Gold
Ties Between Alex Jones and Radio Network Show Economics of Misinformation
Ted Anderson, a precious metals seller, was hoping to rustle up some business for his gold and silver dealership when he started a radio network out of a Minneapolis suburb a couple of decades ago. Soon after, he signed a brash young radio host named Alex Jones. Together, they ended up shaping today’s misinformation economy. […]
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A New York Homecoming for the ‘Queen of Hoops’
In New York’s SoHo area on a recent overcast afternoon, the windows of the new Jennifer Fisher store had a futuristic glow. Inside, women in flowing summer dresses and fitted denim browsed cases filled with gold-plated hoop earrings and customizable charms. The walls formed a virtual hall of mirrors, with exposed brick for good measure […]
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G7 Leaders Work to Punish Russia Over Ukraine War
TELFS, Austria — Leaders of the Group of 7 nations said Sunday they would stop buying gold from Moscow and discussed a new American proposal to undercut its oil revenues, even as Russian forces rained missiles on Kyiv for the first time in weeks. The dueling escalation underscored how the war in Ukraine has consumed […]
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Bitcoin Is Increasingly Acting Like Just Another Tech Stock
SAN FRANCISCO — Bitcoin was conceived more than a decade ago as “digital gold,” a long-term store of value that would resist broader economic trends and provide a hedge against inflation. But Bitcoin’s crashing price over the last month shows that vision is a long way from reality. Instead, traders are increasingly treating the cryptocurrency […]
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It’s Gold, Baby. But Niclas Castello’s Cube Is Nothing New in Art.
The fun thing about conceptual art is that it’s totally easy to create. You can say something about the increasingly virtual way many of us experience the world, and the explosive popularity of NFTs (nonfungible tokens) — or seem to say something profound, anyway — just by staging a Central Park happening around a knee-high […]
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