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Stimulus pitch, inflation is back, and cryptos get lively again.

President Joe Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen took their pitch for the $1.9 trillion stimulus package to American voters over the weekend. Yellen said the U.S. could return to full employment by 2022 if a sufficiently robust series of measures are implemented. Lawmakers are aiming to pass the stimulus measures before expanded unemployment benefits run out on March 14. Adding to Republican objections to the package, prominent economists and former policymakers are registering doubts. Even Democrat Lawrence Summers says doing too much now poses inflationary risks.