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View More NewsChicago-based trading giant DRW has spent decades profiting from mismatches between different asset classes, and now it’s building a dedicated prediction market desk targeting platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi.The move is one of the clearest signs yet that sophisticated “quantitative trading” firms — traders that use complex math and analysis to set up strategies — are increasingly viewing prediction markets as a legitimate trading venue rather than a niche betting product.The firm that has been a dominant force in derivatives, fixed income and crypto markets since 1992, recently posted a job listing requiring candidates to monitor prices in real…
U.S. aid to Israel is one of the most contentious foreign policy issues in America. The last three years of wars in the Middle East—culminating in the latest war with Iran—have soured a majority of Americans on the U.S.-Israeli relationship, polling shows. And the aid is up for debate soon, as President Barack Obama’s “memorandum of understanding” guaranteeing $3.8 billion per year for Israel expires in fiscal year 2028. Earlier this year, Axios reported that Israel was looking for a new memorandum of understanding that would last twice as long as the previous one but shift the money from direct…
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In recent years, several large progressive cities have begun pushing aggressive minimum wage policies for food delivery and rideshare. The results have been predictable: A decline in the number of gig tasks being performed, an increase in prices for consumers, and a reduction in drivers as platforms restrict…
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Hava Mendelle defies easy categorisation. Openly gay and proudly Jewish, she is a fifteen-year Australian Army veteran, emergency department nurse, published author, and co-founder of Minority Impact — a coalition of Australian minorities united in their opposition to Islamic radicalism and far-left extremism. She writes for The Spectator Australia, The Times of Israel, and The Jewish Independent, and has been making waves on social media for her unflinching commentary on antisemitism, the activist left, and the slow erosion of Australian national identity.In this conversation with Quillette’s Zoe Sankey, Hava traces a remarkable personal journey — from an orthodox Jewish childhood…
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from the acceptable-collateral-damage,-I-assume dept ICE never needed officers to disguise themselves with masks and strip themselves of identification before Trump took office for the…
A judge on Friday struck down one of the Trump administration’s attempts to hamstring legal immigration, ruling that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)…
Bitcoin BTC$61,366.60 tumbled below $60,000 on Friday, breaking the lows of the early February crypto crash and reaching its weakest level since October 2024.The…
The US House Ways and Means Committee circulated seven discussion drafts of bills to address digital asset taxation ahead of a Tuesday hearing on…
New York, June 5, 2026—Russian authorities must immediately release journalist Aleksey Seregin and stop silencing independent voices in the country, the Committee to Protect…
A set of seven crypto tax bills are being circulated in advance of a hearing of the U.S. House Ways and Means committee next…
Solana-based memecoin launchpad Pump.fun introduced a new open bounty platform where users have posted crypto rewards for bizarre promotional tasks, such as tattooing the…
In brief The price of Zcash crashed more than 40% following the discovery of a vulnerability that could have led to counterfeit ZEC minting.…
From Andrew Sullivan (The Weekly Dish): Governor Kathy Hochul has a decision to make by June 12. The New York State legislature recently tackled…
from the history-is-now-a-black-hole dept Earlier this year Nieman Lab broke the story that major news publishers, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today…
New York, June 5, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a recent Russian attack in Ukraine that injured Olha Kalinovska, a war correspondent with the privately owned Ukrainian…
A major bug found in the top privacy network Zcash, using artificial intelligence, may be a warning sign that similar undiscovered flaws exist across…