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House Republicans Demand SEC Clarify Its Position Regarding Prometheum
27.3.2024
House Republicans have written a letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) urging for clarity regarding Prometheum and whether Ethereum is considered a security.
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Biden, Republicans Strike Tentative Deal to Raise US Debt Ceiling
28.5.2023
The White House and House Republicans have reached an agreement in principle to raise the U.S. debt ceiling. Described by President Joe Biden as “good news for the American people,” the deal would open the door to avoiding a historic default by the government in Washington...
Republicans Seek to Repeal Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act in Exchange for Raising US Debt Limit
23.4.2023
There has been a lot of commentary concerning the U.S. raising its debt limit, as Treasury secretary Janet Yellen said last month that a U.S. default would be “devastating,” and European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde warned it would be a “major disaster” if...
Polls suggest Elizabeth Warren's anti-crypto army strategy may not pay off
31.3.2023
Elizabeth Warren has long been a crypto-critic, and appears to be making it a focus as her re-election bid kicks off
Crypto regulation decided by Congress, not the SEC: Blockchain Association
15.2.2023
The group's policy head doubted a divided Congress can create crypto legislation but said it doesn’t give regulators absolute authority in the interim
Federal Prosecutors Probe Democrats Over Donations From Sam Bankman-Fried
19.12.2022
Several members of the U.S. Democratic Party and campaign committees are reportedly being probed by federal prosecutors over donations from former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) and another executive of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange. “To any person, entity, or political campaign that...
SBF has been a 'significant donor' in the US midterm elections
7.11.2022
The FTX founder has reportedly spent almost $40 million mainly supporting Democrats during the current political cycle, according to Open Secrets
Democrats and Republicans Agree Cryptocurrency Is the Future of Finance, Survey Shows
2.11.2022
A new survey has revealed that Democrats and Republicans agree cryptocurrency is the future of finance. The national survey was conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest digital currency asset manager. In addition, 44% of the respondents said they...
Biden Administration Accused of Propaganda and ‘Redefining’ a Recession’s Technical Definition
25.7.2022
After people have accused bureaucrats and government agencies of changing definitions during the last few years, Joe Biden’s administration now claims that a second consecutive quarter of negative gross domestic product (GDP) does not indicate the U.S. is in a recession. This is despite...
Vince McMahon Reportedly Paid Four Women $12 Million To Keep Quiet About Alleged Affairs
8.7.2022
A new report from The Wall Street Journal found that former WWE CEO and chairperson Vince McMahon paid four women $12 million over the past 16 years. That includes the reported $3 million payout to a former WWE employee he had an alleged affair with previously unearthed by The Wall Street Journal....
Vince McMahon 1986 Rape Allegation Resurfaces As Former Wrestler Corroborates Story
28.6.2022
Amid news of misconduct and hush money payouts at the WWE, Rita Chatterton, the first female referee for the then-World Wrestling Federation, revisited her rape accusation against WWE CEO and chairperson Vince McMahon in an interview with New York Magazine. Read more
Everything We Know About WWE's Probe Of Vince McMahon
17.6.2022
WWE CEO and chairperson Vince McMahon “voluntarily stepped back” from his roles within the company amid an investigation of an alleged affair and payout with a WWE employee, according to the Wall Street Journal. Here’s everything we know about McMahon’s ongoing investigation so far. Read more
Vince McMahon Steps Back As WWE CEO Amid Investigation Of Alleged Employee Affair
17.6.2022
Today, WWE CEO Vince McMahon “voluntarily stepped back” from his roles within the company amid an ongoing investigation of an alleged affair and payout with a WWE employee, according to the Wall Street Journal. His daughter, Stephanie McMahon, will serve as the wrestling promotion’s interim CEO...
Janet Yellen Defends Tax Compliance Agenda — 3 State Treasurers Promise Not to Comply
6.10.2021
The 78th United States secretary of the treasury, Janet Yellen, is very concerned about tax evasion, according to statements she made during an interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that aired on October 5. Yellen claims there’s an “enormous tax gap” and...
US Lawmakers Float the Idea of Minting a Trillion-Dollar Platinum Coin to Avoid Sovereign Debt Crisis
6.10.2021
American politicians have been clamoring about the U.S. facing a significant debt crisis and the debt ceiling putting the country at risk of default. Joe Biden spoke about the debt ceiling and told Republicans to “just get out of the way” when it comes to the decision. Meanwhile,...
IRS, Janet Yellen Press Lawmakers to Push ‘Tax Compliance Agenda’ — Banks to Report Deposits, Withdrawals of $600
16.9.2021
On Wednesday, U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) commissioner Charles Rettig and Janet Yellen, the Treasury secretary, urged lawmakers to give the IRS permission to report annual inflows and outflows from American bank accounts. Regardless of tax liability, financial institutions across...
Pro-Trump MAGACOIN crypto launch marred by website data breach
23.7.2021
Roughly 75 million MAGACOIN were created to support pro-Trump candidates in 2022
Arkansas Governor Belatedly Realizes Wanting Trans Kids to Die Is Perhaps a Bad Look
5.4.2021
On Monday, in a rather surprising turn of events, Arkansas’s Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson vetoed HB 1570, a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for trans youth in the state, which sailed through Arkansas’s Republican-dominated legislature. Read more
More Stimulus Coming? President Biden and Senate Democrats Press for Another $3 Trillion
30.3.2021
On the heels of the last stimulus package, U.S. President Joe Biden is creating more legislation that may lead to a massive $3 trillion package dedicated to domestic needs and infrastructure. The recent discussions with Biden and Senate Democrats honed in on the political party’s “Build...
Biden’s $2 Trillion Relief Package the Largest Stimulus Payments to-Date, Plan Showers Money on the Bureaucracy
8.3.2021
On Saturday, politicians in the U.S. approved the massive $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package dubbed President Biden’s “American Rescue Plan.” The stimulus plan will see American citizens earning $75k or less eligible to receive $1,400. Moreover, households will get...