It’s probably far-fetched and overzealous to think about doing away with the EU altogether. But ditching the parliament might be a good idea. It’s probably far-fetched and overzealous to think about doing away with the EU altogether. But ditching the parliament might be a good idea. Here we go again. Another graft scandal in Brussels….
Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of FTX, now under investigation for fraud. Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX, which was, until last week, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, is today facing prison time for allegedly defrauding his customers of billions of dollars. Bankman-Fried, 30, donated to many progressive causes allied with the “effective altruism movement,” including pandemic…
(Usage herein unless otherwise noted: bitcoin = bitcoin; crypto = everything else) A lot of people think crypto is worth something.A lot of people think bitcoin is worth something.Most people in each community think fiat currency has major problems. And they all believe in the cross fungibility of cryptocurrency and fiat. Which is why they…
Before the Russian invasion, CIA reports linked him to an oligarch so dirty and so mired in “significant corruption” that the State Department banned him from entering the U.S. But now CIA propaganda portrays Zelensky as nobler than Winston Churchill and saintlier than Mother Theresa. Will the Real Volodymyr Zelensky Please Stand Up * In…
Back on June 1st, I noted that Ukraine couldn’t possibly absorb more than $54 billion in U.S. aid, most of it related to weaponry and munitions, given the country’s lack of infrastructure as well as the chaos inherent to a shooting war. As I wrote back then: The entire defense budget of Ukraine before the…
Before looking at Ukraine’s government warrants, which gives the game away to anyone with even a rudimentary financial or mathematical background, let’s just quickly survey Kiev’s empty coffers. Zelensky’s Ukrainian money laundering scam might well outrank the Dutch tulip mania scam, the Florida Swampland scam and the South Sea Bubble as the greatest scam in…
