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Crypto-Friendly Banking Platform Cashaa Expanding in India, US, Africa
5.9.2020
Crypto banking platform Cashaa has unveiled plans to expand its services in India, the U.S., Africa, and the Caribbean. In India, the company aims to create “the first crypto-friendly banking platform” that is regulated by the central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)...
Unlimited QE and an Index Portfolio: How Fed Chair Jay Powell Can Pump His Bags
5.9.2020
In mid-August the U.S. stock market defied odds and mainstream media claimed after the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index touched new heights on August 18, it ‘officially’ ended the “shortest bear market in history.” Interestingly while roughly 30 to 40 million...
MIT is helping the Boston Fed build a CBDC that can be scaled for consumer use
3.9.2020
Can MIT help the U.S. catch up to China in the CBDC race?
$1 Trillion in Housing Bonds: US Real Estate Crisis Held Back by Fed’s Mortgage Purchases
3.9.2020
The U.S. real estate market is facing a conundrum, as there’s now a tidal wave of renters who can’t pay rent and a massive number of mortgage defaults stacking up like never before. Amid the looming real estate chaos, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) enacted public...
Let Them Eat Equities! The Economic Chickens Come Home to Roost, Feat. Luke Gromen
2.9.2020
One of the best-known macro analysts breaks down last week’s Jerome Powell speech and whether it truly represents a new policy era for the Federal Reserve
Microstrategy’s $250 Million Bitcoin Buy Consequential
2.9.2020
When a publicly owned company decides to invest about $250 million in an asset that was widely attacked more than a decade ago, it says a lot about how the world has changed. The reasons and the timing of Microstrategy’s bitcoin incursion could not have come at a better time for...
Bitcoin, USD velocity both crash — but BTC price reacted differently
2.9.2020
Rampant inflation of the dollar’s M2 money supply is only enriching the “cantillionaires,” Max Keiser argues as its velocity hits record lows
US Federal Reserve now owns over 20,000 different financial assets
1.9.2020
The nation's money printer continues to go "Brrr"
Warren Buffett Shifts Funds From US Amid Inflation Fears, Bitcoin’s New All-Time High Expected
1.9.2020
Warren Buffett has made another major investment shift, one that reduces Berkshire Hathaway’s dependence on the U.S. economy. This news followed the Federal Reserve’s policy announcement to “push up inflation,” which is seen as bullish for bitcoin, with some predicting that...
Jerome Powell throws US dollar under a bus in Jackson Hole
1.9.2020
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell threw the U.S. dollar under a bus last week at the central bank’s annual Jackson Hole, Wyoming, meeting
On quantitative easing, crypto and modern monetary theory
31.8.2020
Crypto needs financial products — simply positioned and simply transparent — to preserve and grow people’s assets in difficult times
Crypto Long & Short: What Changes at the Fed and the SEC Mean for Crypto
30.8.2020
Chairman Powell’s speech on Thursday highlighted how much the Fed’s role is changing, and that's an opportunity for the crypto industry
Ripple's Garlinghouse forecasts further loss of U.S. dollar value
29.8.2020
The wild ride of 2020 continues
Mr. Powell, If You Want Higher Inflation, Give People Money
29.8.2020
The Federal Reserve wants a little more inflation to keep the economy buoyant. That's hard to achieve when Main Street is so under water
Ripple Sued by 13 Australian Banks for Trademark Infringement
29.8.2020
Ripple Labs Inc. is being sued in an Australian court for allegedly infringing a trademark belonging to several local banks. A lawsuit filed by the New Payments Platform Australia (NPPA), a joint venture between the Reserve Bank of Australia and 13 domestic banks, claims that Ripple copied...
Free Market Family: Goldbug Peter Schiff Asks the Bitcoin Community to Gift Crypto to His Son
29.8.2020
The American libertarian, economist and financial commentator Peter Schiff has been criticizing bitcoin for years, as he believes “bitcoin has no real value.” However, on Thursday Schiff asked the crypto community to give some bitcoin to his 18-year old son Spencer for his birthday...
Visa Exec Says ‘Opt Out With Bitcoin’ Slamming Fed’s Policy Change Toward Inflation
29.8.2020
On Thursday, 17 top Federal Reserve officials explained that the committee plans to let inflation run hotter than usual, or above the benchmark 2% rate for a duration of time. Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech was considered a “major policy shift” and a number of economists...
Federal Reserve’s Major Policy Shift to ‘Push Up Inflation’ Could Send Bitcoin Price to $500K
28.8.2020
The U.S. Federal Reserve has announced a significant policy change to push up inflation. Bitcoin is set to greatly benefit from this policy change. Not only the price of bitcoin could surge past $500K, but a number of companies have also begun moving their reserves into the cryptocurrency to hedge...
Bitcoin balks as the Fed talks, DeFi surge continues: weekly recap
28.8.2020
This week the Fed signaled that further monetary expansion is planned, meanwhile interest in Bitcoin and DeFi continues to skyrocket
Fed Chair Powell’s Flexible Inflation Views Were Already Priced In
28.8.2020
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell did not raise many eyebrows Thursday morning when he announced the U.S. central bank would encourage some periods of inflation above its 2% target in certain circumstances to boost the long-term economy