During the past week, the Trump administration and its private sector associates passed plans and regulations to persuade/compel both worker pension systems and Fannie Mae to pour part of their investments into cryptocurrency, in order to bail it out. This, at a time that the highly leveraged crypto market is in a downward tailspin—Bitcoin has lost 46% of its value since October 2025—and private investors are pulling out of the crypto market.
The net effect is that these moves will intensify the explosive losses of the pension funds and Fannie Mae in the near future.
On March 30, Trump’s U.S. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer, issued a proposed Department of Labor regulation, that, in her words, will “foster… a retirement system that allows more Americans to retire with dignity. This proposed rule will show how pension plans can consider products that better reflect the investment landscape as it exists today.” This would give an individual’s 401k private retirement account the ‘freedom’ “to invest their funds into cryptocurrencies, private equity, and alternative [ie, speculative) investments.”
