Bernhard Warner

Bernhard Warner is a former senior writer at Fortune. He wrote the weekly Breakthrough column, a probing look at the latest innovations addressing the world’s biggest challenges. He also served as co-chair of Fortune’s Global Forum. For several years, he served as a Reuters correspondent covering the Internet, technology, and media industries, and he has written for the Guardian’s Long Read, The Atlantic, Slate’s The Big Money, Bloomberg Businessweek, Wired, and Inc. He also co-produced two short, award-winning documentary films—one of which, Maisha, about child miners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was screened at the United Nations. Earlier in his career, he chronicled the rise and fall of the first dotcom boom for Adweek and the Industry Standard. He is based in Rome.

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Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), during a panel session on day three of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, May 25, 2022. The annual Davos gathering of political leaders, top executives and celebrities runs from May 22 to 26. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Finance

Europe’s had 8 years of negative interest rates and paltry growth. Now it’s being forced to raise rates—and there’s still no growth

By Bernhard Warner

Rob Ferl and Anna Lisa Paul look at plates. Courtesy of Tyler Jones, UF/IFAS

Environment

‘Greenhouses on the moon:’ After growing plants in lunar soil, scientists see huge implications for crops in outer space—and on Earth

By Bernhard Warner

The Macy’s flagship store in the Herald Square area of New York, on April 13, 2022.

Newsletters

The $1 trillion crypto collapse is crippling digital coin bulls. But the rest of us will hardly notice, says Goldman Sachs

By Bernhard Warner

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 18: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on May 18, 2022 in New York City. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell over 1000 points as markets continue their volatile trend. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

The S&P 500 is poised to enter bear market territory today after Wednesday’s brutal 4% selloff

By Bernhard Warner

BALI, INDONESIA – JANUARY 27 : A woman with two boys stand on some wood which is covered by plastic trash brought in by the strong waves during the northwest monsoon season at Jimbaran beach on January 27, 2021 in Jimbaran, Bali, Indonesia. In Bali, famed among tourists for its beaches and sunsets, the northwest monsoon brings a different kind of arrival – vast amounts of plastic waste. From December to March, so much trash washes up on the beaches that the local government struggles to keep up and clean up. Locals and workers have together been collecting 80 tonnes of waste a day as it washes ashore at world-famous beaches from Seminyak to Kuta, the local government said. Almost 75 percent of it is plastic, according to a study by the Center of Remote Sensing and Ocean Sciences at Bali’s Udayana University. In the absence of tourism due to Covid-19, the trash problem has become obvious on beaches almost entirely devoid of visitors. Indonesia is part of the U.N.’s Clean Seas campaign, which aims to halt the tide of plastic trash polluting the oceans. As part of its commitment, the government has vowed to reduce marine plastic waste by 70 percent by 2025. (Photo by Agung Parameswara/Getty Images)

Ships that turn plastic waste into green fuel may be the only way to save oceans from country-sized garbage patches. A new venture believes it’s invented one

By Bernhard Warner

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 05: Traders work the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on May 05, 2022 in New York City. Stocks opened lower this morning after closing high on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve announced an interest-rate hike by half a percentage point in an effort to further lower inflation. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Bank of America is pushing a surprising new set of FAANG stocks to beat the bear market after yesterday’s $1.3 trillion wipeout

By Bernhard Warner

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 21: Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a luncheon at the 2022 NABE Economic Policy Conference at the Ritz-Carlton on March 21, 2022 in Washington, DC. The Federal Reserve raised interest rates a quarter of a percentage point last week for the first time since 2018 in an attempt to combat rising inflation. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Fed decision day rattles markets as investors worry that a giant ‘once-in-a-generation’ rate hike will actually be one of several this year

By Bernhard Warner

Ukrainian refugees and their children at the Medyka border crossing in Medyka, Poland, on Friday, March 18, 2022. The number of refugees reaching Poland from Ukraine now exceeds 2 million, mostly women with children, Polish border authorities said. Photographer: Angel Garcia/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Tech

Data scientists are using the most annoying feature on your phones to save lives in Ukraine

By Bernhard Warner

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Europe’s had 8 years of negative interest rates and paltry growth. Now it’s being forced to raise rates—and there’s still no growth

‘Greenhouses on the moon:’ After growing plants in lunar soil, scientists see huge implications for crops in outer space—and on Earth

How historically bad is inflation? Here’s what to look for in this week’s big CPI report

What happens when a car company with a checkered record on the environment hires a climate scientist

War and record food prices are making edible insects more tempting to farmers—and investors

Goldman Sachs and Bank of America have very different calls for when stocks will hit bottom

The $1 trillion crypto collapse is crippling digital coin bulls. But the rest of us will hardly notice, says Goldman Sachs

The S&P 500 is poised to enter bear market territory today after Wednesday’s brutal 4% selloff

Ships that turn plastic waste into green fuel may be the only way to save oceans from country-sized garbage patches. A new venture believes it’s invented one

Goldman Sachs calculates a worst-case recession forecast as investors dump stocks and crypto

Investors are betting that today’s inflation report will show the worst is behind us

The race is on to build the world’s tallest wooden skyscraper—and re-imagine the urban skyline

Bank of America is pushing a surprising new set of FAANG stocks to beat the bear market after yesterday’s $1.3 trillion wipeout

Fed decision day rattles markets as investors worry that a giant ‘once-in-a-generation’ rate hike will actually be one of several this year

Data scientists are using the most annoying feature on your phones to save lives in Ukraine