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U.S. Senate leaders and the Trump administration neared an agreement on a massive stimulus bill that could inject $2 trillion into the economy to blunt the impacts of the coronavirus.The United States Democratic party said it is working on a big stimulus bill in response as an answer to the coronavirus epidemic and its economic impact. A version of the bill is dated March 22 and it has been circulating includes a passage that, if passed, would lead to the creation of a “digital dollar” to be...

It just over 7 years that social media giant Facebook decided to conduct an IPO. Since then, Facebook (FB) stock has been one of the favorite picks for investors looking for handsome returns.If we look at the Facebook stock price chart since May 2012, we can see a steady rise with minor swings until July 2018. It was in July last year when the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke out showing Facebook’s alleged breach of data and user privacy. The FB stock took a massive hammering losing 33% of...

Stable currencies are all the rage as of late. Given the price volatility of many mainstream cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC) and bitcoin cash (BCH), some are looking for new ways to ensure their safety while also investing in digital currencies, and now it looks like stable currencies are about to get a big regulatory boost.Could a New Bill Make Stable Currencies Mainstream?A new bill has been opened in Congress called the “Stable Coins Are Securities...

Things do not seem to be going as planned for Facebook’s Libra as Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify before the US Congress later in the month. This was revealed by the Chairwoman of the United States House Committee on Financial Services Maxine Waters (D) in a press statement yesterday. The Chairwoman indicated that a letter had been sent to the Social media giant in July “requesting an immediate moratorium on the implementation of Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency, Libra, and digital...

U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) admitted that it would be difficult or impossible to ban bitcoin in the United States. The Senator offered a number of positive comments on bitcoin as he chaired the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs cryptocurrency hearing yesterday.“If the United States were to decide, and I’m not saying it should, if the United States decided we didn’t want cryptocurrency to happen in the United States, and tried to ban it, I’m pretty confident we...