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View More NewsIn this segment of Free Media, Senior Editor Robby Soave and Daily Caller Editor in Chief Amber Duke discuss Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D–N.Y.) latest comments about how “crazy” Woke 1.0 became. Soave and Duke argue that it is a bit rich for AOC to laugh off the excesses of a cultural movement that caused real harm—and that many progressives once helped mainstream. If you enjoy this kind of content and want more, subscribe to Robby Soave’s newsletter, Free Media. Read the full article here
Brazil’s biggest bank is taking another step into tokenized assets, adding to a growing list of the country’s financial heavyweights experimenting with putting traditional investments on blockchain rails.Itaú Unibanco has started working with digital-asset infrastructure provider OpenAssets on a tokenization pilot run by Brazilian Financial and Capital Markets Association ANBIMA, the companies said Tuesday.The project will test how fixed-income securities and investment funds can be issued, traded and settled using distributed-ledger technology, the firms said in a press release. The work will also examine the rules and technical standards needed for banks and asset managers to use such systems.Itaú’s involvement…
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The story of Jason Arday, the Cambridge professor who has just resigned amid a scandal involving plagiarism, fabulism, and résumé-padding, has rattled a number of skeletons in Western academia’s closet. In 2023, Arday became the youngest black professor at the University of Cambridge when he was appointed professor in the sociology of education at the age of 37. Arday had obtained his PhD from Liverpool John Moores University in 2015. The son of immigrants from Ghana who lived on a Clapham council estate, he claimed to have overcome autism and other disabilities that left him unable to read or write…
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Crypto infrastructure providers are drawing renewed investor interest as Wall Street deepens its push into digital assets. Read the full article here
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In brief Elizabeth Warren says the OCC illegally approved crypto bank charters that weaken banking safeguards. She argues firms like Coinbase and Ripple are…
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