Sometime after the shutdown dust settles, the Senate is expected to consider legislation to give a congressional seal of approval to cryptocurrency despite the widespread fraud and risks to everyday people and the financial system.
The artificial intelligence (AI) gold rush is creating a double threat of concentrated economic power. There is the monopoly power of Big Tech companies. Companies like Meta, Amazon, Alphabet, Oracle, xAI, and others are vying to dominate the artificial intelligence gold rush and the economy.
The Trump administration’s crypto corruption, rampant deregulation, and dropped crypto enforcement cases has greenlit the worst crypto grifters and threatened both investors and the stability of the financial system.
If the Trump administration gives a flood of Big Tech companies, fintech firms, and others their own industrial loan banks these operators will be free to prey upon people with unfair terms, junk fees, and sky-high interest rates.
When the Federal Reserve foolishly approved the Capital One takeover of Discover, it ignored the fact that Capital One had relentlessly closed bank branches after a series of mergers over the past decades.
This summer, federal bank regulators proposed a rule to massively weaken the key post-2008 financial crisis banking regulation designed to make the mega banks more resilient and reduce the risk of their failure.