The Privatization of Tesla:
After my last two posts in Tesla, I was planning to take a break from the company, since I had said everything that I had to say about the company. In short, I argued that Tesla, notwithstanding its...
View ArticleEarly Crypto Adopter Dish Network Now Accepts Bitcoin Cash
Pay TV provider Dish Network, one of the first big firms to accept bitcoin payments, has announced it now also accepts bitcoin cash.
View ArticleFacebook's David Marcus Steps Down From Coinbase's Board
David Marcus is stepping down from the board of directors at crypto exchange Coinbase, citing his new role at Facebook leading blockchain strategy.
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The CFTCÂ issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Christian Robert Mayer of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, for engaging in a fraudulent trading scheme involving unauthorized trades...
View ArticleCFTC Charges Futures Broker With Engaging In Fraudulent Trade Allocation Scheme
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Christian Robert Mayer of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, for engaging in a fraudulent...
View ArticleAlberta Securities Commission Finalizes Rule Amendments To Facilitate...
The Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) today published a new rule which will facilitate offerings by Alberta issuers to investors outside Alberta by reducing the regulatory impediments to such...
View ArticleNigerian Stock Exchange Weekly Stock Market Report For August 10th 2018
A total turnover of 925.630 million shares worth N8.333 billion in 15,565 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of the Exchange in contrast to a total of 1.391 billion shares valued at...
View ArticleETFGI Reports Assets Invested In ETFs And ETPs Listed Globally Reached A New...
ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm covering trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported today that assets invested in ETFs and ETPs listed globally reached a new high of...
View ArticleCalPERS Names Michele Nix As New Controller
The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has named Michele Nix as the pension fund's new controller. Nix will begin at CalPERS on September 10.read more...
View ArticleCrypto Unicorn Bitmain Weighs $18 Billion IPO, One of World's Largest
Bitmain is going public in China. The IPO might make it one of the most valuable startups, cryptocurrency or not, to ever debut on the public markets.
View ArticleCoin Center Updates Its Securities Framework for Cryptocurrencies
Blockchain advocacy group Coin Center still believes some cryptocurrencies are securities by law, and should be regulated as such.
View ArticleCFTC Commitments Of Traders Reports Update
In the special announcement of August 3, 2018 ‘Canola Oil’ should be ‘Canola’ as the seed is traded not the oil.read more...
View ArticleFinCEN Says It Now Receives 1,500 Crypto Complaints a Month
FinCEN receives more than 1,500 reports every month from financial institutions regarding cryptocurrencies, a top official said Thursday.
View ArticleClimate Shocks, Cyclones, and Economic Growth: Bridging the Micro-Macro Gap...
Empirical analyses of the impacts of climatic shocks on growth, while critical for policy, have found seemingly disparate results and are seldom incorporated into macroeconomic climate-economy models....
View ArticleThe Impacts of Export Taxes on Agricultural Trade -- by Jayson Beckman,...
Export taxes, despite being applied by several countries, have not received the same scrutiny in multilateral trade negotiations as other trade barriers. This work seeks to provide more detail into the...
View ArticleChanges in Household Diet: Determinants and Predictability -- by Stefan Hut,...
We use grocery purchase data to analyze dietary changes. We show that households - including those with more income or education - do not improve diet in response to disease diagnosis or changes in...
View ArticleRe-examining the Effects of Trading with China on Local Labor Markets: A...
The United States imports intermediate inputs from China, helping downstream US firms to expand employment. Using a cross-regional reduced-form specification but differing from the existing literature,...
View ArticleBlockchain Social Network Minds Is Migrating to Ethereum for Launch
Blockchain-based social network Minds is moving its platform to the ethereum mainnet, the startup announced Monday.Â
View ArticleAl Mawared Brokerage's Amman Stock Exchange Weekly Report 13 August 2018
Click here to download Al Mawared Brokerage's weekly report on the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE). The Report is designed to give an overview of developments in the Jordan Capital Markets as well as ASE...
View ArticleCinnober Appoints Peter K. Lenardos As New Group CEO
Today Cinnober’s board of directors has appointed Peter K. Lenardos as Group Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Lenardos has served as Cinnober’s Group Chief Financial Officer since June of this year, and...
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