Israeli Defense Minister Says Ethnic Cleansing Is the Only ‘Real Solution’ for Gaza

Your Bank Is Becoming A Casino: River CEO Frames Bitcoin As The Alternative Authored by Micah Zimmerman via Bitcoin Magazine, Bitcoin 2026 speaker Alex Leishman used his Nakamoto Stage talk, titled “We’re Not Fixing Money to Build More Casinos,” to deliver a sharp warning that modern finance is drifting toward a gambling model and away from basic banking.  Leishman, CEO of River, said the American dream feels out of reach for many people as housing costs rise, student debt lingers, and wages lag, and argued that this pressure helps explain why prediction markets and...

The 'Daejon Love' Stock Market Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Words cannot do justice to the sheer idiocy of the story that broke this past week. It is hilarious, depressing, fascinating and deeply embarrassing for the human race all at once…a story that is proof that we may collectively be both far more gullible and far more comfortable with deception than even the most cynical among us previously imagined. The story centers on a man named Daejon Love who, according to federal prosecutors, allegedly spent years convincing women that he was a...

Big Blew It! IBM Crashes Most Since '60s Amid CapEx Woes; Goldman Warns Over 'Software Bear Case' Summary: Wall Street Desks Stunned  IBM Shares Crash Most On Record, Exceeding Dot Com & 1987 Crashes  CEO Arvind Krishna Blamed Preliminary 2Q Results on "Shifting" Customer CapEx Spending IBM's surprise second-quarter warning blindsided traders Tuesday morning, raising new concerns that enterprise technology budgets are being redirected toward AI infrastructure at the expense of traditional software and IT services. Shares plunged 24% in the first 20 minutes of New York trading. Should those losses hold through the...