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Congress Reaches Deal On Housing Bill With CBDC Ban Until 2030 Authored by Jesse Coghlan via Cointelegraph, reviewed by Felix Ng. The US House and Senate have reached a deal to move forward with a housing bill that includes a ban on the Federal Reserve creating a central bank digital currency (CBDC) until 2030. A bipartisan group of House and Senate leaders released an updated version of the 21st Century Road to Housing Act on Tuesday, which aims to address housing affordability and bans institutional investors from buying existing single-family homes to...

BYD Shares Soar Most In 13 Months As Chinese EV Push Into Americas Accelerates Shares of Chinese EV maker BYD surged the most in 13 months after a report that its factory in Bahia, Brazil, a former Ford Motor plant, secured export orders for about 100,000 vehicles from Argentina and Mexico. This development suggests BYD's strategy to localize production in South America is still in its early stages and set to flood the continent with Chinese EVs.   Bloomberg quoted Macquarie Capital analyst Eugene Hsiao, who said the local Chinese media...

DOJ Sues New York Health Officials Over Alleged Fraud In Medicaid Homecare Program Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on June 16 sued New York health officials and a Georgia-based company over an alleged fraud scheme involving the state’s $10 billion Medicaid homecare program. The lawsuit names state Health Commissioner James McDonald, state Medicaid Director Amir Bassiri, and financial management services company Public Partnerships LLC as defendants. In its lawsuit, the DOJ asked the court to issue an injunction barring the defendants from making “false...