So, the question is whether they’re going to do 25 basis points or 50 basis points. I, at a high level, think that they should not be raising rates. I believe that the U.S. economy is quite strong. If you’ve seen the GDP prints over the last eight or nine quarters, it’s been consistent growth. The U.S. government continues to spend an insane amount of money, which is keeping economic growth at a very fast pace. And, obviously, that helps with the re-election chances or election chances of Kamala Harris and her running mate which I think is the goal of the current Democratic administration. So, the Fed cutting rates, when you have massive government spending, you have inflation that’s above their target – I think it’s a mistake. Inflation is going to accelerate into the fourth quarter if they decide to continue cutting rates. And, I think that the response is going to be if the markets start to falter, they’re just going to do more of it and they’re going to make the problem even worse.

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The dynamics are not necessarily that straightforward, as the prospect of larger cuts could cause a panicky reaction for risk asset prices, K33 Research analysts noted. “Similar large cuts occurred during the 2001 and 2007 recessions, often signaling heightened recession risks in the U.S,” K33 Research said in a Tuesday report.

Paper Ventures, Collider and Public Works participated in the round, said CJ Hetherington, co-founder and CEO of Limitless Labs, the company building the market on top of Base, the layer-2 blockchain network created by crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN).

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Etoro, which is based in Israel, is not a big player in the U.S. crypto market. It has only 240,000 customer accounts compared to Coinbase’s 100 million. But the SEC agreement is significant for the clues it offers about how the regulator views the key legal question of which digital assets are not securities, and therefore outside its supervision, lawyers contacted by CoinDesk said.

“The election gambling contracts pose significant public interest risk,” the CFTC’s lead attorney said during Thursday’s hearing. “The Commission noted serious concerns about potential adverse effects on election integrity, or the perception of election integrity, at a time where confidence in election integrity is incredibly low. These contracts would give market participants a $100 million incentive to influence either the market or the election, which could very certainly undermine confidence in election integrity. This is a very serious public interest threat.”

“Progress on relaxing regulations – particularly the repeal of SAB 121, which imposes stringent accounting rules on banks’ digital asset holdings – will continue in 2025 no matter who is in the White House,” wrote Geoff Kendrick, global head of digital assets research at Standard Chartered, adding that progress would just take longer under a Harris presidency.