The benefits of community real estate ownership, the many narratives of the Tokyo Olympics, and what cryptocurrencies mean for finance.
| The brutal truth about Bitcoin Bitcoin’s recent price fluctuations have gotten the attention, but Eswar Prasad says there is something much more important at play: a digital revolution in money and finance that will ultimately affect each of us, for better and worse. Read more |
| The many narratives of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Every Olympics tells a story about its host nation’s traversed path and its dreams for the future, but this summer’s Tokyo games are unlike any other. Mireya Solís and Laura McGhee discuss the decision to hold the contest during a pandemic and the narrative of renewal that Japan is aspiring to. Read more |
| A primer on community ownership of real estate “By supporting community-led efforts to own property and shape the forces of development in their own neighborhoods, cities have a simple but transformative opportunity to rewrite a system of land ownership that has been systematically failing too many people and places for far too long,” Tracy Hadden Loh and Hanna Love write. Read more |
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