Hong Kong to impose unprecedented ban on pro-independence party
"The development marks the first time since the former British colony’s return to Chinese rule in 1997 that it has sought to outlaw a political organisation."
Nicaraguan army overruns neighborhood controlled by protesters
"Protests against cuts to the social security system that began three months ago have since became a broader call for Ortega to leave office. Ortega's government has dismissed opponents as delinquents attempting a coup d'etat."
Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything
"At the intersection of programming, economics, cryptography, distributed systems, information theory, and math, you will find Vitalik Buterin, who has managed to synthesize insights across those fields into successful, real-world applications like Ethereum, which aims to decentralize the Internet."
Florida City Forced To Drop $10,000+ In Fines Against Home’s ‘Starry’ Paint Job
"City officials claimed the display constituted an unapproved 'sign' because it attracted people to look at the house. The couple were fined $100 per day."
America has a nobility problem
"The single biggest characteristic of today’s nobility is impunity, and — just as with the privileges associated with titles of nobility in the England our Framers rejected — this privilege extends not only to the titled, but to their retainers, in this case police and other government bureaucrats."
Former Fed officials lament taxpayers’ inability to see necessity of bank bailouts
"The three asserted that they had no choice but to use taxpayer money to stabilize the financial institutions. Paulson said, 'I was totally ineffective at having the American people understand that what we were doing was for them and not for Wall Street.'"
Status Report: More Than 17 States Nullifying the Federal Ban on Hemp
The federal government says it’s illegal to grow hemp for commercial purposes. But people in more than 17 states are doing it anyway.
New Nebraska Law Limits ALPR Data, Helps Block National License Plate Tracking Program
LINCOLN, Neb. (July 18, 2018) – Tomorrow, a Nebraska law goes into effect that puts limitations on the storage and sharing of information collected by Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) by law enforcement in the state. The new law also places significant roadblocks in the way of a federal program using states to help track…
U.S., BIS refuse to answer questions about gold market interventions
"That the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, BIS, JPMorganChase, and IMF refuse to answer the questions spelled out here shows that they fear that exposure can beat them."
Foreign investment in the U.S. plunged 32% in 2017 amid global decline
"Global foreign direct investment flows were down 18% in 2017 from the previous year and nearly 24% from its post-recession high in 2015, which the OECD attributed to a surge in financial and corporate restructuring."
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