financial discontent at 45% and Bitcoin in flight. What’s occurring?” | EUROtoday

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Forty-five % of Americans who voted expressed discontent with their financial state of affairs, saying it has gotten worse beneath the present Democratic administration. This is what emerges from the exit ballot of abcnews which data how this is without doubt one of the highest percentages of discontent with the economic system recorded in current elections, greater than the 42% recorded in 2008 when voting was within the midst of the “Great Recession”.

72% of voters stated they weren’t happy and even indignant with the course during which the nation goes, whereas simply 26% stated they have been happy or enthusiastic. At the identical time, the ballot data 73% of voters who consider that democracy is threatened.

The CNN ballot

With 35%, democracy is crucial concern for Americans, in keeping with one other CNN exit ballot, which interviewed a pattern of voters as they left the polls. The economic system follows at 31%, abortion at 14%, whereas immigration is barely in fourth place with 11%. Foreign coverage lasts with 4%.

The first results

Bitcoin soars beneath the stress of the outcomes coming from the United States. The queen of cryptocurrencies which has exceeded the brink of 75 thousand {dollars} pushed by the prospect of regulatory easing within the occasion of Donald Trump’s victory presently stands at 74,479 {dollars}, up 9% within the final 24 hours. After surpassing the most recent all-time excessive in March at $73,797.98, Bitcoin rose to $75,005 at round 03.08 GMT. It subsequently fell, remaining considerably above 74 thousand {dollars}. During the election marketing campaign, the previous president pledged to make the United States “the bitcoin and cryptocurrency capital of the world,” with a particularly favorable regulatory framework, in distinction to the Biden administration, which favored strict regulation of the sector.