Elsewhere on Thursday,– Michael Lewis in Vanity Fair on Rick Perry and the, rather important but neglected, US Dept of Energy: Why the scariest nuclear threat may be coming from inside the White House.– Bloomberg on how to make a fortune drinking, gambling and napping… featuring Mike Ashley.– Sadly, the Shkreli trial is wrapping up: “Until this week, the case had been, in some respects, a fun-house mirror version of a normal fraud trial.”– Innovation thy name is cryptocurrency:BitBounce, an anti-spam e-mail provider, is planning to raise as much as $20 million through an initial coin offering of digital tokens on the ethereum network. Founder Stewart Dennis says he may have millions of dollars worth of tokens left over from the ICO, which will need safekeeping. Recent hacks have revealed
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