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Author Naomi Alderman Hopes The Power Will Strike Twice
In 2017 everyone was talking about The Power. The sci-fi novel topped bestseller lists, was featured in book clubs and on morning talk shows, and Barack Obama named it one of the best books he read that year. In the book young women are able to control electrical currents and even emit electricity. The satirical novel…
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Senators Are Hopping Mad and Demanding Answers for the Crypto Collapse in a Hearing
Sceptical members of the Senate Banking Committee will hear from both crypto believers in a Valentine’s Day hearing to try and make sense of the recent “crypto crash” and advocate for new, more strenuous regulatory safeguards to protect consumers. The hearing comes at a pivotal moment for cryptocurrencies. Scandals, fraud, dramatic arrests, international manhunts, and…
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‘Plain Old-Fashioned Embezzlement:’ Searing House Testimony Paints Picture of FTX’s Collapse
The House Financial Services Committee began one of its most dramatic hearings in recent memory Tuesday, while its main subject, disgraced crypto exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried, sat behind bars in a cell nearly 1,609 km away.
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The Guy in Charge of FTX Bankruptcy Calls Crypto Company ‘A Complete Failure’ of Corporate Controls
Just how bad do you have to be for a 40-year veteran of corporate undoings to call you one of the most faulty, most compromised entities he’s ever seen? John J. Ray III was tapped to handle the chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings of FTX’s multiple major corporate entities. In his latest bankruptcy filing released Thursday,…