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Brazilian Federal Police Move Against Alleged Transnational $800,000,000 Crypto Fraud Ring
Brazilian Federal Police are executing 20 search and seizure warrants for an alleged transnational crypto fraud ring accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars. According to a new press relea...
Three Reasons Biden’s Marijuana Policy Is Good For The Economy
Hundreds of pro-cannabis demonstrators march in New York City. Getty Images This week, President Biden announced plans to pardon thousands of people who have federal convictions for marijuana possessi...
Report Says Federal Agents Think Hunter Biden Could Be Charged — But Federal Prosecutor Has Yet To Decide
Topline An anonymously sourced report in the Washington Post Thursday claimed federal agents involved in investigating Hunter Biden think they have enough evidence to warrant criminal charges, though ...
Biden Will Pardon All Federal Marijuana Possession Convictions
Topline President Joe Biden said Thursday he will pardon anybody who has been convicted in federal court for marijuana possession, a move the White House says could apply to thousands of people, fulfi...
US Lawmaker Offended as Federal Energy Agencies Show Unwillingness to Act on White House’s Crypto Mining Recommendations – crypto.news
Jared Huffman, a United States House of Representatives member, has reportedly queried some U.S. federal agencies’ unwillingness or reluctance to respond to recommendations in a recently released Whit...
Federal regulators are preparing to pass judgment on Ethereum
Are regulators with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission gearing up to take down Ethereum? Given the saber-rattling by officials — including SEC Chairman Gary Gensler — it certainly seems possi...
Why the Federal Reserve won’t be so quick to ease up on its fight against inflation
Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, speaks during a Fed Listens event in Washington, D.C., US, on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. Federal Reserve officials this week gave their clearest signal ...
Federal Energy Agencies’ Unwillingness to Act on White House’s Crypto Mining Recommendations Miffs US Lawmaker – Regulation Bitcoin News
Jared Huffman, a United States lawmaker who advocates for increased scrutiny of crypto-mining entities, has reportedly chastised U.S. energy agencies that he accuses of failing to act on the White Hou...
The Federal Reserve’s chance of a policy error has increased: JPMorgan
Don’t let the feel-good vibes that kicked off markets in the fourth quarter lead you astray: The Federal Reserve and other central banks could still screw it all up through aggressive monetary p...
Crypto Better Days Coming: UN Urges Federal Reserve Not To Hike Interest Rates
Crypto prices immediately came crashing down after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced they are increasing interest rates during an economic summit on September 21. Now, in a not-so-delay...
Federal Reserve gets a ‘D’ grade from Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel
Fed critic Jeremy Siegel says the U.S. central bank almost deserves failing grade for how it has handled unwinding the extraordinary monetary stimulus provided during the COVID-19 pandemic. “The...
Federal Reserve governor says crypto activities ‘raise a number of significant issues’
Federal Reserve governor Michelle W. Bowman has acknowledged that despite the growth of cryptocurrencies they are an area of concern, especially in relation to the banking sector. According to Bowell...
Four Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Is Tightening Into A Recession
What is Jerome Powell thinking? Getty Images For the first time since the early 1980s, the Federal Reserve is tightening into a recession. The economy is slowing quickly, and leading economic indicato...
Former Federal Prosecutor On The New York Attorney General’s Case Against Donald Trump And Three Of His Children
NEW YORK, NY – JANUARY 11: President-elect Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump Jr., listen … [+] during a press conference at Trump Tower in New York, NY on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 20...
State & Federal Officials Increasingly Seek Policy Change Through Litigation Instead Of Legislation
President Joe Biden & North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Someone at the IRS criminally leaked confiden...
Does The Federal Reserve Regulate Cryptocurrency?
| Getty Images Key takeaways The Federal Reserve regulates banks, so it only monitors cryptocurrencies held by banks in the United States. The top U.S. banking regulator is assessing the launch of a C...
Federal Reserve May Have Gone Too Far As S&P 500 Tests Bear Market Low
The Federal Reserve was so worried about not being hawkish enough that policymakers probably went overboard. The Fed emerged from Wednesday’s meeting with all guns blazing: rapid-fire 75-basis-p...
U.S. Federal Reserve Set To Hike Rates Above 400 BPs
The United States Federal Reserve is tightening, and interest rates hike has heavily impacted on the crypto market. Earlier this month, Bloomberg Analyst Mike McGlone McGlone said Bitcoin would outper...
Steller (XLM) Slips 3.5% – Federal Reserve Hikes Another 75bp
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage On Thursday morning, the crypto markets were volatile, with some cryptocurrencies surging higher while others dropped. In contras...
Gold continues to fall as Federal Reserve won’t budge
It’s just a bloodbath across the board in markets this week. Or, to be honest, it has been all year. Even gold, the supposed safe-haven asset to rule them all, has struggled mightily, dropping to a 2-...
Brazilian Federal Police Launch Operation Colossus, 6 Cryptocurrency Exchanges Involved – Regulation Bitcoin News
The Brazilian Federal Police and the Brazilian tax authority have launched the final stage of “Operation Colossus,” a movement that has executed hundreds of court orders against cryptocurrency exchang...
Republican Lawmakers File Amicus Brief in Support of Custodia Bank’s Legal Battle With the Federal Reserve
In Custodia’s complaint, lawyers for the Wyoming-based bank argued that a master account was “vital to Custodia’s ability to operate effectively and efficiently,” and that the Fed’s continued waffling...
Bitcoin Falls to $19k as Federal Reserve Announces 75 BPS Rate Hike
Following a two-day Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting, the Federal Reserve has risen its benchmark interest rate by another 75 BPS. Bitcoin’s price reacted erratically to the news, droppi...
All Eyes on U.S Federal Reserve Over Interest Rate Hike
57 seconds ago | 2 mins read Bitcoin News Macro concern keeps the Bitcoin price below the $20,000 mark. Wall Street anticipates a rate rise of 75 basis points from the Federal Reserve this month. The ...
Federal Reserve Hikes Benchmark Bank Rate by 75bps to Battle Elevated Inflation – Economics Bitcoin News
The U.S. Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate on Wednesday afternoon by three-quarters of a percentage point. The central bank’s move follows the consumer price index (CPI) report last week t...
Here’s everything the Federal Reserve is expected to do today
Construction workers outside the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Building, photographed on Wednesday, July 27, 2022 in Washington, DC. Kent Nishimura | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images There’...
Opinion: Market instability replaces inflation as the biggest risk, raising the chances of a pivot by the Federal Reserve
Market instability is the biggest risk to central banks globally, replacing inflation, owing to massive amounts of leverage. So far, the U.S. Federal Reserve is fortunate because there’s low volatilit...