Bitcoin News
By Julie Binoche
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What Trump Actually Promised. At a Republican event, Trump floated the idea of what his camp is calling a "Trump dividend" — a…
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Why Bitcoin Isn't Playing Along. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is dropping two big inflation reports — the Producer Price…
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The Deficit Question Nobody's Answering. Critics aren't letting the funding gap slide. A $5,000 payout to every American adult would be an…
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Despite President Donald Trump's promise of $5,000 dividend checks to every American adult if Republicans hold both houses of Congress, the cryptocurrency sat right where it's…
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At a Republican event, Trump floated the idea of what his camp is calling a "Trump dividend" — a $5,000 check for American adults, contingent on the GOP winning both chambers of…
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Vice President JD Vance stepped in to add some nuance. He said the checks would exclude wealthy Americans and suggested the funding could come from tariff revenues.
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The whole thing echoes the $1,200 stimulus checks the Trump administration sent out during the COVID-19 pandemic under the CARES Act.
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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is dropping two big inflation reports — the Producer Price Index and the Consumer Price Index — and traders are watching those far more…
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More context: Bitcoin Hits $79K as Golden Cross Sparks $100K Target with Fed Decision Looming
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And the backdrop is rough. The U.S. is sitting on $40 trillion in national debt. Energy prices are elevated, partly because of ongoing conflict involving Iran.
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Bitcoin has grown up a bit. That's not a comfortable thing to say, but it's probably accurate.
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Critics aren't letting the funding gap slide. A $5,000 payout to every American adult would be an enormous fiscal commitment — far larger in scope than the CARES Act checks — and…
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That ambiguity is doing real work in the market's non-reaction. Investors aren't pricing in stimulus that doesn't have a funding mechanism.
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There's also the political layer. With elections in view, a promise like this reads to some analysts as a voter-motivation play rather than a serious near-term policy.
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