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Pomp: Trump deliberately crashed markets to get interest rates down

The Trump administration may be intentionally creating uncertainty in the stock markets to corner Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell into lowering interest rates, according to a market commentator. Doing so increases the likelihood that the…

Investors flee from risk assets as JPMorgan ups recession odds to 40%

Crypto and tech stocks saw large selloffs on March 10 as fears of a US recession heightened despite efforts from the White House to temper concerns. Economists at Wall Street investment bank JPMorgan have raised their recession risk this year…

SEC looking to abandon effort requiring crypto firms to register as exchanges

A proposed rule change pushing for some crypto firms to register as exchanges could be abandoned under a new directive from the acting chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission. During a March 10 speech at the Washington Conference…

Crypto scam reporting needs to move ‘under one umbrella’ — Coinbase CSO

The reporting of crypto scams in the United States is currently handled by a patchwork of agencies that should be streamlined to better protect consumers, says Coinbase chief security officer Philip Martin.“It’s a very fragmented…