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April 12, 2026

Trump’s SEC Is Going After Fewer Wall Street Crimes — motherjones.com

This week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)—the federal agency that oversees Wall Street—announced that it has brought almost 30 percent fewer new enforcement actions against companies in the first year of the Trump administration. In practice,

$12 billion crypto company boss says Gen Z ‘create an absurd amount of chaos’ and make him want to pull his hair out—but he’s betting on them anyway — fortune.com

It’s no secret that Gen Z often gets flak for showing up late to work, ghosting job interviews, refusing to do put in any overtime for free, and demanding senior titles and work-life balance before they’ve really earned it. Some bosses are fed up—firing

Legendary investor says the AI boom masks a deeper crisis: Falling sperm counts, shrinking populations, and vanishing resources — fortune.com

Jeremy Grantham has been called many things. Permabear. Doom merchant. Cassandra with a British accent. For decades, the co-founder of the Boston-based asset manager GMO has warned that financial markets were inflated to dangerous, unsustainable

Keonne Rodriguez on Bitcoin, Privacy, and Going to Prison — reason.com

dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/d2h6a3ly6o… 1x 1.1x 1.25x 1.5x 2x 3x :15 :15 Download He's Serving 5 Years in Prison for Bitcoin Privacy Software Forty-eight hours before he was scheduled to report to federal prison, Keonne Rodriguez was still talking about

Pig-butchering: Southeast Asia's scam hubs — theweek.com

In 2022, Shan Hanes, the chief executive of the Heartland Tri-State Bank in Kansas, met a friendly investment adviser from Australia on WhatsApp. The adviser persuaded Hanes to invest a few thousand dollars in an online cryptocurrency-trading platform,

Modern cults are replacing leaders with ‘life coaches’: ‘They mimic the capitalist logic of influencers’ — elpais.com

It all starts in front of a screen, in the most innocent way possible. Accepting a friend request on Facebook. Following an influencer. Signing up for a study skills course about investing in cryptocurrencies. Entering a Roblox minigame. These are all