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Microsoft and Amazon Cloud Services Exposed to Widespread SolarWinds Hack

CPO Magazine | Alicia Hope | Jan 4, 2020 While the SolarWinds hack primarily targeted in-house infrastructure, the breach has morphed into a multidimensional assault on key computing infrastructure, including cloud services. The SolarWinds supply chain attack, which was broad in scope and sophisticated in nature and execution, could affect popular cloud-based services provided by key players,


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Vitalik’s 2020 Year End Thoughts from Singapore

Vitalik Buterin | Dec 28, 2020 I'm writing this sitting in Singapore, the city in which I've now spent nearly half a year of uninterrupted time - an unremarkable duration for many, but for myself the longest I've stayed in any one place for nearly a decade. After months of fighting what may perhaps even


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Oatly, vegan food brand backed by Oprah, is planning to IPO this year, sources say

The company is backed by Blackstone, Oprah Winfrey and Natalie Portman.

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Investors handicapping the new market year see similarities to 2010's recovery and 1999's risk binge

The year 2021 begins as an apparent hybrid of 2010 (early-cycle recovery), 1999 (late-cycle risk binge) and the early-1940s.

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Investors handicapping the new market year see similarities to 2010 recovery and 1999 risk binge

The year 2021 begins as an apparent hybrid of 2010 (early-cycle recovery), 1999 (late-cycle risk binge) and the early-1940s.

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Stop Calling Them ‘Dumb Money’: Retail Investors Are Revolutionizing the Stock Market

CATO Institute | Jennifer J. Schulp | Jan 4, 2020 Are you “dumb money?” I am. You probably are too. Wall Street institutions — so‐​called “smart money” — usually throw around the phrase to describe investment activity they don’t like. And by “dumb money,” they usually mean individual, or “retail,” investors. Retail investors are big news


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FCA Issues Temporary Registration Ahead of Crypto Ban to Retail Investors

FN | Bérengère Sim | Jan 4, 2020 On 6 October, the City regulator had banned the sale of crypto products to retail investors in the UK, saying that the “extreme volatility” of cryptocurrencies made them “ill-suited” for retail customers, as well as the prevalence of market abuse and financial crime in the secondary market.


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LabCFTC Releases Primer on Digital Assets

LabCFTC | Release | Dec 17, 2020 Washington, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today released a Digital Assets Primer to provide updated information to the public about emerging concepts in digital assets. The primer is part of a series issued by the CFTC’s innovation office, LabCFTC, and is the second to delve into issues


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Four Levers to Deleverage the Economy | Summary of Ray Dalio’s Economic Machine

No Filter | Steve Glaveski | Jan 4, 2020 Ray Dalio is one of most successful hedge fund managers of our time, having founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 — a company which today boasts US $160 billion in assets under management. Needless to say, Dalio is a billionaire in his own right. He credits much


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Haven, the Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan venture to disrupt healthcare, is disbanding after 3 years

The announcement in 2018 that the CEOs of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase had teamed up sent shock waves throughout the world of health care.

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Carl Icahn warns that the market rally could end in a painful correction and is hedging accordingly

Billionaire Carl Icahn told CNBC that "wild rallies" always end in the same dramatic fashion.

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Some people will get debit cards for their $600 stimulus payment. Here's what you need to know

$600 stimulus payments for some Americans will come as a Visa debit card. Here's what those people should be aware of.

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Avoid these costly mistakes when rolling over a 401(k) to an IRA

There are some rules and situations to be aware of before you roll over your workplace plan assets to an IRA.

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$600 stimulus checks are targeted by scammers. Here's what to watch out for

The IRS is warning people to be on the lookout for text message scams promising direct payments in exchange for personal financial information.

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Some states start paying $300 unemployment boost while others lag

A handful of states, like Arizona, California, New York and Rhode Island, are paying a $300 enhancement to weekly unemployment benefits starting this week.

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