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View More NewsIn brief Strategy’s preferred stock (STRC) tumbled to an all-time low of $82.53, dragging its common shares down along with it. CoinShares’ James Butterfill said STRC’s weakness likely stems from uncertainty around how Strategy will manage fixed obligations. Benchmark-StoneX’s Mark Palmer believes Strategy will hike STRC’s dividend rate to “support the price back toward par.” Strategy’s flagship preferred stock faced notable pressure on Thursday, dipping to an all-time low as the Bitcoin-buying firm reaffirmed its commitment to paying Stretch (STRC) shareholders.As of this writing, STRC had fallen 2.6% to $87.45, according to Yahoo Finance. That marked a partial recovery from…
Court records belong to the public. Yet anyone seeking access to federal court filings through PACER, a government software system that stands for Public Access to Court Electronic Records, is usually required to pay hefty fees to search for and view documents. PACER’s fees have long acted as a barrier that makes it hard, especially for low income people, to see and understand the work produced by our own public servants. That’s why EFF joined a broad group of organizations supporting the Open Courts Act of 2026, legislation that would modernize the federal courts’ electronic filing systems and eliminate PACER…
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Last Wednesday, 3 June, was surely one of the most shameful days in the Knesset’s 77-year history. Michael Rabello, the personal attorney of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was elected the country’s next state comptroller—the official who inspects, reviews, and audits government policy and conduct, and whose broad powers of inspection include the use of hundreds of lawyers, accountants, and other professionals under his authority.Israeli law stipulates that the Knesset vote for this position must be carried out in secret, with MKs casting ballots alone behind a screen. Rabello’s rival for the post, former Supreme Court justice Yosef Elron, won…
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from the techlash-on-demand dept UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is not having a particularly good time of being the UK’s leader. Basically everyone thinks…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to stop pesky robocallers, but its proposed fix might make it extremely difficult for Americans to have burner…
State regulators got sidelined in the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s effort to implement the new U.S. stablecoin law, according to several senators from…
Bitcoin’s (BTC) risk-adjusted return profile is approaching levels historically aligned with long-term accumulation zones. The Sharpe ratio, a metric that measures return relative to…