"Hello, to get your data back you have to pay for the decryption tool, the price is $1,200,000... You have to make the payment in Bi...

[This is a guest post by Mike Sproul . Mike has posted a few times before to the Moneyess blog.] Here is a summary of the Federal R...

When Canada legalized marijuana in October 2018, the amount of banknotes in circulation took a sudden plunge. In a 2019 paper available...

Kim Jin-Woo, K-pop star jailed for online gambling [ source ] I recently read that South Korea will not be taxing capital gains on cr...

Cash isn't quite anonymous, it's anonymous-ish. To illustrate this, a few years ago I wrote about the 1932 Lindbergh kidnappin...

It's fascinating to see how brokerages these days are offering no-commission trades , fractional share ownership , and debit card-lin...

I recently watched a video with Alex Gladstein on the importance of financial privacy. In general I agree. We should be working on expan...

Paying for things online usually means giving up plenty of privacy. But this needn't always be the case. Last night I donated to a lo...

Every few days for the last month or so I've been refreshing a Federal Reserve page that shows data about daylight overdrafts. For s...