On June 22, the President signed two executive orders in a single Oval Office ceremony.
No primetime address. No headlines.
But together, they set in motion the biggest change to American money since 1974.
The last time this happened, it was sealed with a secret handshake in a Saudi desert. The public didn’t find out for 41 years.
This time, one $20 American company sits at the center of it. And the government just moved to take an ownership stake.
Former Wall Street banker Dylan Jovine spent 8 months tracing this story through private meetings with Congressmen. What he found should alarm you… and could make you a fortune.
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The $200 Billion Question Inside Alphabet's Strongest Quarter
Alphabet's Q2 settled one debate and opened a harder one. Demand for AI shows clearly in revenue. The cost of serving it is climbing faster than the revenue.
Google Cloud grew 82% to $24.8 billion versus 64% expected. Segment operating income tripled to $8.8 billion. Margin jumped from 20.7% to 35.6%. Cloud backlog rose $50 billion to $514 billion. Alphabet booked its first revenue from selling TPU systems to customer data centers. Supply still caps growth, so Alphabet will rent third-party compute in Q3, pressuring margins.
Reported EPS of $9.11 overstates operating strength. Other income included roughly $99 billion of unrealized gains, mostly the Anthropic stake being revalued higher. Stripping the gain puts underlying EPS near $2.75 versus operational consensus of $2.87.
Search grew 17% to $63.3 billion. AI Mode passed 1 billion monthly users since October. Sundar Pichai said the cost of serving an AI Mode response hit its lowest level since launch. YouTube ads grew 13% to $11.1 billion. Pichai conceded coding and agentic coding need improvement, pointing to the Gemini 4 training run underway.
Capex hit $44.9 billion. Full-year guidance rose to $195 billion to $205 billion, the second raise this year. Free cash flow went negative $5.9 billion. Alphabet announced an $84.75 billion equity raise in June and issued $20.3 billion of senior notes. Long-term debt now stands near $98 billion, up from $16 billion a year ago.
Investors just repriced the first installment.
Schwab's Record Quarter Answered One Question and Raised a Harder One
Schwab reported record revenue of $7.07 billion, up 21%, and adjusted EPS of $1.62 versus $1.54 to $1.55 expected. Adjusted pretax margin widened to 54.3% from 50.1%. Shares fell nearly 3% premarket then clawed most of it back after the Summer Business Update.
The beat came from four engines. Net interest revenue rose 19% to $3.36 billion. Asset management fees grew 16% to $1.83 billion. Trading revenue climbed 28% to $1.22 billion. Bank deposit account fees jumped 35% to $333 million. Core net new assets reached $119.8 billion, up 49%. June brought a record $62.7 billion, a 5.8% annualized organic growth rate. Total client assets hit $13.08 trillion.
What clients did after arriving supports the platform thesis. Schwab Wealth Advisory flows rose 80%. Managed investing flows rose 53%. Pledged Asset Line balances grew 59% to $33.4 billion. Bank loans rose 33% to $67 billion. Margin loans jumped 30% sequentially to $165.1 billion.
Management raised full-year revenue growth guidance to 17.5% to 18.5% from 14% to 15%. The updated scenario assumes 13% market appreciation and 10.6 million daily average trades, both generous.
The trading boom faces a baseline problem. Revenue per trade fell 19% to $1.64. Schwab's own model assumes 10.6 million daily trades against Q2's 11.9 million pace.
Sweep cash ended June at $485.7 billion, up $24.2 billion from March. Schwab paid 0.19% on bank deposits and 0.22% on brokerage payables while earning far higher yields. That spread remains the engine most exposed to AI-driven cash optimization tools.
Proving the pace holds without the market's help is the work of the next few quarters.
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