Just 39% of the middle-class Americans surveyed in a Harris Poll commissioned by Bloomberg in late March and June believe their financial situation will improve within the next year.
The tests, which took place over 12 weeks with some of the world's leading banks, including Citigroup Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co., sought to evaluate the potential of digital currencies to enhance both domestic and international payment systems.
"By tracking every financial transaction, they will have access to every detail of our spending, the recipient of our money, and how we allocate our resources. In essence, it replicates George Orwell’s dystopian society depicted in 1984," critics have argued.
"I was just thinking, uh, uh, anyway. I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared," Biden seemingly quipped.
"By tracking every financial transaction, they will have access to every detail of our spending, the recipient of our money, and how we allocate our resources," says Kiyosaki.