The Treasury Wants to Regulate Crypto… And Fast

The U.S. Treasury has warned that unregulated cryptocurrencies could come back to haunt the United States and its financial workings. The Treasury Is Terrified of Crypto The Treasury has been engaged ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Warns Gas Prices Could Spike This Winter — Says ‘It’s a Risk’

 Since breaking a record in June, the average gas price in the US has been steadily declining, bringing some much-needed relief while inflation stays close to 40-year highs. However, if crude prices i...

US Treasury seeks public opinion on digital asset risks

In an effort to prepare a report for President Joe Biden on the significance of developments like cryptocurrencies, the U.S. On Tuesday, Treasury stated that it was seeking feedback on the dangers and...

Yellen Flags Potential for Buybacks of Treasury Securities

(Bloomberg) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen flagged the potential for buybacks of certain US government securities, after her department quizzed market participants on the potential for the ma...

Yellen warns of ‘dangerous and volatile environment’ as she pledges to bolster Treasury market

““We’ve experienced energy shocks, food shocks, supply shocks, persistent inflation in many countries around the world, rising interests rates in many parts of the world and we have seen some financia...

Weekly MacroSlate: Which part of the Big Short film are we in right now? As U.S. treasury yields continue to climb and invert across the yield curve

Macro Overview Recap of critical events, week commencing Oct. 10 As CryptSslate attended Bitcoin Amsterdam, there was no weekly MacroSlate report for the week commencing Oct. 10. Key macro topics that...

Analysts Say an Onslaught of Fed Rate Hikes Could Spur a ‘Bond Market Flash Crash’ or ‘Blow up the Treasury’ – Economics Bitcoin News

The U.S. economy has been struggling with inflation running rampant and investors are eagerly waiting for the U.S. Federal Reserve to announce the next federal funds rate hike next month. Harris Kuppe...

Liquidity Is Evaporating From the Treasury Market. It’s a Bigger Problem Than Just Bonds.

Treasury-market liquidity is drying up and it’s going to get worse. The problem is bigger than it seems. Liquidity in the U.S. bond market, the world’s largest, has been deteriorating since the Federa...

‘Fragile’ Treasury market is at risk of ‘large scale forced selling’ or surprise that leads to breakdown, BofA says

The world’s deepest and most liquid fixed-income market is in big, big trouble. For months, traders, academics, and other analysts have fretted that the $23.7 trillion Treasurys market might be the so...

Vanguard ‘not confident’ U.S. Treasury rates have peaked after painful bond-market losses. Why ‘risk-reward profiles’ still appear more attractive across fixed income

U.S. Treasury rates may have yet to peak after surging this year, but higher yields have made bonds more attractive in tumultuous markets as investors face a likely recession next year, according to V...

Bitcoin Steady While US Treasury Bonds Cross Highest Since 2007 – Trustnodes

Debt in the United States has become most expensive, with US bond yields rising above 4.16% for ten year Treasuries. That’s the highest level since 2007, when the American economy was booming, while i...

Multi-year Treasury bill: European and Italian

One thing that is not widely known is that Italian BTPs (Multi-Year Treasury Bonds) can be indexed to European inflation.  However, not all of them are. The official website of the Italian Ministry of...

Why stock market investors should wait for the 10-year Treasury to ‘blink’

When a key part of the U.S. bond market starts shrugging off new Federal Reserve interest rate hikes or tough talk on inflation, it’s probably time to buy stocks, according to James Paulsen, the Leuth...

Hackers Continue to Use Tornado Cash Despite US Treasury Sanctions

Tornado Cash, a privacy solution on EVM, was sanctioned by the US Treasury Department in August. Are hackers still using Tornado Cash despite sanctions? In August 2022, The US Treasury’s Office of For...

Momentum Builds for Creation of a Treasury Bond Buyback Program

(Bloomberg) — The long-simmering idea that the US government should stand ready to buy back Treasury securities from investors in order to improve market functioning is moving closer to reality ...

US 10-year treasury bond on pace for its worst year in history 

Although the moves of the Federal Reserve (Fed) on raising interest rates hurt stock investors, bond investors had it much worse due to an inverse relationship between bond prices and rates. However, ...

Treasury I bond rates poised to slide in November

The Treasury Department’s popular inflation-protected I bonds won’t return as much when the rate adjusts on November 1, so buying them now is a better bet. The rate will be at least 6.48%, according t...

Bittrex to Pay $30M in US Treasury Sanctions for Settlement

Bittrex will pay the U.S. Treasury Department’s sanctions US Treasury alleged that it maintained a poor compliance program between 2014 and 2017. Bittrex acknowledged that it had allowed users from sa...

‘This is not QE or QT. This is none of those.’ Why the U.S. Treasury is exploring debt buybacks

The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday said it plans to start talking with primary dealers in late October about the potential for it to begin buying back some of its older debt to help stave off mark...

Top Stablecoin Tether (USDT) Slashes $30,000,000,000 in Commercial Paper Holdings, Buys Up U.S. Treasury Bills

Top stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT) is completing its goal of eliminating commercial paper holdings from its reserves before the end of 2022. The firm says it has finally cut its commercial paper inve...

Treasury Department Sued Over Tornado Cash Ban

Treasury Department Sued Over Tornado Cash BanUS Treasury Department Faces Lawsuit For Banning Tornado CashOctober 12, 2022On August 8, OFAC added Tornado Cash to its Specially Designated Nationals li...

What’s Going On With The Yield Curve And Long-Term Treasury Yields?

Close-up computer screen with financial data. Multiple exposure photo. getty Key Takeaways The yield curve shows the yield of bonds compared to their maturity lengths. Typical yield curves see long-te...

Rates on Treasury I Bonds Will Fall to 6.5% Soon. Get a Higher Rate Now.

The new rate on Treasury Series I inflation-linked savings bonds is likely to be set at 6.5% for bonds purchased starting in November, down from the current rate of 9.6%, Barron’s estimates. The new r...

Crypto group lists U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in lawsuit over Tornado Cash sanctions

The United States Department of the Treasury is facing a second legal challenge after its decision in August to ban Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixing service that masks the origins of coin transac...

Coin Center files lawsuit against US Treasury over Tornado Cash sanctions

United States-based crypto policy advocacy group Coin Center has followed through with its intention to take the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control, or OFAC, to court over sanctioni...

Coin Center Sues Treasury Over Tornado Cash Ban

Crypto policy non-profit Coin Center filed a federal lawsuit against the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) on Wednesday, claiming the government agency unlawfully overrea...

Grayscale taking SEC to court over spot BTC ETF, CoinCenter sues US Treasury for Tornado Cash ban

The biggest news in the cryptosphere for Oct. 12 includes Grayscale’s lawsuit against the SEC for not approving a U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF, CoinCenter’s lawsuit against the U.S. Treasury for overstepping...

Coin Center sues US Treasury over Tornado Cash sanctions

Crypto advocacy group Coin Center has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Treasury Department for overstepping its legal authority by sanctioning Tornado Cash, which allegedly impedes the privacy rights ...

Coin Center Files Lawsuit against Treasury over Tornado Cash Sanctions

Backing a second lawsuit, Coin Center sues the Treasury Department and the Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) over its sanctions on the Ethereum mixer, Tornado Cash.  Coin Center, Washington, DC-b...

Crypto Think Tank Coin Center Sues US Treasury Over Tornado Cash Sanctions

“An order effectively requiring Defendants to decriminalize use of the 20 Tornado Cash addresses would allow Plaintiffs to conduct their legitimate activities with some measure of anonymity, use their...

Crypto Data Science Shop Gauntlet Launches Treasury Management System for DAOs

“The only institutions that are fully on-chain that could generate organic demand for these derivatives products are DAOs, which have a need to deploy tokens strategically to maximize their longevity,...

Coin Center Sues US Treasury Over Tornado Cash Ban — Lawsuit Says Government’s Action ‘Was Unlawful’ – Bitcoin News

The non-profit that focuses on policy issues facing cryptocurrencies, Coin Center, has filed a lawsuit against the Treasury department, the secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, and the Office of Fo...