https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ACDVXavMdXo/niall-ferguson RSS for Node Fri, 08 May 2026 17:48:18 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-01-26/stablecoins-are-the-future-but-won-t-kill-banks https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-01-26/stablecoins-are-the-future-but-won-t-kill-banks Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:00:30 GMT Illustration by CIRCLE, August 1, 2025. Circle is a peer-to-peer payments technology company that manages the stablecoin USDC, a cryptocurrency whose value is pegged to the US dollar. (Photo by Riccardo Milani / Hans Lucas via AFP) (Photo by RICCARDO MILANI/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-19/us-can-t-pay-other-countries-to-wage-cold-war-ii-against-russia-china https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-19/us-can-t-pay-other-countries-to-wage-cold-war-ii-against-russia-china Sun, 19 May 2024 04:00:18 GMT French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte tries to lead the final assault by his Imperial Guard at the Battle of Waterloo during the Napoleonic War of the Seventh Coalition on 18th June 1815 at Waterloo, Belgium. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-05/in-us-china-cold-war-misusing-history-can-lead-to-disaster-and-conflict https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-05/in-us-china-cold-war-misusing-history-can-lead-to-disaster-and-conflict Sun, 05 May 2024 04:00:29 GMT Herodotus knew how to use history. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-21/china-russia-iran-axis-is-bad-news-for-trump-and-gop-isolationists https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-21/china-russia-iran-axis-is-bad-news-for-trump-and-gop-isolationists Sun, 21 Apr 2024 04:00:03 GMT TOPSHOT - Russia's President Vladimir Putin (C) reviews a military honour guard with Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) during a welcoming ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 8, 2018. - Putin arrived on June 8 for a state visit to China and will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Leaders Summit in the eastern port city of Qingdao on June 9-10. (Photo by Greg BAKER / POOL / AFP) (Photo by GREG BAKER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-07/deepfakes-energy-china-war-and-elections-ai-politics-is-here https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-07/deepfakes-energy-china-war-and-elections-ai-politics-is-here Sun, 07 Apr 2024 04:00:04 GMT Banners of US artificial intelligence company OpenAI fly near an installation depicting the legendary "Trojan horse" built entirely out of microelectronic circuit boards and other computer components, outside at the campus of Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2023. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-03-24/can-sam-altman-make-ai-smart-enough-to-answer-these-6-questions https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-03-24/can-sam-altman-make-ai-smart-enough-to-answer-these-6-questions Sun, 24 Mar 2024 05:00:26 GMT TOPSHOT - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, speaks during The Wall Street Journal's WSJ Tech Live Conference in Laguna Beach, California on October 17, 2023. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-03-10/global-population-collapse-isn-t-sci-fi-anymore-niall-ferguson https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-03-10/global-population-collapse-isn-t-sci-fi-anymore-niall-ferguson Sun, 10 Mar 2024 05:00:26 GMT A woman walks past an Evergrande Group residential complex called Evergrande Palace in Beijing on January 29, 2024. A Hong Kong court on January 29 ordered the liquidation of China's property giant Evergrande, but the firm said it would continue to operate in a case that has become a symbol of the nation's deepening economic woes. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP) (Photo by GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-25/ukraine-needs-total-western-support-and-so-does-israel https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-25/ukraine-needs-total-western-support-and-so-does-israel Sun, 25 Feb 2024 05:00:13 GMT Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) speaks to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during their meeting in Jerusalem on January 24, 2020. (Photo by Oded Balilty / various sources / AFP) (Photo by ODED BALILTY/AP/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-11/what-would-america-look-like-if-it-lost-world-war-iii https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-11/what-would-america-look-like-if-it-lost-world-war-iii Sun, 11 Feb 2024 05:00:12 GMT circa 1940: London skyline in the blitz silhouetted by the light of fires. (Photo by London Express/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-01-14/us-has-grown-weak-on-immigration-technology-education-rule-of-law https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-01-14/us-has-grown-weak-on-immigration-technology-education-rule-of-law Sun, 14 Jan 2024 08:00:11 GMT US President Joe Biden (C) flanked by Secretary of State Antony Blinken (3L) and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan (L) sits with unseen Japan's Prime Minister and South Korea's President during a tri-lateral meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit at the Ifema congress centre in Madrid, on June 29, 2022. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-31/on-ukraine-us-and-europe-risk-flunking-geopolitics-101 https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-31/on-ukraine-us-and-europe-risk-flunking-geopolitics-101 Sun, 31 Dec 2023 13:00:11 GMT WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 21: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky receives an American flag from U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Vice President Kamala Harris as he addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on December 21, 2022 in Washington, DC. In his first known trip outside of Ukraine since Russia invaded, Zelensky met with U.S. President Joe Biden and outlined Ukraine's request for continued military aid. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-17/if-you-held-your-bitcoin-and-ethereum-after-ftx-crash-it-s-cryptomas https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-17/if-you-held-your-bitcoin-and-ethereum-after-ftx-crash-it-s-cryptomas Sun, 17 Dec 2023 05:00:05 GMT A novelty bitcoin decoration on a Christmas tree at the Minto cryptocurrency mining center in Nadvoitsy, Russia, on Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. Bitcoin extended its five-week slide from an all-time high with risk sentiment across global financial markets dwindling. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-30/henry-kissinger-was-a-complex-man-for-a-complex-century https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-30/henry-kissinger-was-a-complex-man-for-a-complex-century Thu, 30 Nov 2023 21:29:31 GMT Henry Kissinger and Niall Ferguson at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in November 2019. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-20/xi-biden-summit-in-cold-war-2-against-china-us-may-play-soviet-role https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-20/xi-biden-summit-in-cold-war-2-against-china-us-may-play-soviet-role Mon, 20 Nov 2023 04:00:01 GMT TOPSHOT - US President Joe Biden greets Chinese President Xi Jinping before a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' week in Woodside, California on November 15, 2023. Biden and Xi will try to prevent the superpowers' rivalry spilling into conflict when they meet for the first time in a year at a high-stakes summit in San Francisco on Wednesday. With tensions soaring over issues including Taiwan, sanctions and trade, the leaders of the world's largest economies are expected to hold at least three hours of talks at the Filoli country estate on the city's outskirts. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-06/israel-hamas-latest-middle-east-wars-spur-us-inflation-and-recession https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-06/israel-hamas-latest-middle-east-wars-spur-us-inflation-and-recession Mon, 06 Nov 2023 05:00:18 GMT Drivers queue for fuel at a US petrol station, during the worldwide fuel shortages caused by the oil embargo imposed by the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC), circa 1974. (Photo by Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-22/eu-leaders-must-support-israel-as-well-as-ukraine https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-22/eu-leaders-must-support-israel-as-well-as-ukraine Sun, 22 Oct 2023 04:00:16 GMT LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 23: Demonstrators attend a Pro-Israel demonstration outside the Israeli Embassy on May 23, 2021 in London, England. The demonstration follows a large pro-Palestinian protest in London yesterday, and similar demonstrations in recent weeks, spurred by the fight between Israel and Hamas that erupted on May 10. The two sides reached a ceasefire agreement over the weekend, but activists and diasporic communities around the world remain roiled by the violence that left more than 200 Palestinians and 12 Israelis dead. (Photo by Hollie Adams/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-09/worst-bond-collapse-in-150-years-caused-by-unintended-consequences https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-09/worst-bond-collapse-in-150-years-caused-by-unintended-consequences Mon, 09 Oct 2023 04:00:03 GMT Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, during a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged while signaling borrowing costs will likely stay higher for longer after one more hike this year. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-09-24/ukraine-offensive-against-russia-is-too-slow-for-us-uk-and-eu https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-09-24/ukraine-offensive-against-russia-is-too-slow-for-us-uk-and-eu Sun, 24 Sep 2023 04:00:03 GMT TOPSHOT - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky sings Ukraine's national anthem during a ceremony marking Ukraine's Independence Day, in Kyiv on August 24, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by SERGEI CHUZAVKOV / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI CHUZAVKOV/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-09-10/war-over-taiwan-would-be-a-financial-disaster-for-us-and-china https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-09-10/war-over-taiwan-would-be-a-financial-disaster-for-us-and-china Sun, 10 Sep 2023 04:00:04 GMT BEIJING, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 16: Chinese People's Liberation Army navy soldiers of a guard of honor look at Chinese President Xi Jinping (Front) during a welcoming ceremony for King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain outside the Great Hall of People on September 16, 2013 in Beijing, China. At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain paid a state visit to China from September 14 to 16. (Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-08-27/ai-arms-control-can-keep-the-new-cold-war-from-turning-hot https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-08-27/ai-arms-control-can-keep-the-new-cold-war-from-turning-hot Sun, 27 Aug 2023 12:00:10 GMT LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MAY 04: The Skynet Moto-Terminator from "Terminator Salvation" is seen during the opening of the new exhibit "Hollywood Dream Machines: Vehicles Of Science Fiction And Fantasy" at Petersen Automotive Museum on May 04, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Angela Papuga/Getty Images)