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U.S. Treasury Department Issues Warning, Says NFTs May Be Used for Money Laundering
The U.S Treasury Department is issuing a warning to investors that non-fungible tokens (NFTs) could be used to launder money. In a new study, the agency says that the ability to transfer NFTs instanta...
NFTs Can be Used for Money Laundering, Says U.S. Treasury Department
A new report by the United States Department of the Treasury has revealed that the burgeoning non-fungible token space could be a conduit for money laundering. It says in the report that the increasin...
How A Taxpayer’s Complaint With The Department Of Justice Could Change Crypto
Last Thursday, the public learned that Joshua and Jessica Jarrett, on behalf of the Attorney General of the United States, had been offered a full refund of $3,793, plus statutory interest, for the 20...
Treasury Department warns NFTs may be used money laundering
advertisement The United States Department of Treasury released a report describing how the non-fungible tokens (NFT) art market fits into money laundering schemes. The Treasury writes that while NFT...
Reforming The U.S. Department Of Defense Is A Must: Dangerous Problems Are Looming
America’s military is still the best in the world. But as this segment of What’s Ahead warns, dangerous problems loom. Our capabilities are declining, while threats from China, Russia and Iran grow. ...
Crypto tax doesn’t legalize trading, says Indian tax department chief
The head of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) in India said the recent announcement of a 30% tax on crypto holdings doesn’t necessarily make the crypto trade legal in India. The finance ministe...
How Low Can Bitcoin Go? The Views Vary.
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size Tighter monetary policies are weighing on speculative assets like crypto, Bitcoin crashed from $43,000 to $33,000 in four days and lost 23% of its value. On Jan. ...
State Department Orders Families Of U.S. Embassy Staff In Ukraine To Leave Country
Topline The U.S. State Department on Sunday ordered the families of American diplomats and embassy personnel in Ukraine to leave the country, amid mounting fears of a Russian invasion. An Aerial view ...
SoFi Stock Set to Rise on the Company’s Growth
Text size These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the vi...
How The US Department Of Energy Is Transforming AI
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has long stood out as one of the most science, technology, and innovation-focused US federal agencies. It should come as little surprise then that the DOE continues t...
Binance was withholding information from regulators, repeatedly shunned own compliance department
In a report published on Friday, Reuters laid out the findings of its investigation into the regulatory compliance practices of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume. ...
Satellite TV Can’t Be Saved With a DirecTV-Dish Merger
Text size In some parts of the country where cable access is limited, Dish and DirecTV remain the only way to get pay-TV subscriptions. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg For 20 years now, Dish Network and rival ...
Labor Department vows to protect workers from Covid after mandate blocked
US Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh speaks about Labor Unions during an event in the East Room of the White House September 8, 2021, in Washington, DC. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images The Labor ...
Biogen’s Alzheimer’s Drug Aduhelm Has Another Shot at Success
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size Biogen ’s Alzheimer’s disease therapy, Aduhelm, has been a disappointment for the company since its Food and Drug Administration approval last spring, with early ...
Deere Goes Autonomous With Its Farmer-Free Tractor
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size One of the biggest themes at this past week’s CES tech show was electric and autonomous transportation—cars, trucks, bikes, boats. And, it turns out, tractors. Fa...
Why Does Goldman Sachs Fund An Economics Department?
Perpetually impoverished Peru has an annual government budget that’s a microscopic fraction of the U.S.’s. What’s spent annually by the South American country’s political class amounts to a tiny round...