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The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has released a proposed rule seeking to treat stablecoins as “cash equivalents.” The proposal is open for public comment until 19th November before the non-profit accounting rulemaker can finalize its guidelines on the same. According to the FASB, the move follows a 2025 consultation in which members raised the uncertainty of treating stablecoins in the balance sheet.  In response, the non-profit seeks to change the current definition of “cash equivalents” to accommodate stablecoins and certain digital assets. The rule requires firms to disclose what constitutes their “cash equivalents,” or less risky but highly liquid…

– Advertisement – In conversations with enterprise and token factory technology leaders, I keep watching the same moment repeat. Ask how their AI infrastructure is performing, and the answer comes back in GPUs: cluster size, availability, and spend. Ask what each token costs, how many tokens are delivered within service-level objectives (SLOs), or how much GPU investment becomes billable output, and the room goes quiet. Access to compute resources got AI into production. The harder challenge now is converting those compute resources into token output efficiently, predictably, and economically. A high GPU utilisation rate can sit right alongside slow responses,…

Yes, the IRS taxes NFTs as property, and that single fact drives everything else. Creators who mint and sell generally owe ordinary income tax (and often self-employment tax); collectors who buy, hold, and flip owe capital gains or losses on each sale. Art-like or “collectible” NFTs may be subject to a higher long-term capital gains tax rate than the standard brackets, and marketplaces now issue Form 1099-DA, so the IRS sees more of your activity than it did two years ago.Three things to do this week:Log every transaction with a date, USD value, and wallet address.Save the USD price at…

Schott Pharma (DE000A3ENQ51) stock showed a modest setback in early Xetra trading on August 24, 2026, with the share price at EUR 23.00 and down 0.2 percent compared with the previous close as investors reduced exposure in morning trading. Per a same-day market snapshot, the stock briefly traded at EUR 22.95 at the start of the session before stabilizing close to EUR 23.00, underscoring a tight intraday range for the Frankfurt-listed specialist in pharmaceutical containment solutions. For investors, the move is small in percentage terms yet still signals a cautious tone in the latest session.Intraday move and market contextAccording to…

The Trump administration has made deals to take partial government ownership of companies like Intel and U.S. Steel. These measures are part of its broader effort to exert control over private businesses through threats of tariffs or other forms of regulatory coercion. Many commentators describe these efforts as the beginning of “state capitalism” in America.Greg Ip, chief economics commentator for the Wall Street Journal, defines “state capitalism” as “a hybrid between socialism and capitalism in which the state guides the decisions of nominally private enterprises.” Ip argues that the U.S. is becoming more similar to China by adopting “state capitalism…

Ethereum price has extended its powerful recovery, gaining roughly 30% over the past week as the broader crypto market enters a period of extreme optimism.ETH recently climbed to around $2,454, while the Crypto Fear and Greed Index reached 79, its highest level since December 2024. The combination of strong price gains, rising ETF demand and elevated market sentiment has strengthened the bullish case for Ethereum, but it also raises the risk of a short-term correction.Ethereum Rally Faces an Overheated MarketEthereum has been one of the strongest performers during the latest crypto market recovery. The token’s weekly gain of around 30%…

Mike Platania August 24, 2026 0 The one-story brick building sits opposite the HandCraft Building on Leigh Street. (Mike Platania photo) One of the more active families in Scott’s Addition real estate has snatched up another property in the neighborhood, albeit a small one.   The Nichols brothers – Jay, Keith and Jeff, who own and run industrial laundry company HandCraft – recently purchased 3305 W. Leigh St. for $1.2 million, city records show.  The property consists of a 3,500-square-foot office building on a 0.2-acre plot. It sits across the street from the HandCraft building, the former headquarters of the Nichols…

What’s the deal? Private equity firm Endurance Capital has taken a majority stake in Forge Care, a West Midlands provider of trauma-informed residential care for children. The deal value was not disclosed. What does Forge Care do? Founded by the Miller family, it delivers therapeutic residential care through its purpose-built Warwickshire campus, The Forge. The site houses four Ofsted-registered children’s homes offering up to 24 placements alongside integrated therapeutic services. What changes? The investment funds Forge Care’s next growth phase, including rolling out more homes. Gavin and Ryan Miller keep leadership roles alongside managing director Adam Wells. Why now? The…

Are you planning to invest in relatively-safe debt schemes to take care of your near-term goals? Or are you searching for ‘relatively safe’ debt funds to invest for three years or more? If your answer is yes, you can consider investing in corporate bond funds in August 2026.These schemes invest at least 80% of their corpus in the papers of the highest-rated companies. This makes them relatively safer than other debt schemes such as credit risk funds. They are also safer than gilt funds and long term debt funds that are highly sensitive to interest rate changes in the economy.Also…

Here is a selection of some of the things that caught my attention while we were on August break: ·         Simon Heβ put up an FAQ on his popular ritest Stata command, covering issues like how to implement with diff-in-diff, and with multiple treatments. See our previous blog post for more on this command. ·         On the Stata blog, doing power calculations by simulation for regressions ·         Five examples where researchers in applied economics often appear to be estimating the wrong thing – John Gibson discusses issues like whether or not to use a tobit, dealing with sample weights, and…