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Value and the Bitcoin Question

March 4, 2021   ·   0 Comments

by Luis R. CHACIN With the pandemic accelerating the adoption of digital payments and the growing movement towards open banking and decentralized finance (DeFi), with ...

Lanyards and clipboards

by BRIAN LOCKHART I was watching the most recent Mars landing a couple of weeks ago.  It was pretty impressive to see the lander falling ...

Dubai: the Sheikh and his daughters

by GWYNNE DYER Dubai can be amusing, in a voyeuristic way, for a week or two. Tallest building in the world and the mall with ...

Criminals? No, jail the good guys

by BRIAN LOCKHART One of the great things about living in our Federation is the fact that the criminal justice system is equal across the ...

Burma: Back to Basics

by GWYNNE DYER China’s Xinhua news agency tactfully described the Burmese army’s seizure of power on Monday as a ‘cabinet reshuffle’. This suggests a possible ...

The golden age

by BRIAN LOCKHART The phrase ‘the golden age’ refers to a period where something, originally mankind itself, was in a flourishing and outstanding period of ...

Meet the new boss

by BRIAN LOCKHART I don’t really follow American politics – at least not at the level people in that country would. If I’m going to ...

The First Robots

by GWYNNE DYER They were planning to put on a play written by an artificial intelligence program in Prague this month, to mark the invention ...

‘American’ Democracy

Written by GWYNNE DYER If I have to read one more hand-wringing article about the ‘crisis of American democracy’ and what it means for the ...

Another payout

Written by BRIAN LOCKHART You take a look out over your property and realize it’s time to hire a gardener. Buying ten acres of country ...

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