Initial coin offerings are a hot topic, but the focus tends to miss the most important innovation. Attention naturally is on the 81 percent that are frauds, but the honest ones raised $7 billion for cryptocurrency initiatives in 2017. Those were predominately for double-block-chain ideas, which is blockchain funding to support a blockchain project. Frauds permeate crypto projects because they’re ...

The Trump administration claims that it has mostly met a court-ordered deadline to reunite migrant families separated at the border. Even to the extent that’s true, this is a story without happy endings. More than 700 of the nearly 3,000 children originally separated from family members remain in government hands, either because their parents have already been deported or they ...

Don’t accuse Mark Carney of being a currency manipulator (anymore). True, the Bank of England Governor has something to answer for. He announced an interest-rate cut in August 2016, just as the Brexit vote sent sterling reeling. That worsened the devaluation, and proved he was no friend of the currency. It was complicated. Now, they’re back on speaking terms. The ...