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Australian Financial Watchdogs Back New Powers To Curb Money-Laundering Via Crypto
Australian Financial Watchdogs Back New Powers To Curb Money-Laundering Via Crypto
Authored by Rex Widerstrom via The Epoch Times,
Australian crime-fighting and financial agencies are moving to prevent the use of cryptocurrency for money laundering, scams, and money-mule activities.
Illustration of Bitcoin and Ethereum coins held together in front of diverses EURO banknotes in Paris, France, on June 5, 2026. Joao Luiz Bulcao/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images
The Australian Banking Association (ABA), Transparency International, and the regulator, AUSTRAC (Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre), are backing a proposal to amend the Anti-Money Laundering...
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Oct 23, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Here's One October Surprise, Anyway...
Here's One October Surprise, Anyway...
Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation,
"The Left has always preferred the ashes of its own making to the inheritance of better men." - Celina101 on X
By now, everybody and his uncle interested in public matters has probably read that a claque of current-and-former agency officials, ex-USAID busybodies, military officers, activist academics, Democratic Party paladins, and freelance communist jihadis has been exposed plotting the overthrow of the US government. The plot was reported by the diligent "X" blogger Jennica Pounds under her nom-de-plume "Data...
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Jul 13, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Comfortably Bomb
Comfortably Bomb
By Michael Every of Rabobank
Hormuz update: Comfortably Bomb
Summary
The US-Iran MoU appears to have collapsed sooner than we had thought.
With both sides striking the other, US efforts will turn to ensuring energy can flow through Hormuz ‘the hard way’ via escorting ships through it.
For now, markets are saying the US can ‘comfortably bomb’ and ‘there is no pain’ even if the ‘MoU are receding’, mostly due to finite SPR drains and low Chinese oil imports.
That gives the US a window for action: if it can...
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Apr 8, 2026 / Tyler Durden
S&P Slashes New Orleans' Credit Rating On "Structurally Imbalanced Operations"
S&P Slashes New Orleans' Credit Rating On "Structurally Imbalanced Operations"
New Orleans, home to Mardi Gras and muffulettas, has been governed by Democrats for decades, so it should come as little surprise that S&P Global Ratings has slashed the city's obligation rating to the third-lowest level of investment grade and placed it on a negative outlook.
S&P Global Ratings cut New Orleans' general obligation rating by one notch to BBB+ with a negative outlook, citing structurally imbalanced finances, shrinking reserves, and growing reliance on one-time desperate measures to meet cash needs.
"The...
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