Yet, while the Fed and others proclaim the economy’s health, signs of stress abound. China’s Shanghai Composite is back to 2006 levels. Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund, the world’s largest public pension fund, reported a loss of $135 billion for the December quarter. Europe’s economy offers little to cheer.

In the U.S., corporate profit growth is decelerating, and stock buybacks, once a major source of stock-market support, appear to be diminishing as funding becomes more expensive, or disappears. Repatriation of corporate cash due to changes in tax law helped fund buybacks in 2018; it doesn’t exist to the same degree this year. Buybacks also were funded by low-cost debt, some $3 trillion of which was issued in the past five years and now sits on companies’ balance sheets. A recession would substantially reduce companies’ willingness to authorize additional aggressive buyback schemes. At the same time, the Fed has been shrinking its balance sheet by $50 billion a month, which has drained liquidity from the financial system.

There seems little doubt that the world economy is sliding into a recession—or, minus unprecedented action by the authorities, a crisis that could be much worse, led by China, Europe, emerging markets, and other troubled economies. Individual-country data suggest as much, as does the decline in global trading and exports as evidenced by the Baltic Dry Index, a measure of global dry bulk shipping costs that has plummeted since the middle of 2008. The U.S. trade battle with China only compounds the problem.

Keep an eye on falling banks shares, too. Those in Europe, Japan, and China are sending clear signals of trouble, and U.S. bank stocks can’t be far behind. A blow to the global real estate market, coupled with a severe recession, conceivably could cause irreparable damage to the global banking system.

allow the EU to increase its beef exports to Japan substantially

and the protection of a selection of Japanese GIs in the EU.

Since Japan is very friendly toward the cryptocurrency and everything is regulated there, can this agreement help EU to do something similar?

The problem is wealth density.

$40k gold is the size of a smart phone.
$40k copper is 6.7 tonnes

The pools, exchanges and probably other businesses do have full nodes, for their needs and for safety. Others can do this for the sake of decentralization.

Rewards? It can be good and it can be bad. Just look at the masternode coins; I don't like them, I don't find that model as safe and decentralized as Bitcoin.

C'est le côté j'ai deux merit en ayant posté vraiment pas beaucoup de message, j'ai trouvé ça louche. Mais bon on verra bien s'il continue de passer dans le coin.

maybe, these 2 brothers can finally help crypto market instead of killing price by facing rejection on their ETF proposal once ever few weeks

the news is being spread in a way that newbies might think a Savior is coming to crypto world now

i hope this one doesn't end up like USDT or TUSD which were accused of being the reason for many market manipulations  before

Many people express different types of bitcoin

Society needs bitcoin because it’s tired of the dictates of central banks. Bitcoin is truly democratic and inherently decentralized.