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    The Rise of Consumer Crypto

    Steve Kaczynski & Scott Duke Kominers detail a wide range of business uses for non-fungible tokens and other blockchain-based technologies.
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    FTX Was Never Really Bankrupt

    Ian Ayres & John Donohue show why prosecutors' claim of $8 billion in customer losses in Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial is misleading.
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    A Farewell to Cash

    Willem H. Buiter rebuts the three main arguments against introducing an interest-bearing central bank digital currency.
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    Whither Crypto?

    Ari Juels & Eswar Prasad look beyond the industry’s rampant fraud to a future of blockchain-enabled financial transparency.
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    The Strange Case of Samuel Bankman-Fried

    Eric Posner sees the fallen crypto star as a predictable example of crude utilitarian calculation gone wrong.
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    The Dollar’s Full-Spectrum Dominance

    Carla Norrlöf foresees the greenback’s continued global hegemony owing to network effects and opportunism.
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    Regulation, Not Crypto, Is Broken

    Koray Caliskan explains that governing the newest form of money requires a profound shift in thinking about finance.
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    The Real Cost of De-Dollarization

    Benn Steil urges American policymakers and legislators to refrain from weaponizing the greenback.

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    The Lonesome Death of Alexei Navalny

    Nina L. Khrushcheva

    From leading protests against the rigged parliamentary elections of 2011 to investigating the corruption of Russia’s elites to seeking to unseat Presdient Vladimir Putin, Alexei Navalny was relentless in his nearly two-decade-long campaign against corruption in and around the Kremlin. Putin responded as any Russian despot would.

     has no doubt that, directly or indirectly, it was the Kremlin that killed the imprisoned opposition leader.
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    America’s Steel Madness

    Anne O. Krueger explains why opposition to Nippon Steel's acquisition of US Steel is deeply misguided.
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    Can Marwan Barghouti Be the Palestinian Nelson Mandela?

    Daoud Kuttab thinks the imprisoned Fatah leader could be the key to reviving the two-state solution.
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    What Corporations Need to Know About Public Health

    Tom Achoki describes a framework for understanding health systems that should guide investment and interventions.
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    What Was Capitalism?

    James Livingston asks whether those at the commanding heights of today's economy are steering us toward feudalism or fatuousness.
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    Reducing Plastic Pollution Requires Local Remedies

    Mirei Endara de Heras explains why on-the-ground initiatives to remove waste must complement top-down efforts to curb production.
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    The Case for Regulating Generative AI Through Common Law

    S. Alex Yang & Angela Huyue Zhang propose a regulatory framework that is both adaptable and tailored to specific contexts.
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    Why Is the Maldives Spurning India?

    Shashi Tharoor worries that the island nation is becoming a Chinese client and nurturing Islamist radicalism.
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    Pakistan’s Middle-Class Rage Against Military Rule

    Adeel Malik explains how economic dissatisfaction fueled the electoral backlash against the country’s leadership.

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