impromptu word salad…

Read More