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DOJ To Investigate Intuit’s $7B Takeover Of Credit Karma 

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ProPublica reported the DOJ has raised questions about potential antitrust issues if Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, takes over its former rival that offered free tax preparation tools. The report said while Credit Karma filed 40 million returns last year, it ranks as the fifth-largest online tax filing provider and has been growing.

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Stablecoin Outlook Anything But Stable As Regulation, Legislation Loom

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As noted earlier in the fall , Cleveland Federal Reserve President Loretta Mester said in a speech that a digital dollar could conceivably be a form of money transfer that would enable the Fed to disburse money to all individuals in America. Read More On Cryptocurrency: Bitcoin Daily: India Eyes Crypto Income Tax; Ripple Unloads $15.3

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Fizzle Of The Week: Economic Cooperation (The Trade Kind, That Is)

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There was the fizzle of the stock market – measured by volatility and whipsaws, which nobody liked or likes. More than 10,000 victims have paid “taxes” to scammers in excess of $54 million via phone scams perpetrated since October 2013. There was the continued drain of the Trumpian brain trust. The payment of choice?

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