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Covid Relief Funds May Have Propped Up Crypto Bubble of 2020-21: Study

Did American taxpayers, via a pandemic-era economic relief program, help prop up the great crypto gold rush of 2020-21?

A group of researchers at Washington University in Saint Louis make a compelling case that they did in a new study suggesting that a not-insignificant amount of the pandemic relief money doled out in 2020 as part of the Paycheck Protection Program was used by recipients to speculate on cryptocurrencies.

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