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.Rebecca Rettig: "We're seeing a massive pendulum swing." On The Policy Protocol, she breaks down the NYT's CFTC story, saying governments have feared crypto threatens their control through fiat currency. That's why the last administration went so hard, and a reason why the current rollback could look like favoritism.

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