The FinCEN Files Show Banks Don’t Actually Care About Stopping Money Laundering
The massive leak of suspicious activity reports shows how banks let the government know about likely money laundering, then go right on providing services.
The massive leak of suspicious activity reports shows how banks let the government know about likely money laundering, then go right on providing services.
This week’s “Long Reads Sunday” reading is from macro analyst Lyn Alden and focuses on the inflation vs. deflation debate in historical context.
Kraken became the first crypto exchange to win a U.S. banking license this week. Here’s why that matters.
Governments have significant discretion over economics and finance today, but decentralized network-driven alternatives threaten that control.
The percentage of companies that can’t afford to pay the interest on their debt has reached a new all-time high in the wake of central bank intervention.
As Oracle wins a bid for TikTok US, a look at how tech competition, culture competition and currency competition shape the business of geopolitics.
A reading of “How to Diagnose Your Own Dutch Disease,” a look at the problems of America’s dollar trade.
Recapping the biggest stories of the week, including Joe Biden’s China plan, a market holding pattern and, of course, the strange competitive saga of SUSHI.
We explore Filecoin's Space Race and Web 3.0’s future on CoinDesk Live, Sept. 15-16.
In an interview with CoinDesk Japan, a former Bank of Japan official said the country has many reasons to seriously consider a digital yen.
SushiSwap cofounder Maki believes the project can expand to include other chains, he told CoinDesk China in an exclusive interview.
A legacy of artificially low interest rates is not just the death of savings, but a forced buying into the perpetual growth machine of financial asset prices.
The Hedge Fund legend says in a new interview the Federal Reserve’s policies have created a massive asset bubble while making both inflation and deflation more likely.
Critiques of correlation between bitcoin and equities miss the fact that bitcoin adoption within traditional markets has been driven by a fiat collapse concern.
Whether the U.S. government likes it or not, the world is demanding crypto-dollars and the private market is ready to supply them.
A reading on revolutions from the late great David Graeber.
The markets kicked off the week with a 5-1 Tesla stock split rally and ended with major questions about tech company valuations.
From the U.S. presidential elections of 1896 to the dot-com bubble to housing markets in 2006, these historical moments help us make sense of a truly WTF year.
A look at the subculture and ethos driving the white-hot DeFi space, which has grown from $2 billion to $9 billion in total value locked in just two months.
The booming stock market is driven by perception of the Federal Reserve’s commitment to high prices and growing individual trading, but how sustainable is it?
nChain Chief Scientist Craig Wright has delivered an obscenity-laden interview discussing decentralized finance and stablecoins, calling such projects a "complete scam" and "illegal."
An early supporter of the now defunct blockchain-based Civil is taking another swing at a writer-owned media collective. She hasn't lost faith in blockchain.
The Winklevoss brothers make an argument that, in the long run, bitcoin is the only good safe haven.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell tried to make it seem like the end of an era, but didn’t inspire confidence in the central bank’s ability to lead in the era that comes next.
From COVID-19 relapses to election insecurity, these factors drive defensiveness up and demand down.
Millennials and Generation Zers have many reasons to embrace crypto and reform the financial system in their own interests.
The harrowing incident highlights the proliferation of risky investment schemes and dubious operators in the crypto industry, but also blockchain technology’s potential to help track missing funds.
The Federal Reserve Chair announced a slate of new policy approaches, but are they inspired or impotent?
Axie Infinity, a NFT trading game running on Ethereum, has proven a pandemic lifeline for a small community north of Manila.
As companies have to shift their business model to contend with low interest rates, the largest find themselves in a comparatively better situation.
