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John Williams says there is ‘room for a further adjustment' in borrowing costs
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A selloff for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies showed no signs of letting up on Friday, and investors were watching closely as a rout in those assets increasingly has been viewed as predictive for where the broader stock market is headed.
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There's a way to keep an eye on how the market is valuing OpenAI, according to Citi
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The situation today is not quite the same as the dot-com bubble, but the market is about 80% of the way there, says the founder of hedge fund Bridgewater Associates.
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I love it when organizations try and do something good, but don't think things through and end up delivering unintended negative consequences.
Today's case in point: the US Senate and the Federal Reserve, both of whom are looking to reduce high interchange costs, but are unintentionally increasing costs for merchants and sharply boosting the undiscovered fraud rate. Not bad for government work.
Let's start with the Senate, where Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) have crafted The Credit Card Competition Act of 2022. Its stated goal: reduce the interchange fee that financial institutions and card brands (Visa, MasterCard, Amex, etc.) charge retailers.
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