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Bloomberg
08-08-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
China Tells Brokers to Stop Touting Stablecoins to Cool Frenzy
China told local brokers and other bodies to stop publishing research or hold seminars to promote stablecoins, seeking to rein in the asset class to avoid instability. Some leading brokerages and think tanks in late July and earlier this month received guidance from financial regulators, urging them to cancel seminars and halt disseminating research on stablecoins, people familiar with the matter said.


Washington Post
13-06-2025
- General
- Washington Post
‘Plato and the Tyrant' humanizes the famous philosopher
In my roughly 10 years of philosophical education — four in college, one in a master's program and five as a PhD candidate — it never occurred to me that Plato was a person. Of course, I read and discussed him in countless seminars and lectures, but he was always conscripted to serve as an avatar of an intellectual tradition or an emissary of a philosophical tendency — as everything but a flesh-and-blood human being.