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With Bitcoin down, diversify crypto holdings to guard against inflation

January 19, 2022

Bitcoin has had a rough month of declines, likely driven by the Federal Reserve’s planned tightening of its monetary policies this year. Will Cong says as the Federal Reserve tightens policies, we could see a reduction in demand for Bitcoin – but adds that investors can still use crypto assets to guard against excessive inflation by diversifying their holdings across the entire crypto sector.

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Johnson Graduate School of Management
Economics and Business

Cryptocurrency dive indicative of greater market downturn

September 23, 2021

Bitcoin, Ethereum and dogecoin are falling as cryptocurrency gets caught up in the Evergrande selloff. 

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Law School

Evergrande's bust portends China's bursting real estate bubble

October 19, 2021

All eyes are on Chinese property giant Evergrande this week as it approaches the deadline to settle interest payments on its offshore bonds. Will Cong and Robert Hockett weigh in on the situation and what may happen if Evergrande defaults.

International
Economics and Business
Law School
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Bitcoin ‘too volatile’ for national currency in El Salvador

September 7, 2021

Robert Hockett and Will Cong weigh in on El Salvador becoming the first country to make bitcoin ‘legal tender,’ alongside the U.S. dollar.

Economics and Business
Law School
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Johnson Graduate School of Management

Pandemic-driven digital fiat currencies to sound Bitcoin’s ‘death knell’

May 6, 2020

Robert Hockett, professor of law and an expert in financial and monetary law and economics, Will Cong, professor of finance and an expert on financial technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and Emin Gün Sirer, professor of computer science and founder and CEO of AVA, comment on the future health of Bitcoin as it approaches a slowing of its token creation rate, known as a halving.

Law and Policy
Economics and Business

Cornell experts on coronavirus - Impact on the economy and industries

May 12, 2020

Experts at Cornell University are available to discuss the coronavirus in terms of its many impacts on economic productivity, inequalities as well as specific disruptions to various industries. 


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