Tag: finance

After Richard Nixon scrapped Bretton Woods, the U.S. currency’s exorbitant privilege only grew — because the U.S. embraced innovation, not regulation. ( read original story ...)

Blockdata compiled a list of the 13 banks that have invested the most in cryptocurrency and blockchain companies to date. Coinbase, Ripple, and NYDIG have landed financial backing from big banks. 55% ... ( read original story ...)

Bitcoin, dogecoin and crypto are hot, but Black, Latino, LGBTQ investors buy it more than white Americans, seeing it has a path to equity and wealth. ( read original story ...)

South Korean President Moon Jae-in left the door open for talks with Japan in a speech marking his neighbor’s World War II surrender as several Japanese cabinet members visited a war-linked shrine ... ( read original story ...)

The country's worsening coronavirus infections hit shares of travel-related sectors anew, while falling support for Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga raised more concerns about political stability ahead ... ( read original story ...)

Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of what has been described as the dropping of a “monetary bombshell” on the world financial system, when President Richard Nixon announced that the U.S. dollar would ... ( read original story ...)

As cryptocurrency prices rally across the board, some bitcoin and crypto investors are feeling confident the bitcoin price could exceed its all-time high of over ... ( read original story ...)

Is the global economy steering toward a Bretton Woods for the digital-currency age? Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of what has been described as the dropping of a “monetary bombshell” on the world ... ( read original story ...)

While at MIT, the now-crypto billionaire was struggling to find his direction in life until he joined an altruistic movement. ( read original story ...)

It has proved conclusively that it can make itself heard on Capitol Hill. The crypto crowd piped up as the US Senate was finishing work on President Joe Biden’s $1tn infrastructure plan. In the days ... ( read original story ...)

The hacker reportedly refused to take the crypto platform up on its offer, opting instead to post a series of public messages in one of the crypto wallets that was used to return funds. Dubbed “Q & A ... ( read original story ...)

The first case of the deadly Lambda variant of the coronavirus identified in Japan—and then kept under wraps—was a woman who had come to the country to work at the Tokyo Olympics, The Daily Beast has ... ( read original story ...)

USD/INR opened the week mostly unchanged from its previous day’s close, encouraged by a lower USD index and huge IPO-related dollar inflows into India. The fall in the short-term and long-term US bond ... ( read original story ...)

For Ravi Dahiya, who won India’s second individual silver medal in wrestling in Olympics after wrestler Sushil Kumar’s silver medal in London Olympics, it was an emotional moment. ( read original story ...)

NET ZERO Leaders Summit sets world challenge. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga expresses his hope that the summit, like the Olympic Games, can give dreams and hopes to the people around the worldJETRO ... ( read original story ...)

An hour after the world discovered an alleged hacker had made off with $600m in one of the largest-ever cryptocurrency heists, the thief tipped a bystander $42,000 for warning that some of the assets ... ( read original story ...)