Crypto News
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Inspired by Costco’s flagship hot dog—and its decades-long price tag of $1.50 (plus drink)—a crop of crypto traders have found themselves engaged with Costco Hot Dog (COST). The Solana-based meme coin is an unofficial riff on the wholesale retail giant’s product, yet many holders are fans of the menu item and its dependable, inflation-flouting price point. ...
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Over two years ago, a discovery of mysterious antennas, consisting of a locked battery box, a router, and a solar panel, in the mountains of the Salt Lake City area has left the Utah authorities baffled over their origin, and today, there is still no official answer as to who was behind them. Specifically, Salt Lake’s recreational trails manager Tyler ...
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Bitcoin has had a phenomenal journey from a niche digital currency to a trillion-dollar asset class in a 15-year period. The January 2024 approval of 11 spot bitcoin ETFs was a watershed moment, presenting investors with a gateway to being able to invest in bitcoin through their traditional investment accounts. We expect this will continue to boost broader ...
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It is our great pleasure to welcome distinguished speakers and guests to our 29th BOJ-IMES Conference. We would like to thank you all for your participation. I would also like to thank my old friend, John Taylor, who was the very first Mayekawa Lecturer in 2008, for coming back to our conference to deliver his second Mayekawa Lecture later. While we hold our research conference almost every year, this year's conference is unique in that it is held as part of our "Broad Perspective Review" of monetary policy. The review aims to further deepen our understanding of various unconventional monetary policy measures over the past 25 years and to gain insights that will be useful for future policy conduct. This conference will cover two main themes: "Price dynamics" and "Effects of conventional and unconventional monetary policy instruments." We very much look forward to lively discussions with you today and tomorrow to gain further insight into these themes. To set the stage, let me start my remarks with the recent changes in our monetary policy framework, followed by my reflection on the past 25 years condensed into 20 minutes. post: BOJ GOVERNOR UEDA: RE-ANCHORING INFLATION EXPECTATIONS NECESSARY post: BOJ GOVERNOR UEDA: CHALLENGE IS TO DETERMINE NEUTRAL INTEREST RATE
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The meaning of the word "inflation" has changed. It used to mean rising prices; now it means high prices. Why it matters: Pedants, economists, and style-guide editors might not like it, but if you want to understand what people mean when they complain about inflation, you need to understand how the vernacular has evolved over the past couple of years. The ...
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The entire world economy is at risk from a glut of cheap Chinese exports, France’s Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said in tandem with a barrage of joint criticism from the Group of Seven. “We have an issue with the economic model in which China is producing more and more cheaper industrial devices because it could be a threat not only for the EU, not only ...
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The meaning of the word "inflation" has changed. It used to mean rising prices; now it means high prices. Why it matters: Pedants, economists, and style-guide editors might not ...
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The entire world economy is at risk from a glut of cheap Chinese exports, France’s Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said in tandem with a barrage of joint criticism from the Group ...
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This week on Macro Sunday the team touches upon the Ethereum & Bitcoin ETF, freight rates, copper tourism & much more.
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It is our great pleasure to welcome distinguished speakers and guests to our 29th BOJ-IMES Conference. We would like to thank you all for your participation. I would also like to thank my old friend, John Taylor, who was the very first Mayekawa Lecturer in 2008, for coming back to our conference to deliver his second Mayekawa Lecture later. While we hold our research conference almost every year, this year's conference is unique in that it is held as part of our "Broad Perspective Review" of monetary policy. The review aims to further deepen our understanding of various unconventional monetary policy measures over the past 25 years and to gain insights that will be useful for future policy conduct. This conference will cover two main themes: "Price dynamics" and "Effects of conventional and unconventional monetary policy instruments." We very much look forward to lively discussions with you today and tomorrow to gain further insight into these themes. To set the stage, let me start my remarks with the recent changes in our monetary policy framework, followed by my reflection on the past 25 years condensed into 20 minutes. post: BOJ GOVERNOR UEDA: RE-ANCHORING INFLATION EXPECTATIONS NECESSARY post: BOJ GOVERNOR UEDA: CHALLENGE IS TO DETERMINE NEUTRAL INTEREST RATE
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Finance leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) advanced nations on Saturday reaffirmed their commitment to warn against excessively volatile currency moves, language Japan sees as a ...
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It is my great pleasure to welcome all of you to this conference. As Governor Ueda mentioned in his opening remarks, the Bank of Japan is conducting the “Broad Perspective Review” of our monetary policy over the past 25 years. In short, it has been a battle against persistent deflation and a battle with the zero lower bound. Let me start by giving an overview of the inflation picture during this period. Please look at Chart 1. Japan’s deflation started in the late 1990s and continued for 15 years. The average inflation rate was just minus 0.3%. It was a mild but persistent deflation. To tackle this situation, the Bank introduced the 2% price stability target and Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing, or QQE, in 2013, and a negative interest rate policy and Yield Curve Control, or YCC, in 2016. As a result, we succeeded in achieving a situation without deflation, but the average inflation rate was 0.5%, which fell short of our 2% goal. Recently, inflation rate has risen to around 3%, following the gl post: BOJ DEPUTY GOVERNOR UCHIDA: DEFLATIONARY BATTLE NEAR CONCLUSION post: BOJ DEPUTY GOVERNOR UCHIDA: BANK OF JAPAN OVERCOMES ZERO LOWER BOUND post: UCHIDA: CHALLENGE REMAINS TO ANCHOR 2% INFLATION post: BOJ'S UCHIDA: HIGHER MENU COSTS, TOGETHER WITH MILD INFLATION, HAVE SLOWED THE PACE OF PRICE ADJUSTMENT
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It was another positive week for BTC/USD, which was up +1.9% as of London’s close on Friday despite finishing considerably off its best levels. Price movement on the weekly timeframe has been working between the limits of a potential bullish flag pattern since forming the all-time high of $73,845 in March. Even though the unit faded the upper edge of the ...
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Celebrating the approval of its spot Ether exchange-traded fund (ETF), asset manager VanEck has released a 37-second advertisement urging viewers to “Enter the ether.” The ad was posted on X on May 23, approximately 30 minutes after the Securities and Exchange Commission approved its 19b-4 filing for a spot Ether ETF. This approval was alongside those for ...