Your money’s fate gets decided today at 2 p.m. Eastern — and you’re not in the room. Twelve unelected bankers on the Federal Reserve vote today on whether to raise interest rates on a dollar THEY printed into existence, while Bitcoin just took a 3.3% beating for a crime Washington committed on Monday. You watched both disasters. You got a vote in neither.
The odds say they’re hiking.
This isn’t a cut. Markets are pricing a quarter-point HIKE at roughly 85% odds going into today’s decision, according to CME FedWatch data cited by Morningstar — up from 70% two weeks ago and a near-flip after last month’s jobs data. The Fed’s two-day meeting wraps today at 2 p.m. ET, and Chair Kevin Warsh is caught between markets bracing for a hike and a president leaning on him not to deliver one. Whatever he picks, the message is the same: your savings are the pressure valve. Nobody asked you.
Meanwhile, the number on your screen.
Bitcoin sits at $75,942 this morning — down $979 from yesterday, and down 3.30% on Tuesday’s close to $75,590, after Bitcoin price tanked along with the whole crypto market the moment CLARITY Act hopes died. A month ago it was $63,015. Up more than 20% in thirty days — and still the market’s scapegoat for a week of Washington’s self-inflicted chaos. Year over year it’s down 35% in a currency whose purchasing power those same bankers have been quietly taxing by inflation the whole way down. They’ll hike today to "fight" the inflation they printed. Your buying power is the battlefield.
The "they" nobody votes against.
Monday, the United States Senate buried the CLARITY Act, 49-50. Sixty votes needed. Forty-nine cast. Sixty-seven million Americans who own crypto just got told, in the most public way possible, that neither party is coming to save your coins — they’re only fighting over who gets to regulate, tax, or freeze them.
Today, the Fed gets its turn. A rate hike doesn’t touch the institutions that created the inflation — it squeezes the borrowers, the savers, the plebs who trusted the system’s math. One day they kill your crypto protection. The next they raise the price of your future. Both moves made by people who will never feel either one.
The Love Is Bitcoin takeaway
Here’s what nobody on either side of Washington will tell you: none of this touches the coins you actually control. Exchanges collapse. Bills die. Bankers hike. A self-custodied stack keeps its own time. The hedge isn’t a vote. It’s not a politician. It’s keys in your hand and a network no Senate and no Fed can reach.
That’s the whole point of Love Is Bitcoin. Stop renting your future to institutions that hold your assets and your outcomes with the same cold indifference. Self-custody your stack — and if you’re new, start with an exchange that actually respects the philosophy, not another fintech app. Check out loveisbitcoin.com/bull and use coupon LOVEISBITCOIN to get started.
The Fed announces at 2 p.m. ET today. If twelve unelected bankers get a vote on the price of your future — and neither party in Washington will lift a finger for your coins — why are you still letting the same system hold both?
This article is for education only and is not financial advice.
FED DECISION DAY: 12 UNELECTED BANKERS, 85% ODDS OF A HIKE, AND BITCOIN STILL TAKING THE FALL FOR WASHINGTON'S CRIMES
