Cryptos Crash After BitMEX Founders, Execs Face CFTC Charges (Gold And Iron Ore Up, Oil Down)

by confoundedinterest17 Washington, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced the filing of a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York charging five entities and three individuals that own and operate the BitMEX trading platform with operating an unregistered trading platform and violating multiple CFTC regulations, including failing to implement … Read more

The War On Terror Gone Mad: Chicago Police Consider Expired Parking A “Public Safety Threat”

by mapi America’s ‘War On Terror’ has gone mad. Two recent Chicago Tribune stories describe how America’s ‘War on Terror’ has been taken to an absurd level by the Mayor of Chicago, Illinois, and the Chicago Police Department. The first article describes how the Chicago police have considered vehicles at expired parking meters to be a “public safety threat,” … Read more