A manhole cover weighs a couple hundred pounds, sits in a public street, and in most American cities is locked to nothing. Lifting one is the entire physical barrier between the sidewalk and the cables running beneath it. People have been lifting them. Groups were filmed climbing into and out of New York sewers on...
Author: Dominick Bianco, Editor-in-Chief
Dominick M. Bianco
Editor-in-Chief, Nexfinity News
Dominick M. Bianco is the Editor-in-Chief of Nexfinity News, where he leads editorial coverage across global finance, capital markets, emerging technologies, macroeconomic policy, and investigative reporting.
His reporting focuses on institutional trends, artificial intelligence, digital assets, ESG investing, blockchain technology, and cross-border capital flows.
Bianco emphasizes data-backed analysis, regulatory context, market transparency, and forward-looking economic implications.
He oversees editorial standards, newsroom strategy, fact-checking practices, and content integrity to ensure coverage aligns with high-trust publishing benchmarks and professional journalism standards.
Bianco is a member of the National Writers Union and the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). He is also a former U.S. Marine Corps veteran.
Areas of Expertise
- Global Financial Markets
- Artificial Intelligence in Finance
- Digital Assets & Blockchain
- Carbon Credits & ESG Investing
- Macroeconomic Policy
- Investigative Financial Journalism
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Latest Posts
NY Prisons and ICE Detainers: The Early-Deportation Law Nobody Is Using
The Department of Homeland Security has spent the past nine months publishing the same number about New York: 7,113 people sitting in the custody of a New York jurisdiction with an active immigration detainer against them. The figure has appeared in DHS statements in December, January, February, April and again in June, unchanged. The federal...
Meta Settles for Up to $18 Billion and Ties Nearly a Third of It to What Its Competitors Do Next
Meta Platforms agreed Wednesday to pay up to approximately $18 billion and rebuild how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram, ending a federal trial in Oakland eight days after it began and before Mark Zuckerberg ever took the stand. The deal resolves claims by a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general that Meta engineered its platforms...
The Best Argument for Ballot Barcodes Is the One Nobody Is Making
Intro On June 29, 2026, the Supreme Court decided Watson v. Republican National Committee and made a single piece of paper evidence enormously consequential. The Court upheld Mississippi’s law counting mail ballots postmarked by Election Day and received up to five business days afterward. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, writing for a 5-4 majority joined by...
Ordinary Wi-Fi Routers Identified People With 99.5% Accuracy. Is 6G Next?
A German research team has shown that a passive listener sitting within range of an ordinary Wi-Fi network can recognize individual people walking through that network’s signal field, without a camera, without the target carrying a phone, and without ever joining the network. The finding is real, it is peer-reviewed, and it was presented at...
At Least One in Four: New CTE Study Reopens the Question of Whether Football’s Equipment Is Part of the Problem
A study published Tuesday, Aug. 25, in The BMJ found that at least one in four former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head impacts. The work was led by Daniel H. Daneshvar of Mass General Brigham and Harvard Medical School, with...
126 Million Retirement Accounts, $9 Trillion in Assets, and No Regulator Who Says It’s Their Job
A federal watchdog report examining how the companies that run America’s 401(k) plans handle participant data found that most of the privacy policies it reviewed placed no limit on selling or sharing that information for marketing and that four separate federal agencies each explained why enforcement was not their responsibility. The Government Accountability Office published...
The Lenders Say the Consumer Is Fine. The Consumer Says Otherwise.
Five of the largest credit card lenders in the United States told investors this summer that American consumers are paying their bills better than expected. Three of them lowered their forecasts for how much money they expect to lose to defaults this year. In the same weeks, consumer sentiment fell to a level below the...
Caspian: Iran’s Limited Gateway to Unencumbered Trade
The U.S. naval blockade of Iran is frequently described as a total maritime cutoff. By the U.S. military’s own definition, it is not. It covers Iran’s southern coastline the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman and nothing else. Iran has a second coastline. It runs roughly 650 kilometers along the southern shore of the...
Political Polling: How Do They Keep Getting It Wrong?
With 73 days until the November 3 midterm elections, the country is heading toward the polls with less reliable information about the electorate than at any point in modern memory and the failures of the past 20 months have come from opposite directions. In August alone, a fabricated poll in the Los Angeles mayoral race...









