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Must Reads
Hell Is Empty And All the Hedge Fund Managers Are At The Bellagio (I hope one day I can write half as good as this person, The Concourse)
When the Left Turns on Its Own (Total insanity, The New York Times)
The Campus Mob Came for Me—and You, Professor, Could Be Next (More on the insanity above, The Wall Street Journal)
Chinese Workers “Disappeared” While Investigating Ivanka Trump Brands (Lovely, Zerohedge)
How to Lose $8k Worth of Bitcoin in 15 Minutes with Verizon and Coinbase.com (Very disturbing, a similar thing happened to me, Medium)
Ross Ulbricht Loses His Appeal Over Conviction and Sentencing in Silk Road Case (This is so messed up, Reason)
U.S. Politics
Ex-DNC Aide Hits Back Hard at Clinton, Says Her Campaign Ignored Data on Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin (I repeat, Hillary Clinton wants to run again, The Washington Post)
Franken: Clinton, Dems Need to ‘Move On’ from 2016 Loss (True, but I see no evidence, The Hill)
Geopolitics/WW3
‘Shocked’ South Korea Leader Orders Probe into U.S. THAAD Additions (Reuters)
In Wake of Trump Visit, Saudi-led Sunni Bloc Already Splintering (Al Monitor)
Trump’s Climate Pullback Opens Door to Chinese Leadership (China should be leading here, AP)
Syrian Rebels say Russian Jets Halt Advance on Desert Outpost (Syria is the definition of a quagmire, Reuters)
France Says No Trace of Russian Hacking Macron (AP)
Italy PM Says Agrees that Europe Must Take Fate into Own Hands (Reuters)
Economy/Finance
Why Bitcoin Needs Washington to Go Mainstream (Fortune)
The IRS is Due to Present its Digital Currency Strategy to Congress Next Week (Coindesk)
Energy Sector Turns to Ethereum to Test Blockchain (Coindesk)
Iran Introduced a Basic Income Scheme, and Something Strange Happened (WEF)
Miscellaneous
Hackers Break into Centralized Password Manager OneLogin (Los Angeles Times)
ACT NOW! In 9 days, the European Parliament Could Pass a Truly Terrible Copyright Expansion (BoingBoing)
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I read the Bellagio article after the reading about the goings-on at Evergreen. It got me thinking. Those angry kids are not directing their anger at the right targets. They need to charter a bus to the Hamptons. 😉