Markets
August 20, 2017
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Fed Accidentally Live-Streams Rate Decisions on Twitch

Viewers spam “raise rates, bro” in chat before Jerome Powell rage-quits. Alexandra Chen | Stablecoin & Regulation Analyst A New Kind of Transparency The U.S. Federal Reserve stunned financial markets this week after mistakenly broadcasting its internal interest rate meeting live on Twitch, the popular video game streaming platform. Instead of the usual polished press […]

Finance
March 13, 2016
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Fed Accidentally Announces Interest Rates on OnlyFans

Subscribers tipped Powell with “likes” for dovish policy. A Surprise Platform Choice In a shocking turn for financial communication, the Federal Reserve accidentally published its latest interest rate decision on OnlyFans. The announcement, which was supposed to appear on the Fed’s official website, instead went live as a “subscriber-only” post featuring Jerome Powell under moody […]