Charlie Garcia

Sat, Jun 7, 2025, 8:36 AM7 min read

In life, you make things happen, watch things happen or wonder what happened. Don’t let your cash slip away unnoticed.

Throughout history, moments come when our basic assumptions shift quietly beneath our feet. Most people don’t notice until it’s too late.

• ‘He failed in his fiduciary duty’: My brother liquidated our mother’s 401(k) for her nursing home. He claimed the rest.

• ‘The situation is extreme’: I’m 65 and leaving my estate to only one grandchild. Can the others contest my will?

• My new husband gave me a contract and told me to ‘sign here’ — but I refused. It was the best decision of my life.

• ‘I’m not wildly wealthy, but I’ve done well’: I’m 79 and have $3 million in assets. Should I set up 529 plans for my grandkids?

• My daughter’s boyfriend, a guest in my home, offered to powerwash part of my house — then demanded money

Imagine two young fish swimming together. An older fish passes by, greeting them, “Good morning, boys. How’s the water?” One fish looks puzzled, leans toward the other, and mutters, “What the hell’s water?”

This analogy perfectly illustrates our relationship with our money. You’ve been floating cluelessly in a fish tank of government funny money for so long you’ve forgotten you’re all wet.

Every year, central banks crank the printing presses into overdrive, flooding the economy with more paper currency. Politicians treat debt as endlessly available, with no consequences. This is not capitalism. This is economic waterboarding.

And yet we accept it as normal, just as residents of a town that floods every spring casually accept disaster. They move their sofas upstairs, prop up their televisions and shrug: Flooding, to them, is inevitable. When a fresh-faced optimist asks, “Why don’t we just drain the swamp?” he’s laughed out of town — until someone suddenly realizes, “Wait, we actually can drain the swamp.”

That’s our money system. Instead of sandbags, politicians toss trillions of newly printed dollars at us, hoping we’ll float a bit longer. But each fresh flood of cash makes the problem worse.

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Bitcoin BTCUSD is the grown-up choice in a world run by toddlers with credit cards. It’s not a Band-Aid or a “patch” or one more empty promise from a politician who’d lose money running a lemonade stand. Instead, bitcoin is stable precisely because no central banker can muck it up. Every minute you hesitate is another moment your wealth gets eaten by money-printing machines run by bureaucrats who think math is an inconvenience.