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View More NewsUS-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded a net inflow of $197.4 million in the week ended Friday, snapping an eight-week streak of weekly outflows dating back to May.Data from Farside Investors shows that most of the week’s gains came from the BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF, which recorded $291.9 million in inflows. This was offset by outflows from the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust ETF, the Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund and the ARK 21 Shares Bitcoin ETF. The end of the outflow streak could suggest institutional demand for Bitcoin is recovering after two months of sustained selling pressure. However, one analyst said…
This essay … seeks to document the pivotal role of Emergency! in producing an array of legal changes that resulted in an explosion in the availability of paramedic services during the time that the TV show aired new episodes…. The legalization of paramedic services required major changes in legal principles relating to both criminal and civil liability. For example, laws in all states made it a crime for non-physicians to practice medicine without a license. These laws rendered paramedic services unfeasible due to the fact that many of the medical functions that paramedics could have performed constituted the practice of…
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Claire Lehmann sits down with Parnell Palme McGuinness—columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and senior research fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies—to unpack her landmark report, Generation Trapped, on the collapsing life satisfaction of Australians aged 18–34.Parnell identifies six distinct “tribes” among young Australians—from disillusioned Progressive Identitarians to optimistic Strivers—and explains why a sense of control, not income, is the strongest predictor of happiness. The conversation ranges across why women are swinging toward One Nation, the East-West divide still shaping German politics, the missing men in the marriage debate, the manosphere and the collapse of dating…
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