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Bitcoin Indicator That Forewarned Late 2023 Volatility Explosion Is Lighting Up Again
Bitcoin's Bollinger bandwidth has narrowed to levels that have historically preceded volatility explosions.
Grayscale’s GBTC ‘spin-off’ Bitcoin Mini Trust goes live on NYSE Arca
After launching its spot Bitcoin ETF in January 2024, Grayscale now diversifies its offering with a “spin-off” spot Bitcoin ETP.
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Nasal COVID-19 vaccine shows promise in preventing virus spread
Politics:
WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich, ex-Marine Whelan released in U.S., Russia prisoner swap
Venezuela’s Dictator Can’t Even Lie Well
Nicolás Maduro stole the election. So why is a longtime opposition leader in such a good mood?
DOJ Inspector General Details How Close Trump Came To Invoking Insurrection Act in 2020
Republicans reel at Trump's "embarrassing" remarks about Harris
Former President Trump's comments about Vice President Harris to the National Association of Black Journalists are being treated as radioactive by many Republicans.
Criminal Probe Opened Into Washington Post Publisher
Scotland Yard has opened a criminal inquiry into whether Washington Post publisher and chief executive Will Lewis obstructed justice 13 years ago as he helped Rupert Murdoch grapple with an escalating phone-hacking scandal at his U.K. tabloids.
9/11 Plotters Agree to Plead Guilty at Guantánamo Bay
The man accused of plotting the attacks of Sept. 11 and two of his accomplices have agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy charges in exchange for a life sentence rather than a death-penalty trial at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Is Kellyanne Conway Badmouthing J.D. Vance?
Twenty Trump campaign staffers, allies, confidants, and advisers were quick to shoot down any notion that Trump was turning his back on Vance or was displeased with him amid his rocky rollout.
But more than a dozen of those sources volunteered without prompting that they believed Conway, who initially opposed the selection of Vance, was undermining him through leaks to the press expressing doubts about his readiness and the campaign’s vetting.
On the day after the debate, I argued that Democrats would dump Biden. Here was the crux of my case: ‘The biggest difference between the two parties right now is that the Republican Party is a vehicle for Donald Trump, but Joe Biden is a vehicle for the Democratic Party.’
That ultimately proved the case. Once polls showed Biden couldn’t win, Democrats were happy to give him the boot and there was no mass uprising among the base, which you would expect to see if Trump were booted.
Another way of looking at this is that as currently structured, the Democratic Party is focused on winning elections and the Republican Party is focused on placating Trump. It is of course possible that Republicans could still win with Trump and that Democrats could lose despite their best efforts to win. But we should at least be clear on what happened here.
