Will they or won’t they? That is the question of the week. The Federal Reserve meets today and tomorrow and has basically pinkie sworn and told the world they will raise interest rates for the first time since Abraham Lincoln was president—“cross my heart, hope to die, stick a needle in my eye.” That’s not [Read More] …
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Video: What the Ban on Russian Oil Means for Our Wallets
Yesterday, the Biden administration unveiled a blanket ban on Russian oil imports. Not long after, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would respond by restricting certain commodity exports. These measures have, in effect, launched a new Cold War. And the impacts will be massive and wide-ranging (think gas at $5 per gallon). So, earlier today, I [Read More] …
Weekly Digest: India Prepares to Launch a Central Bank Digital Currency
Plus, Chinese Banks Can’t Save Russia From Western Sanctions Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and talking about in the Global Intelligence world. The Russia-Ukraine conflict continues to dominate global headlines and we’ll come to some news stories about that in a moment. But first this week, we’re [Read More] …
Video: Could Russia Use Crypto to Get Around Western Sanctions?
The U.S. and its Western allies have launched unprecedented economic sanctions against Russia to punish it for the invasion of Ukraine. In this week’s video edition of Field Notes, I sat down with Managing Editor Ciaran Madden to explain the impact of these measures, and to discuss whether the country could use crypto networks to [Read More] …
How I’m Earning $360 Per Month for Owning Some Pictures of Flowers
Understanding the Strange World of NFTs and “Tokenomics” I love flowers—a statement that has nothing to do with flowers as you know them. This is the type of flower that I love: It’s known as a “SOL Flower,” a non-fungible token that trades on the Solana blockchain. Each of the more than 3,000 SOL Flower [Read More] …