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Tom Emmer: “Any attempt to craft a central bank digital currency that enables the Fed to provide retail bank accounts and mobilizes…”

On the recordJuly 26, 2021
Any attempt to craft a central bank digital currency that enables the Fed to provide retail bank accounts and mobilizes the CBDC rails into a surveillance tool, able to collect all sorts of information on Americans, would do nothing other than put the United States on par with China's digital authoritarianism.
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Tom Emmer
Republican · Minnesota

Editor's note · Context

Emmer warns against a CBDC that could infringe on privacy and resemble authoritarian systems.

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