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Farmers Say Aid Won’t Cover Tariff And Recession Damage (#GotBitcoin?)

USDA has begun making payments to farmers affected by trade conflicts. Farmers Say Aid Won’t Cover Tariff And Recession Damage (#GotBitcoin?) The Trump administration has started compensating U.S. farmers for damage tariffs are doing to their business. Many farmers say the payments won’t make up for lost sales to China…

Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards. Retailers Hate Them (#GotBitcoin?)

Merchants want the right to reject some rewards credit cards, citing high interchange fees. Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards. Retailers Hate Them Consumers have become addicted to credit cards with generous rewards programs. Retailers are trying to cut them off. Large merchants including Amazon.com Inc., Target Corp. and Home Depot Inc.…

Used-Car And Motorcycle Sales Boom, New Vehicles Get Too Pricey For Many

Price gap between new and preowned cars has widened to a near decade high. Used-Car And Motorcycle Sales Boom, New Vehicles Get Too Pricey For Many The gap between the price of a new and used vehicle is as wide as it has been in years, pushing an increasing number…

Workers Strike Demanding Better Pay And Benefits While Corporations Use Excess Cash To Buy-Back Company Stock (#GotBitcoin?)

The strengthening economy and tight labor market are giving workers more confidence to demand employer concessions through strikes. Workers Strike Demanding Better Pay And Benefits While Corporations Use Excess Cash To Buy-Back Company Stock In recent weeks, unionized hotel housekeepers in Chicago, distillery workers in Kentucky and crane operators in Seattle…

PayPal Bans Alex Jones And InfoWars (#GotBitcoin?)

Alex Jones can add PayPal Holdings Inc. to the list of companies ending ties to the conspiracy theorist and his InfoWars website for hateful and intolerant behavior. PayPal Bans Alex Jones And InfoWars (#GotBitcoin?) The payments company said Friday in a blog post that it will no longer offer its…

The First Flying-Car Review (#GotBitcoin?)

Aeromobiles—aeros for short. That’s what I’ve decided to call the proliferating class of machines billed as flying cars, which is a lazy misnomer and misleading. Nobody is seriously proposing fully streetable automobiles that also fly, unless they mean to launch a Cadillac Escalade off a cliff. Even “car” is conceptually…

Hedge Funds Investing Billions In Crypto (#GotBitcoin)

Billionaire investor Steven Cohen, once dubbed the "Hedge Fund King," has reportedly entered the crypto space. Hedge Funds Investing Billions In Crypto (#GotBitcoin) According to a Fortune article published July 12, Cohen has invested in cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund Autonomous Partners through his VC firm Cohen Private Ventures. Autonomous Partners was…

Ultimate Resource For Money Laundering, Spoofing, Market-Rigging, Etc. In Banking Industry (#GotBitcoin)

Bank of America To Pay $30 Million In Benchmark-Manipulation Settlement. Ultimate Resource For Money Laundering, Spoofing, Market-Rigging, Etc. In Banking Industry (#GotBitcoin) The bank was accused of trying to help its own derivatives positions.   Bank of America Corp. will pay $30 million as part of a settlement with the…

Have You Broken A Federal Criminal Law Lately? Who Knows? No One Has Been Able To Count Them All!!!

There Has Been Many Failed Efforts To Count Nation's Federal Criminal Laws Have You Broken A Federal Criminal Law Lately? Who Knows? No One Has Been Able To Count Them All!!!     "Simply pouring a bottle of vinegar into a bowl to kill someone's goldfish, could potentially be punishable by…

Crypto Pioneer David Chaum Says He’s Built A Better Bitcoin (#GotBitcoin?)

A new platform, called Elixxir, promises to improve on bitcoin’s speed by processing thousands of transactions a second. Crypto Pioneer David Chaum Says He’s Built A Better Bitcoin The godfather of the cryptocurrency movement is back with a plan to address bitcoin’s biggest shortcoming: speed. David Chaum, who built his own…

How AI Can Help Stop Cyberattacks (#GotBitcoin?)

As hackers get smarter and more determined, artificial intelligence is going to be an important part of the solution. As corporations struggle to fight off hackers and contain data breaches, some are looking to artificial intelligence for a solution. They’re using machine learning to sort through millions of malware files,…

Fidelity CEO Hints At Crypto Products As Sector Aims For Mainstream (#GotBitcoin?)

Fidelity Investments is cooking up more blockchain and cryptocurrency-related products and services, with a goal of rolling some of them out in the next few months, CEO Abigail Johnson said Friday morning. Fidelity CEO Hints At Crypto Products As Sector Aims For Mainstream (#GotBitcoin?) Johnson made the comments during an…