Five in Ten 12/2/22: The Friday Five - 'A Crime, Not an Accident'

Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, blamed his company’s multi-billion-dollar collapse on being “a little cocky.” Crypto experts call it criminal. Will this pave the way for CBDCs?

5) Raytheon wins $1.2 billion bid to send more anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine; 4) SBF getting strangely gentle treatment from corporate media; 3) Federal Reserve Bank, Reserve Bank of India join central banks testing Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC); 2) Dutch government to forcibly buy and shut down 3,000 farms to meet EU climate rules; 1) UK Ministry of Justice tells staff that “protecting women and girls” is coded language promotes transphobia.