Russia issued Gold-Backed Crypto Coins

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News Date: January 2, 2023

The largest bank in Russia, Sber Bank, just announced that it has issued gold-backed digital assets on its own blockchain.
It is expected that this will attract a lot of new investors and institutions especially as there is a lot of concern about inflation for fiat currencies.
After all, many of the citizens in the country have started to use the blockchain as a method to preserve wealth and to transfer wealth without having any interference from a bank or government.
Sources: procoinnews

Vance Backs Trump on Fed Influence

Senator JD Vance, R-Ohio, who is former President Trump's vice presidential nominee, expressed support for Trump's idea that U.S. presidents should have a say in the Federal Reserve's monetary policy decisions, including interest rate changes.
In an interview on CNN's "State of the Union," Vance agreed with Trump, arguing that such decisions should involve America's elected leaders and not be left solely to the independent Federal Reserve.
Vance acknowledged that this would mark a significant shift from the traditional approach, where the Fed operates independently of political influence, but emphasized that Trump is advocating for greater political input, not direct control, over monetary policy.

SCO to expand trade in national currencies

China-led SCO bloc agrees to expand trade in national currencies.
The leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) agreed on Friday to take steps to increase the use of national currencies in trade between their countries, according to a joint declaration adopted on Friday.
Source: reuters.com

FedNow alongside private sector Service

Fed announces details of the FedNow interbank service.
The FedNow Service will be available to banks in the United States and will enable individuals and businesses to send instant payments any time of day, any day of the year through their bank accounts.
The target launch date for the service remains 2023 or 2024, with a more specific time frame to be announced after additional work is completed.
The FedNow Service, alongside similar services provided by the private sector, will modernize the U.S. payment system and bring the benefits of instant payments broadly to communities across the country.
Sources:www.federalreserve.gov

Historic Investments in Economic Growth

Following enactment of the American Rescue Plan in March of 2021, the Treasury Department oversaw an historic and unprecedented provision of federal assistance to struggling Americans, including delivering more than 150 million Economic Impact Payments within the first few weeks following the American Rescue Plan's passage; helping launch a national infrastructure to provide emergency rental assistance and prevent evictions across the country; issuing the first ever monthly payments of the Child Tax Credit which supported tens of millions of families; and rapidly distributing unprecedented Fiscal Recovery Fund resources directly to communities to help local leaders avoid cuts, address local needs, and support rapid, resilient, and equitable recovery.
Source: treasury.gov

Eurasian alliance plans its own gold standard

Towards the end of July, news emerged in the Russian media that Moscow and a number of its Eurasian allies are now reviewing a proposal to create an entirely new trading and pricing infrastructure for the international precious metals in order to both destroy London and New York's monopoly over global precious metals pricing and to stabilize the Russian gold market.
The basis of this new structure will be a new, specialized international precious metals brokerage headquartered in Moscow, which will rely on the MWS.
Russia is also proposing to fix prices of precious metals in the national currencies of key member countries or via a new monetary unit - such as the new BRICS currency proposed by Putin.
The price-fixing committee would include central banks and other large banks from the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU).
Member states of the EEU are Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Armenia.
The idea would be to make membership attractive to big gold players like China, India, Venezuela, Peru, and other South American countries.
Sources: kitco.com, bullionstar.com