Former Kansas bank CEO admits to embezzling $47M for crypto scheme(cjonline.com)

4 points by speckx 2 years ago | 0 comments

Don’t store cash in Venmo and PayPal, US regulator warns(cnn.com)

273 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 153 comments

Washington Post cartoonist resigns after cartoon satirising Jeff Bezos rejected(abc.net.au)

6 points by adrian_mrd 1 year ago | 0 comments

Epoch Times CFO charged in $67M crypto money laundering plot(bbc.com)

72 points by willvarfar 2 years ago | 48 comments

It's robbery': Salvadorans slow to adopt Bitcoin(news.yahoo.com)

20 points by rmason 3 years ago | 4 comments

Founder sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulent sale to JPMorgan(cnn.com)

246 points by mandeepj 1 year ago | 297 comments

One in ten people are older than 65. Three in four live under a leader who is(hannahritchie.substack.com)

50 points by gumby 11 days ago | 22 comments

Hannah Ritchie's Substack post analyzing the ages of world leaders and how long they've held power compared to the populations they govern.

California is chasing wealth that has feet(blog.landeconomics.org)

251 points by idbnstra 1 month ago | 673 comments

A Progress and Poverty Substack post arguing that California should tax its $8.14 trillion in land value rather than pursue a one-time billionaire wealth tax.

Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis(economist.com)

73 points by andsoitis 14 days ago | 70 comments

An Economist finance and economics article arguing that governments are mishandling the affordability crisis; the page showed an access-restricted notice.

Americans Have Never Been So Unwilling to Relocate for a New Job(bloomberg.com)

343 points by JumpCrisscross 3 years ago | 652 comments

Bloomberg Work Shift article reporting that Americans are less willing than ever to relocate for a new job; the page showed a bot-check captcha.

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon(wilsoniumite.com)

466 points by Wilsoniumite 8 months ago | 597 comments

A personal blog post revisiting the author's failed prediction of a 2025 US economic crash and arguing a crash may still be coming, using data such as FRED unemployment charts.

The Great Crime Decline Is Happening All Across the Country(theatlantic.com)

10 points by andsoitis 28 days ago | 1 comments

Atlantic Ideas article by Henry Grabar arguing that crime is declining across US cities, even those with understaffed police departments.