The financial press is bought, Congress is getting fat on insider trading and lobbyist money, and we are barreling toward $40 trillion in national debt. Nobody on television wants to talk about any of it seriously.
The financial industry will happily help you build a portfolio. They will never once ask you what the point of it is. That silence is not accidental, and it is costing Americans more than just money.
I have been exposing financial scams for decades, and I am telling you straight: what the Trump family has done with cryptocurrency is the biggest political grift I have ever seen. Not the most illegal. The most brazen.
The retirement planning industry keeps pumping out books, systems, and magic dates designed to keep you anxious and buying their products. I am not interested, and after you hear this, neither will you be.
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.
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.
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.