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A new Federal Reserve report shows household debt surged in 2019, growing the fastest since 2008. The housing market is partly to blame. Fourth quarter mortgage originations ballooned at their highest pace since 2005. Household debt now stands at a perilous record $14 trillion. Famed economist and global market strategist David Rosenberg
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This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Ari Paul is CIO and managing partner of BlockTower, an investment firm.Cryptocurrency has many value propositions, including censorship resistance, seizure resistance, and global coordination without
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Bitcoin (BTC) bulls will no doubt keenly watch talk of the need for “a new, neutral global reserve asset” at the heart of the traditional financial sphere. Financial Times business columnist and associate editor Rana Foroohar published an opinion piece on Nov. 25, pointing to the renewed, half-justified “paranoia” of
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Global debt has surpassed $250 trillion. That’s 320% of gross domestic product, announced the Institute of International Finance on Nov. 14. Emerging market debt also hit a record $71.4 trillion, 220% of GDP.This has set off alarm bells. After all, the projected year-end amount of $255 trillion is equal
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The world’s combined debt will hit $255 trillion by the end of 2019 — equal to $32,500 for each person on the planet or $12.1 million per Bitcoin (BTC).Bitcoin figures reacted with shock to the latest figures from the Institute of International Finance, which this month updated its Global
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The head of the United States Federal Reserve has admitted current economic policy is “not sustainable” — but that it is not its job to fix it.Speaking during testimony before Congress’ Joint Economic Committee on Nov. 13, Jerome Powell noted that currently, U.S. national debt is growing faster than
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The United States national debt is now over $23 trillion, according to website U.S Debt Clock.It is also worth noting that the debt per United States citizen is $69,724 and that the debt to gross domestic product ratio is 106.65%.The milestone has been pointed out on Nov. 1 by
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The credit rating arm of financial services giant Morningstar is developing a blockchain platform for the $117 trillion debt securities industry.Morningstar Credit Ratings is building an evaluation system for debt securities issued as tokens on a blockchain, Forbes reports on Oct. 2.Michael Brawer, COO at Morningstar Credit Ratings, stated
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Need convincing reasons to purchase Bitcoin? President Trump signed a financial agreement that increases the US national debt by about $22.5 Trillion. To some people, Bitcoin is money, while to some people Bitcoin can be multiple things depending on how it is utilised. A long term investment, a trading vehicle for
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