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View More NewsHappy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s stories include a look at a bill that would impose universal rent control over California anytime officials determine that an overseas conflict is raising housing prices. Additionally, the newsletter covers housing and transportation policy advocate Charles Marohn’s First Amendment victory over licensing officials who tried to fine him for referring to himself as an engineer. War=Rent Control? Until the U.S. adopts Ron Paul’s foreign policy, California landlords will have the threat of universal rent control hanging over their heads. That would be the reality under legislation put forward…
In brief A federal jury has convicted Japheth Dillman of wire fraud and conspiracy over the collapse of crypto fund Block Bits Capital. He told investors the fund’s automated trading software was complete and working when he knew it was not. He and a co-conspirator used the money to pay themselves and make speculative bets that lost heavily. A federal jury in San Francisco has convicted the founder of a cryptocurrency trading fund of wire fraud and conspiracy, after prosecutors showed he sold investors on trading software he knew did not work, the Justice Department said on Monday.Japheth Dillman, 48,…
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What follows is an excerpt from The Status of Scholarly Standards in Sociology, by Ashley T. Rubin, Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Professor Rubin’s report was published earlier this month under the auspices of the Vanderbilt–WashU Commission on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences. Its Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences was published in April and excerpted in Quillette.Research Blind Spots and Intellectual Narrowing Sociology shows a heavy emphasis on some topics and not on others. Some topics’ popularity have declined over time…
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Bitcoin (BTC) price action is offering mixed signals after hitting $80,000 as traders diverge on market trajectory.Key points:Bitcoin weekly relative strength index (RSI) reaches…
In brief A federal jury has convicted Brent Kovar of defrauding at least 400 investors of $24 million through his company Profit Connect. He…
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Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has advanced its framework for locally listed spot Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) from proposed principles to…
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