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If you’re carrying some bitcoin in your virtual wallet, you probably already know this, but 2024 has been a pretty good year for cryptocurrencies. The value of the market has now soared to US$2.6 trillion, three times what it was worth at the start of 2023.
Financial technology expert Andrew Urquhart explains that this is partly thanks to U.S. regulators, who recently approved a new trading vehicle that makes it easier for mainstream investors to get involved.
And while predicting prices in such a volatile market is notoriously difficult, there are other factors at play that have led analysts to expect crypto will reach even greater heights in the months ahead.
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Steven Vass
Business + Economy Editor, The Conversation U.K.
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Andrew Urquhart, University of Reading
Often dismissed as a libertarian ponzi scheme, why has crypto bounced back yet again?
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Economics
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Conor O'Kane, Bournemouth University
Championed by Thatcher, Reagan and Elon Musk, there’s a marked tendency to reduce Hayek to less than the sum of his parts.
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Business
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Omar H. Fares, Toronto Metropolitan University
Although Wendy’s won’t be exploring dynamic pricing until 2025 at the earliest, this type of pricing strategy is nothing new for many industries.
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Leadership
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Gregory Harper, Torrens University Australia; Ros Cameron, Torrens University Australia
Every done leadership training for work, come back to the office and thought: ‘That was a huge waste of time’?
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Work
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Nazanin Andalibi, University of Michigan
Loss of privacy is just the beginning. Workers are worried about biased AI and the need to perform the ‘right’ expressions and body language for the algorithms.
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Health
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Ana Santos Rutschman, Villanova School of Law
An inhaler that costs nearly $300 in the US goes for just $9 in Germany. What gives?
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Giving
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Susan Appe, University at Albany, State University of New York
Mexican groups are the most common, but immigrants from Turkey, Bolivia and many more countries have formed their own.
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Housing
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Ameeta Jain, Deakin University
Australia builds only 45,000 new homes per quarter. If we really want to fix the rent crisis we’ll have to build more.
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