What Happens If a Cryptocurrency Exchange Files for Bankruptcy?
Law professor Adam Levitin explains why cyptocurrency exchange customers face a world of hurt if their exchange fails.
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Nuclear Power Is Clean, Safe and Cheap. We Need It to Stop Global Heating
Climate activist: The arguments made against nuclear power today are the same as I was making a decade ago, and I was wrong.
Read more...Almost Half of Spain Is Now Vaccine Passport-Free (At Least for Domestic Uses)
Catalonia becomes the third region in two weeks to drop the digital vaccine certificate. Four regions, including the Community of Madrid, never implemented it for domestic use.
Read more...EU Scientists and Politicians Clash Over Gas and Nuclear as ‘Sustainable’ Investments
Not surprisingly, it’s easier to move goalposts and designate gas and nuclear power as sustainable than get serious about cutting consumption
Read more...How 5G Puts Airplanes at Risk – An Electrical Engineer Explains
More on the 5G rollout controversy.
Read more...Pfizer Launches Clinical Trial for Omicron Booster Awfully Late….What Gives?
The curious plot so far: an off again, on again Pfizer Omicron booster.
Read more...Why Medicare Doesn’t Pay for Rapid At-Home Covid Tests
No access to Covid home tests beyond the 4 per month per address freebie is yet another proof that Medicare sucks.
Read more...Nothing Fundamental Has Changed: Biden Administration Greenlights More Fossil Fuel Drilling Permits in 2021 for Public Lands and Waters than Did Trump in 2017
A coalition of climate groups calls on the Biden administration to use existing statutory authority as a basis for executive action to phase out fossil fuel extraction on public lands.
Read more...5 Things You Should Know About ‘Free’ At-Home Covid Tests
The Covid free test program isn’t really.
Read more...The Biden Employer Vaccine Mandate: In Defense of National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor
A refreshingly balanced take on why the Supreme Court was correct in shooting down the Biden employer vaccine mandate.
Read more...Airlines Threaten to Ground Many Passenger and Cargo Flights Over Cell Operators’ Refusal to Change 5G Plans
Airlines and cargo carriers threaten to throw down the guantlet if Verizon and AT&T don’t back off from their Wednesday 5G rollout.
Read more...Rentier Capitalism and Class Warfare in Kazakhstan
Blame Kazakhstan ‘free’ market reforms that benefit the rich and powerful at the expense of the working class for recent protests.
Read more...Unredacted Antitrust Complaint Shows Google’s Ad Business Even Scummier than Many Imagined
Even more ugly details about Google misbehavior in the online ad market.
Read more...An Introduction to Family Offices (and Generational Wealth)
The murky, unregulated world of family offices, where oligarchs manage their capital.
Read more...With Billions in Fines, U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Ranks Are ‘Packed With Rogues’
A new report catalogues 15,896 federal and state violations from more than 100 U.S. Chamber of Commerce members, including major fossil fuel companies.
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