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Highest Inflation in 40 Years

Email newsletter issued 14 Jul 2022 - Subscribe

So US inflation just hit 9.1%, the highest rate in over 40 years, and in response the Federal Reserve is maintaining its threat to continue raising interest rates and reducing money printing.

The problem is, the FED can't continue to raise rates and sooner or later it will also be forced to increase its money printing programme.

Whilst the FED hopes to reduce consumer demand by raising interest rates, those rate rises also have significant implications for US government debt payments.

The US debt burden currently stands at $30.5Tn with annual interest payments of $439Bn. Just a 1% increase in interest rates, if applied to the entire government debt, would add another $305Bn to interest payments, almost doubling them from current levels and making debt interest payments higher than the entire annual US defence budget.

This only considers the official debt burden, but if you include all the unfunded government liabilities such as social security and medicare, the true debt burden rises from $30.5Tn to an incredible $143Tn. 

This is further compounded by the fact that the US is more than likely heading into a long overdue recession, which will reduce government tax receipts and increase government spending, thereby increasing the debt burden even further.

Interest rates have been so low for so long now that even modest FED rate rises have massive implications for the government budget, likely leading to increased deficit spending and even more debt.

Then you have the issue of who is going to buy all this government debt? Foreign countries aren't going to be in any rush, especially after many have watched the US arbitrarily freeze other countries' funds. Plus most other countries are also busy grappling with their own financial crises.

So that only leaves us with the buyer of last resort, the FED. Despite their claims of reducing money printing, the FED will inevitably end up reversing course and printing massive new quantities of dollars to buy up this debt.

For all these reasons, everyone knows that the FED is going to be forced to change course, reduce interest rates and start printing again.

Once the course change is announced (or even strongly suspected) we can expect to see a significant turnaround for crypto. Until that time, crypto will continue to struggle to make a significant breakout upwards.

When might the FED change course? A few people think it could be as early as August this year. Many people think it will happen in 2023 at the latest.

Throughout this period, Bitcoin has continued to tick along, with no central bank to manipulate its total supply of coins or to change its mining costs, and also remaining completely immune from government coercion. 

The bottom line is that it is only a matter of time before Bitcoin bounces back.

Meanwhile we continue to bring you a summary of the best savings rates, loans and deals from across the DeFi space.

We welcome any feedback, so please just email us at info@definda.com if you'd like to get in touch.

Matt & the DeFinda team

Best Instant Access Bitcoin Staking Yields

This week's best instant access Bitcoin staking yields. The table shows the maximum deposit that the rate is available for. Deposits above these levels will typically attract lower rates.
DeFi 87.6% APY Unlimited Go
DeFi 55.2% APY Unlimited Go
CeFi 33.1% APY Unlimited Go
DeFi 20.8% APY Unlimited Go
DeFi 16.6% APY Unlimited Go
DeFi 15.8% APY Unlimited Go
DeFi 14.5% APY Unlimited Go
DeFi 14.3% APY Unlimited Go
CeFi 11.2% APY Unlimited Go
DeFi 8.22% APY Unlimited Go
CeFi    6% APY Up To 0.1 BTC Go
CeFi  5.2% APY Unlimited Go
DeFi 4.83% APY Unlimited Go
CeFi    4% APR Up To 0.1 BTC Go
CeFi    4% APY Up To 0.8966 BTC Go
DeFi 3.99% APY Unlimited Go
CeFi 3.09% APY Unlimited Go
CeFi    3% APR Up To 3.586 BTC Go
CeFi  1.6% APR Up To 1.076 BTC Go
CeFi  1.5% APR Unlimited Go
CeFi  1.5% APY Up To 0.01 BTC Go
CeFi 1.42% APY Unlimited Go
DeFi 0.565% APY Unlimited Go
CeFi 0.25% APR Unlimited Go
DeFi 0.107% APY Unlimited Go
CeFi 0.0236% APY Unlimited Go
CeFi 0.0144% APY Unlimited Go
CeFi 0.00147% APY Unlimited Go
CeFi     % APY Unlimited Go
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Highest Altcoin Yields

This week's highest yielding altcoins. These are highest yields we could find across all our listed crypto platforms.
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213% APY Go
185% APY Go
173% APY Go
144% APY Go
111% APY Go
105% APY Go
Note: Whilst some coins offer high yield it is important to consider the price trend of the coin and its fundamentals. Yield income could be offset by a drop in the value of the coin.
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Cheapest Crypto Loan Rates

This week's cheapest loan rates from the thousands of crypto loan products that we track. Use our loan calculator to fully explore available loan, collateral, LTV and term options. We have included just one example loan from AAVE, but AAVE offers many other highly competitive loan rates.
LTV Collateral Accepted Rate
50% 0.0019% APY Go
20% 4.5% APR Go
35% 5.5% APR Go
50% 6.5% APR Go
70% 7.5% APR Go
50% 7.9% APR Go
50% 12% APR Go
25% 13.9% APR Go
30% 13.9% APR Go
33% 13.9% APR Go
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Biggest 7 Day Crypto Price Movements

The biggest price increases and decreases this week across the top 100 cryptos. Change in price over the last 7 days shown.
Gainers Losers
Mask Network logo MASK 81% MAGIC logo MAGIC -31.9%
Conflux logo CFX 57.4% Maker logo MKR -25.3%
Stacks logo STX 47.4% Lido DAO logo LDO -12.7%
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The biggest 7 day price increases and decreases of the top 100 altcoins against bitcoin. This shows whether an altcoin has done better or worse than bitcoin over the last 7 days.
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