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Resilience, Risk, and Transformation

AI-related market corrections, sharp rises in sovereign bond yields, and cyber threats could trigger market turmoil, while financial vulnerabilities could amplify these risks into systemic events. The growing footprint of hedge funds could further exacerbate adverse market dynamics during periods of stress.

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Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books —…— Lina Khan (@linamkhan) September 13, 2026

The Market Minute: No Porn Investments Please, Vice Clauses And How They’ve Evolved

As much as funding to startups is up and it seems like all sorts of companies are raising money, there’s still one thing stopping investment in certain companies: vice clauses.

Hedge Funds: Even Millennium and Citadel's Losing Traders Are Hot Recruits

With talent in short supply, top firms are looking at rival loss-making portfolio managers as a rare hiring opportunity.

Ethical Licenses Talking Points

beyond the basics

‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company

$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.

“They’ll Just Make It Illegal”

Cryptocurrencies, Public Goods & the State Late last year, I and a colleague from HKS were meeting with a VC I’d gotten to know in San Francisco. As an opening salvo in the conversation, the VC…

I'm very sorry, but you're going to have to learn to love the blockchain | TechCrunch

I apologize. I get it. You hear "blockchain" and you immediately think "shady get-rich-quick schemes" or "bubble of magical fake Internet money" or

Meta tolerates rampant ad fraud from China to safeguard billions in revenue

Meta avoids cracking down on the scams to minimize "revenue impact."

Corporate Bungling And Political Scandal Abound In Jesse Eisinger's New Book

Why don't crooked corporate CEO's go to jail anymore? Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger uncovers culture of cowardice, incompetence, and corruption in both government and finance.

A brief history of AI executives calling for regulation

The industry is in a panic, but it’s been claiming to want legal guardrails for years — with few meaningful results.

Issue 102 – The public will pay

Justin Sun buys his way out of an SEC fraud case, Iranian transactions on Binance draw DOJ scrutiny as the exchange sues the newspaper that reported on them, and crypto super PACs dump millions into Tuesday’s primaries in Illinois.

Paywall violation ‘eviscerates’ fair use defense: What OpenAI-NYT twist means for publishers

The unsealed material could set a precedent that fuels more lawsuits against AI firms and strengthens publishers hand in licensing talks.

The Secret of Billions

Wall Street is crooked. This is not really a surprise to anyone. I lived on the street. And I worked on the street.