[Link] New York City Taxi Drivers Win Debt Deal After 15-Day Hunger Strike

Read: 4/11/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au

The New York Taxi Workers Alliance has declared victory in its struggle with the city government that had made millions artificially inflating the price of taxi medallions and then left taxi drivers to suffocate under debt as those prices plummeted in the age of Uber.

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[Link] The Economy Is Leaving Young People Behind

Read: 21/10/2021 jacobinmag.com

Why do young people have a favorable view of socialism? Because the economic system has utterly failed them. When the Great Recession hit, wiping out trillions of dollars in middle-class wealth, young people weren’t spared.

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[Link] A trillion-dollar coin could be minted within hours of an emergency decision to do so, former US Mint director says

Read: 20/10/2021 www.businessinsider.com

Philip Diehl, the director of the US Mint from 1994 to 2000, told Axios that the agency had no shortage of platinum coin blanks. That's the metal required to make such a coin, according to the law that the entire idea is based on.

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[Link] People Are Taking Out Loans Against Their NFTs—And Defaulting

Read: 15/10/2021 www.vice.com

In the ongoing speedrun to turn everything into a non-fungible token, savvy traders and entrepreneurs have recently taken a few steps to squeeze more investment opportunities out of their JPEGs. Case in point: it’s now a thing to take out a loan and offer up an NFT as collateral.

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