Fascism doesn’t start by kicking down the door. Sometimes it demands a settlement, manipulates a corporate merger, cancels a comedian, or silences the press. Some thought it couldn’t happen here. But the evidence is all around us. Yesterday news broke that CBS is reportedly appointing Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief of its news division — part […]
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Elizabeth Spiers is a co-host of Slate Money, a podcast about the financial news of the week, and a former buy side equity analyst.
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Texas’ Elected Officials Want to Spend Your Money on Cryptocurrency
Our friends at Texas Observer are reporting that your elected Republican officials — Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and GOP state senator Charles Schwertner, specifically — want to establish a Bitcoin reserve for Texas. If that isn’t the dumbest sentence you’ve read this morning, let’s keep going! The “Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and Investment Act” would […]