"Institutions" Blogs & Blog Posts

"We haven't seen mass institutional inflows in the way that I think some people are anticipating," Sam Bankman-Fried said.

Miller said the notion that bitcoin holds no intrinsic value is correct, and he compared it to high-value collectibles like a Picasso painting.

Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarah (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): On Wednesday, a mob of pro-Trump rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol as Congress met to certify the 2020 presiden...

The approval ratings of many world leaders and government officials — including President Trump — have increased amid the COVID-19 crisis. Even U.S. government agencies, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have experie...

The first batch of polls is out in the wake of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony last Thursday. The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast crew discusses how the public is reacting. The crew also looks at how faith in the court has evolved in recent...

In his discussion with anthropologist Philip Carl Salzman, evolutionary psychologist and YouTuber Gad Saad offers (at 8.48) the following:By the way, in terms of generative grammar, whenever when I see the word 'post' before anything then that r...

Classical (622 to c.940) and early medieval Islam was a civilisation and period with a rich philosophical tradition. Yet Islam became a philosophical dead end, an example of how societies, indeed, an entire civilisation, can stop supporting...