A Phil Hall Op-Ed: The past week has been a historic time within the cryptocurrency world. President Trump signed an Executive Order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a US Digital Asset Stockpile, and he also hosted a crypto industry summit at the White...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: In 1977, President Carter signed into law the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), which created new compliance requirements for commercial banks and savings associations related to the needs of markets where they had a depository and lending presence,...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: Silly me, I thought that “Saturday Night Live” was the only stale survivor from distant generations still wasting time and energy on the television schedule. But then I watched Sunday’s segment of “60 Minutes” on the Consumer Financial Protection...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: Scott Turner has only been the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for two weeks and his first two major announcements for the department involved stopping enforcement of the Biden-era gender identity rule that allowed individuals to...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: Do you recall the children’s tale of Chicken Little, where a barnyard bird who is hit on the head with an acorn that dropped from a tree limb? Chicken Little took the bonk to its noggin as evidence that the sky was falling and began to run around...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: The other day, I had a conversation with Bart de Brujin, the co-founder of EstateX, a new real estate platform tokenization platform. EstateX promotes itself as a “revolution in the real estate industry” – while I can’t vouch for a revolution in the...