These Traditional Finance Giants Bought Bitcoin ETFs Last Quarter

cryptopotato.com Bitcoin keeps touching new levels of adoption in the real world, with traditional finance (TradFi) firms embracing the digital asset at a remarkable pace. The significant…

Big Business Wants Bitcoin on Bankless

bankless.com Bitcoin saw a ~10% rally this week, breaking through $67K on Friday due to positive CPI readings and . • Millennium Management, one of the world’s largest hedge funds,…

MacKinnon: Poor kid from the projects in Toledo makes a positive impact in Boston

bostonherald.com Like Boston and a number of other cities, Toledo, Ohio, has its tougher and more challenging neighborhoods. Tom Seeman grew up in a family of fourteen in a predominantly…

Lupe Fiasco Announces New Album, Debuts New Video for ‘Samurai’

billboard.com Lupe Fiasco is set to drop his follow up to 2022’s Drill Music In Zion as he links up once again with longtime producer Soundtrakk for a full project. Samurai has a release…

Dozens of Morehouse College staff vote against giving Biden degree

newsweek.com Dozens of Morehouse College staff have voted against giving President Joe Biden an honorary doctorate amid protests at universities around the country over his handling of…

More capital is not the answer

ft.com An interview with Yale’s Steven Kelly

Columbia faculty passes vote of no confidence in President Shafik over protest response

axios.com The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University passed a vote of no confidence in president Minouche Shafik on Thursday, multiple outlets reported. Why it matters:…

The myth that money supply controls inflation is being revived. Here’s how it failed its most ardent believer

fortune.com After a decade of unsatisfactory leadership and economic and political turbulence, Britons will soon be heading to the polls to elect a new government. Although, for many,…

Review: In ‘Invasive Species,’ the Acting Bug Bites, Dramatically

nytimes.com Maia Novi’s “Invasive Species” is being marketed as an outrageous dark comedy, but it’s a quieter play than that: about being an Argentine immigrant with Hollywood…

Google opens up its smart home to everyone and will make Google TVs home hubs

theverge.com The Home APIs can access any Matter device or Works with Google Home device, and allows developers to build their own experiences using Google Home devices and automations…

Boston-Based Hedge Fund Accumulates $363,000,000 Million Worth of Bitcoin ETF Shares: Bloomberg Analyst

dailyhodl.com A Boston-based hedge fund has gobbled up $363 million worth of spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) shares. Bracebridge Capital has reported owning $262 million…

Psychedelics could treat some of the worst chronic pain in the world

vox.com Anton Vierietin/Getty Images Decades of citizen science are finally translating into clinical trials for psychedelic pain treatments. Here’s another strange and…

I was accepted to Yale. Here's everything I included in my successful Ivy League application

businessinsider.com The author got into Yale with his successful college application. Courtesy of Eric Gan & Brian Zhang I got into Yale University after submitting a successful college…

Who’s Buying The Bitcoin ETFs? Bitwise CIO Shares Exclusive Insights

bitcoinist.com In a new memo, Matt Hougan, Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan offered a detailed analysis of the early adopters of Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) based on…

Damien Conover and Rebecca Springer: ‘We Are in a Healthcare Consumerization Moment Right Now’

the-long-view.simplecast.com We have two guests this week on The Long View, our colleagues, Damien Conover and Rebecca Springer, who both focus on healthcare investing—Damien on the public equity side…

ShowUp Presents 'Cutting Edge: Contemporary Papercutting' featuring the work of Béatrice Coron, Lorraine Bubar, Hazel Glass, Rebecca Rose Greene, Mark Curtis…

benzinga.com BOSTON, May 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- ShowUp is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition , featuring the work of Lorraine Bubar, Béatrice Coron, Hazel Glass, Rebecca…

Greg Abbott's four-word response after university's DEI ruling

newsweek.com Texas Governor Greg Abbott praised the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) on Monday after its board of trustees voted to redirect $2.3 million in diversity…

Meet the officials making key parts of Biden's climate agenda a reality

newsweek.com President Joe Biden has spearheaded the biggest government investment in renewable energy, clean manufacturing and electric vehicles in history. Now, with the clock ticking…

Hong Kong proves resilient as Hang Seng Index reclaims 19,000 in bull run

scmp.com The rally added more than US$1 trillion (HKS$7.82 trillion) in capitalisation back to the stock market. Investors were encouraged by policy support from China, as well as…

Race to Erase Raises $1.5 Million for MS Research With the Help of Natasha Bedingfield, A Great Big World and Caroline Rhea

variety.com Hollywood’s support for Race to Erase MS kept rolling into its 31st year Friday at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, helping the Nancy Davis-led charity raise $1.5…

Opening Bell: 4.5.24

dealbreaker.com New York City shakes as 4.8 magnitude earthquake hits US north-east [Guardian]The New York police department’s deputy commissioner of operations, Kaz Daughtry, said in a…

Steward’s landlord Medical Properties Trust posts $736M loss in Q1 as hospitals flounder

finance.yahoo.com None Hospital landlord Medical Properties Trust posted a $736 million loss for the first quarter Thursday, compared to an income of $33 million in the same period the year…

A challenge to leftist bias moves into America’s public universities

economist.com In 1951 a 25-year-old Yale graduate published a 240-page polemic inveighing against his alma mater’s left-leaning bias. The book launched the career of William F. Buckley,…

How long does it take for a college degree to pay off? For many, it's 5 years or less

cbsnews.com One of the major questions facing families today is whether a college degree is worth the expense, given rising tuition and fees that can saddle graduates with tens of…

Trying to blackmail Columbia University is a bad look for these Trump judges

msnbc.com This week 13 conservative judges, all of whom were appointed by former President Donald Trump, told the president of Columbia University in a letter that they won’t hire as…

Ron DeSantis says letting people buy cultivated meat is like forcing them to eat bugs

reason.com It is not yet clear whether the alternative protein products known variously as "lab-grown," "cell-cultivated," or "cultured" meat will deliver the environmental benefits…

The great Republican counter-protest of 2024

semafor.com The Scene James Comer and his colleagues were not on George Washington University’s campus for very long. They arrived at 2 p.m. on Wednesday — first for private meetings…

Celine Song’s ‘Materialists’ Adds Zoë Winters, Dasha Nekrasova, Louisa Jacobson and Marin Ireland (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com Celine Song‘s “Materialists” has rounded out its cast with Zoë Winters (“Succession”), Dasha Nekrasova (“Bad Behaviour,” “Wobble Palace”), Louisa Jacobson (“The Gilded Age”)…

13 conservative federal judges say they won't hire Columbia grads over protests

axios.com 13 conservative federal judges said they would not hire law students or undergraduates from Columbia University over how the school responded to recent pro-Palestinian…

Tiffany Haddish Says Pro-Palestine College Protesters 'Would Be Way More Effective' If They Took the Issue to Congress

thewrap.com Tiffany Haddish clarified incendiary comments she made about pro-Palestine demonstrations on college campuses at a recent Netflix Is a Joke stand-up show, emphasizing that…

Is running a top university America’s hardest job?

economist.com Wanted: presidents for America’s top universities. Applicants must possess an unimpeachable academic record. Marc Tessier-Lavigne resigned as president of Stanford…

Columbia, the Boycotting Judges, Neutrals, and Secondary Boycotts

reason.com The boycott of Columbia graduates by a group of judges led me to the following thoughts (adapted from a post about the 2022 boycott of Yale Law graduates, which was begun by…

Warren Buffett compares AI to nuclear weapons in stark warning

cnn.com At his annual shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, the 93 year-old co-founder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway issued a stark warning about the potential dangers…

How to Survive the Forever Election

vanityfair.com I don’t know about you, but it feels to me like it’s been the 2024 election forever—or at least since 2022. The past year and a half has been such an exhausting series of…

US Equities: 9% Forever?

ritholtz.com It’s taken me months to organize all of my research for my next book project; it’s a lot of stuff, some dating back to 2000. Much of it reflects the bad ideas and numbers,…

Russian soldiers were convicted of over 100 murders when they returned home last year, a report says

businessinsider.com Soldiers march during the Victory Day military parade to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War at Red Square on May 9,…