Radu Craciun

A few weeks ago I was asking a rhetorical question: What interests inflate the price of Bitcoin ?, in a post that followed another one entitled Is Tesla’s investment in Bitcoin a smokescreen? Both noted that high-profile businessmen and businesses and more recently respectable financial institutions seem to go out of their way to campaign for investing […]

This post will fuel conspiracy theorising. But I cannot help noting an effort, apparently concerted, to drive the price of Bitcoin up and prevent its spectacular falls as it happened on more than one occasion in the past. Since investor excitement (or naivety?) needs to be continuously spurred on, here comes the heavy artillery. To […]

Tesla and Bitcoin, two extremely popular brands share a common trait: their skyrocketing market value. Since the beginning of 2020, Tesla`s share price has increased ninefold resulting in an overall value higher than that of Toyota, Volkswagen, Daimler, General Motors, BMW, Honda, Hyundai and Ford together. Clearly, some may say that Tesla is not a […]

Carbon neutrality is the solution that European governments put forward to reach climate neutrality by balancing out CO2 emissions and removals. To get there, approaches bank almost exclusively on ways to dramatically reduce and store emissions. This short-sightedness puzzles me as protecting existing forests and increasing the wooded area are hardly on the countries or […]

(R*) China’s seemingly more efficient response to the pandemic refuels an older debate on the country’s economic success. The figures speak for themselves. According to the World Bank, 800 million people had been lifted out of poverty by 2018, making China the most important contributor to the global decline of poor population from 40 to […]