Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images News For weeks, stock markets anticipated that inflation rates were too strong to expect interest rate cuts anytime soon. This view is a sharp reversal from late 2023 when investors expected several interest rate cuts throughout 2024. From April 30, 2024, to May 1, 2024, the Federal Reserve will host its next…
Nikada Investors received some of the worst possible news they could have expected on Friday, 6 October 2023. The September 2023 jobs report featured employment numbers that were much higher than expected. While that’s something that would be considered good in the real world, in the world of Wall Street, it is bad news because…
BTCPay Server has come a long way since Nicolas Dorier first decided to build out a software project with the goal of obsoleting the payment processor BitPay in response to their actions during the 2017 Blocksize Wars. It has blossomed since then into one of, if not the, most widely used self-hosted payment processing stack…
Shinobi’s Strawman is a weekly series where our Technical Editor Shinobi challenges the Bitcoin community, aiming to stir up conversation around heated technical debates. _________________________________________________________________ Here is part two of the experiment. Last week I published a short prompt challenging readers to respond with their own defense or criticism of drivechains. The purpose of this…
cemagraphics For the S&P 500 (Index:SPX), there may as well have been only one event taking place during the past week. That event was the Federal Reserve’s annual getaway meeting at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, at which Fed Chair Jerome Powell addressed inflation and the Fed’s path ahead in charting a course to deal with it…