
Joe Light
Senior Crypto Writer at Barron's
Senior writer for @barronsonline in New York. Ex Bloomberg @business, @WSJ, @Money, and Florida Times-Union. Email [email protected] with tips
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1 week ago |
barrons.com | Joe Light
Congress’s official scorekeeper says the House version of President Donald Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill would cost $2.8 trillion over the next decade, underscoring the heavy toll that the president’s signature legislation could take on the federal debt if enacted.
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1 week ago |
barrons.com | Joe Light
The Senate is poised to pass a bill to regulate stablecoins, the lifeblood of the crypto market, awarding the industry a victory it has sought for years. The industry’s bigger goals will be harder to achieve, and risk delaying Tuesday’s win.
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1 week ago |
barrons.com | Joe Light
A key Senate committee on Monday released the tax provisions it plans to include in President Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill.” A contentious fight over state and local tax deductions is far from resolved.
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1 week ago |
barrons.com | Joe Light
A key Senate committee on Monday intends to release the tax provisions it plans to include in President Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill.” It will likely punt on the hardest disputes, including a contentious fight over state and local tax deductions.
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2 weeks ago |
barrons.com | Joe Light
Taking Fannie and Freddie Public Is Trump’s Dream. It Might Be Just a Fantasy. Investors, mortgage lenders, and the government all see an angle. How it ends isn’t clear.
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Instead of having awards for young journalists, they should have awards for old journalists who somehow survived this industry

Fannie-Freddie TV interviews frequently break down because there's no agreement on what "privatize" and "make public" mean. I don't mean policy-wise. I mean they literally use the same words to mean drastically different things

Fannie-Freddie semantics: For shareholders, "privatize" means release from govt. "Make public" means that too For old GOP lawmakers, "privatize" = "wind down" For Dems, "make public" could mean release OR nationalization For a PE guy, "privatize" means "make privately held"

Fannie-Freddie semantics: For shareholders, "privatize" means release from govt. "Make public" means that too For old GOP lawmakers, "privatize" = "wind down" For Dems, "make public" could mean release OR nationalization For a PE guy, "privatize" means "make privately held"