The Prime Minister of Malta, Joseph Muscat, has said that cryptocurrencies are the “inevitable future of money,” and that blockchain can galvanize a more transparent and equitable society. […] More

You can inject one under your skin and no one will ever notice. Using short-range radio frequency identification (RFID) signals, it can transmit your identity as you pass through a […] More

I’ve had it with all of these spy novel theories about Mueller flipping and how indictments against Hillary and Podesta are coming. This shit all started with a few […] More

March 14, 2016 — The pharmaceutical industry has poured $49 million into a campaign against a California ballot measure aimed at limiting state spending on prescription drugs, according to […] More

In my last post on congressional productivity I wrote that so far in the 113th Congress (2013-2014) the fewest number of bills have been enacted than in any corresponding time period in […] More

This post is by Brad Setser and Paul Swartz of the Council on Foreign Relations. No doubt today’s GDP release will attract the lion’s share of the econoblogosphere’s attention. But […] More

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Kashagan oil complex. Photo: kapital.kz. Used under Creative Commons license Unaoil, a lobbying firm based in Monaco, is being investigated by authorities in Australia, the U.K. and the U.S. […] More