Law Decoded: How I learned to stop worrying and love the election, Oct. 23-30
The age-old question quis custodiet ipsos custodes crops up in force in today's Law Decoded. The United States is girding its loins for an election that has cast a pall over a far longer timeframe than we ever should have let it. But, then again, what did you expect when so many people spent so much of the past year cut off from their normal lives and circles, growing increasingly dependent on social media as a way of connecting with the outside world? Not a recipe for sanity, even if it was a race between sane people.The phenomena of modern information flow has gotten an enormous amount....
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"It came to me when I was sitting in the shower, and I couldn’t stop laughing about it. The juxtaposition of an educational website with an egregious grammatical error is immensely satisfying, and also acts as a reminder that seriousness doesn’t help you to learn anything." That is the explanation of our guest today, Greg Walker a.k.a. Inersha, about why he started a Bitcoin website. When he was 18, he started a poker strategy website. At the start of 2015 after losing interest in poker, he needed a reason to get out of bed in the morning, so he decided to start making a website....
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A senior strategist with Bloomberg Intelligence says that he does not see what’s going to stop bitcoin from appreciating. He explains that as bitcoin matures, it will trade more like gold than stocks. The strategist also shares his view on how the November presidential election could affect the price of bitcoin. Bitcoin Will Keep on Appreciating Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior commodity strategist Mike McGlone told Kitco News on Thursday that he does not see what will stop bitcoin from appreciating in value. Discussing the stock market outlook, the gold market, and....