May 28, 2025

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Investment

Trump Media is looking to sell investment funds, raising ethics questions

The Trump brand has been used to hawk cryptocurrencies, Bibles, steaks and guitars. Now the president’s media company is laying the groundwork to sell investment funds. Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., which is majority owned by Donald Trump, plans to sell offerings tied to his agenda. The parent of the Truth Social platform, where

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Crypto

Donald Trump crypto dinner spurs concerns about ethics of $TRUMP

Referencing Trump’s business moves while in office, an ethics expert said, “His is one of the most blatant and appalling instances of selling access to the presidency I’ve ever seen.” Trump hosts crypto dinner for biggest $TRUMP coin buyers The president hosted top investors in his meme coin and rewarded the biggest buyers with gifts

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Crypto

Eric Adams and NYC crypto whales call for end of BitLicense

At a “crypto summit” on Tuesday held by Eric Adams — the controversial mayor of New York City who recently escaped several federal corruption charges — crypto CEOs and investors made an open plea: please get rid of state crypto regulations so we can write our own and turn the Big Apple into a “crypto

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Investors

UnitedHealth investors brace for strategic shift after missteps

DOJ criminal probe investigates UnitedHealth Group for Medicare fraud The Wall Street Journal reported the Department of Justice is investigating UnitedHealth Group for possible Medicare fraud. UnitedHealth Group UNH.N investors, stunned by missteps at the once predictable healthcare giant, are warily expecting strategic changes in its Medicare Advantage health insurance business over the next year. On Wednesday,

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Finance

Is Germany’s powerful finance minister in over his head? – POLITICO

“When somebody concentrates all power into their hands, then of course that person will be held responsible for their mistakes,” said one SPD politician, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal party matters. In the past, Klingbeil could always blame the party’s failures on others — including Olaf Scholz’s unpopularity — said the parliamentarian.

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Crypto

Heritage Distilling Implements Cryptocurrency Treasury Policy

(MENAFN– GlobeNewsWire – Nasdaq) Company intends to lead the craft spirits e-commerce space in accepting Bitcoin and Dogecoin as a form of payment and to hold them as strategic assets GIG HARBOR, Wash., May 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: CASK) (“HDC” or“Heritage” or the“Company”), a leading craft distiller of

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Crypto

Senate Dems propose ban on presidents investing or endorsing crypto assets

After abruptly pulling their support from what would have been the Senate’s first stablecoin regulatory bill, Senate Democrats announced Tuesday that they would introduce a new bill that would prevent federal officials and their families from issuing digital assets – a bill directed at Donald Trump and his family’s current stablecoin and meme coin holdings.

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Loans

Interest rates for loans, mortgages aren’t falling. See when they might

If you’re wondering when interest rates on credit cards and car loans will start falling again, don’t hold you breath this week when the Federal Reserve’s policy committee meets. Interest-rate traders see little chance that the Fed will lower interest rates at the end of Wednesday’s meeting or the following one. That means Americans won’t

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Funds

DOGE cuts millions in funds for HIV research at Florida universities

Those working to end the HIV epidemic say this cut in funding will have a ‘devastating impact.’ Protesters against planned National Institutes of Health funding cuts The Trump administration’s push to slash funding at the National Institutes of Health has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge. About $42 million of the terminated grants were

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Banking

Banking regulators scrap crypto-warnings, encourage innovation

Trump’s crypto project says it sold $550M in tokens Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial crypto project announced it raised $250 million in its second token sale, bringing total sales to $550 million. Cheddar U.S. banking regulators announced on Thursday they were pulling back several documents that urge banks to show caution when dabbling in cryptocurrency and related activities. The Federal Reserve said it was

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