12/21/2020: Weekly Newsletter

Money & Crypto

• Agreement reached on COVID relief

• Online grocery and challenges for food stamp recipients

• Almost half of Americans say income still lower than what it was before COVID

• Bitcoin broke $24K this week

• Coinbase, one of the biggest crypto exchanges, prepares to go for IPO and how black employees have struggled at the company

• Robinhood fined by SEC for misleading retail investors on how it charges fees

• Tesla joins S&P 500

• A guide to the antitrust lawsuits Google is currently facing

• Trump administration may impose new rules on self-hosted crypto wallets with information collection requirements

• Square’s Cash App to give bitcoin back on transactions

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Tech

• FDA approves Moderna COVID vaccine

• Economist’s top science story of the years that were overlooked

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Etc.

• Reflections on why Selena and her megahit song “Dreaming of You” is still so captivating 25+ years after her death

• Apple puts a stop to a tv project at Apple+ that was based on Gawker media

• Bloomberg’s top books of 2020

• John Le Carré, writer, passes away

• Charley Pride, country star, passes away