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NOTHING PERSONAL
The Secret Service is not a bunch of personal bodyguards. They serve the office of the presidency, and they answer to Congress. Trump, of course, never saw it like that.
Jeffrey Robinson is the co-author of Standing Next to History: An Agent's Life Inside the Secret Service, written with his old college chum, Joseph Petro.
Funny Money
Could the recent announcement by the NYSE that it’s launching a bitcoin price index mean that the virtual curency has finally found legitimacy? Pretty to think so but probably not.
ALCHEMY
Just when bitcoin was presumed dead after the Mt. Gox scandal, it rose from the ashes on Monday with the opening of Coinbase, a U.S.-based bitcoin exchange backed by the New York Stock Exchange. In an excerpt from his book, Robinson takes us inside the world of zealous bitcoin true believers.
Paperback Writer
Jeffrey Robinson, author of the new novel Trump Tower, picks his favorite throwback beach reads, those classic big summer books where big characters lived big stories
Gaddafi is said to have had as much as $90 billion, but no one has found much of his stash.