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Ben Foldy

ARTICLES BY BEN FOLDY

The Kontigo app lets users exchange hard currency for dollar-pegged stablecoins.

How a Silicon Valley startup became a crypto lifeline for Venezuela

7 min read . 02 Feb 2026

JEREMY LEUNG/WSJ

The Chinese billionaires having dozens of US-born babies via surrogate

15 min read . 14 Dec 2025

The lack of regulation means that parents and surrogates frequently have little legal recourse and dim hopes of recovering lost funds. (Pixabay)

Surrogacy is a multibillion-dollar business. Sometimes the money goes missing.

15 min read . 22 Oct 2025

The Arcadia, Calif., mansion where police found 15 young children. (Photo: Philip Cheung for WSJ)

The mystery of the LA mansion filled with surrogate children

12 min read . 06 Aug 2025

Crypto fortunes fueled their wild parties, then alleged torture. (Pixabay)

The spending binge of two crypto bros that ended behind bars

13 min read . 03 Aug 2025

Gautam Adani at an event in Jaipur, India, in November. Photo: stringer/Reuters

Indian billionaire Gautam Adani comes under new scrutiny from US prosecutors

6 min read . 02 Jun 2025

Nate Anderson plans to share resources and training materials so others can use Hindenburg’s tactics. Photo: Johnny Milano for WSJ

Wall Street’s pre-eminent short seller is calling it quits

3 min read . 16 Jan 2025

(Alexandra Citrin-Safadi/WSJ; iStock)

The art market is tanking. Sotheby’s has even bigger problems.

13 min read . 25 Sept 2024

Donald Trump, a onetime crypto skeptic, has launched a new crypto business with his family. (AFP)

Trump hitches his campaign to the crypto crowd

8 min read . 20 Sept 2024

Tether, a cryptocurrency, has grown into an important cog in the global financial system, with as much as $190 billion changing hands daily. (Reuters)

The shadow dollar that’s fueling the financial underworld

9 min read . 10 Sept 2024

FILE PHOTO: Founder and CEO of Telegram Pavel Durov. February 23, 2016. REUTERS/Albert Gea/File Photo (REUTERS)

How Telegram became criminals’ favorite marketplace

6 min read . 08 Sept 2024

Christian Angermayer, founder of Apeiron Investment Group. (Photo: Bloomberg News)

How a colorful investor profited from a crypto giant’s dealmaking

8 min read . 25 Aug 2024

The suit names Henry Kravis, left, and George Roberts as defendants alongside current KKR co-CEOs, other board members and the company itself. (REUTERS)

KKR founders face suit alleging they got giant payday for no work

4 min read . 06 Aug 2024

Elon Musk and his companies have tried to intimidate critics in the past and, failing that, sought retribution. Leon Neal/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo (via REUTERS)

A legal scholar critiqued Elon Musk’s pay. Now he’s out of a job

4 min read . 16 May 2024

Shipping containers at the Port of Nansha in Guangzhou, China. PHOTO: QILAI SHEN/BLOOMBERG NEWS

Crypto fuels Russian shadow trade for weapons parts

9 min read . 01 Apr 2024

Lee, 33 years old, founded Parallaxes Capital in 2017, creating a fund that seeks to turn TRAs into a new asset class by creating a secondary market for investors.

The Tax Whiz With the Strangest Hustle on Wall Street

5 min read . 01 Jan 2024

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMIL LENDOF/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL; ISTOCK

A Ransomware Gang Wanted Its Victim to Pay Up. So It Went to the SEC.

2 min read . 19 Nov 2023

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMIL LENDOF/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL; ISTOCK

How Risky Is Private Credit? Analysts Are Piecing Together Clues

3 min read . 10 Nov 2023

ILLUSTRATION BY WSJ

Most Popular Cryptocurrency Keeps Showing Up in Illicit Finance

5 min read . 27 Oct 2023

The question of whether Adani executives or family members wield influence over the investment decisions of companies like Opal lies at the heart of allegations by U.S. short seller Hindenburg Research. (AP)

Adani offshore investor has links to Adani family

6 min read . 05 Feb 2023