As Child Tax Payments Expire, Struggling Families Are Desperate

7 February 2022 by Mike Bond

Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act on August 14, 1935. (Archive Photos / Getty Images) There are great parallels between the birth pangs of Social Security and President Joe Biden’s domestic political agenda in the Build Back Better package. Both proposed radical changes to the social pact between working Americans and their government. … Read more

How Diem became crypto’s sacrificial lamb

31 January 2022 by Sarah Jones

Facebook’s digital currency Diem – once seen as a force that could undermine financial stability and competing currencies – is now on life support after it was announced last week that it was Association Behind it are talks with a small Californian bank to sell its assets for around 200 million euros. But the announcement … Read more