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View More NewsIn brief Crypto exchange ChangeNOW offers “fast, seamless crypto swaps with simplified onboarding.” The exchange’s “trading engine” acts as a middleman between users and exchanges, executing swaps from its own liquidity so customers never touch order books or fees, CSO Pauline Shangett explained. New features include private transfers, a Permanent Exchange Address, a crypto payment link and a prediction markets hub. Open ChangeNOW and a crypto swap looks like the simplest thing in the world: pick two tokens, send one, receive the other—a process the non-custodial exchange says usually completes within minutes, across more than 110 blockchains including ETH, BSC…
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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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Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi start this episode of Freed Up with how Democrats plan to stand by Graham Platner in Maine no matter what. The…
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I’m delighted to pass along this item from Prof. Broyde, who teaches legal ethics at Emory and who has written about judicial ethics in…
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In brief Bitcoin moved closer to its realized price, or the average cost basis, for market participants last week as it fell below $60,000.…