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Lionel Laurent

Sun beds and umbrellas are set up on the beach in front of high-rise buildings at the Dubai Marina on August 28, 2025. Rich people are flocking to Dubai in record numbers, drawn to the desert city by its zero income tax policy and easy luxury lifestyle that has become harder to maintain elsewhere.

The hedge fund set can’t resist the lure of Dubai

The exodus of talent from the UK and elsewhere is real; efforts to stem it need to be equally genuine

The thing about retaliation is that it requires unity, especially if the idea is to go beyond goods and into services provided by dominant US firms like Alphabet or Amazon.
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Tariff bullying is working too well in Europe

The lesson for the EU is it must address the dependencies that help the bullying work

A recent double-digit rise in crypto-exchange hacks and a wave of brazen crypto-executive kidnapping attempts has put the industry on edge and ramped up interest in security.

Crypto crime is the future; bank heists are history

A rise in physical attacks on digital-asset holders says a lot about the trade-offs of a cashless society

Giving up on a critical component of EVs might mean losing out on auto jobs for Europe.

Europe’s industrial nightmares are coming true

Gobs of government cash are unable to rouse Europe, with the Ukraine war and US-China competition still battering energy-intensive sectors

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