Odds and Ends — 12 April 2021
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Blinken Faults China for Slow Response on Coronavirus
21 hockey players on Vancouver Canucks have tested positive for COVID-19
As vaccinations keep rising, so do COVID-19 hospitalizations among those who aren't vaccinated
What both sides are getting terribly wrong about vaccine “passports”
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:
Binance Allows Users to Trade Tokenized Stock Tokens Starting With Tesla
Topps baseball card maker and MLB will issue official NFTs
China's Digital Yuan Comes With An Expiration Date
Larry Summers Calls Biden’s Economic Agenda ‘Excessive’
If Summers is wrong, it will matter little. If he is right, the hopes for a transformative presidency are likely to end in catastrophic economic and political disappointment. It is an immensely important argument.
Politics:
'White Lives Matter' rallies flop as hardly anyone shows up
‘It Was Dour’: Trump’s Latest Jabs At GOPers Who Bucked Him Fall Flat Within Party
Biden pollster urges blunt tax talk
Biden to Pick Cindy McCain for Ambassadorship
Serendipity:
The dangerous downsides of a fitness obsession
There was a time reparations were actually paid out – just not to formerly enslaved people
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