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View More NewsNA Today, the Liberty Justice Center filed Burlap & Barrel, Inc. v. Greer, the first case challenging Donald Trump’s massive new Section 301 tariffs. The complaint is available here. LJC is the same group that I worked with on V.O.S. Selections v. Trump, the IEEPA tariff case decided by the Supreme Court in February. LJC also filed one of the two cases challenging Trump’s Section 122 tariffs, which prevailed in the US Court of International Trade in May (it is now on appeal). The current case is before the US Court of International Trade. LJC’s clients are two small businesses…
The crypto market continues to mature with growing institutional participation, and memecoins are paying the price.The combined market capitalization of DOGE$0.06905 and shiba inu (SHIB), the two largest memecoins by value, has fallen to $13.27 billion, the lowest in three years and down about 2% this month alone, even though market leader bitcoin BTC$64,121.23 has risen by 10%.A more revealing picture emerges when you measure the top two memecoins against bitcoin’s market cap of $1.30 trillion.That ratio now stands at just 1.02%, the lowest on record. That’s a dramatic reset if considering where things stood at the peak of memecoin…
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Three thousand years ago, Homer gave us the face that launched a thousand ships. This weekend, Christopher Nolan gave us the film that launched a million grifts, and he buried them.His Odyssey opened to $124 million domestically and a whopping $264 million worldwide. The haul does not prove the film is good. It does prove that the seven-month social-media campaign against it face-planted the moment real people bought tickets.Their indictment ran on three charges. Nolan cast Lupita Nyong’o, a black actress, as Helen of Troy, the legendary beauty of the ancient world. Elliot Page, the transgender star, was said to…
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One fund manager has issued a stark warning: Bitcoin’s BTC$72,903.98 ongoing selloff may deepen as upcoming U.S. Treasury operations are expected to drain roughly…
US authorities have charged a Google employee with allegedly using information from the company to make bets on Polymarket and profit $1.2 million.The Justice…
U.S. President Donald Trump pressed Tuesday for federal regulators to keep control over prediction markets, calling it a “critically important” issue as states move…
Californians will face two competing tax measures this November. The first is the Billionaire Tax Act, a onetime, 5 percent levy on the accumulated…