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The Revolution Will Be Financialized
In 2017 Larry Fink called Bitcoin an index of money laundering. By 2026 BlackRock controlled 60 percent of all Bitcoin in U.S. spot ETFs. The public comment window on the rules that govern all of it closes today. Banking trade groups filed. Remittance households did not.
Whose Face Gets to Be on the Money
A $250 bill with Trump’s face moved from proposal to active Treasury planning in 14 months. The Harriet Tubman $20 bill has been in process for a decade. The difference between those two timelines is not bureaucracy. It is policy.
The Audit Exemption They Buried in the Fine Print
The $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund dominated headlines. The one-page addendum posted the next day permanently bars the IRS from auditing Trump, his family, and the Trump Organization, closing an active $72.9 million dispute. That part was quieter. It was designed to be.
The Overtime Rule Is Gone. The DOL Called It a Technicality.
The DOL called rescinding the overtime rule “a technical correction.” What it actually did was permanently eliminate overtime protections for 4 million workers. The language is designed to ensure it doesn’t read like a policy decision. It was.