Last year Facebook came up with the idea of making a stable cryptocoin. Now, Rep Rashida Tlaib of "The Squad" fame has cosponsored a bill saying that a bank should regulate it, not a private company like Facebook. On the one hand, this makes sense. On the other, do you really trust your banks to be as innovative as a tech company? Plus: I took a new job, as CEO of The Atlantic.

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