Donald Trump has spent much of his second term using the U.S. presidency as a giant ATM for himself, his family, and his cronies. Now he's devised a way for the cryptocurrency and private equity industries to do the same"while further lining his own pockets and putting Americans' nest eggs at risk. The Trump administration on Monday announced plans to open 401(k) retirement plans to investments like crypto and private equity that are subject to far fewer safeguards than publicly traded assets like stocks and bonds. Critics warn the move threatens the retirement savings of millions of Americans while delivering a massive windfall for crypto and private equity moguls. The stakes are enormous: If Americans collectively shifted just 1 percent of their 401(k) assets into crypto and private equity, those industries would be flooded with more than $100 billion in new capital.
"What you see here is a continuation of the Trump administration's fundamentally corrupted approach toward policy, which appears designed to benefit the financial backers of his campaign and his family investments," said Todd H. Baker, a senior fellow at the Richman Center for Business, Law and Public Policy at Columbia Business and Law Schools. "You have a major desire to boost the troubled crypto asset business, which is really a form of gambling unsupported by any productive economic activity."
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