Monday morning news drop
As Scrutiny of Cryptocurrency Grows, the Industry Turns to K Street Companies behind digital currencies are rushing to hire well-connected lobbyists, lawyers and consultants as the battle over how to regulate them intensifies. (New York Times)
The economics of movie product placements Today’s films are brimming with products from big-name brands. How exactly do these partnerships work? Each year, hundreds of products — cars, computers, clothing, kitchen appliances, and lawn chairs — grace the silver screen. (The Hustle)
10 Things You Shouldn’t Care About as an Investor It’s never been easier to pay attention to everything that’s going on with the markets, economy, individual companies or your own portfolio. People used to get their paper statements in the mail on a monthly basis to know what was going on with their investments. Now we can watch the changes in market values instantaneously. (A Wealth of Common Sense)
The Climate Solution Actually Adding Millions of Tons of CO2 Into the Atmosphere New research shows that California’s climate policy created up to 39 million carbon credits that aren’t achieving real carbon savings. But companies can buy these forest offsets to justify polluting more anyway. (ProPublica)
COVID-19: Leaked reports show B.C. health authorities withholding data from the public B.C. doesn’t make anywhere near the same level of detail available to the public as other provinces (Vancouver Sun)
Why getting vaccinated for Covid-19 is more popular in the UK than in the US The UK has world-leading vaccine enthusiasm. What can the rest of the world learn? (Vox)
Vaccine Passports This is where business and law intersect, and not peacefully. (Lefsetz)
Trump’s Big Lie Devoured the G.O.P. and Now Eyes Our Democracy We are not OK. America’s democracy is still in real danger. In fact, we are closer to a political civil war — more than at any other time in our modern history. Today’s seeming political calm is actually resting on a false bottom that we’re at risk of crashing through at any moment. Because, instead of Trump’s Big Lie fading away, just the opposite is happening — first slowly and now quickly. Under Trump’s command and control from Mar-a-Largo, and with the complicity of most of his party’s leaders, that Big Lie — that the greatest election in our history, when more Republicans and Democrats voted than ever before, in the midst of a pandemic, must have been rigged because Trump lost — has metastasized. It’s being embraced by a solid majority of elected Republicans and ordinary party members — local, state and national. (New York Times)
Here’s just how much people have stopped talking about Trump on Facebook and Twitter Trump used to be everywhere on social media. Now he’s nowhere. (Vox)
