How Donald Trump’s Crypto Dealings Push the Bounds of Corruption
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/how-donald-trumps-crypto-dealings-push-the-bounds-of-corruption
With the meme coin $TRUMP and the company World Liberty Financial, the President is using an underregulated industry to enrich himself and court foreign influence.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/how-donald-trumps-crypto-dealings-push-the-bounds-of-corruption
With the meme coin $TRUMP and the company World Liberty Financial, the President is using an underregulated industry to enrich himself and court foreign influence.
Crypto has become the ultimate swamp asset
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/05/15/crypto-has-become-the-ultimate-swamp-asset
An industry that dreamed of being above politics has become synonymous with self-dealing.
The crypto industry is suddenly at the heart of American politics
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2025/05/15/the-crypto-industry-is-suddenly-at-the-heart-of-american-politics
Thank the Trump family’s investments, friendly regulators and lavish election spending.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/05/15/crypto-has-become-the-ultimate-swamp-asset
An industry that dreamed of being above politics has become synonymous with self-dealing.
The crypto industry is suddenly at the heart of American politics
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2025/05/15/the-crypto-industry-is-suddenly-at-the-heart-of-american-politics
Thank the Trump family’s investments, friendly regulators and lavish election spending.
The Crypto President
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/podcasts/the-daily/trump-crypto-world-liberty-financial.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/podcasts/the-daily/trump-crypto-world-liberty-financial.html
American Exceptionalism Meets Its Maker
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-damaging-pillars-of-american-economic-dominance-by-barry-eichengreen-2025-05
A transactional president has revealed the US to be a transactional society, where the highest returns accrue to rent seeking and cronyism, not to initiative and innovation. Sooner or later, productivity growth will become a casualty.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-damaging-pillars-of-american-economic-dominance-by-barry-eichengreen-2025-05
A transactional president has revealed the US to be a transactional society, where the highest returns accrue to rent seeking and cronyism, not to initiative and innovation. Sooner or later, productivity growth will become a casualty.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/business/trump-debanking-crypto.html
There is a degree of political agreement over so-called debanking, but no easy answers to the hot topic in Washington.
Digital gold: Is Bitcoin the future of money?
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/554998-is-bitcoin-the-future-of-money/