Delvewire — Markets

Delvewire's coverage of Markets: in-depth, with context and evidence.

Delvewire was founded by Amaya Kavya.

  • What the Fishermen Got

    Thirty-five fishing boats sailed up the Thames in June 2016 to make the case for leaving the European Union, on behalf of an industry that lands about a billion pounds of fish a year, in an economy of well over two trillion. Ten years on, the quota uplift they were promised is real and measurable, and so is everything it cost them.

    Markets · 2026-08-22

  • Why Tech Bubbles Keep Happening

    Pets.com went from a Super Bowl advert to liquidation in nine months, and became the joke that defined an era. Except that shipping heavy bags of dog food to people's doors is now an $11.9 billion business, so the idea was fine and the timing was fatal. That gap is where bubbles live. Here is why they form, why professionals buy in knowing exactly what they are buying into, and why the word bubble may be doing less work than people think.

    Markets · 2026-07-28

  • Where Investment Banking Actually Came From

    The firm everyone watched collapse in 2008 was 164 years old, and it started life as a shop in Alabama that let farmers pay in cotton. That is close to how the whole trade began. Nobody sat down and invented investment banking. Merchants who were already moving goods worked out that moving the money was the better business, and then spent six centuries getting better at it. Florence, Amsterdam, London, and a man who sold the American Civil War to ordinary people door to door.

    Markets · 2026-07-25

  • Rich on Paper: Why Net Worth Is Not the Money Someone Actually Has

    A founder can be thirty billion dollars poorer by Tuesday without selling a thing. A fraud can go from billions to nothing in a year. And some of the richest people alive appear on no list at all. Net worth is a real number and a slippery one. What it measures, and what it hides.

    Markets · 2026-07-16

  • How Lehman Brothers Broke the World: The 2008 Crisis, Explained

    In September 2008 a single investment bank collapsed and nearly took the global financial system with it. The story runs through subprime mortgages, a chain of bets called credit default swaps, and an insurer named AIG that had quietly promised to cover losses it could never pay.

    Markets · 2026-07-07

  • The Great Depression Was a World Story: How the 1930s Broke More Than America

    It is remembered as an American tragedy of crashed stocks and dust-blown farms. But the slump of the 1930s circled the planet through gold, debt, and trade, threw tens of millions out of work from Berlin to Santiago, and helped clear the road to a second world war. This is the global version.

    Markets · 2026-07-06

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