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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has given its largest ever award of almost $279 million to a whistleblower whose information was crucial in an enforcement action by the regulator. The SEC did not reveal the case involved, but the awar… Continue reading SEC Issues Largest Ever Whistleblower Award of $279 Million
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Insider: Employees at Apple’s first unionized store in Towson, Maryland are pushing for a contract that includes the introduction of tipping. The proposed system would allow customers to tip store workers in inc… Continue reading Unionized Apple Store Workers Want You To Start Tipping Them
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter percentage point and hinted it may be the final move in the most aggressive tightening campaign since the 1980s as economic risks mount. From a report: “The committee will closely monitor incoming … Continue reading Fed Raises US Rates by a Quarter Point, Signaling Possible Pause
Apple has learned from enough games of Monopoly that it’s good to be the banker as well as a player. From a report: A Monday report from Forbes based on anonymous internal sources claims users deposited close to $1 billion in just four days after Apple… Continue reading People Put Nearly $1 Billion Into Apple Savings Accounts in First 4 Days
The BBC looks at free websites like TimeRepublik, “which describes itself as ‘a timebank for the internet era’.”
Time banking is in essence a more sophisticated form of bartering. You don’t pay someone in money for a job that they do for you. Instead … Continue reading The People Turning Time Into a Currency
It was a mix of spiritualism and financial education, remembers one patron of Generación Zoe, which “pitched itself as an ‘educational and resource-creating community for personal, professional, financial and spiritual development,'” reports Res… Continue reading Argentina’s ‘Generacion Zoe’ Promised Financial and Spirtual Development. Was it a Ponzi Scheme?
In the U.S., at least three early candidates for president from both parties “want to make it clear they would not support any proposals for a central bank-backed digital US dollar,” reports Bloomberg — which may be a little premature, because “A… Continue reading Opponents to a US Digital Dollar Include Several US Presidential Hopefuls
Cory Doctorow just wrote a new thriller “about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works,” according to his publisher. Doctorow calls Red Team Blues “a book about the financial rot at the center of Silicon Valley… … Continue reading Cory Doctorow’s New Thriller Dramatizes ‘Cryptocurrency Shenanigans’ and ‘Financial Rot’
Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Erin West’s “Operation Shamrock” isn’t relying on luck to take down the worst criminals.
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The stock market, real estate and cryptocurrencies did poorly in 2022, but the global luxury goods market grew 20 percent. People may have had less, but they spent more on fine arts and collectibles that serve no function except to provide pleasure. Fr… Continue reading Collectors Are Finding That Their Childhood Has a Price – and It’s Going Up