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Weekly Digest: Property in New York May Be Moving to the Blockchain
Plus Fed Officials Want to Tighten the Money Tap Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and talking …
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What Happens When the Fed Stops Chasing the Dragon?
I grew up in the drug culture of the late-1970s and ’80s. Not that I actively participated; I never did. But I was there, watching too many friends …
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The Guy Who Spent $450 Million on 2 Pizzas
May 22, 2010. Maybe you know that date, maybe not. In crypto circles, it’s a day that lives in infamy. That’s the day when a Florida …
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Europe vs. California—Why I Don’t Miss Living in Long Beach
I forgot the flour. In the grand scheme of things, trivial really. In the grand scheme of the lasagna I was making from scratch, it was a …
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Weekly Digest: Businesses Are Using QR Codes to Track Us
Plus the EU Goes to War With Big Tech Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and talking about in …
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The Fed Admits It’s Been Lying About Inflation
Apparently, it was all just a lie—this whole “inflation is transitory” caca-doo the Federal Reserve has been feeding the world for the last …
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Why I’m Super-Bullish on Crypto
I pulled out my magical Way Back Machine for today’s dispatch. Our destination: June 29, 2007. It’s a Friday. The Standard & Poor’s …
An Economic Hurricane is Looming on the Horizon
Testing the generator and filling a few spare gas cans… Those were the primary checks on my to-do list when I lived …
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In Debt They Trust: The Fed’s Crippling Addiction to Cheap Money
Let’s see if we’ve got this right: The U.S. economy is roaring ahead…yet it’s too weak to stand on its own, so the Federal Reserve needs to …
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