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Elon Musk Implores Fed to Cut Interest Rates or Risk Economy Tumbling into ‘Severe’ Recession

Tesla boss Elon Musk opines that the Fed’s attempts to stem inflation may inadvertently induce a full-blown recession.Elon Musk believes that the Federal Reserve must cut interest rates immediately or risk incurring a severe recession. The outspoken Tesla CEO made his opinion known in an early tweet Wednesday, which read:“Trend is concerning. Fed needs to

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SBF’s lawyers terminate FTX representation due to conflicts of interest

Paul, Weiss, the law firm backing FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) amid bankruptcy, renounced representing the entrepreneur, citing a conflict of interest. The decision to withdraw from representation after SBF’s tweets were found to disrupt the law firm’s reorganization efforts.Starting Nov. 14, SBF published a series of tweets that amassed

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Banks still show interest in digital assets and DeFi amid market chaos

The cryptocurrency sector is the Wild Wild West in comparison to traditional finance, yet a number of banks are showing interest in digital assets and decentralized finance (DeFi). This year in particular has been notable for banks exploring digital assets. Most recently, JPMorgan demonstrated how DeFi can be used to improve

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FTX’s Collapse Has Rekindled Interest in Defi and Associated Products – Fintech Bitcoin News

According to Julian Hosp, co-founder of the decentralized finance entity Defi Chain, the fall of the crypto exchange FTX and the domino effect it has had may have rekindled interest in decentralized finance (defi) and associated products. Hosp, however, conceded that the crypto exchange’s dramatic collapse also encourages regulators to

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German Banks’ Crypto Interest Is Limited as Industry Is Plagued by ‘Crooks,’ Regulator Says

“Overall, banks’ interest in offering crypto-asset trading to their customers still seems, to me, to be limited,” Branson said in an interview posted on the ECB website, saying that blockchain technology needs to move from being merely “promising” to being “effective and scaleable.” Source

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Open Interest in FTT Futures Doubles as Binance Moves to Liquidate FTX Token Holdings

"Last week, Alameda's balance sheet was questioned, and Binance also announced that it would liquidate FTT and other assets related to the FTX exchange," Griffin Ardern, a volatility trader from crypto asset management firm Blofin, said. "This appears to have caused a panic among investors, who chose to hedge their

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