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Former Boston Fed President Claims Blockchain Not Fit For Central Bank Digital Currency
Former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Eric Rosengren provided some key insights as to what a central bank digital currency (CBDC) might look like, based on research done between the Boston Fed and MIT. A much anticipated paper from the Federal Reserve...
Pentagon offers payment to Afghanistan family's survivors after botched US airstrike
The Pentagon has offered condolence payments to the surviving family members of the 10 innocent civilians, including seven children, who were accidentally killed in a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan in late August. The Aug. 29 strike was intended to kill...
Buttigieg Snipes At Fox News Host As Container Ships Pile Up Outside American Ports
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg fired back at Fox News host and Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson on MSNBC Friday.Carlson claimed that Buttigieg was trying to “figure out how to breastfeed” while on paternity leave and insisted that he was still able...
Bovard: When Barack Obama Got Away With Murder
Authored by Jim Bovard via The Libertarian Institute,This week (Thursday) marked the 10th anniversary of the drone killing of Abdulrahman Al-Aulaqi, a 16 year old born in Colorado and killed in Yemen. He perished as part of Obama’s crackdown on terrorist...
Tracking Global Hunger & Food Insecurity
Hunger is still one the biggest - and most solvable - problems in the world.Every day, as Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti notes, more than 700 million people (8.8% of the world’s population) go to bed on an empty stomach, according to the UN World Food...
Heroic Indiana Firefighter Prevents Person from Jumping off Highway Overpass
A heroic Indiana firefighter prevented a suicidal person from jumping from a highway overpass on October 12.
Tennessee Man Charged with Attempted Murder for Allegedly Setting Girlfriend Ablaze
A Tennessee man has been charged with attempted second-degree murder for allegedly setting his girlfriend on fire when she tried to break up with him.
Manchin dismissively calls Sanders a ‘self-declared independent socialist’
West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin responded Friday to criticism from Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., derisively declaring that he wasn't going to take marching orders from a socialist."Congress should proceed with caution on any additional spending and I will not...
Bernie Sanders, Joe Manchin spar in West Virginia over $3.5 trillion spending bill
The gaping political divisions among Democrats over President Biden’s $3.5 trillion social welfare and climate change bill were put on public display in West Virginia on Friday. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernard Sanders penned an op-ed in the state’s...
Jill Biden stumps for Terry McAuliffe in campaign homestretch, touts husband's agenda
RICHMOND, Va. — First lady Jill Biden is giving Democrat Terry McAuliffe a boost in the final stretch of his campaign. Mrs. Biden joined Mr. McAuliffe in Henrico County, outside of Richmond, on Friday, pitching him as the candidate that will bring people...
The Wall Street Journal: Freight bellwether J.B. Hunt expects strong shipping demand to extend into 2022
Freight bellwether J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. expects bottlenecks at West Coast ports to intensify heading into the holidays, with congestion continuing to snarl labor-strapped
: ‘It’s a toxic-masculinity thing’: Pete Buttigieg faces backlash for taking paternity leave — a stigma many dads know well
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is facing criticism over his decision to take paternity leave while the country faces major supply-chain issues. But the controversy
Grayscale Investments close to filing application for spot bitcoin ETF, source says
Michael Sonnenshein, chief executive officer of Grayscale Investments LLC, speaks
BREAKING: Texas Senate Passes Bill Requiring Athletes To Compete On Team That Matches Birth Gender
The Texas Senate passed a bill on Friday night that requires student athletes to play on sports teams that match their birth gender and not the gender with which they identify.“The legislation is primed to become law after the state Senate voted 19-12 on Friday to...
Illinois Democrats Seek To Maximize Their Party’s Seats, Axe Republicans In New Proposed Congressional Map
Democrats in Illinois’ state legislature Friday released a new map that would shore up all of their party’s incumbents in Congress and likely eliminate two of the state’s five Republicans.The proposal would give Democrats a 14-3 advantage in the state, compared to the...
Coinbase Reverses Its 2018 Testimony To Congress, Argues For One Crypto Regulator
Yesterday, Coinbase released a Digital Asset Policy Proposal that includes a vision of a regulatory environment for digital assets, including a new designated federal regulator for cryptocurrency. Faryar Shirzad, the new Chief Policy Officer at Coinbase who joined as...
Murder Of British Lawmaker Declared A Terror Attack Believed To Be ‘Linked To Islamist Extremism’: Police
British counter terrorism law enforcement officials declared the murder of British lawmaker Sir David Amess an act of terrorism on Friday night, hours after he was stabbed to death.“Senior National Coordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing, Deputy Assistant...
Michael Burry of ‘The Big Short’ asked about shorting crypto days before bitcoin hit $60,000
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