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Eamon Barrett formerly was Fortune's news editor for Asia, based in Hong Kong, as well as the author of Fortune’s weekly Trust Factor newsletter. While on staff at Fortune, Eamon covered business and tech news in China and Asia at large. He studied Chinese and International Relations at the University of Leeds and has worked as a journalist in Asia since 2015, previously covering Chinese business trends with Week in China, where he also published several guidebooks to Chinese cities.

A line of police armed with sticks stand behind a blockade in Ottawa
PoliticsPepper spray, tow trucks, and Bitcoin seizures: How Canada finally ended the weeks-long Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa
By Eamon BarrettFebruary 21, 2022
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sits at a table, clapping, in February 2022
The LedgerUkraine already trades more crypto than fiat currency. Now assets like Bitcoin are officially legal
By Eamon BarrettFebruary 18, 2022
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin pictured in 2017
The CoinsMorgan Stanley warns Ethereum could lose ground to Binance, Solana, and Cardano, making shift to ‘proof of stake’ even more urgent
By Eamon BarrettFebruary 18, 2022
A closeup of Tesla CEO Elon Musk
FinanceTesla accuses the SEC of trying to ‘chill’ Elon Musk’s right to free speech on Twitter
By Eamon BarrettFebruary 18, 2022
CDC director Rochelle Walensky pictured at a press conference in Washington D.C., on Jan. 11.
HealthThe CDC wants to ‘give people a break’ from wearing masks as the U.S. enters the next phase of the pandemic
By Eamon BarrettFebruary 17, 2022
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett sits next to Vice Chairman Charlie Munger
FinanceEven after Berkshire Hathaway sank $1 billion into crypto-friendly bank, vice chairman Charlie Munger calls coins like Bitcoin a ‘venereal disease’
By Eamon BarrettFebruary 17, 2022
Cars are submerged by flood water under a bridge in New York
NewslettersNew York flooding will get ‘ten times’ worse as sea levels rise, threatening to sink the U.S. financial capital
By Eamon BarrettFebruary 16, 2022
Facebookers are now ‘Metamates’: Mark Zuckerberg rewrites 6 corporate values to reflect metaverse rebrand
TechFacebookers are now ‘Metamates’: Mark Zuckerberg rewrites 6 corporate values to reflect metaverse rebrand
By Eamon BarrettFebruary 16, 2022
People walk by a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT billboard in Times Square on January 25, 2022 in New York City.
TechFans accuse Chinese NFT collection of copying Bored Ape Yacht Club, but its creator says the resemblance is a coincidence
By Eamon BarrettFebruary 15, 2022
Trucks and tractors blockade the U.S.-Canada border crossing during a demonstration in Emerson, Manitoba, Canada, on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022.
PoliticsPolice cleared Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters from the Ambassador Bridge, but truckers in Ottawa won’t budge
By Eamon BarrettFebruary 14, 2022
A Polestar 2 electric vehicle (EV) during the Washington Auto Show in Washington, D.C.
Polestar’s debut Super Bowl ad attacks Elon Musk, but one big disadvantage puts the Chinese EV brand far behind Tesla
By Eamon BarrettFebruary 14, 2022
A person makes a purchase using China's digital currency, the e-CNY, in Beijing
FinanceVisa had a monopoly on payments at the Olympics for 36 years. China put an end to that
By Eamon BarrettFebruary 11, 2022
Truckers protesting COVID restrictions
HealthWhy Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’ truckers, whose protest has blocked trade with the U.S., can’t just be towed away
By Eamon BarrettFebruary 10, 2022
How Elon Musk’s SpaceX lost 40 Starlink satellites—reportedly worth as much as $20 million—all at once
TechHow Elon Musk’s SpaceX lost 40 Starlink satellites—reportedly worth as much as $20 million—all at once
By Eamon BarrettFebruary 10, 2022
The Bitfinex logo
TechWho is the ‘Crocodile of Wall Street’? A ‘rapper’ charged with laundering $4.5 billion in stolen Bitcoin is baffling the internet
By Eamon BarrettFebruary 9, 2022
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