August 2026

MacroKevin Warsh's Fed Turns to Prices as August Payrolls Rebound

American employers likely added 55,000 jobs in August, according to a Bloomberg survey of economists published August 29, with the unemployment rate holding at 4.1 percent.

BitcoinGenius Group's $2 Billion Bitcoin Promise Is a Solvency Test

On Thursday, Genius Group told the market it intends to hold $1.6 billion in combined AI and bitcoin treasury assets, with $2 billion in total company assets, by the end of its fiscal year.

OpinionCalifornia's Wealth Tax Revival Repeats a Failed Experiment

California legislators are again pushing a tax on accumulated wealth, and the sales pitch has not changed since the first version landed in Sacramento in 2020.

PoliticsThe Jeffries-Kushner Meeting and the Permanence of the Political Class

Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader who would become Speaker if his party wins the November 2026 midterms, met privately with Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, to discuss areas of possible…

MacroThe Statist Peril of Techno-Asset Inflation

The Mises Institute published a Mises Wire essay this month arguing that the most dangerous asset bubbles in history share a specific signature: cheap money arriving at the same moment as a genuine technological…

BitcoinTreasury Doubles Its Debt Buybacks and Bitcoin Clears $68,000

Bitcoin punched through $68,000 on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, trading at $68,473 by 10:30am in New York after briefly printing $68,982. The move was worth roughly 3% over twenty four hours.

OpinionIraq's $15 Billion Bet on Bypassing the Strait of Hormuz

Reuters reported on Monday, August 17, that Iraq is studying the reconstruction of an oil export pipeline running west through Syria to the Mediterranean, a project two sources with knowledge of the plan put at four…

PoliticsA 1.6 Million Dozen Egg Recall Exposes the Cost of Centralized Trust

On August 12, 2026, the US Food and Drug Administration elevated the recall of nearly 1.6 million dozen cage-free white and brown eggs to Class I, its highest-risk designation, meaning the agency believes consumption…

MacroCooling Producer Prices Push the S&P 500 Past 7,800 Intraday

Stocks closed higher across the board on Thursday, August 13, 2026, after the July producer price index came in softer than economists expected and crude oil slid.

BitcoinLuke Dashjr Removed as Bitcoin BIP Editor After BIP-110 Fork Collapse

On August 10, 2026, Bitcoin's development community voted to remove long-time contributor Luke Dashjr from his role as a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) editor.

BitcoinBTCPay Server Posts 3 Bitcoin Bounty After Wallet Exploit Drains User Funds

On August 10, 2026, BTCPay Server disclosed that an exploit in its hot wallet infrastructure led to the theft of an undisclosed sum of bitcoin from merchants and users running the open-source payment processor.

BitcoinBitwise Predicts Trillions in Institutional Capital Flowing Into Bitcoin

Matt Hogan, Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise Asset Management, told CoinDesk on August 8 that trillions of dollars in institutional money will eventually find its way into Bitcoin.