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View More NewsThe battle is likely to be finished one way or another next month, when the Clarity Act gets its final three weeks of Senate action before the midterm elections, and the stakes will test the old-guard strength of bank lobbyists against the high-spending political powers of crypto advocates.The banks have made an appeal that what they’re doing represents the public good: Their business model requires that people keep their money in deposits, which don’t pay enough interest to compete with what crypto firms would pay in stablecoin yield, if given the chance. People can’t be allowed to make money off…
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Jason Arday—fantasist, fabulist, fraud, and (until recently) Professorial Chair in the Sociology of Education at Cambridge University—sold a bolus of lies to students, faculty, and administrators, and they gobbled it up like a dish of ice cream on the hottest sunniest driest summer day in English memory. Months earlier, Nathan Cofnas, a philosopher at the same university, was accused by students of racism. Would nobody rid Cambridge of this turbulent scholar? Rid of him it got—through suitably tortuous means.That you and I know about Jason and his Argo of lies owes to Nathan Cofnas, who broke the story by publishing…
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Gen Z traders on Binance are allocating a growing share of their equity activity to exchange-traded funds (ETFs), with the products accounting for 25%…
In brief A reported breach of France’s tax authority exposed data tied to 678,437 people and businesses. The records allegedly include income figures, addresses,…
The Trump administration is expanding the footprint of its war on drugs in Latin America. On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that Colombia…
The Committee to Protect Journalists and nine other international and local organizations, as part of the Brazilian Coalition in Defense of Journalism, in a…
“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources…
I am not a fan of Bill Maher. I saw him perform when I was a Summer Associate in 2008 in Washington, D.C. I…
Subscribe to the Free Future NewsletterFree Future home Some US police departments seem to be adopting AI-assisted police report products despite the technology’s deal-breaking…
Polymarket’s new private-company prediction markets let retail traders bet on startup milestones once reserved for Wall Street insiders. Read the full article here
Bitcoin miner Canaan reported a net loss of $88.7 million for the first quarter of 2026, as falling Bitcoin (BTC) prices squeezed margins and…
In brief Japan’s ruling LDP party has put forward a proposal framing on-chain finance as a way to protect yen sovereignty. It seeks clearer…
They’re at it again: Yesterday, the unions representing the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) workers reached an agreement with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the state…
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