On Chicago’s West Side, Frederick Douglass Academy High School sits in a building designed for about 1,000 students. According to a June 2025 ProPublica and Chalkbeat investigation, Douglass had 27 employees for 28 students. Douglass is the extreme case, but the gap between building space and students runs across Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the nation’s...
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
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominick-m-bianco/
Latest Posts
New York’s Sports Betting Windfall: $5.1 Billion in Losses, and Who Paid Them
New York’s mobile sports betting tax is usually reported as a win for the state and its schools. Two numbers rarely appear alongside it: what bettors lost to produce that revenue, and whether schools actually receive more money because of it. The first can be calculated directly from the tax rate. For the widely cited...
Two Standards, One Border: The Vaccine Mandates That Stopped at the Rio Grande and at the Sanctuary State Line
For years, federal and state governments made jobs, military service, hospital work and school enrollment depend on vaccination. Those standards were never applied at the same strength to people entering between ports of entry, or to the jurisdictions that shelter them. Measles is now at a 35-year high, largely for reasons unrelated to the border....
Rate Bets That Settle Like Futures and the Three Different Regulators Watching Them
Intro On Sept. 16, the Federal Open Market Committee raised its policy rate a quarter point. The decision, approved unanimously 12-0, brought the target range to 3.75%–4% and marked the first hike since July 2023. Updated projections showed a strong majority of officials expect another increase before year-end. Two weeks earlier, that outcome was not the...
The Navatek File: What’s Proven, What’s Alleged and What’s Unresolved in the Susan Collins Report
Intro A defense contractor’s former CEO is in federal prison for illegal campaign contributions to Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine). A new investigation now says the FBI later wanted to go much further. ProPublica reported Tuesday that FBI agents sought in 2024 to open a broad pay-to-play inquiry examining dealings between Collins and a major donor,...
A Third of the U.S. Surrogacy Market Is Foreign. Almost Nothing Above It Is Federal.
The McKenna West case took four courts in three states to reach an unfinished answer, and every party in it was American. The fastest-growing part of the market she entered is not American at all and the legal machinery that eventually resolved her case stops at the border. The Growth Isn’t Mostly American Gestational surrogacy...
Sued for Refusing an Abortion: The Surrogacy Clause Courts Won’t Enforce
A California couple is seeking at least $100,000 in damages from the woman who carried their son, on the theory that she breached their contract by declining to end the pregnancy. The clause they are suing over is one courts have long said cannot be enforced against a pregnant woman. What remains enforceable is the...
The Good Climate Numbers of 2026, and the Coverage They Didn’t Get
Four major indicators moved in a favorable direction this year. Each arrived with a documented explanation from the agency that produced it. Almost none of them led a newscast. Intro The Atlantic hurricane season passed its climatological peak this month without producing a single hurricane. Five tropical storms have formed Arthur, Bertha, Cristobal, Dolly and...
New York Workers Can See Their Personnel Files Starting Nov. 8. The Rules Change Again in 2027
Introduction New York employers will be required, for the first time, to hand employees a copy of their personnel file on request and to tell workers when something damaging is put into it. Governor Kathy Hochul signed S3460 into law on September 9, 2026 as Chapter 293 of the Laws of 2026, adding Section 210-b...
Lab-Grown Salmon Is on American Menus. Almost Nothing Requires the Menu to Say So.
Four restaurants in the United States are currently serving salmon that was never caught, never farmed, and never alive as a fish. It is grown from Pacific coho cells in steel vessels in San Francisco, harvested, and combined with plant-based ingredients into something that looks and cuts like a fillet. Eight states have made selling...









