Global Business / Economy
Is Working Past 70 a New Financial Reality — or Something the Labor Market Isn't Actually Designed to Accommodate?As retirement savings fail to keep pace with longer lifespans, more Americans are working well past 70 — but is the labor market actually built to let them? Ken Dychtwald, Elisabeth K. McGowan, and Dr. Richard Johnson examine whether aging workers are being set up to succeed or quietly locked out.
Financial Technology (FinTech)
Is Invisible Payments the Pinnacle of Fintech Design — or the Moment We Completely Lose Track of What We're Spending?As mobile wallets and automated billing make transactions nearly frictionless, fintech is racing toward a future where payments happen without you noticing — but is that the pinnacle of good design, or the moment consumers lose all sense of what they're spending? Chris Skinner, Jeanine Skowronski, and David Reiling debate whether invisible payments empower users or quietly erode financial literacy.
Bitcoin / Crypto
Is the Lightning Network Bitcoin's Payment Solution — or Proof That Scaling a Decentralized System Always Requires Reintroducing the Intermediaries You Were Trying to Eliminate?The Lightning Network promises to make Bitcoin fast and cheap enough for everyday purchases — but does solving its scaling problem mean quietly rebuilding the intermediaries Bitcoin was built to escape? Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Peter McCormack, and Caitlin Long debate whether this layer-2 fix is a triumph or a trade-off.
Global Business / Economy
Is Argentina's Economic Experiment Under Milei a Proof of Concept — or a Warning That Libertarian Economics Works Until It Doesn't?Argentina's radical libertarian experiment under Javier Milei has become a global test case — does slashing the state unleash growth, or does it ignore the social costs that make such ideologies collapse in practice? Javier Milei, Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, and Mariana Mazzucato clash over whether Argentina is proving libertarian economics right or exposing its limits.
Financial Technology (FinTech)
Is Agentic AI About to Make Financial Advisors Redundant — or Create a Liability Gap Nobody Has Figured Out How to Close?As agentic AI systems grow sophisticated enough to rival human financial advisors, the industry faces a split: is this the democratization of financial planning, or the opening of a liability gap no one has figured out how to close? Michael Kitces, Carl Richards, and Sally P. O'Brien debate whether AI complements human advisors or quietly creates risks the industry isn't ready to answer for.
Bitcoin / Crypto
Is Ordinals Transforming Bitcoin Into Something Its Creators Never Intended — or Finally Proving the Network Can Evolve Without Losing Its Core Properties?Bitcoin's Ordinals protocol lets users inscribe NFTs directly onto satoshis — sparking a fierce debate over whether this expands the network's possibilities or betrays its founding purpose. Lyn Alden, Peter McCormack, and Caitlin Long debate whether Bitcoin can absorb this new complexity without losing what made it Bitcoin in the first place.
