As the dominoes fell, Bankman-Fried jumped into the mix in June to try to bail out some of the failing crypto firms before it was too late, extending hundreds of millions of dollars in financing. In some cases, he made moves to try to buy these companies at fire-sale prices. Amid the...
“Plastics are just a way of making things out of fossil fuels,” says Jim Puckett, executive director of the Basel Action Network. BAN is devoted to enforcement of the Basel Convention, an international treaty that blocks the developed world from dumping hazardous wastes on the developing worl...
Use paper plates to create fraction practice pieces. Use colored paper plates to make pizzas or pies. Each student makes one whole pizza or pie by decorating the plate appropriately. They then use more plates to create different fraction sets such as halves, thirds, fourths and eighths. Use ...
A slightly more organized approach to sequencing is the classic PGOOD-to-RUN hardwired cascade shown in Figure 7. This is like dominoes falling: each one taps the next in the sequence, which guarantees progress in order. This technique has the benefit of simplicity. Unfortu...
However, I can differentiate hype from practical considerations. I might waste some spare cash fiddling with fitbit and fanciful but mostly useless gadgets but I won’t “play” with my capital on new-fangled cryptos that are way too easy to hack….and besides, its in bubble territory now...
If you really want to see a financial system go off a cliff take a look at the Icelandic stock market which opened up again: That is precisely what we were on the verge of seeing. Of course Iceland is simply a microcosm of a country that became too dependent...