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Islamic State Turns to NFTs to Spread Terror Message
A simple digital card praising Islamist militants for an attack on a Taliban position in Afghanistan last month is the first known nonfungible token created and disseminated b...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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Price Cap on Russian Oil Wins Backing of G7 Ministers
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Top officials from the world’s leading advanced economies agreed on Friday to move ahead with a plan to cap the price of Russian oil, accelerating an ambitious effort to limit...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Europe’s ‘perfect storm’ energy crisis: Record heat, war in Ukraine and overdependence on Russia
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It’s been one of the most consequential ripple effects of the war in Ukraine: the energy crisis that has gripped much of Europe since the Russian invasion. The continent has d...
By Rachel Ziemba
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New CNAS Report: "Lighting the Path: Framing a Transatlantic Technology Strategy"
Press Release
Washington, August 30, 2022—Today, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a new report, Lighting the Path: Framing a Transatlantic Technology Strategy from aut...
By Carisa Nietsche, Emily Jin, Hannah Kelley, Emily Kilcrease, Megan Lamberth, Martijn Rasser & Alexandra Seymour
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Russia Confounds the West by Recapturing Its Oil Riches
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Russia pumps almost as much oil into the global market as it did before its invasion of Ukraine. With oil prices up, Moscow is also making more money. Demand from some of the ...
By Elina Ribakova
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Developer at Treasury-sanctioned Tornado Cash worked for company linked to Russian security agency
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The Treasury Department sanctioned Tornado Cash on Aug. 8, alleging that hacking groups including North Korea’s Lazarus Group have used the service to launder billions of doll...
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Tether ignores Treasury’s sanction of Tornado Cash, says freezing some accounts could be ‘reckless’
In addition to Ethereum, some of those wallets held two different stablecoins: USDC, associated with the company Circle Internet Financial, and Tether. According to Yaya Fanus...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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Gas prices are dropping across the US. Why now? Which states could hit $3 per gallon?
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After the national average for gas surpassed $5 per gallon in June, U.S. drivers are finally finding some relief at the pump. But how low could prices go? ... "There might be ...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Wall Street Doesn’t Hate This Spending Bill
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The U.S. responded by freezing Afghanistan’s foreign exchange reserves in New York — $7 billion worth. President Biden set aside half of that for relatives of Sept. 11 victims...
By Alex Zerden
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The US-Japan-South Korea trilateral cybersecurity relationship
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“The United States, Japan, and South Korea are three economically and technologically advanced countries that routinely experience state-sponsored cyber threats from countries...
By Jason Bartlett
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North Korea’s increasing use of crypto heists to fund nukes worries US
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North Korea began aggressively targeting the financial sector, specifically digital currency, following the rise of bitcoin in the mid-2010s and the expansion of U.S. and U.N....
By Jason Bartlett
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Industrial policy is no longer a taboo in the US. The turning point Chips Act
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With the measure, industrial policy is no longer taboo in Washington, said Emily Kilcrease, director of Energy, Economics and Security at the Center for a New American Securit...
By Emily Kilcrease
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US government amps up inevitable clash with crypto privacy in tornado cash blacklisting
When the U.S. Treasury Department blacklisted Tornado Cash on Monday, banning all Americans from using the service, regulators dramatically escalated that battle as they seek ...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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The U.S. has sanctioned Vladimir Putin's long-rumored romantic partner
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But at this point in the war, it's unclear how far sanctions against any one individual will go to deter Putin, says Rachel Ziemba, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for ...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Iran sanctions spotlight opaque brokers and middlemen behind oil trade
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Iran is no stranger to sanctions. The county weathered the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure campaign”. Russia has even turned to Iran for lessons on coping with wester...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Nancy Pelosi’s expected Taiwan trip and her ‘hate-hate’ relationship with Beijing
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In the year 1991, a relatively new Congresswoman from California, Nancy Pelosi stunned the Chinese authorities when she spread out a banner in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square dedic...
By Daniel Silverberg
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Inflation raises old debate on currencies being pegged to dollar
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"Regional authorities are not ready to give up the predictability of pegging to the dollar until they are willing to move to a basket peg. Not that depegging would be a panac...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Middle East nets half of China’s Belt and Road funding
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A number of countries saw their BRI investments drop off completely this year, including Russia, Egypt and Sri Lanka, although Dr Wang said the reduction of investment in Egyp...
By Rachel Ziemba
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What do El Salvador, Iran and North Korea have in common? They’re all feeling the heat in the great crypto crash.
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The crash of cryptocurrency prices has been well documented, particularly when it comes to retail investors and traders who have lost huge sums of money. But crypto isn’t only...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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NEOM’s IPO plans welcomed by global wealth funds
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Rachel Ziemba, founder of New York-based geo-economic advisory firm Ziemba Insights, was more hesitant and said it was too soon to determine the impact a raft of new PIF-backe...
By Rachel Ziemba
