Month: July 2021

Elon Musk is “pro nuclear.” So said Musk on Wednesday while talking about making bitcoin mining sustainable at at The B-Word conference hosted by the Crypto Council for Innovation. Nuclear energy is considered “clean energy” because generating nuclear energy does not release greenhouse gasses. But due to some high-profile accidents, legacy nuclear power plants can have
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Mark “Forger” Stucky, after piloting the company’s first successful spaceflight on December 13, 2018. Virgin Galactic Mark “Forger” Stucky, Virgin Galactic‘s flight test director and pilot, is no longer with the space tourism company. “I am now a former Director of Flight Test and former SpaceShipTwo pilot,” Stucky wrote in a post on LinkedIn. He
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Brooklyn Law School professor Steven Dean’s recent piece “A Plea to President Biden to Stop Perpetuating Racist Tax Policy” declares that failure to address racist domestic and international tax policies, like the disparities between the majority Black countries among blacklisted countries and tax havens such as Ireland and Switzerland, would prevent the fulfillment of President Biden’s promises to rid our nation of systemic
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An illustration showing the cryptocurrency bitcoin with a price chart in the background. STR | NurPhoto via Getty Images Funding for blockchain start-ups topped $4 billion for the first time in the second quarter, despite a sharp slump in cryptocurrency prices. Companies in the nascent industry raised a record $4.38 billion, according to data from
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People frequently tell me that they took a financial action at least partly “because it would save a few tax dollars.” Too often, a careful analysis of the situation reveals the action leaves them with fewer after-tax dollars. A classic case is the mortgage interest deduction. People often believe that owning a home with a
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Chinese authorities have promoted the use of the yuan worldwide, while the U.S. dollar dominates global transactions. Getty Images BEIJING — When it comes to the investment outlook, one Chinese economist predicts once-a-century opportunities will emerge from a “struggle for supremacy” between the U.S. and China. This game-changing window comes from upheaval on both sides,
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If you’re used to getting one refund check from the U.S. Treasury after you file your individual tax return with the Internal Revenue Service, you might be surprised this year to keep getting checks—or direct deposit payments. What’s going on? The IRS is still sending out third round stimulus payments, plus-up stimulus payments for those
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Top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci responds to accusations by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) as he testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Capitol hill in Washington, D.C., July 20, 2021. J. Scott Applewhite | Pool | Reuters White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said fully vaccinated people
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