CRYPTO CURRENTLY
By Jeff Joseph
inancier Anthony Scaramucci was well known among Wall Streeters and hedge fund insiders before he burst upon the national stage as White House communications director in July 2017. A scant 11 days after taking the job he was fired for dressing down a Washington Post reporter. Now, Scaramucci is pounding the table for a different reason. Since December, his firm Skybridge Capital has been among the institutional investment firms allocating significant funding to digital assets. Scaramucci’s investment thesis hinges on supply and demand considerations, Fed monetary policy, stimulus payments and fiscal spending as the critical catalysts advancing cryptocurrency prices. Scaramucci’s fifth book, The Sweet Life with Bitcoin: How I Stopped Worrying about Cryptocurrency and You Should Too! is scheduled for publication this month. He’s granted Luckbox
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