Interview: Crypto Was Meant To Be Radical, But It’s Been Taken Over By Wall Street
by Moya Lothian-McLean
Decentralised currencies were intended to circumvent traditional financial markets – instead they’re mirroring them. Why?
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Downstream: Influencers, Exploitation and Capitalism. Ash Sarkar Meets Symeon Brown
How far would you go to get famous and escape poverty? Ash Sarkar is joined by Symeon Brown to discuss how the democratic promise of the internet has reinvented the pyramid scheme. From cryptocurrencies to botched Brazilian butt lifts, they look at how the new clout economy has created a digital lumpenproletariat.
Quiet Politics, Business Power and HSBC
by Paul Williams
The lack of media coverage of a recent debt collection scandal involving HSBC illustrates how cosy relationships between the bank, the media and the UK government serve to protect business interests.