Credit: Pixabay from Pexels A Blue Origin rocket launched cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun and five others on a trip to the edge of space and back. The flight lifted off on Sunday at 7:42 a.m. local time from West Texas on a short suborbital joyride to space. Sun founded TRON, a blockchain platform, and serves
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Twenty-year-old Eric Mun didn’t want to believe it: Only one kid in the family could make it to medical school—and it wasn’t going to be him. Mun had done everything right. He graduated high school with honors, earned a scholarship at Northwestern University and breezed through his biology courses. He immigrated
Determinants of moneyness in the credit theory of money. Credit: Review of International Political Economy (2025). DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2025.2476738 A recent study published by political scientists at Freie Universität Berlin, Christopher Olk and Louis Miebs, indicates that the global cryptocurrency system has been undergoing significant transformations. The crypto system, which was originally intended as an alternative
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Banks facing regulatory sanctions for financial misconduct tend to adopt riskier business practices, according to new research. The authors warn repeated or systemic misconduct can accelerate risk-taking in ways that weaken both individual institutions and the wider financial system. Researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA), the US Department of