Following a court ruling, the SEC must review its denial of Grayscale Investments' attempt to convert GBTC into an ETF, possibly opening the door to the first U.S. spot bitcoin ETF.
In today's episode of "Money Reimagined," Sheila Warren takes the stage solo, delving into the day's updates on the court ruling. She seamlessly transitions into an insightful conversation about the FX market alongside Alex McDougall, CEO of Stablecorp. Stabecorp is a Canadian-based company that has created the Canadian dollar-backed stablecoin QCAD.
Disclaimer: Grayscale and CoinDesk share the same parent company, Digital Currency Group (DCG).Links mentioned in the show.
Money Reimagined has been produced and edited by senior producer Michele Musso and our executive producer is Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is “The News Tonight ” by Shimmer.
Hurricane Idalia hits Florida. Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio sentenced for seditious conspiracy in the January 6th attack. Mutiny in Gabon. The FBI takes down a notorious hacking network. Correspondent Steve Kathan has these stories and more on Wednesday's World News Roundup:
Tesla has spurred the EV revolution around the world, most notably in China. So why is the US so far behind on EV adoption, when it's the birthplace of Tesla? What went wrong here?
The Chicago City Council Committee on Housing and Real Estate gave initial approval for Chicago to buy land to convert a Marine Corps training center into a temporary migrant shelter. We got an update on the groundwork the Johnson administration is laying to create more infrastructure for newly-arriving migrants. We talked to WBEZ politics reporters Mariah Woelfel and Tessa Weinberg.
This week, we’re joined by our pal Vinson Cunningham, staff writer and theatre critic for The New Yorker.
After briefly interrogating Jay’s recent pivot to dad-hiker fashion (pic for subscribers only), we hear Vinson’s take on the Trump mugshot. [4:05] The image gets us talking about aesthetic self-perception, the celebrity accused in popular culture, and the lack of a good analysis of Trump’s true appeal. [41:45] Next, we discuss last week’s G.O.P. primary debate, which causes Jay to confront what fascinates him about Vivek Ramaswamy, Tammy to question her EMILYs List impulses, and Vinson to call b******t on right-wing claims of populism.
In this episode, we ask:
How does the Trump mugshot, a visual anomaly in the history of presidential imagery, reflect on our political system? What’s the value of similar pix in countries where former leaders are regularly imprisoned?
Is there any ceiling on this Trump thing?
Why didn’t the G.O.P. primary debate feature more culture-war talk?
For more, see:
* Vinson’s recent piece about the Trump mugshot, plus older ruminations on presidential imagery:
* Out of respect for our many repeat guests, we note that this episode marks Vinson’s fourth TTSG appearance, which ties him with Hua Hsu and Jenny Wang Medina.
Three months into the counteroffensive, the military is reaping the fruits of several months of drone development. But as the war continues, will it be able to scale up its capacity and outpace Russia? New international laws cracking down on Caribbean tax havens seem to be working (10:03). And politicians reignite an old debate on official language use in Spain (17:21).
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The new SAVE program could be a lifeline if you're worried about repaying your federal student loans. Find out seven benefits of SAVE, ways to manage student loans wisely, and how they affect your credit.
In May, we jumped on the mics for an interview on Adweek’s podcast, Young Influentials. In this 30 minute episode, you’ll jump-in TBOY-style… to The Best One Yet.
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The United States consists of 50 states, each of which is represented by a star on the American flag.
Most of those states consist of some section of North America divided by lines on a map that separate them from other states, Canada, or Mexico.
But there is one state that is not like the others. It isn’t located in North America. It doesn’t have a land border with anything, and its route to statehood was unlike any other state in the union.
Learn more about the long and controversial way Hawaii became a state on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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