‘I have never seen a champion team denied the trophy’, says Suryakumar Yadav after Asia Cup final fiasco

The victorious Indian team was denied the Asia Cup winners’ trophy after it refused to collect it from Asian Cricket Council (ACC) president Mohsin Naqvi, who also happens to be Pakistan’s Interior Minister and chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). Following the unprecedented incident, India captain Suryakumar Yadav said he had never seen…

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Did The Gold Standard Fail?

The gold standard is a profile in power. So LBJ conspired to get rid of it. (Photo by UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images) Getty Images The gold standard did not prevent the hyperinflation of the 1970s, or the slowdown in growth the American economy in the 2000s. The gold standard ended in 1971—what can it mean that…

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