
The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), that bastion of bureaucratic inertia, has concluded its review of the DOL’s proposal, paving the way for the proletariat to throw their retirement savings into the gaping maw of Bitcoin and its ilk. Gone is the 2022 guidance that once warned fiduciaries against such madness, a relic of a time when prudence still held sway. In its place stands a new decree, born of the Biden-era executive order, which, in its quest to assess the risks and benefits of digital assets, has instead unleashed a torrent of financial recklessness.