A strange economy has made for strange deal-making times.

Credit swaps and the Credit Suisse drama, explained in brief.

Hedge funds are placing big bets against the latest market rally.

Plus: Tap-to-pay takes over, and are we less stressed?

Where are all the quarters for the laundry machines? Sitting in people’s houses, apparently.

Bulls are good, bears are bad — but why do we use those animals to refer to markets?

Morgan Housel shares a simple framework for dealing with volatility.

Scammers love the immediacy of the P2P transfer service, and banks aren’t helping.

A US-backed digital currency has pros and cons, and could take 5-10 years to launch.

There are 225k independent ATMs in America. Regulators are worried that they’re used for money laundering and fraud.

“Buy now, pay later” apps pitch customers on being a safe alternative to credit cards, but many users end up where they feared they’d be with credit cards: in debt.

At one point this week, bitcoin was 50% below its all-time high. Why is this happening?

Morgan Housel -- the best-selling author of The Psychology of Money -- tells us why time is a much more worthwhile goal than money.

Andrew Curtin, founder of employer branding agency Chronicmedia, lets us dig through his bank statements to see how he manages money.

Vine co-founder Don Hofmann launched Loot, an NFT game that currently only consists of text descriptions...but has gone totally viral.

As crypto companies forge into bank-like services, regulators are being forced to take action.

Plus: Coin shortages, hot air balloons, and Afghanistan’s mineral deposits.

MacKenzie Scott has launched a barrage of donations. Here’s what that looks like.

Since 2013, the feds have seized and auctioned off ~$7B worth of bitcoin.

OpenSea, a digital art marketplace, just raised $100m at a $1.5B valuation, making it the 1st NFT unicorn.

A Russian expat founded Plan B Passport to help people take a tropical escape... from capital gains taxes on their bitcoin earnings.

Robinhood is on pace for $2B+ in sales in 2021 and is eyeing a $40B+ valuation.

El Salvador’s decision to make bitcoin legal tender could change how the IRS taxes people and how corporations use bitcoin.

Mining ethereum can be a sketchy affair. So, Norton is bundling the service into its antivirus software (for some reason).

Venture capital is exploding in the US, and not in the places you might think.

Goldbelly delivers food from 850 leading restaurants to anywhere in America.

President Biden wants to eliminate 1031 exchanges, which allow real estate investors to defer gains on property deals.

Choice is a retirement account that holds stocks, gold, ETFs and -- crucially -- digital assets.

Coinbase Ventures has invested in 100+ startups (most in the crypto space).

ConsenSys works on 2 Ethereum-based blockchains you may have heard of: NFTs and DeFi.