Before the midterm November elections, Sam Bankman-Fried was a left-wing billionaire heartthrob. …

By: Andrew C. McCarthy – nationalreview.com – December 13, 2022 I confess to being perplexed by the arrest of Sam Bankman-Fried on Monday night. I’m not perplexed by the fact of it — as Rich Lowry and I discussed in recent episodes of The McCarthy Report, when billions of dollars in investor funds go poof, the Justice Department routinely files...

Regardless of FTX’s collapse and SBF’s role as its CEO, the interview requests continue to come in from outlets like the New York Times.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – November 30, 2022 Congress is marching toward a Dec. 16 expiration of government funding. Democrats want to stuff all 12 of Congress’s annual, overdue spending bills into a giant “omnibus” to finance government through September 2023. According to their media note-takers, the failure to pass an omnibus bill will result in one of...

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried sat down with CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin at the Dealbook Summit, discussing the collapse of FTX.

Progressive policymakers promote the idea that America is on the verge of a green revolution that will eliminate hydrocarbon use within the near future—but in reality, this is not possible.  

“Listen to the science” has become a catchphrase when discussing the future of world energy. Advocates of rapidly replacing hydrocarbons…

By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – November On the menu today: Over the course of November, you’ve probably noticed increasingly dramatic coverage of the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX. It turns out that the disheveled young so-called genius running one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges and a major cryptocurrency hedge fund — a man once touted as the...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – November 17, 2022 Mr. Bankman-Fried on Wednesday tweeted a rambling account attempting to explain how he managed to lose billions of dollars in FTX customer funds. “I was on the cover of every magazine, and FTX was the darling of Silicon Valley,” he noted. As a result, “we got overconfident and careless.” There’s...

By: Op-Ed – nytimes.com – November 2, 2022 The Federal Reserve raised rates by three-quarters of a point, continuing its campaign against inflation. Fed Chair Jerome Powell signaled a rationale for slowing the increases, but markets recoiled when he said it was “very premature” to consider a pause. Stocks seesawed on Wednesday, but eventually ended the day lower, after Jerome...