Month: April 2022

Still from “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.” Disney Superhero flicks have kept the box office afloat this year, spurring movie theater operators to think that audiences might finally be ready to return to cinemas en masse. Domestic ticket sales for the first four months of the year are still down around 40% compared
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Illuminated mining rigs operate inside racks at the CryptoUniverse cryptocurrency mining farm in Nadvoitsy, Russia. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sanctions imposed on Russia over the country’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine could hamper the growth of its multibillion-dollar crypto sector, according to experts. This week, U.S. officials targeted Russian bitcoin mining firm BitRiver in
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In this article PEP Following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, multinational companies have withdrawn from Russia in staggering numbers.   As of April 22, more than 700 U.S. companies have scaled back, suspended or exited their Russian businesses, including Starbucks, McDonald’s and Pepsi, according to the Yale School of Management. Russia is Pepsi’s second-largest international market, after
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Illustrative image of two commemorative bitcoins with a green background. Artur Widak | Nurphoto | Getty Images Stripe will allow businesses to pay their users via cryptocurrencies, starting with Twitter, in the latest sign of how large financial firms are warming to digital assets. The $95 billion online payments company said Friday it will start
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“New own resources should fulfil the criteria of simplicity, transparency, predictability, and fairness.” One would think that the above recommendation came from a Tax Foundation report on principled EU own resources policy. While we would like to claim credit, the recommendation, rather, comes from the EU’s own 2016 Monti report and more recently, the EU’s
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