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Trump's Crypto Embrace: Meme Coin Mania or a Real Revolution?

Trump's Crypto Embrace: Meme Coin Mania or a Real Revolution?

Is Trump’s new found love for crypto a true conversion, or just another move in his 2024 political playbook? More importantly, are we, the investing public, being played right along with it? In particular, I’ve seen tons of excitement around politically-themed meme coins. Though the promise of immediate returns is...

CoinDesk's Sam Reynolds Reports on Trump Token Developments

CoinDesk's Sam Reynolds Reports on Trump Token Developments

Sam is a senior reporter, based in Asia. He’s a member of the CoinDesk team that won the 2023 Gerald Loeb Award for breaking news coverage of FTX’s collapse, and he’s most recently covered the latest developments around the $TRUMP token. He’s done a lot of work reporting at the...

Is Trump's TRUMP Token a Win for Crypto or a Political Game?

Is Trump's TRUMP Token a Win for Crypto or a Political Game?

Let's be blunt: The emergence of the TRUMP token has ignited a firestorm of debate within the crypto community, and for good reason. On the surface, this might sound like yet another celebrity-branded digital asset. But when you peel back the layers, you reveal a tangled tapestry of political jockeying...

Trump Token Drama: Did He Profit? Decoding the $TRUMP Mystery

Trump Token Drama: Did He Profit? Decoding the $TRUMP Mystery

The political complexities of cryptocurrency have been fraught for some time, especially when they involve bigger-than-life figures such as Donald Trump. Currently, most controversy is focused on the $TRUMP meme coin. It does raise very real questions about possible conflicts of interest, financial enrichment, and the ethics behind celebrity-promoted digital...

Trump's TRUMP Token Denial Hides a Deeper Crypto Problem

Trump's TRUMP Token Denial Hides a Deeper Crypto Problem

We can trust Donald Trump when he says he doesn’t directly profit from the TRUMP token? Color me shocked. But truthfully, if he never sees a dime directly, that’s almost beside the point. This whole saga exposes a far more insidious problem plaguing the crypto world: the dangerous intersection of...

Trump's Tariffs Trigger Port Chaos: Is a Recession Looming?

Trump's Tariffs Trigger Port Chaos: Is a Recession Looming?

The U.S. economic landscape right now is a bit of a powder keg of anxieties and uncertainties. These sentiments are mostly fueled by the reawakening of trade concerns with the former President’s advent of tariff policy. These tariffs, designed to protect domestic industries and incentivize local manufacturing, have instead triggered...

Trump's Trade U-Turn: 3 Reasons This Bitcoin Rally Is Different

Trump's Trade U-Turn: 3 Reasons This Bitcoin Rally Is Different

"This time it's different." Those are the four most dangerous words in investing. After all, aren’t those the four most dangerous words in investing? We’ve all seen the promise of hype cycles. They feature the ICO boom and the meme stock mania, as well as the unavoidable crashes that came...

Trump's Trade Talk & Powell: Bull Market's Back! What's Next?

Trump's Trade Talk & Powell: Bull Market's Back! What's Next?

The markets are a fickle and often strange beast, frequently overreacting or underreacting to seismic geopolitical shifts and economic policy changes. The financial world is closely watching the interplay between ex-President Trump’s trade chatter and Jerome Powell’s Federal Reserve monetary policy. Their cumulative impacts are disrupting industries in historic ways....

Trump Memecoin: $75 High to $8 Crash - What's Next for TRUMP?

Trump Memecoin: $75 High to $8 Crash - What's Next for TRUMP?

If the memecoin world is characterized by insane volatility, the TRUMP token is no different. Originally launched in January 2025, it didn’t take long for it to attract a buzz, climbing all the way up to $75 high just after its launch. Sadly, this meteoric rise was short-lived, the token...

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