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Take a moment and look at these numbers. Really look at them.
U.S. Tax Revenue: $4,690,000,000,000Federal Budget: $6,660,000,000,000New Debt This Year: $2,000,000,000,000Total National Debt: $37,500,000,000,000
The sheer scale of these figures is dizzying. The columns of zeros stretch into the realm of the abstract. A trillion is a million million. It’s a number so vast that our brains can’t truly comprehend it. It’s a thousand billion. If you spent one dollar every second, it would take you nearly 32,000 years to spend a trillion dollars. And the U.S. national debt is over $37.5 trillion.
This is the point where most people’s eyes glaze over. It’s too big, too complex, too… governmental. So let’s do exactly what the prompt suggests. Let’s make it personal. Let’s chop off eight zeros and translate this national crisis into a relatable household budget.
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I want to have an exposure to bitcoin in my portfolio and have contemplated buying BTC directly from an exchange or brokerage, but I have two main reservations, compared to just buying into the ETF FBTC. The first is that if I buy BTC and keep transferring to cold storage, I fear that my wife or children won’t be able to access it in case of an emergency or something else. Whereas if it’s in FBTC, it can be liquidated for cash immediately. The second are the fees with buying and moving BTC. The spreads at Robinhood and fees on exchanges seem much higher than the 0.25% fee on FBTC. Plus fidelity does not use a custodian, so I like that ETF over the others in terms of security. I’m pretty new to crypto and just want to diversify my portfolio - but does anyone have a strong reason against the ETFs or have something else to suggest for exposure?
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The de-dollarization led by China is not the end of the story, but the beginning of a new global chess game. Bitcoin is the chessboard itself.
Sylvain Saurel
Sep 24, 2025
A financial earthquake of tectonic magnitude is reshaping the global economic landscape. For decades, the US dollar reigned supreme, an undisputed colossus upon which the entirety of planetary trade and finance rested. But the geopolitical tectonic plates are shifting, and the greenback’s hegemony is cracking. At the forefront of this revolution is China, which is orchestrating the abandonment of the dollar with methodical precision, propelling its own currency, the yuan, onto the international stage. And in the shadow of this clash of titans, an unexpected, stateless, and digital actor is positioning itself: Bitcoin. Far from being a mere fantasy, the internationalization of the yuan is a reality whose meteoric growth foreshadows the end of an era.
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The story of Oracle and Larry Ellison reminds us that titanic fortunes can still be made. It also reminds us that trees, even technological ones, do not grow to the sky.
While France, our dear old Earth, holds its breath, scrutinizing rating agencies and budget lines with the anxiety of a tightrope walker, an event of almost cosmic magnitude has just occurred. Far, far away from our debates over a missing €40 billion, the downgrade of our sovereign rating by Fitch to a “simple A,” and the prospect of €25 billion in new taxes, another planet has shuddered.
This planet isn’t Mars, nor Jupiter. It is located in a galaxy both distant and yet so close: the “United States” system. More specifically, on the incandescent star of American Tech. Over there, wealth isn't counted in millions or billions painstakingly collected over a fiscal year. It is created by the hundreds of billions. Not in months. Not in weeks. In minutes.
On Wednesday, September 10, 2025, a financial earthquake generated nearly $250 billion in value. That’s more than six times the deficit in the French budget. It’s the equivalent of the annual GDP of Portugal or Finland. A sum that defies comprehension, created ex nihilo in the wake of a single company. A company everyone knows, but no one expected to deliver this level of stratospheric performance. Let's dive into the heart of this mind-boggling phenomenon.
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