Goldman Sachs and BlackRock Are Building Bitcoin Income E...

How It Works

Goldman's filing says the fund would sell call options covering 40% to 100% of its bitcoin exposure. In a big rally, the fund gives up some upside, but in return it collects premiums from those options - creating a steady income stream for investors who want bitcoin without the full rollercoaster. Think of it this way: you're renting out your bitcoin's upside to someone else in exchange for a regular paycheck.

Why It Could Reshape the Market

If these funds attract serious money from institutions, they could change how bitcoin trades. Covered call strategies compress price swings - when big funds are constantly selling calls, it creates a ceiling effect that dampens wild moves in both directions. CoinDesk called this bitcoin's potential "volatility kill switch."

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September 29, 2026

Why Is Gold Going Down? A 5.2% Treasury Yield Just Took Its Job

By Andre Savage

President Trump rejected Iran's deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, oil prices jumped back up, and gold fell instead of rising.
Treasury yields hit their highest level in more than 20 years, so investors sold gold and bought Treasuries that pay interest.
Higher Treasury yields make the national debt, mortgages, car loans, and credit cards more expensive, with the Fed's next rate decision due October 28.

September 28, 2026

The Strategic Bitcoin Reserve: Why the Government Wants Bitcoin to Explode

By Jackson Moreland

The US government holds about 328,000 Bitcoin, worth roughly $25 billion, and since a 2025 executive order it keeps seized coins instead of selling them.
Washington wants a bigger pile of assets so its $40 trillion national debt looks smaller next to them, which lets it keep borrowing and spending.
Bitcoin's wild price swings, and a government holding a coin built to escape governments, are the two risks investors need to watch.

September 25, 2026

BRIEFS EXCLUSIVE: 43% Of Respondents Say Bills Outran Their Income Over Past Two Years

By Briefs Finance

43% of the 494 Market Briefs readers surveyed said their bills grew faster than their income over the past two years, even though 79% could cover a surprise $5,000 expense tomorrow.
Half of readers own gold or crypto, the two classic bets against a weaker dollar, and only 13% bought nothing at all in the last 12 months.
The median reader says it takes $150,000 a year to feel financially secure, about $62,000 above the U.S. median household income.

September 25, 2026

The Economy Is Booming. So Why Did Stocks and Bonds Fall Together?

By Milena Thomas

S&P Global says the US economy is growing at its fastest rate since 2021, with corporate profits up 28.9% in a year, almost four times the historical average.
Stocks and bonds fell at the same time, which is not how the two markets normally behave, because Treasury yields above 5% now compete with stocks for investors' money.
Jaspreet Singh lays out three ways to invest through a shift like this: always be buying, buy the crash, or follow the money before it hits the headlines.

September 24, 2026

The 2026 Economic Reset Is Starting: Are We in a Recession, or Is the Pain Still Ahead?

By Nate Gregory

The Federal Reserve has flipped from stimulating the economy to fighting inflation with higher interest rates, while the White House still wants growth at almost any cost.
The national debt tops $40 trillion, has outgrown the entire U.S. economy, and its interest payments are now the government's fastest-growing expense.
Higher rates bring pain for private equity, private credit, and speculative assets, but they open opportunities for investors holding cash, treasuries, and value assets.

September 23, 2026

Are We in a Recession? Without AI, America Might Already Be in One - and Washington Knows It

By Kalbir Talwar

The White House attributes about three quarters of U.S. economic growth to AI, and many believe the economy would already be in a recession without it.
Washington has three reasons it cannot let the AI boom slow down: staying the world's superpower, outgrowing $40 trillion in national debt, and protecting a government stock portfolio worth billions.
Every market goes through booms and busts, and investors who understand the cycle get to buy the downturn instead of panic-selling with the crowd.

September 22, 2026

Will Interest Rates Go Down in 2026? Where the Money Moves Either Way

By Kalbir Talwar

The Fed is leaning toward higher rates to fight 4% inflation, while the White House and a cracking job market push the other way.
If rates rise, money has tended to move toward short-term Treasuries, floating-rate loans, energy, banks and dividend payers.
If rates fall, it has tended to move toward gold, silver and Bitcoin, real estate, small caps, the S&P 500 and speculative bets.

September 21, 2026

How the Federal Reserve Makes Money - and Why It Just Posted Its Biggest Loss Ever

By Kalbir Talwar

For 109 years the Federal Reserve created money, lent it to the U.S. government and handed the interest it collected back to Washington - almost $1 trillion in the decade starting in 2011.
Pandemic-era lending locked the Fed into earning about 2% on trillions of dollars while it now pays banks around 4%, producing a record loss of hundreds of billions in 2026.
The Fed covers its losses by creating money and the government covers its lost revenue by borrowing, and both feed the inflation that eats at the dollars in your account.

September 18, 2026

Kevin Warsh Just Defied Trump: What the Fed Rate Hike Means for Your Money

By Cierra Seay

The Fed raised rates for the first time since 2023 in a unanimous vote led by Kevin Warsh, the chairman President Trump appointed to cut them.
Higher rates make the $40 trillion national debt, business loan resets and mortgages more expensive, but they strengthen the dollar and pay investors holding cash.
The war with Iran is pushing up oil, grocery and chip prices, another hike is likely in 2026, and recession talk is about to get louder.

September 17, 2026

Why America Bailed Out the Yen: The Japan Carry Trade, the Dollar and Your Mortgage Rate

By Milena Thomas

In July 2026 the US sent money to steady the yen because Japan is the largest foreign owner of US debt, and Washington needs Japan to keep lending.
For decades the Japan carry trade let Wall Street borrow yen at essentially 0% and pour it into US stocks, real estate and Treasuries, and rising Japanese rates are shutting that off.
A weaker yen means fewer buyers for the dollar and for US debt, which pushes Treasury rates up and drags mortgage, car loan and credit card rates up with them.

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