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October 14, 2026
US Political Corruption Rears Its Ugly Head, Slaps Americans Straight Across The Face: Crypto Edition — dailycaller.com
“I could care less what they do with their money”
Bitcoin falls toward $81,500 as U.S. annual inflation rises to 3.7% — qz.com
Crypto analyst sentiment has turned bullish, with 84% of analysts positive on bitcoin, according to Bloomberg
Toronto soldiers charged in kidnapping were looking for cryptocurrency, police say — nationalpost.com
A violent Toronto kidnapping involving three Canadian soldiers was an attempt to force the victim into handing over access to cryptocurrency, police said Wednesday, revealing the alleged motive for the bizarre plot. Read More
Michael Saylor predicts bitcoin will blow past $100K as he declares new bull market underway — foxbusiness.com
Crypto titan Michael Saylor predicts bitcoin will surge past $100,000 over the next year to kick off a massive new bull market. The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is trading around $81,800, up from about $75,900 a month ago, around the
US regulator accuses nation's largest banks of debanking customers over political views — foxbusiness.com
The head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) declared Wednesday that his agency uncovered "irrefutable evidence that the nation's largest banks have denied, debanked and discriminated against customers and lawful businesses," including
Crypto’s Leverage Machine Finds New Life Beyond Bitcoin Bets — bloomberg.com
A year after crypto’s historic crash, leveraged trading has yet to regain its old swagger. But the appetite for outsize bets hasn’t disappeared. Increasingly, the machinery that made crypto notorious for speculation is being turned on stocks, commodities
‘The biggest financial institutions are not above the law’: Bessent hits BofA with $1.2 billion fine for money laundering—the third-largest in history — fortune.com
The U.S. Treasury Department said Tuesday that it’s imposing $1.2 billion in fines on Bank of America for allegedly violating anti-money laundering and sanctions laws. The fines on America’s second-biggest bank amount to the third-largest in the
Why one spoiler candidate is now trying to replicate his work nationwide — semafor.com
The News Aaron Day’s third-party campaign cost Republican Kelly Ayotte her Senate reelection bid in 2016. Now he’s trying to take his spoiler project national. With several Senate races tight enough for an alternate candidate to make a real difference,
OpenAI’s Math Breakthroughs Rattle Cryptography Leaders — theinformation.com
OpenAI’s release last Tuesday of more than 300 math results it says an internal model solved has sparked concern among some of the world’s leading cryptographers, or experts in encoding information to keep it private and secure. They worry that AI’s
Brooklyn DA Cracks Global Crypto Scam Network in Major Bust — bloomberg.com
The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office has disrupted a multinational cryptocurrency-scam network centered in Eastern Europe, capping a years long effort to stop a fraud operation that has stolen tens of millions of dollars from Americans.
The biggest GOP lie isn’t about elections — it’s the economy — salon.com
Donald Trump lies. Telling untruths is not merely second nature to him; it is of the first order, automatic. He lies as naturally as he breathes. From his claim to being a great businessman and dealmaker to calling himself not the worst president in U.S.
Europe, U.S. futures rise as semiconductor supplier ASML beats expectations — fortune.com
ASML, the Dutch company that is the only supplier of the “extreme ultraviolet lithography” machines needed to make the most advanced semiconductor chips, reported Q3 profits that beat expectations and said it had customers interested in placing orders
Exclusive: AI safety money floods into political races — axios.com
Advocates for AI safety and regulation are emerging as a force in U.S. elections, spending nearly $50 million this election cycle on candidates who favor regulation, a new analysis shared exclusively with Axios shows. Why it matters: The safety spending
Graft the Likes of Which the World Has Never Seen Before (Half the Answer #108, with Zach Everson) — liberalcurrents.com
Donald Trump made more than two billion dollars in the first year of his second term. Much of it was from cryptocurrency, which he used to refer to as "based on thin air" until he started selling it. Zach Everson from Public Citizen explains how Trump
The flight of the angry entrepreneurs — unherd.com
In 2019 the businessman James Dyson, famed for his bagless vacuum cleaners, found himself at the center of a different kind of cyclone. He was facing a storm of criticism for moving his company’s headquarters to Singapore, soon after a Brexit referendum in
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