1) Trump speaking at Davos 2020, "They get paid to borrow money -something that I could get used to very quickly."
A growing trend in Europe and Japan has banks offering negative-interest loans, which Trump inferred is hard for the U.S. to compete with even as, "The U.S. is by far the strongest economic power in the world -it's not even close."
2) Six central banks (Japan, Canada, U.K., Switzerland, Sweden and the E.C.B.) collab with the Bank of International Settlements on digital currency research, as they try to play catch-up with emerging Fintech spawned by Satoshi Nakamoto.