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Bank Lobby Fires Back At White House, Saying Stablecoin Study Ignores Community Bank Threat Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, The American Bankers Association is warning that the White House’s latest stablecoin study is asking the wrong question and underestimating the threat to community banks. On April 8, the Council of Economic Advisers released a 21‑page paper modeling what happens if payment stablecoin issuers are barred from paying yield. The analysis, tied to the 2025 GENIUS Act’s prohibition on interest for payment stablecoins, finds that banning yield would raise bank lending by only about 2.1 billion...

US Strikes Iran Energy Assets, Tehran Vows Retaliation; Iran Intel Chief Killed, Trump Muses On 'Finishing Off Terror State' Summary Israel says Iran's intelligence chief Esmail Khatib was eliminated overnight as pace of top leadership killings accelerates. Iran says upstream oil and gas assets are under attack for first time since war began, readies retaliatory action against oil/gas assets in Gulf area, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, & UAE Iraq reroutes some flows through Ceyhan Pipeline to Turkey Iran reiterates new rules in place for Hormuz transit as traffic remains de-minimus, sparking reports that "the...

Mossad Chief Declares Mission In Iran Not Over Until Regime Falls A two-week Iran-US-Israel ceasefire is still in effect despite the collapse of last weekend's Islamabad talks, where the big hang up was fierce disagreement over Iran's nuclear development. The clock is ticking amid efforts to hold more direct talks by the end of this week. What's unlikely to help things move along is a fresh statement from Mossad Director David Barnea. While speaking at a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in Jerusalem on Tuesday, he boasted that Mossad assets have been operating from...