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Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Like every American should be, I am concerned. Concerned enough to post about Project Hamilton, and "Project Hamilton’s funding and engagement with the private sector as they seek to develop a CBDC," where one may reasonably wonder, "how the Fed plans to address concerns that many have regarding the dangers a CBDC could pose to financial privacy and financial freedom, which were the subject of over 65% of the letters in response to the Fed’s January 2022 report on CBDCs." That's quoting from a Dec. 1, 2022, Tom Emmer press release concerning a letter of equal date to the head of the Boston Fed. (from Republican Reps Emmer and McHenry, joined in that letter of inquiry by seven House colleagues - italics emphasis added, not in the original)

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  link   Better late to learn of MN CD6 Rep Tom Emmer serving the hustings by asking, with colleagues, a patently obvious question. Boston F...

38 + 2 -- Ride to Remember coverage.

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 Sorensen, who posts at https://www.bluestemprairie.com/ writes of it. This link . https://www.mankatofreepress.com/ coverage at this link...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

Justice Taney bust in the Capitol to be replaced with a bust of Justice Thurgood Marshall. That is the good news. The bad news is, if WaPo reporting got a quote accurately, Steney Hoyer said something extremely ignorant, or had a clear senior moment.

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 WaPo here , and the entire report is worth reading. The story, Congress voted - both Houses, by a voice vote each - to remove the bust in t...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Besides SBF, the others, what of them? Caroline Ellison reportedly is lawyering up, with heavyweights.

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  Alameda Research ex-CEO hires SEC’s former top crypto cop in FTX probe | Fortune She was said to be in Hong Kong. However - Sam Bankman-Fr...

Three NY Times item are helpful in understanding the SBF - FTX spiral.

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  Changpeng Zhao, the founder and chief executive of Binance, was part of a group chat on Signal with key crypto leaders as the rival exchan...
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

An earlier version of this post was withdrawn as in error. Samuel Bankman-Fried has been sued by the SEC in a civil action. Also, an indictment exists.

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  Link . Federal Indictment news, with a pdf copy of the indictment posted Related . SBF in custody, held by Bahamian authorities. The SEC p...
Saturday, December 10, 2022

There are secular seasonal songs, in honor of the separation of church and state.

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link  If you know the Goldberg Variations, there is this - And, Rudolph, a classic - Secular, uber alles !  Not this - unbind your mind, th...