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Enjoyed this article? Share it with your friends! Two men have been sentenced to a total of 12 years in prison in the UK for running a cryptocurrency scam that took more than £1.5 million (around $2.1 million) from unsuspecting investors. Raymondip Bedi and Patrick Mavanga led a scheme where people were cold-called and convinced to invest in fake crypto services.The pair worked with others between February 2017 and June 2019. They contacted individuals by phone and offered fake investment opportunities in crypto. Those who agreed were directed to a professional-looking website that promised strong returns. Did you know? Want…

The “Magnificent Seven”, a group of seven US-listed tech behemoths, has dominated stock market news for years, as they have driven equity markets higher, but cracks began to appear in 2025. Global competition, especially from China, excessively high valuations, macroeconomic issues, and a slowdown in earnings growth threaten the Magnificent Seven.As of July 6th, 2025, the S&P 500 shows a year-to-date gain of 6.76% while the Magnificent Seven underperformed that with a smaller increase of 3.28%.In this environment of underperformance, it might be wise to try to pick the best stocks here instead of investing in the basket of seven.Company…

In cold weather climates, the beginning of spring is a time to clean the house and get organized—a practice known as spring cleaning. Through the years, spring cleaning has taken on a larger meaning, with people using the time to organize and declutter things in their lives.For professionals on the job hunt, a little spring cleaning (metaphorically speaking) could be a great way to reinvigorate your job search. Here are a few strategies your job search spring cleaning should include… Reevaluate Your Job Search Approach Make a list of the last handful of jobs you applied for and see if…

If you want­ed to hear the voice of your favorite writer in the nine­teen-six­ties — a time before audio­books, let alone pod­casts — you con­sult­ed the cat­a­log of Caed­mon Records. That label spe­cial­ized in LPs of lit­er­ary emi­nences read­ing their own work. This may or may not be the kind of com­pa­ny in which you’d expect to find a writer of high fan­ta­sy like J. R. R. Tolkien. But in 1967, just as The Lord of the Rings was enjoy­ing a burst of coun­ter­cul­ture-dri­ven pop­u­lar­i­ty, the label put out the album Poems and Songs of Mid­dle-Earth, which you can sam­ple above.…

In a recent New Yorker review of Matt Richtel’s new book, How We Grow Up, Molly Fischer effectively summarizes the current debate about the impact phones and social media are having on teens. Fischer focuses, in particular, on Jon Haidt’s book, The Anxious Generation, which has, to date, spent 66 weeks on the Times bestseller list. “Haidt points to a selection of statistics across Anglophone and Nordic countries to suggest that rising rates of teen unhappiness are an international trend requiring an international explanation,” Fischer writes. “But it’s possible to choose other data points that complicate Haidt’s picture—among South Korean teens, for example, rates of depression fell between…

Socialite Poppy Delevingne was spotted enjoying some time for herself at Wimbledon Tennis Championships, two days after announcing the birth of her first child.The new mum, 39, was glowing as she took a seat behind actor Andrew Garfield in the stands, wearing a khaki shirt and white linen pants.Watch the video aboveREAD MORE: Mel B’s Spice Girls bandmates speak out after missing her wedding – but one remains silentNew mum Poppy Delevingne was glowing at Wimbledon on Sunday. (WireImage Getty Images for Ralph)She also sat next to Bridgerton actress Charithra Chandran, with both of them excitedly gesturing and cheering on…

“Wonder Boys,” which turns 25 this year, has been accused of bone-deep pessimism, but I’ve never remembered it in this way. Even though the story is about disillusionment and regret, and the fear of uncertainty looms like a shadow over its characters, my memory holds it as a funny and uplifting tale about dysfunctional people, some of whom just happen to be writers. Curtis Hanson’s drama has a way of distracting its audience by hiding its darker nature in plain sight. It achieves this partly through what Roger Ebert described as “an unsprung screwball comedy” but also by making itself…

This week on the collection, we are going to show of the new Kiss ‘Off the Soundboard’ release we have on both vinyl and CD. The show is from San Antonio, TX recorded on December 3, 1985 and is the first ‘Off the Soundboard’ release to feature Bruce Kulick on guitar. The tour was for ‘Asylum’ which is one of the tours I saw and I actually saw the show later that month in 1985 in Atlanta. We will talk the packaging, the crappy things Kiss Online store do and talk the show itself. So go check it out as…

Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman offered a pointed observation last week: some of the most consequential shifts in financial policy are not the product of deliberate votes or formal rule changes. Instead, they emerge quietly, when regulations written for one set of conditions become more and more binding as the conditions evolve. Bowman’s remarks centered on the need to regularly reevaluate the regulatory framework governing the banking sector. Her core argument is that regulations imposed as prudent guardrails may become inadvertent roadblocks if left unexamined. When this happens, the regulations risk distorting financial behavior and undermining the…

Source : Mint