Daniel Tenreiro

A fond farewell to one of our greatest comedic minds.

Xi may see consumer software as trivial, but it is a key driver of the hard-tech leadership he desires.

In the case of Didi, the Party giveth and the Party taketh away.

On the menu today: Robinhood files to go public, Bezos prepares to step down as Amazon CEO, and a public-relations firm with ties to the Clinton family unravels.

On the menu today: the G-7’s agreement on digital taxes, the EU’s fine on Amazon, and Glenn Hubbard’s suggest for international tax authorities.

On the menu today: the chip shortage has raised the stakes for Taiwan, U.S. GDP soars, and Verizon throws in the towel on digital media.

On the menu today: Coinbase’s crypto correlation, another tech IPO, consumer borrowing stalls, and a look back at the Bitcoin white paper.

On the menu today: the semiconductor shortage, funds considering new prime brokers, Amazon workers say no to union, and a look at the capital cycle.

On the menu today: the SPAC craze slows down, Hwang’s leveraged blowout, and S&P 4,000.

On the menu today: big ships, the bank effect, and the last Suez blockage.

On the menu today: the bubble puzzle, the lira tanks, and a hot take on tulipmania.

On the menu today: Tesla bets on Bitcoin, Reddit sees its valuation double, Chinese hedge funds beat foreign competitors, and the technology industry’s increasing returns to scale.

On the menu today: Robinhood’s arbitrage shop, its potential IPO, the end of Bezos’s tenure as Amazon CEO, and a 1920 short squeeze.

Reddit rallied around the brick-and-mortar retailer, but Robinhood wanted out.

On the menu today: GameStop’s rally, Andreessen Horowitz’s new media venture, Biden’s renminbi policy, and how Reddit rallies around stocks.

On the menu today: Yellen’s first Senate hearing, Biden’s inauguration, Europe’s small-loan buildup, and a look back at the Plaza Accord.

On the menu today: Biden’s economic plan, Yellen’s debt dilemma, and deficits in a zero-interest-rate world.

On the menu today: a new social-network protocol, Jim Simons retires, Tesla in China, and the Twitter activist campaign that wasn’t.

On the menu today: understanding Jack Dorsey, Facebook bans #StoptheSteal, the Fed eyes Bitcoin and Tesla, and an anecdote from Twitter’s early days.

On the menu today: how a weak dollar could unravel U.S. economic policy, Facebook bans Trump, the case against Big Tech antitrust, and Reagan’s Imperial Circle.

On the menu today: the disappearance of a Chinese billionaire, SOE defaults, and the mounting risks to China’s financial system.

How Miami mayor Francis Suarez is making a play to lure tech figures sick and tired of the Bay Area.

On the menu today: why stimulus isn’t likely to cause inflation, how the pandemic is strengthening large corporations, and some links from around the web.

On the menu today: FOMC December meeting, the dollar’s global-reserve status, a theory of IPO pops, and a look at yield-curve control in the mid 20th century.

Foreign investment in China, a massive cyberattack, the boost to small banks from PPP, and a new critique of economic theory.

On the menu today: a paradigm shift on Wall Street, Airbnb’s IPO, China’s private-sector crackdown, and the Lindy Effect.

On the menu today: reevaluating the labor share of income, COVID-19 vaccine approval in the U.K., Chinese investments in U.S. tech, and Walter Williams, R.I.P.

On the menu today: DoorDash’s $32 billion IPO, GM’s ill-fated deal with Nikola, Ajit Pai’s resignation, and student-loan mismanagement.

On the menu today: Palantir shares skyrocket, a giant of labor economics passes away, Slack in acquisition talks with Salesforce, and Yellen’s plans for Treasury-Fed cooperation.

On the menu today: the return of active management, how COVID-19 affects trust in scientists, lessons from Japan, and another SPAC.