The Fed issued a paper a couple weeks ago saying they couldn't issue a CBDC but really needs to address stablecoins and other cryptos, so they (and their stakeholders, their owners) want to know what you think. ITT, the 22 questions they are looking for public response to. They are giving the public 120 days for comment and suggestions.
1. What additional potential benefits, policy considerations, or risks of a CBDC may exist that have not been raised in this paper? 2. Could some or all of the potential benefits of a CBDC be better achieved in a different way? 3. Could a CBDC affect financial inclusion? Would the net effect be positive or negative for inclusion? 4. How might a U.S. CBDC affect the Federal Reserve’s ability to effectively implement monetary policy in the pursuit of its maximum-employment and price-stability goals?
5. How could a CBDC affect financial stability? Would the net effect be positive or negative for stability? 6. Could a CBDC adversely affect the financial sector? How might a CBDC affect the financial sector differently from stablecoins or other nonbank money? 7. What tools could be considered to mitigate any adverse impact of CBDC on the financial sector? Would some of these tools diminish the potential benefits of a CBDC? 8. If cash usage declines, is it important to preserve the general public’s access to a form of cen- tral bank money that can be used widely for payments? 9. How might domestic and cross-border digital payments evolve in the absence of a U.S. CBDC? 10. How should decisions by other large economy nations to issue CBDCs influence the decision whether the United States should do so? 11. Are there additional ways to manage potential risks associated with CBDC that were not raised in this paper? 12. How could a CBDC provide privacy to consumers without providing complete anonymity and facilitating illicit financial activity? 13. How could a CBDC be designed to foster operational and cyber resiliency? What operational or cyber risks might be unavoidable?
14. Should a CBDC be legal tender? 15. Should a CBDC pay interest? If so, why and how? If not, why not? 16. Should the amount of CBDC held by a single end user be subject to quantity limits? 17. What types of firms should serve as intermediaries for CBDC? What should be the role and regulatory structure for these intermediaries? 18. Should a CBDC have “offline” capabilities? If so, how might that be achieved? 19. Should a CBDC be designed to maximize ease of use and acceptance at the point of sale? If so, how? 20. How could a CBDC be designed to achieve transferability across multiple payment platforms? Would new technology or technical standards be needed? 21. How might future technological innovations affect design and policy choices related to CBDC? 22. Are there additional design principles that should be considered? Are there tradeoffs around any of the identified design principles, especially in trying to achieve the potential benefits of a CBDC?
Witnesses: Ms. Alexis Goldstein, Director of Financial Policy, Open Markets Institute Mr. Dante Disparte, Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy, Circle Ms. Jai Massari, Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell, LLP Professor Hilary J. Allen, American University Washington College of Law
isn't it sedition when the Fed encourages its primary dealers to use the PDCF? this Fed facility secretly gives out super low rate loans to its primary dealers, with new money issued out of fucking thin air the 2008 PDCF facility was revived recently and remains open as long as there is a state of emergency this is not even counting regular repo and QE, which also both crearte currency out of thin air for a select few primary dealers
the 2008 failures and thieves have only gotten worse, now up to ~$600T in notional derivatives
>stablecoins >ctrl+f"stable" >results I'm sure that hacker Any Forums will find the longest, strongest, thickest, hardest, girthiest, throbbingest solution for the feds sopping-wet problem.
here are the types of derivatives from an OFR report, mostly corporate and most are uncleared (not taking place on an exchnage, so no oversight from CFTC)