The US Treasury auctioned $22 billion in 30-year bonds on July 9 at a yield of 5.058%, the highest at a 30-year auction since 2007. Bitcoin held up while gold slid. The debt math is no longer theoretical.
Trump announced he won't sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, but the bill, including a ban on Federal Reserve CBDC issuance through December 31, 2030, becomes law automatically at midnight unless he vetoes it. He hasn't.
The Federal Reserve named a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen to co-lead its new Productivity and Jobs task force on July 9, 2026, alongside a Stanford economist on leave at Anthropic and a Microsoft executive. Warsh and Andreessen are 30-year personal friends. The task force mandate: assess AI's
Binance co-CEO Richard Teng disclosed at Reuters NEXT Asia on July 9 that 70% of EU user withdrawals following the exchange's MiCA-driven service suspension went to self-hosted wallets, not to competing licensed platforms.
France signed more than 16 strategic agreements with Syria on July 7, brought TotalEnergies to Damascus, and is explicitly building a Hormuz bypass. Iraq is already running 500-700 tanker trucks per day through the corridor. This is not emergency triage.
MARA Holdings signed a definitive agreement to acquire a 1,200-acre powered land site in Matagorda County, Texas, targeting up to 2 GW of grid capacity by April 2028 at a milestone-contingent price of up to $600 million.
Sen. Ron Wyden sent a formal letter to Senate leaders on July 8 demanding Section 604 of the CLARITY Act remain intact. The provision is the only statutory protection standing between non-custodial Bitcoin developers and federal money-transmitter prosecution.
Secretary Rubio, Japan's Motegi, and South Korea's Cho signed a trilateral SMR Memorandum of Cooperation on July 8 at the NATO Ankara Summit, committing $10M+ in US funding and an industry deal to push the BWRX-300 into Europe and the Indo-Pacific.
