Damn! Do they really dare to do this? Trump signed a piece of scrap paper with a flourish, and the retirement savings that ordinary Americans have saved up for a lifetime — that little 401(k) treasure chest — is now wide open with a loud bang! What can we stuff in there? Private equity? Those capital manipulators who devour without spitting out bones? Real estate? The kind of bubble that will crash and leave you with no place to cry? The most outrageous is cryptocurrency! That Bitcoin roller coaster can shake out your overnight meal! Is this what they call 'broadening investment options'? Nonsense! This is feeding the vultures of Wall Street! $12 trillion! The hard-earned retirement money of the people is about to become the fat meat on the chopping block for these financial giants! A shocking gamble that stakes the stability of ordinary people's old age, and Trump has decided to go all in right from the start!
Wall Street is drooling all over the place: Finally, we’ve waited for this fat piece!
Blackstone, KKR, Apollo... these names reek of copper and blood, and they’re probably celebrating with champagne in skyscrapers right now! $12 trillion! A huge pool of fixed-contribution pensions that they could only drool over before, wanting to reach for it? No chance! Now, Trump has personally torn down the barriers and brought this beast right to their mouths! The folks at BlackRock are even more eager, planning to launch a retirement fund mixed with 'private equity' next year! What’s the rush? Afraid the money will run away? Or afraid the people will wake up? This is a sight worse than a starving dog fighting over scraps!
Keep deceiving! Keep deceiving!
Supporters there keep painting big pictures: Young people should take a risk, turning bicycles into motorcycles! High risk, high return! Be steadier when older... Pah! Jason Kephart, the wise man from Morningstar, ripped off this cloak of shame: For the bastards on Wall Street, this is a golden brick falling from the sky, they’re thrilled even if it knocks them out! For us ordinary folks? This is a poison bomb wrapped in candy! The fees are terrifyingly high! Black box operations, you have no idea where your money has gone! The products are so complex even financial professors scratch their heads! When your little retirement money is really thrown into the mud of private equity and cryptocurrency 'alternative assets' — information disclosure? It's like trying to see stars in smog! Want to redeem? Forget it, they say locked up means locked up! Fees? Layer upon layer peeling, how many coins will be left in your hand? The institutions feast to their hearts' content, and you can’t even understand the bird language written in the risk statement! Is this called investment? This is called sending people to their doom!
The starving wolves are eyeing the last piece of meat!
What’s even more disgusting is the timing! Why the rush to open this door now? Because those private equity big shots on Wall Street can’t pull off their old tricks of 'buy low, sell high' anymore! In recent years, interest rates have surged, directly putting them down! They’re hungry! Their eyes are green! Looking around, the only thing still steaming in ordinary people's pockets is this little retirement money! Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, was trembling on a conference call, admitting, 'There are massive litigation risks!' Did you hear that? Even these guys who eat people without spitting out bones are scared! They’re afraid they can’t afford to be sued into bankruptcy! The little retirement money of ordinary people thrown in isn’t going into a tiger’s mouth? It’s like throwing a meat bun to a dog, with no return! Their money manager, Martin Small, is even worse, implying in every way: Want to eat this piece of meat in peace? You first have to change the law to silence those poor folks who might get scammed and want to sue! Listen! Is this human talk? It’s a blatant disregard for the law!
The political calculations are deafening, are ordinary people just being played for fools?
The most outrageous move comes — cryptocurrency! Can this stuff also be stuffed into retirement accounts? Trump, you really love digital assets! That so-called 'Global Market Insights Director' from Hashdex, Gary O'Shea, is still babbling: 'Bitcoin is no longer casino chips, it’s for long-term allocation...' Allocate this to hell! Today it’s sky-high, tomorrow it can drop into the abyss! Are you going to let the elderly watch their coffin money bounce with the price of coins? Is this to give them a heart attack in advance?
This isn't just a spur-of-the-moment idea from Trump. During his first term, the Labor Department secretly hinted at letting pensions touch private equity. What happened? Afraid of being sued to the point of not being recognized, they slinked back! Now, in an election year, the old tune resurfaces, why? A blatant transfer of interests! A transaction of votes for cash! Elizabeth Warren, the all-out Democratic senator, has long sent a letter slamming the big shots managing $18 trillion in pensions, soul-searching: 'Investor protection is as bad as shit! Transparency is as low as blindness! Management fees are as high as robbery! The boasts have never materialized! With this kind of situation, how dare you guarantee the safety of ordinary people's retirement funds?!' Well asked! Isn’t this a legal robbery of ordinary people’s retirement money in broad daylight? What’s the difference with outright theft?
Wake up! Your coffin money is being priced!
Trump's knife has pierced through the last barrier protecting ordinary people's retirement funds for decades! The Wall Street feast has already begun, with glasses clinking. Regulation? Either deaf and blind, or accomplices at the table dividing the meat! $12 trillion! That’s countless ordinary people, waking up early and working hard, saving every penny, with sweat dripping down to save for a stable old age! And now? It’s been carefully packaged as a 'high-end investment opportunity', kicked into a high-risk, pitch-black, expensive casino!
The most heartbreaking question comes:
When you finally make it to 65, trembling as you open your account — the numbers either frozen stiff like dead water by private equity, unable to withdraw! Or smashed to bits like a free-fall ride by cryptocurrency! At that time, will those Wall Street elites who once pounded their chests and guaranteed 'higher returns', those vampires who raked in exorbitant management fees, care about your miserable old age, drinking the north wind? They’ll probably be long gone, clutching their bulging wallets, heading to the next extravagant capital feast, having forgotten you!
So, touch your conscience and ask yourself:
Is the money you have in your 401(k) truly a lifeline for your retirement? Or has it long been treated by politicians and Wall Street bigwigs as the shiniest and most tempting stack of chips on their power game table? How much is your stable old age worth in their eyes? Is it enough to fill their gaps? Think it through, does it send chills down your spine?#特朗普允许401(k)投资加密货币 $BTC