Economist Peter Schiff expects a lot more banks to fail, warning that “nobody’s money is safe in any bank.” He stressed: “When the Fed sets interest rates too low and prints a lot of money … it unleashes massive inflation, creates tremendous economic imbalances that result in financial crises and depressions when the bubbles burst.”
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The US has for the first time transferred seized assets from a sanctions-hit Russian oligarch to send to Ukraine for the reconstruction of the war-ravaged country. The authorisation came on Wednesday from attorney-general Merrick Garland, who said additional moves of this kind would be forthcoming. “While this represents the United States’ first transfer of forfeited
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Authorities in Iran have closed down more than 8,000 underground facilities for cryptocurrency mining in the past three years, local media reported. Despite the government’s crackdown, illegal crypto mining continues to account for a serious amount of energy consumption, official figures suggest. Illegal Crypto Miners in Iran Steal 1.8 Billion kWh of Electricity, Official Says
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Payments behemoth Paypal has disclosed in a Form 10-Q financial report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it is holding nearly $1 billion in cryptocurrency assets. This news comes on the heels of Paypal’s announcement that Venmo now facilitates external transfers of cryptocurrencies to wallets and exchange platforms. Paypal’s Crypto Holdings
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Municipalities looking to access federal funding for expanding broadband access face a maze of one hundred programs administered through fifteen federal agencies. The persistent challenges were revealed during testimony Wednesday during the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing that explored what’s happening to $100 billion being spent on broadband access while 24 million Americans households don’t
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Financial advisory professional Jill Jaworski is the frontrunner for the chief financial officer post in Chicago Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson’s administration that will take office Monday. Jaworski, a Chicago-based managing director at the top-ranked financial advisory firm PFM Financial Advisors LLC, is the frontrunner among a shortlisted group of candidates under consideration for the post, according
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The Securities and Exchange Commission will introduce two rule proposals designed to help address the huge complexities and major concerns around the Financial Data Transparency Act that the municipal finance community has expressed since its passage. That’s according to Mary Simpkins, senior special counsel at the SEC’s Office of Municipal Securities, speaking at the SEC’s
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More than 2,500 EU-derived regulations are set to remain on the UK statute book beyond the end of this year, the government has announced, in a climbdown welcomed by business groups but criticised by Tory Brexiters. Kemi Badenoch, the UK trade secretary, confirmed that the “sunset” clause in the Retained EU Law Bill, which mandated
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