More Money For Coup Groups From US Agency For International Development By Nan McCurdy, AFGJ.org. November 18, 2020 More Money For Coup Groups From US Agency For International Development2020-11-182020-11-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/nicacoup.jpg200px200px Above photo: Right wingers supporting the coup attempt. Reuters. Organizations that led the coup attempt in 2018 against the constitutional government of President Daniel Ortega, continue to receive foreign funding from the United States and some European […]
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By Sajjad Shaukat Pak VT For years, India has been lobbying the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an international watchdog, to blacklist Pakistan, accusing Islamabad of using the banking system to sponsor terrorism. Pakistan has been on the grey list of the FATF since June 2018. In this regard, some Western countries and particularly India have been calling on Islamabad to take action against the terror […]
Describing the reveal regarding the Biden family’s alleged activities, Stear called it “the biggest political story” of his lifetime. Following the emergence of media reports about Joe Biden’s alleged involvement in the business dealings of his son Hunter during Obama’s presidency, US commentator Christopher Stear recently drew comparisons between the Biden family and a fictional mafia clan from a certain HBO series. While speaking to Sky […]
As well as making cryptocurrency transactions, the man is alleged to have bought luxury cars and property to launder funds. Source link
The New York Times, whose article last month on Donald Trump’s tax filings set off a firestorm of accusations, now says there’s no evidence the president owes money to Russia, and any suggestions otherwise are conspiracy theories. David Enrich, the newspaper’s business investigations editor, detailed in an article Tuesday some of the rumors that have been lobbed around by Democrats since the Times reported that Trump […]
Ten years ago, humanity wrestled with a generational crisis named COVID-19. In the wake of the pandemic and its cataclysmic fallout, seismic changes occurred and a wellspring of ideas burst forth. The weaknesses of our society laid bare, people were freed to think differently about the social contract. Conversations around the function of money and who controlled its minting began, triggered by the unprecedented money printing […]
Payments company Square’s announcement that it would put some $50 million, or 1% of its assets, into bitcoin has touched off speculation that more corporations might do the same. Jack Dorsey, the Twitter CEO who also helms Square, is a longtime bitcoin bull, so it wasn’t a huge surprise his company would put some of its corporate liquidity into the cryptocurrency. He’s following the path of MicroStrategy […]
The Money Reimagined Podcast After reading this newsletter, make sure you check out the latest edition of our podcast. This week, Sheila Warren and I talk to Hyperledger Executive Director Brian Behlendorf about self-sovereign identity, the topic of the column below. A developer whose three-decade career has seen him deeply involved in efforts to foster a more open internet, Brian grasps, like few others, the nuances […]
Missile Defense Has Bipartisan Support Even Though It Wastes Money By Subrata Ghoshroy, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. October 6, 2020 Missile Defense Has Bipartisan Support Even Though It Wastes Money2020-10-062020-10-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/missile-e1602009277137.jpg200px200px Above photo: The Nike Zeus antiballistic missile system, developed in the 1950s and 1960s, was designed to defend against a Soviet nuclear attack against the US mainland. It was never deployed. Public domain. The program to […]
In the year 2030, if we do this right, money, the foundation of our economy and civilization will be unrecognizable. As a society we have grown so accustomed to the status quo of today’s money – fiat currencies issued and controlled by governments and central banks – that we forget money periodically goes through a great upheaval. We are on the brink of one of these […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/03/1080652941_0:0:2500:1408_1200x675_80_0_0_e4a06f45827b69f733adba89c290b4f0.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/society/202010031080652976-sex-pistols-star-lauds-trumps-ability-to-put-money-in-peoples-pockets-as-potus-gets-covid-19/ Having described how Trump’s actions affect the situation in the United States, Lyndon remarked that he doesn’t care “how many scandals” the POTUS is “involved with”. John Lydon, famous English musician and Sex Pistols’ lead singer, recently offered a positive assessment of Donald Trump’s conduct as President of the United States, the Daily Mail reports. According to the newspaper, […]
Undercover videos published by Project Veritas over the weekend allege, citing a Somali political operative, that special ballot harvesters were hired in the community in July for the Democrats to take advantage of elderly and other vulnerable community members. The politicians named in the allegations have denied them. Minneapolis police have started investigating reports of voter fraud after an undercover video emerged allegedly featuring associates of […]
Donald Trump is looting America! pic.twitter.com/ZuQUw7956U — MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) September 28, 2020 Trump is a fraud #TrumpTaxReturns pic.twitter.com/AOhJeQqYbt — MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) September 28, 2020 Looks like @IvankaTrump will be going to jail for a very long time. #ByeIvanka pic.twitter.com/W4aG9BPacW — MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) September 28, 2020 https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1310591272957087744?s=20 VT Editors is a General Posting account managed by Jim W. Dean and Gordon Duff. All content herein is owned […]
Before we get into this week’s column, an announcement, one I’m super excited about. Today, we’re simultaneously launching a new podcast under the same name as this newsletter: CoinDesk’s Money Reimagined. Like the newsletter, it’s a conversation around the technological, political and social forces reshaping our financial system. For each show, I’ll be joined by the tremendous Sheila Warren, blockchain lead at the World Economic Forum, […]
https://www.bitchute.com/video/9pUq3FXLaifk/ Dr. David Martin founded M·CAM® in 1998 and has served as its CEO and Chairman since that time. M·CAM® has been an international intangible asset underwriter and analyst firm spanning work in innovation finance, trade, and intangible asset finance. Dr. Martin is the developer of several innovation-based quantitative indices of public equities and is the Founder of the Purple Bridge Funds. He managed the […]
The massive leak of suspicious activity reports shows how banks let the government know about likely money laundering, then go right on providing services. The FinCEN Files are a leaked cache of suspicious activity reports filed by banks with the U.S .Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. The more than 2,000 files, representing $2 trillion in transactions, were leaked to BuzzFeed News more than a year ago. BuzzFeed, […]
BITCHUTE (STEELE CENSORED BY YOUTUBE: https://www.bitchute.com/video/JLPB88zjwi8g/ Connect with Robert at https://robertdavidsteele.com See the tag cloud and free online chapters at https://pedoempire.org Study Wall Street crime at https://stopnakedshortselling.org Robert David Steele is the conceptualizer of integrated election reform (#UNRIG) and the integration of holistic analytics, true cost economics, and Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) such that we can achieve a prosperous world at peace at 10-20% the […]
Haunting red skies, a mounting death toll and a giant swath of smoldering devastation across 12 western U.S. states compels us to talk this week about climate change and what it means for the cryptocurrency industry. Because, whether you like it or not, both of those things are not going away. Sadly, the overlap between people working in crypto and people working to contain climate change […]
YouTube The people behind the Guinness World Records used to make money by, well, selling books. But with the rise of the Internet came a decline in book sales, and so they had to create a new business model — selling publicity. This is the story of how Guinness (yeah, like the brewery) got into the business of record-breaking, and how one Planet Money intern broke […]
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For Australians of my generation, historian Geoffrey Blainey’s phrase the “tyranny of distance” was the defining descriptor of our place in the world, a place that seemed awfully far from everyone else. In September of 2020, with hundreds of millions of broadband-connected homes using global video-conferencing services like Zoom and with remote work the norm for white-collar workers everywhere, we might believe distance is now a […]
Hedge fund manager Arca is stepping up its campaign to overhaul Gnosis, claiming the decentralized exchange and prediction market platform has deviated from its original mission. The post describes Gnosis’ $12.5 million 2017 token sale (which valued the project at $300 million) as an “interest-free loan.” After borrowing the money, the team “failed to deliver the products laid out in its fundraising whitepaper,” Arca contends. The […]
Whether the U.S. government likes it or not, the world is demanding crypto-dollars and the private market is ready to supply them. In it, Carter argues that rather than fight the tide, the U.S. government should accept and take advantage of its unique position in the emerging world of global crypto monies. Source link
US’ Theft Of Syrian Oil Has Very Little To Do With Money By Steven Chovanec, Mintpress News. September 4, 2020 US’ Theft Of Syrian Oil Has Very Little To Do With Money2020-09-042020-09-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/ap_19299638952988_edited-e1599260361586.jpg200px200px Above photo: A US military convoy drives the he town of Qamishli, north Syria, by a poster showing Syrain President Bashar Aassad, Oct. 26. 2019.Baderkhan Ahmad | AP. To Capture and Subdue. Years of US […]
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Most people would be happy to have World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s wealth, which is reportedly somewhere between $10 million and $60 million. Yet, Berners-Lee’s net worth pales into insignificance against that of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who last week became the first person ever to be worth more than $200 billion. There’s something wrong with this picture. The inventor of an information system […]
Discover, one of the largest US credit card issuers, has blocked donations to GiveSendGo, a crowdfunding site where supporters of Kenosha, Wisconsin, shooter Kyle Rittenhouse have raised nearly $400,000 for his legal defense. The financial services company said it terminated payments to GiveSendGo for violating its operating regulations, Forbes reported Thursday. Discover declined to say what regulations the Christian fund-raising site violated, saying it “makes no […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/03/1080360670_0:0:1201:676_1200x675_80_0_0_408e5812b5a8a4f38e9d7146ee3c6cdb.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202009031080360701-teamwork-makes-the-dream-work-smart-ape-helps-human-friend/ We all need a little bit of help from our friends sometimes. Luckily, our animal pals are there to lend a helping hand on occasion. Footage shared on Twitter captures a chimpanzee and his human friend out on a stroll, walking hand-in-hand as the primate leads the way forward. When it is time for them to climb up to […]
Frances Coppola, a CoinDesk columnist, is a freelance writer and speaker on banking, finance and economics. Her book “The Case for People’s Quantitative Easing” explains how modern money creation and quantitative easing work, and advocates “helicopter money” to help economies out of recession. The Federal Reserve has just announced a change to its inflation targeting regime. Instead of shooting to hit 2% every year, it will […]
The Financial Conduct Authority is seeking to oblige more firms, including some working with cryptocurrency, to report how they manage the risks of financial crime. Source link
On a late afternoon in March, a large military aircraft bearing the Russian Federation insignia descended into John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Its mission: to deliver personal protective equipment and ventilators to nearby hospitals scrambling to treat patients during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Andrew Cuomo had pleaded for weeks with the federal government for additional resources, particularly ventilators, to […]
Kuwait is running out of money for the salaries of public servants and will have no money to cover these after November, the country’s finance minister told parliament. Unless oil prices rise, the money being used now, withdrawals from the General Reserve Fund, will simply be depleted, Middle East Monitor reports, citing the official, Barak Al-Sheeran. Kuwait’s budget deficit hit $18.44 billion in fiscal 2019-2020, which […]
To foretell the future of decentralized finance (DeFi), the exploding new field in which decentralized governance protocols set and execute the terms for lending, borrowing and stablecoin issuance, one should look to the past. Specifically, look to Wall Street’s past. By some measures, DeFi is nothing new. It extends a four-decade cycle of ever-more sophisticated financial engineering – from junk bond financing to collateralized debt obligations […]
Federal prosecutors allege Uber’s former head of security organized a cover-up of a massive data breach. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Federal prosecutors allege Uber’s former head of security organized a cover-up of a massive data breach. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Federal prosecutors have charged Uber’s former chief security officer with covering up a massive 2016 data breach by arranging a $100,000 […]
Price Point Bitcoin traded slightly higher early Thursday at $11,772 after falling for two straight days. The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization has declined 1.3% this week as the U.S. dollar strengthened in foreign exchange markets. The greenback gained support Wednesday as the Federal Reserve said it wasn’t immediately planning to implement a “yield curve control” program that probably would have brought an accelerated pace of […]
Beware scammers. Legitimate contact tracers will never ask you for any sort of payment or seek other financial information or your Social Security number. Karl Tapales/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Karl Tapales/Getty Images Beware scammers. Legitimate contact tracers will never ask you for any sort of payment or seek other financial information or your Social Security number. Karl Tapales/Getty Images State officials and federal agencies […]
Texas regulators ordered MTI to cease and desist in July, alleging it was a crypto fraud. Source link
Price Point It’s been two steps forward, one step back for bitcoin (BTC) over the past couple months. Prices were down early Wednesday for a second straight day after pushing earlier this week past $12,000 to a new 2020 high. The price move accelerated as traders got hit with margin calls on the BitMEX exchange. You’re reading First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily markets newsletter. Assembled by the CoinDesk Markets Team, First […]
By recycling used or old rocket engines, the US Army has found a way to save up to half the money it would have spent on test rockets. After US Army rockets finish their useful lives, an increasing number of them are being given a second life – but it is an unnatural life, one in which their sole purpose is to be killed for practice. […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): The Indian government earlier placed absolute restrictions across the country to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. An unintended effect of this survival strategy has been a reported spike in loneliness and depression, with 43 percent of Indians claimed to be suffering, according to smart-tech healthcare platform GOQii. Banking on easy mode payments like Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, drug traffickers from Europe […]
A former vice president of a top Chinese bank has argued that digital currency should replace fiat in the nation’s financial systems. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups. […]
Neural Capital, a hedge fund that traded cryptocurrency assets, has quietly shuttered. The fund’s managers, Arij “Ari” Nazir and Christopher Keshian, were new to the hedge fund industry and involved in more than one fund when they started Neural Capital. Keshian told CoinDesk he has not kept in touch with Nazir since parting from Neural Capital. “Right now, I’m working on a project that is still […]
Michael Casey is on vacation this week. The following essay was written by Marc Hochstein, CoinDesk’s Executive Editor. Once I pried into a stranger’s affairs for no good reason at all. This happened almost 20 years ago, but the story offers an important lesson for those shaping the future of money today. My wife took a work trip to another city and I tagged along for fun. […]
Matt Luongo is the CEO of Thesis, a cryptocurrency venture production studio. Thesis’ first two products are Fold, a consumer payment app, and Keep, a privacy layer for public blockchains. He’s also a contributor to tBTC, which lets bitcoin holders access DeFi on Ethereum. Millennials are now the largest generation in the U.S. workforce. As we increasingly drive the world’s major economic, technological and social trends, […]
Which one is the centrally managed police state? Which one is the pro-innovation jurisdiction embracing open-source technologies and decentralized governance networks? OK. I’m being a tad facetious. The reality is Chinese President Xi Jinping has severely concentrated power. In general, his government, with its Hong Kong crackdown and Uighur detention camps, has encroached upon people’s freedoms more than at any time since Mao Zedong’s rule. Also, […]
Bitcoin is a form of “money” covered under the Washington, D.C., Money Transmitters Act, a federal court said Friday, Bloomberg reported Update (July 24, 17:13 UTC): This article has been updated with a comment from Coin Center. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent […]
The Czech National Bank’s Tomas Holub said in an interview that central bank digital currencies raise more questions than answers right now. Source link
The OCC will allow banks to custody crypto, Visa has a digital currency playbook and a digital dollar is essential to America’s economic edge, said experts at a U.S. Senate hearing. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain and crypto news, and why they’re significant. You can subscribe to this and all of CoinDesk’s newsletters here. Top shelf Digital Dollar HegemonyThe U.S. […]
A perfect storm of grievances has enveloped Israel just as a second coronavirus lockdown appears inevitable and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems close to losing control of his government. Protests were held in more than 200 cities and highway junctions all across Israel on Saturday night, and on Sunday, Netanyahu said money from the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was funding the mounting demonstrations. Hard-liner Netanyahu heads […]
The US’ biggest bank, JPMorgan Chase, together with other lenders, managed to take a big slice of the coronavirus relief program pie through fees, while reporting record quarterly profits. Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss how the banks managed to get such a large cut of the funds, having made a fortune in the last financial crisis after the government bailed them out. Keiser, a former […]
No, blockchain does not fix this. By “this” I don’t mean centrally controlled databases that are vulnerable to attack, the problem highlighted by this week’s massive Twitter hack. I mean the meta problem of yet more bad publicity, with the word “bitcoin” again associated with fraud and unsavory behavior, a picture that cryptocurrency advocates will again struggle to avoid. That problem will indirectly but greatly contribute […]
While the crypto wallets associated with the scam registered over 400 transactions, the attackers seem to have made away with a relatively small haul. Source link
Mondaire Jones’ bid to succeed a powerful House Democrat in New York has him on the cusp of progressive stardom. But while he runs a campaign on pledges to combat corruption and the influence of money in politics, Jones’ team has also quietly and adeptly sidestepped major campaign-finance rules. Jones, a lawyer and activist affiliated with the progresive Working Families Party, was officially declared the winner […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202007121079862628-baghdad-asks-berlin-to-help-with-removal-from-eus-money-laundering-blacklist/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein has requested his German counterpart to help remove the Middle eastern nation from the European Union’s list of countries with suspected loopholes in anti-money laundering and counter-terror financing regulations. “Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein called on his German counterpart to provide support in removing Iraq from the list of countries with a […]
On Monday, the US government published a list of small business and nonprofit organisations which had earlier received loans under the Paycheck Protection Programme as a part of the Trump administration’s coronavirus relief act. The names of some of these beneficiaries turned out to be quite surprising to the public. Three branches of the Church of Scientology became recipients of small businesses forgivable loans allocated through […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): On Saturday, Bharatiya Janata President JP Nadda had accused Sonia Gandhi and family of conniving with China by receiving funds from the country for the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation. Allegations had come amidst the attack on Modi Government by Opposition over stand-off with China. The Indian government has set a high level committee, headed by the special director of the Enforcement Directorate, India’s economic […]
Konstantin Ignatov has again had his sentencing date adjourned while he continues to cooperate with U. prosecutors. Source link
A new decentralized finance (DeFi) “money Lego” will allow app developers to make it possible for users to automate their transactions. Called Gelato, the protocol moved from alpha to a live and audited v1 on Ethereum’s mainnet on July 3. And, according to a blog post shared early with CoinDesk, decentralized exchange (DEX) Gnosis will be the first major platform to integrate Gelato, allowing users to […]
Trump Used Looted Venezuelan Public Money To Build Border Wall By Ben Norton, The Grayzone. July 3, 2020 Trump Used Looted Venezuelan Public Money To Build Border Wall2020-07-032020-07-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/trump-and-guaido-at-the-white-house.-from-reuters.-e1590420691625.jpg200px200px Above photo: President Donald Trump raising his thumb during his meeting with Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido at the White House in Washington, DC. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters. An estimated $24 billion of Venezuelan public money has been looted. The Trump […]
The Washington Redskins’ lead sponsor, FedEx, has apparently caved to corporate pressure, asking the football team to change its name after a group of investment firms and shareholders urged major funders to sever ties. FedEx, which holds rights to the team’s stadium, formally requested the Redskins to ditch their name on Thursday, days after a group of 87 investment firms and shareholders, collectively worth some $620 […]
As Chinese police step up efforts to crack down on illegal economic activities, crypto over-the-counter (OTC) traders are being detained to assist investigations. In another sign Chinese law enforcement are targeting cryptocurrency trading, Zhao Dong – a prominent Chinese crypto OTC trader and the co-founder of crypto lending platform RenrenBit – has been held up by police in the city of Hangzhou. A rumor that Zhao […]
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted the founder of “AML Bitcoin” on money laundering and wire fraud charges. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also filed charges, alleging the AML Bitcoin team violated federal securities laws. According to a court filing dated June 22, Texas resident Rowland Marcus Andrade, the founder of the NAC Foundation, allegedly raised funds by conducting an initial coin offering […]
For the hundreds of thousands of Facebook users who have been targeted by ads from the Keep America Great Committee, the group probably appears to be just another pro-Trump super PAC. Indeed, its ads, and the donation pages to which they link, look like they are from the Trump campaign itself. That’s because the vast majority of them are from the Trump campaign. The Keep America […]
As the number of bitcoin ATMs soars, one crypto analytics firm suggests they are increasingly being used to sidestep anti-money laundering (AML) controls. In its Spring report, published earlier this month, analytics company CipherTrace found bitcoin ATMs were frequently used to send funds to “high-risk exchanges” – trading platforms the company considers to be known for facilitating criminal activity and money laundering. “The percentage of funds […]
Platinum records are coming to cryptocurrency with a new integration between rapper Ja Rule and social currency startup Roll. Announced Tuesday, Billboard Hot 100 artist Ja Rule has inked a deal with Roll, an Ethereum-based protocol that allows content creators to control their own platforms using cryptocurrency’s native digital scarcity. “I’ve been following Roll and blockchain technology for a while actually on the sidelines,” Ja Rule […]
An oil and commodities expert breaks down how the shale revolution reshaped global energy power and why oil went below $0 earlier this year. Today on the Brief: PayPal and Venmo reportedly adding crypto buying and selling Trump executive order temporarily suspends H1-B visa program Continued growth in bitcoin derivatives Our main conversation: Tracy Shuchart is an oil- and commodities-focused trader in the private equity space known for […]
The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Recently the hosts of the Let’s Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss the big picture problems facing our world which make things like Bitcoin distinctly appealing despite many inefficiencies when compared to traditional, centralized money systems. Listen/subscribe to the CoinDesk Podcast feed for unique perspectives and fresh daily insight with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica, IHeartRadio or RSS. The episode is sponsored by eToro.com and The Internet […]
Whether or not the Federal Reserve eventually cuts interest rates to negative levels, it might be a case of heads: bitcoin wins, tails: bitcoin wins. So far this year, the Fed has created about $3 trillion of new money, an amount equivalent to more than 70% of the total assets created since its founding in 1913. The question now is what the Fed will do next […]
Digital asset storage and transaction firm Fireblocks will start tracking cryptocurrency transactions to help enterprise clients align with anti-money laundering (AML) best practices. Announced Monday, the Fidelity-backed company is integrating with a tracing tool from crypto forensics firm Chainalysis to ensure that crypto assets transferred to or form the platform are not in conflict with AML regulations. Fireblock’s platform will leverage Chainalysis’ Know Your Transaction (KYT) […]
This week, the wildest, most nonsensical, volatile part of the market wasn’t bitcoin, but the “Robinhood Rally” in equities. The stock market has long been disconnected from the underlying economy, but much of what happened this week – particularly the pumping of bankrupt company stocks – suggests that something new is afoot. In this episode, NLW breaks down three long-term trends suggested by the so-called Robinhood Rally, […]
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Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe announced Wednesday afternoon that he will be exposing where Antifa money is coming from. The footage exposing Antifa money will be released Thursday. “They name names,” O’Keefe said. Tomorrow @Project_Veritas will expose where the ANTIFA/RefuseFa money is coming from…in their own words… THEY NAME NAMES. Stay tuned…#DarkMoneyExposed pic.twitter.com/SD0Qype2FN — James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) June 10, 2020 TRENDING: Antifa Releases List of Demands […]
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Federal Reserve officials see U.S. inflation as likely to stay below 2% over the next three years, based on a new summary of economic predictions released Wednesday by the central bank. Prices for personal consumption expenditures are expected to climb just 1% this year, down from a December projection of 1.9%, according to the document. Inflation will average 1.5% next year and 1.7% in 2022, the officials […]
Editor’s note: This is an excerpt of Planet Money‘s newsletter. You can sign up here. In summer of 1967, African Americans protested, marched, and rioted in cities across the country. The unrest convinced President Lyndon Johnson to set up the Kerner Commission, which spent about six months doing research, visiting slums, and holding hearings. In 1968, they published a provocative report that civil rights leader Jesse […]
New York will be shifting funds from the police to youth groups as part of reforms, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced, saying the Big Apple’s citizens “need to be reached, not policed.” “We committed to move resources from the NYPD to youth and social services as part of our City’s budget,” de Blasio wrote on Twitter amid ongoing violent protests in New York and many other […]
A New York Times opinion piece suggests the only true way to alleviate white guilt is to cut off family and friends unless they support anti-racism causes, either through protest or financial contributions. Author Chris Sanders is not happy about white people he knows texting him about the current unrest in the nation amidst the ongoing protests over the death of George Floyd. After ranting about […]
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) moved Friday to freeze the assets of a cryptocurrency mining and multilevel marketing scheme that it claimed bilked investors of $12 million. Unsealing its complaint against Utah resident Daniel F. Putnam, his businesses MMT Distributions and R & D Global and associates Angel A. Rodriguez of Utah and Jean Paul Ramirez Rico of Colombia, the SEC claimed the three […]
California DA’s Call For Ban On Police Union Money In Elections Of Prosecutors By Eliyahu Kamisher, The Appeal. June 5, 2020 California DA’s Call For Ban On Police Union Money In Elections Of Prosecutors2020-06-052020-06-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/11/stop-killings-by-police-protest.-credit-william-widmer-of-the-ny-times-from-eyevine-e1591363213750.jpg200px200px Above photo: Stop killings by police protest. William Widmer of the NY Times from Eyevine. San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and others say the money creates ethical conflicts when police are prosecuted for misconduct. […]
Garcetti Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti announced the city will be cutting approximately $150 million from the police department and transferring the funds to communities of color. What could possibly go wrong? Downtown Los Angeles has been under siege for the last several days from rioters and looters. But Garcetti and city council officials claim cutting funding to the police department will help end racism. TRENDING: WTH? […]
We were meeting to talk about his recent lay-off, but as my client Jim* fought back tears, I knew we needed to talk about his dad. His dad had always been a tough cookie, dedicated to his family but not necessarily understanding of his dreamer son. Now that Jim (not his real name) had lost his job, it wasn’t just hard to look at the numbers […]
Doctors Demand Hospital Industry Stop Funding Dark Money Lobby Group By Jake Johnson, Commondreams. May 29, 2020 Doctors Demand Hospital Industry Stop Funding Dark Money Lobby Group2020-05-292020-05-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/ny-nurses-protest-for-patiens-over-profits-e1590761599424.jpg200px200px Above photo: New York City nurses and other hospital professionals protest dangerous working conditions and a change in sick leave policies during the Covid-19 pandemic on April 17, 2020. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images. Battle Covid-19, Not Blocking Medicare for All. […]
As the economic dimension of the COVID-19 crisis comes into clearer view, what have we learned about the battle for the future of money? Does the dollar reign supreme? Are within-the-system competitors like the euro or China’s digital yuan gaining ground? Does an outside the system alternative like bitcoin stand a chance? Over the last month, the “Money Reimagined” series has looked at the battle for […]
This article was published originally by PassBlue, a partner of The Daily Beast which provides independent coverage of the United Nations. It was written by Irwin Arieff. A year ago, Kelly Craft was serving as Washington’s frequently absent ambassador to Canada, soon to be en route to the United Nations. Her spouse, the coal baron Joseph Craft III, was knee-deep in a Trump administration assault on federal rules aimed […]
It was a provocative way to start the biggest cryptocurrency and blockchain event of the year. In the opening session of Consensus: Distributed this week, Lawrence Summers was asked by my co-host Naomi Brockwell about protecting people’s privacy once currencies go digital. His answer: “I think the problems we have now with money involve too much privacy.” President Clinton’s former Treasury secretary, now President Emeritus at […]
Digital asset services firm Bequant launched a prime brokerage service for institutional clients to have easier access to liquidity, custody, lending and other products, the company announced Thursday. With several services and pools of liquidity under one roof, Bequant is able to help institutional clients trade and expand their portfolios while keeping transaction costs low. Additional services include collateral management tools, smart order routing, leveraged trade […]
Philippines delays the purchase of AH-1Z Viper or AH-64E Apache attack helicopters offered by the United States under the two Foreign Military Sales (FMS) package, according to INQUIRER.net. Philippine’s Defense Minister Delfin Lorenzana also said that the American offers are too expensive for the country. “The money allotted to buy attack helicopters is only P13 billion ($256 million),” he said. Also, the minister stressed that if […]
Aid groups are frustrated by a new restriction on using U.S. funds to buy personal protective equipment like masks and gloves. The U.S. says it’s a way to ensure there’s enough PPE for domestic use. (Image credit: Xinzheng/Getty Images) Source link
Charts tracking the price of bitcoin dominate six buzzing monitors in the third-floor office of a rotting, centuries-old tower block in the heart of Kiev. A pattern emerges among the shifting forms and shapes, and Brian – a 33-year-old trader who asks we use only his first name – reacts swiftly, punching his extemporaneous analysis into a chatbox on the messenger app Telegram. He has identified the […]
She’s only been in Congress for one term and already this woman has been caught in numerous scandals including immigration fraud, marrying her brother and funneling money into her lover’s consulting firm! Now we can add one more crime to the list.Via David Steinberg. Ilhan Omar asked for donations this week to help feed Minnesota Food Store. TRENDING: So Good! Kayleigh McEnany DESTROYS Liberal Hack Yamiche […]
Money futurists with a flair for central banking, take note: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand is hiring. New Zealand’s monetary authority is looking for a “Head of Money and Cash,” a new position that will, according to a May 5 job posting, be “focused on the future of money.” The new role will be a digital currency specialist who can speak to trends reshaping financial […]
With bitcoin more than doubling in price since “Black Thursday” nearly two months ago, nearly 85% — or 25.79 million — of addresses holding the cryptocurrency are now “in the money,” according to blockchain intelligence firm IntoTheBlock. However, the current state of the bitcoin market is warning of a post-halving price pullback. The number one cryptocurrency by market value is trading near $10,000 at press time – […]
National Nurses United set out empty pairs of shoes for nurses who have died from COVID-19 while demonstrating across from the White House on May 7. The union is asking employers and the government to provide safe workplaces, including adequate staffing. Hospitals have been laying off and furloughing nurses due to lost revenue. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images National Nurses United […]