Okay so here's my take about where things actually stand right now into the year and what most people are completely missing. As we saw, BTC dropped below the area we discussed last week but does it go lower? What about the rest of the year? If it doesn't then what are we waiting on? When does the market turn? So let me give you my honest read, because the picture is more complex than "wait for the Fed to cut." Here's kind of what's going on beneath the surface: Let me start with this....the blue collar labor crisis in the US is becoming a bigger macro catalyst than people give it credit for. - 50,000 plumbers short by 2027. - 500,000 construction workers shortage today. - 193,000 nursing vacancies every single year through 2032. - 800,000 electricians needed by 2030 Electrician employment alone is growing twice as fast as any other occupation and nearly 30% of union electricians are about to retire on top of that. So my point is: - We have a ⬇️ workforce as baby boomers retire - We have have a ⬆️ demand for more workers - We have an ⬆️ ongoing AI race with China - We have ⬆️ costs to get people into these jobs (largely university taught - not trades/skills population) - We have ⬇️ money available due to high borrowing costs/interest rates What I'm saying is - you can't re-shore manufacturing, build out AI infrastructure, and wire a robust energy grid with a workforce that doesn't exist. The demand is locked in. The supply can't respond fast enough. That is a spending mandate whether anyone in Washington wants to admit it or not. But another thing - the ISM ----- ISM (Institute for Supply Management) Manufacturing PMI is a monthly survey of the people actually placing orders, managing supply chains, and making hiring decisions etc etc etc...It's one of the most closely watched leading economic indicators on Wall Street because it reflects real business conditions before they show up in GDP or jobs reports -------------------- okay continue

April is officially Financial Literacy Month. Schools, banks, and government programs will spend the next 30 days teaching people how to budget, save, and avoid credit card debt. Ok maybe not public schools. All solid advice. Genuinely useful. And also incomplete in a way that matters. Here's what traditional financial literacy covers: - Make a budget and stick to it - Build an emergency fund (3-6 months) - Pay off high-interest debt first - Start investing early (compound interest) - Don't spend more than you earn Good rules. If you follow them, you'll be ahead of most people. So why are millions of people doing all of this and still falling behind? The part they leave out: Financial literacy programs teach you how to play the game. They never teach you how the game is built. Your grandparents bought a house on a single income. Your parents needed two. You might need two incomes and a side hustle. This isn't because people got lazier or dumber. For some people that's true lol. But for most people, something deeper is going on. Since 2020 alone, weekly household grocery spending has climbed 25-30% depending on whose data you look at. By 2028 we're on schedule to be spending a TRILLION dollars on groceries alone! The official CPI says food inflation over that same period was closer to 20%. Both numbers are real. The gap between them is where frustration lives. The dollar buys less every year. That's a structural feature of how modern money works (more dollars created = each one worth less). Every financial literacy program teaches you to save dollars. Almost none of them teach you why those saved dollars keep shrinking. ----- This is why we built The School of Bits ----- Budgeting matters. Saving matters. But understanding why your budget keeps breaking even when you follow the rules? That's the piece worth adding. Hard assets (things with fixed or limited supply) behave differently than cash in an inflationary environment: - Gold.

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