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Vietnam has to find $200 billion to fund its ambitious growth agenda. Techcombank’s CEO thinks that has to come from overseas — fortune.com
When Techcombank CEO Jens Lottner looks at Vietnam’s growth ambitions, he sees a simple mismatch: big plans, not enough money. Vietnam’s economy grew by just over 8% in 2025, the second-highest rate in a decade. Hanoi’s ambitions are even more aggressive:
Who Is Jay Clayton, Trump's Pick for Director of National Intelligence? — time.com
Jay Clayton, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, during the Bloomberg Global Credit Forum in New York on June 3, 2026. —Michael Nagle—Bloomberg/Getty Images Jay Clayton, President Donald Trump’s pick for Director of National Intelligence,
Gaming industry, unions push for prediction market rules in crypto bill — semafor.com
The gaming industry is banding together with tribes and unions to urge lawmakers to add language barring prediction markets like Kalshi from offering sports wagers to pending cryptocurrency legislation, according to the text of a letter viewed by Semafor.
A new Android trojan called Rokarolla targets 217 banking apps and can steal your PIN, SMS codes, and crypto wallet funds — thenextweb.com
Security researchers at Zimperium’s zLabs have documented a new Android banking trojan that targets 217 banking and cryptocurrency applications and carries 137 remote commands, giving an operator near-total control of an infected phone. The malware, which
Bitcoin is not a scarce asset — americanbanker.com
Zelle, Western Union, SoFi and others are all launching stablecoins, adding to the thousands of other digital assets that do essentially the same thing as bitcoin.
Robinhood announces it will reduce headcount by 10%, CEO seeks to avoid ‘heavily-layered’ organization — fortune.com
Robinhood, the app-based brokerage that helped fuel the meme-stock boom, is preparing another round of layoffs as it becomes the latest tech company to slim down its workforce. In a recent Form 8-K filing released on Tuesday, the company announced that it
Maryland Democrats slam crypto, AIPAC-linked spending in race for Hoyer’s seat — rollcall.com
Three candidates in next week’s Democratic primary for the seat of retiring Maryland Rep. Steny H. Hoyer have teamed up to criticize the millions of dollars in outside spending flooding into the district. Former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn,
The White House Cage Fight Was Spectacular—And Spectacularly Corrupt — motherjones.com
As the UFC fighters left their locker rooms Sunday night and headed out to the Octagon, they strutted through the Oval Office—a space once so revered that Ronald Reagan wouldn’t enter it unless he was wearing a suit jacket. A select group of spectators had
Race to Turn AI Compute Into a Commodity Spurs New Crypto Boom — bloomberg.com
Ethan Vera thought Luxor Technology’s future was helping Bitcoin miners buy and sell mining hardware.
The Real Cowboys of Crypto: Wyoming Ropes a $1 Stablecoin — bloomberg.com
The state, home of Yellowstone and a refuge of the rich, has become the first in the US to issue its own cryptocurrency. Its experiment has national implications.
Bitcoin Miners Are Turning Off Their Rigs and Chasing AI Money — gizmodo.com
Over the weekend, it became 10% easier to mine bitcoin.
Economic Warfare, Militarized Diplomacy Are Brutal and Malfunctioning Tools — theamericanconservative.com
Foreign Affairs Economic Warfare, Militarized Diplomacy Are Brutal and Malfunctioning Tools The Trump administration hurts the people it claims to be protecting. On September 15, 1970, Richard Nixon ordered the CIA to “make the economy [of Chile] scream”
UFC fighters at the White House got paid with Trump family stablecoins—but an ethics expert says a gap in the law allows this — fortune.com
Trump’s Ultimate Fighting Championship Freedom 250 spectacle on the White House South Lawn resulted in record bonuses for the winners. The fighters, though, didn’t get paid in U.S. dollars, which would seem to be the obvious currency for such an event.
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