Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
SEC Might Challenge FTX Bankruptcy Estate From Paying Back Customers With Stablecoins
The pillars of China’s economy are in a free fall that’s getting worse
Whales hoarding Bitcoin: Wallets with 100+ BTC hit 17-month high
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
COVID vaccine distrust growing among Americans, survey finds
Nearly a quarter of people think it is safer to get COVID than it is to get vaccinated
Politics:
“Who ever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election where you have every right to do it.” — Donald Trump, in an interview with Fox News.
Trump’s Arlington stunt was even more offensive than we first thought
German Extremist Gains Are a Gift for Vladimir Putin
For all the talk of a political earthquake in Germany, the nationalist right’s success in two state elections in the former east came with plenty of warning.
The impact is reverberating through Berlin regardless.
As projected, the Alternative for Germany placed first in Thuringia yesterday, the first time the far right has won a regional election since the days of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, better known as the Nazis. The anti-immigration, pro-Russia AfD took second place in the neighboring state of Saxony.
In truth, the shock is overdue: The AfD was already the second-largest bloc in each state parliament. Nationally, its breakthrough was in 2017 when it became the main opposition party in the Bundestag.
U.S. to Present ‘Take It or Leave It’ Cease-Fire Deal
The United States has been talking to Egypt and Qatar about the contours of a final ‘take it or leave it’ deal that it plans to present to the parties in the coming weeks — one that, if the two sides fail to accept it, could mark the end of the American-led negotiations, according to a senior administration official.
Fraudsters Launch Lobbying Firm Using Fake Names
A Washington startup pitched as a service to integrate AI into lobbying is covertly run by a pair of well-known, far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons who are using pseudonyms in their new business.
LobbyMatic was founded last year by Jacob Wohl, who in 2022 was convicted along with his longtime associate Jack Burkman of felony telecom fraud after running a robocall campaign in largely Black neighborhoods in several states telling people not to vote by mail.
Inside the White House Effort to Prevent a Coup in Guatemala
Kamala Harris’s team helped deliver an overlooked foreign-policy win.
Scaramucci Says Melania Wants Trump to Lose
Said Scaramucci: “I’ve met one person that actually hates Trump more than Melania. That’s General Milley. He’s the only guy I’ve met so far that actually hates him more than Melania.”
