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Margin debt just hit $1.4 trillion. Leveraged ETF assets doubled to $220 billion. And somewhere between hedge funds and teenagers on Robinhood, Wall Street built the perfect mechanism to legally take your money.
Every time crypto crashes, the questions flood in, and Wall Street acts surprised. I have been saying it for years: Bitcoin produces nothing, owns nothing, and the MicroStrategy scheme is one of the most transparent pump loops in market history.
Private equity firms have been swallowing up investment advisory companies at absurd prices, and they are already taking a chainsaw to the clients who are not rich enough to matter. If your account is under a million dollars, here is the ugly truth about what is happening to your money right now.
Your Kid’s College Degree Could Destroy Their Financial Future, and Washington Helped Build the Trap
The Trump administration just tied federal student loan eligibility to actual graduate earnings. Good. But this barely scratches the surface of a system that has been looting American families for decades with government-backed, bankruptcy-proof debt handed to teenagers.
The DSA is winning primaries and Hakeem Jeffries is clapping for them. A small group of moderate Democrats is trying to push back, but let's be honest about the odds.
The Great American Fair in D.C. is a flop of historic proportions, and what angers me most is not the failure itself. It is the people in this country celebrating it.
Wall Street wrecked your account, and now your instinct is to swing big and get it all back fast. That instinct is exactly what the wolves are counting on. Let me show you the math that changes everything.
Senator Bernie Moreno, a Republican, is co-sponsoring legislation with Elizabeth Warren to eliminate the Social Security payroll tax cap. For self-employed Americans and high earners, that is not a reform. That is a 52 percent tax rate dressed up as compassion.
The Department of Justice, run by Trump's personal attorney, just created a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded fund after settling a lawsuit that was days away from being thrown out of court. If this does not make your blood boil, you have not been paying attention.
They told us it was coming, and right on schedule the trial balloons are in the air. Stimulus checks are being floated again, wrapped in economic pain that is real, driven by political motives that have nothing to do with helping you.
Credit card stress at Great Recession levels, consumer sentiment in the gutter, prices up coast to coast, and the official line from Washington is that everything is basically fine. I don't care which party is doing the gaslighting. A lie is a lie.
Your brain is running against you every time you make a financial decision, and the brokerage industry built an entire business model around exploiting exactly that. I've been watching this con for decades.