Headlines from Across the MAP
Dec 23, 2021There was a huge merger in 2021: the combination of popular culture and modern finance. Tom Brady and Matt Damon were suddenly shilling for cryptocurrency exchanges. Digital tokens that started off as elaborate pranks represented tens of billions of dollars of paper wealth. And cartoon pictures of apes were selling for millions of dollars on something called the nonfungible token market, which almost no one had heard of in the long-ago days of 2020.
- The Wall Street Journal: "Harvard, Yale, Other Ivies Report Near-Record Numbers of Early-Admission Applications"
- Bloomberg: "Scientists Create ‘Living Machines’ With Algorithms, Frog Cells"
- Vice: "The ‘To the Moon’ Crash Is Coming"
- Bloomberg: "The Sports Gambling Gold Rush Is Absolutely Off the Charts"
- Visual Capitalist: "Biofuel Mandates: Out of Sync With The New Transportation Landscape"
- The New Yok Times: "How The 2020s Economy Could Resemble The 1980s"
- The Wall Street Journal: "How Covid-19 Has Migrated Across America"
- Bloomberg: "A Wild, Emotional Year Has Changed Investing—Maybe Forever"
- Visual Capitalist: "Visualizing the $94 Trillion World Economy in One Chart"
- Visual Capitalist: "Mapped: Food Production Around the World"
