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The US Treasury typically issues tons of bonds, bills, and notes to fund the government. This sounds like some technical thing. If they did lots and lots of buybacks, this would mean that somehow the deficit had gone down and turned positive to a surplus. This would reduce overall debt, which would be a good thing.
Now, the Fed (Federal Reserve) is the US Central bank. When they buy bonds, bills, or notes, they are doing Quantitative Easing (QE). They recently did purchase 40B of short term T-Bills (less than a year). They claim it's not QE, which usually involves longer term Notes or Bonds. Regardless of what you call it, it increases the money supply and reduces short term interest rates.
So watch what the Fed does for QE, not the Treasury. QE, or Baby QE, or QE Lite is happening.
I'm pretty good at quickly flicking through tik tok. I think I can recognize a boring one in under a quarter of a second and be on to the next one.
https://www.phreeli.com/ They only collect your zip code. If you pay by credit card, they claim to have a wall between the payment system and the phone management system. The founder is a well known privacy advocate. You can pay by crypto. It's pay in advance. This summary is non-AI. heh.
I feel like Thiel did his best to make sure that Capitalism became crony capitalism, where laws entrenched the biggest players.
I was on regular cellular with a reasonable signal strength. No temporary SIM or eSIM. MUUN was super quick to open, show balance, read the QR code, and start the transaction.
I believe the slowness is a result of the box being used by the Lugano merchants. MUUN is super fast on all the online transactions I've ever done. I would like to hear the experience of other people in Lugano.
My understanding is that Tether can and has frozen accounts so it's not decentralized.