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View More NewsBeneath the period costumes, powdered wigs, and tricorn hats, 1776 is a magnificent depiction of open debate. Set during the Second Continental Congress, the musical revolves around Founding Father John Adams and his pursuit of independence. The state delegates argue, compromise, and persuade, reminding us that the birth of America depended on John Stuart Mill’s marketplace of ideas. The play begins with a theatrical “portal,” inviting viewers into an interactive museum, a reimagined Constitution Hall, before transporting them to Philadelphia in that sweltering summer of 1776. The dramatized debate is animated through vivid characters: Adams is loud, relentless, and impatient, while Benjamin…
The 2015 cycle took about $69 billion for a gain near 10,000%. The 2018 cycle needed about $365 billion for roughly 2,000%. This cycle, running since 2022, has taken in about $697 billion and returned 689%. The figures track realized capitalization, a measure that values each coin at the price it last moved rather than its current price, a rough gauge of how much money has actually gone into the asset.The trend holds at every scale. In 2011, roughly $5 million in new money was enough to double bitcoin’s price. This cycle, doing the same took around $101 billion. Each…
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Recorded on 30 June 2026, Claire Lehmann sat down with Derek Francis— former chief economist at the NSW Parliamentary Budget Office and a fund manager—to discuss a flaw in Treasury’s modelling of Australia’s new capital gains tax, one that could push effective tax rates on shares as high as 70 percent. TranscriptClaire Lehmann: Last month, Treasurer Jim Chalmers delivered one of Australia’s most ambitious and controversial budgets to date. It was framed as an attempt to restore intergenerational equity, in light of the fact that house prices have become completely unaffordable for young people across the country. To address this, negative…
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US President Donald Trump has responded to criticism of his 2025 financial disclosures, showing that he earned $1.4 billion in income from crypto-related ventures…
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In brief U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have shed $2.1B in June, pacing May’s $2.4B total outflows. Net assets declined $33B from $109B to $77B…
from the Brendan-Carr-needs-a-timeout dept I’ve noted repeatedly how the Trump administration is going out of its way to not only destroy all oversight of…
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