Bridgewater Associates’ flagship money pool posted record gains, while D.E. Shaw & Co.’s strategies soared as much as 28% to rank among the biggest hedge fund winners of 2025 when tariff-fueled market uncertainty presented a fertile hunting ground for traders.

Michael Saylor has long noted that Bitcoin’s volatility “is a feature, not a bug” when pitching his cryptocurrency accumulator Strategy Inc.

Latham & Watkins expects the brisk pace of deals work to continue in the new year after dethroning Kirkland & Ellis as Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions adviser in 2025.

President Donald Trump’s super political action committee raised $102 million in the second half of 2025, fueled by eight-figure donations from artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency and finance industry figures, a tally that aims to boost Republicans’ efforts to retain control of Congress in crucial elections this year.

Alas, Jesus Christ did not return to Earth in 2025. This might not come as particularly surprising or noteworthy to most people. But for a certain crowd of bettors, it was terrific news.

Cryptocurrency giant Coinbase Global Inc. is ramping up pressure to get California to drop its lawsuit against the company so it can resume its rewards program, which has been paused since 2023.

A panel of economic luminaries said the long-run risk posed by mounting federal debt represented a paramount problem facing the US economy.

This week, experts examined the upcoming tax filing season, Hawaii’s cruise ship tax, and more.

CSX Transportation Inc. convinced the Ohio Board of Tax Appeals on Friday that the state used the wrong methodology to determine the proportion of its sales taxable there to calculate a $9 million commercial activity tax bill.

Hawaii’s environmental tax on cruise ships is on hold pending resolution of a Ninth Circuit appeal from a federal judge’s order allowing the state to collect the tax.

The Trump administration abandoned its appeal to a federal judge’s decision halting government staff cuts stemming from last year’s government shutdown.

A group of New Jersey municipalities that sold tax sale certificates to private parties that later foreclosed on the property didn’t violate the original property owners’ rights under the Fifth Amendment, a federal judge ruled.

An airline trade group, after successfully taking on paid sick time laws in other states, now has its sights set on Michigan.

Texas released its 2026 unemployment insurance tax rates on the Texas Workforce Commission’s website.

Maryland’s unemployment insurance tax rates will continue to be determined using Tax Table A, according to an update on the Labor Department’s website.

Workers provided enough evidence to support their jury victory in a lawsuit alleging five mining companies acted as a single employer and failed to warn them of an impending layoff, an appeals court said Friday.

Alaska released its 2026 unemployment insurance tax rates for employers and employees on the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development website.

An American Airlines Inc. employee failed with her race, sex, national origin, and disability discrimination lawsuit because she became unqualified for her job when she entered a drug diversion program and pleaded guilty to felony possession.

This week, experts examined the upcoming tax filing season, Hawaii’s cruise ship tax, and more.

The 2026 filing season will test taxpayers and practitioners with service shortfalls and evolving compliance requirements. Taxpayers and practitioners who act early will be best positioned to navigate these challenges.

Transfer pricing developments affected many parts of the world this year in the form of litigation and evolving enforcement approaches. Below are several Bloomberg Tax Insights that examined the interaction of transfer pricing and tariff volatility, possible strategies for multinational companies, and how countries scrutinized and regulated transfer pricing in 2025.

More than 250 new restaurants opened in London this year, according to a running list of scheduled debuts by the independent restaurant news site Hot Dinners. Shoreditch has replaced its hipsterish appeal with savory new tenancies by the likes of Legado — a more opulent incarnation of Nieves Barragan’s Sabor just off Regent Street; meanwhile, exhausted spaces in tourist-mobbed Borough Market have been resurrected by projects like Barang, chef Tom Geoffrey’s take on Khmer cuisine. Even much-snubbed South London got Norbert’s, a rapturously good rotisserie chicken haven run by veterans from the city center. In April, The Standard declared that “London has the dining out malarkey just so… the moment’s perfect as it is.”

A year-end retrospective is a chance to look at what ideas endured. Here are some columns from the past year that have held up—not because they were trendy when written, but because they address issues that will still be with us in 2026.

Here are five of our most popular articles on international tax developments that give expert insight for tax professionals.