Yellen: Bitcoin often used for illicit finance; is inefficient

tweet at 9:08am: US Tsy Sec Yellen: Success Would Be Return To Pre-Pandemic Employment tweet at 9:09am: Yellen says stimulus needs to ensure people's lives, livelihoods are not permanently scarred by pandemic-NY Times DealBook event Says success for stimulus would mean getting back to pre-pandemic levels of unemployment, restoring service sector jobs tweet at 9:11am: *YELLEN: SENDING $1,400 WIDELY IS BETTER THAN NARROW TARGETING - BBG tweet at 9:14am: * BOFA GLOBAL RESEARCH - EXPECT THE U.S. STIMULUS BILL TO TOTAL $1.7TR, UP FROM OUR PRIOR ASSUMPTION OF $1TR, WITH PASSAGE IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS @Reuters tweet at 9:20am: US Tsy Sec Yellen: Makes Sense For Federal Reserve To Study Digital Dollar Currency

I would like to thank you warmly for inviting me to speak to you today. It is a privilege to have an opportunity to talk to the citizens’ representatives at the heart of European democracy. Events like this one allow us to consider national debates in discussions about our common challenges as Europeans. For all of us, the past year of the pandemic has been an extraordinary challenge. And, at all levels, the public policy response has been truly impressive. National responses have spearheaded the policy effort, with fiscal measures amounting to, on average, 4.5% of euro area GDP. Yet the response to this crisis stands out from previous one tweet at 9:34am: *LAGARDE: ECB CLOSELY MONITORING LONGER-TERM NOMINAL BOND YIELDS tweet at 9:36am: ECB President Lagarde: - ECB is closely monitoring longer-term nominal bond yields - Still highly uncertain how pandemic will unfold - ECB will continue to support all sectors of the economy by preserving favorable financing conditions #ECB $EUR tweet at 9:41am: MORE ECB'S LAGARDE: PEPP ENVELOPE OF €1.85 TN GIVES "CONSIDERABLE FIREPOWER." LAGARDE MAKES NO MENTION THAT PEPP ENVELOPE MAY NOT BE EXHAUSTED. #ecb #eurozoneeconomy #christinelagarde tweet at 9:46am: Euro bond yields fall after ECB's Lagarde says ECB is closely monitoring evolution of long-term nominal bond yields Could the ECB Pres Lagarde be warning about the possibility of ECB Yield Curve Control https://t.co/aA4P5sAgBF

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