Of cryptocurrencies, tulips, Elon Musk and Janet Yellen

Of cryptocurrencies, tulips, Elon Musk and Janet Yellen
Former Federal Reserve chair and US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
Jenny Ruth
Fund managers are calling it a new asset class while buses in Sydney are carrying ads exhorting people to buy it, as are celebrities from Tesla's Elon Musk to rock star Gene Simmons from the band, Kiss.Cryptocurrencies have been making headlines because their prices have been hitting dizzying highs and sickening lows.A cryptocurrency trading platform, Coinbase, filed to go public on the Nasdaq exchange last week and was valued at US$100 billion ahead of listing.It reported earnings of US$322 million on revenues of US$1.14b for 2020, much of...

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