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The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board approved a $19.2 billion budget for 2023 and a four-year financial plan. The budget includes a 5.5% fare increase for next year and envisions a 4% increase in 2025. “I’ve been talking about the financial crisis facing the MTA for many months,” MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said
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West Virginia municipalities will receive fresh federal funds to address dated waste infrastructure networks long overdue for upgrades. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Program will provide $2.2 million for “18 critical projects across West Virginia,” the state’s two senators said Tuesday in a news release, supporting efforts ranging from upgrades to telecommunications technology
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Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) could potentially find some mutually beneficial interactions with central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), according to one industry executive. While crypto is often associated with financial freedom, the concept of CBDC is frequently seen as the exact opposite. But this doesn’t mean that there cannot be a balance between the two, according
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Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority bondholders objected to the Oversight Board’s proposed plan of adjustment and asked that the discovery process begin immediately. “There is no conceivable benefit to interested parties or the court from forcing all parties to sit on their hands for more than two months before plan-related discovery begins, only then to
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It has been a tumultuous year for the crypto investors who have witnessed the total crypto market capitalization tumble from about $2.2 trillion at the beginning of 2022 to about $850 billion in December. The sharp erosion in valuation was caused due to several high-profile bankruptcies in 2022. The entire Terra ecosystem imploded with the
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The Federal Reserve, over its more than centurylong existence, has emerged as a leading force in the stock market. This stature was bolstered by the central bank’s adoption of two unconventional policy tools in the 2000s – large-scale asset purchases and forward guidance. Large-scale asset purchases refer to the Fed’s emergency buying of government debt
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Paxful, a New York-based, peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency exchange, will drop Ethereum trading from its platform on Dec. 22. Ray Youssef, CEO of the company, cited different reasons for this decision, with increased centralization and the recent consensus mechanism pivot amongst them. Youssef also stated that tokens built on top of Ethereum have been primarily scams.
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