Kevin Warsh stepped up to the Fed's podium on Wednesday for the first time as chair, and the man markets thought Trump hired to cut rates did the opposite. He held them. The vote was unanimous, 12–0 — the most united the Fed has looked in months.

Then came the part that actually moved money. Four times a year the Fed publishes a chart of where each official sees rates heading. Warsh's first one pointed up. The median forecast for 2026 jumped to 3.8%, above where rates sit today. The Fed's own people aren't sketching cuts anymore. They're sketching a hike.

The inflation forecast went the same way. The Fed lifted its 2026 call from 2.7% to 3.6%, with 17 of 18 officials saying the bigger risk is that it runs hotter still. Cheaper oil and a softer China could have given Warsh cover to ease. He waved both off.

He didn't stop at rates. Warsh opened five reviews of how the Fed operates and, standing next to Vice President Vance, openly questioned whether the 2% inflation target still means anything. One economist watching wondered aloud if Trump had been "duped" by his own pick.

Here's why your portfolio felt it. Rate cuts are cheap money, and cheap money is the tailwind that pushes risky things like Bitcoin higher. That tailwind just got crossed out in the Fed's own forecasts. Stocks sold off. Bitcoin's pop to $67K faded back toward $65K.

So don't mistake this bounce for the turn. A calmer market with less leverage is less likely to crash hard from here, but that isn't the same as buyers coming back. The one thing that flips a floor into a real rally is easier money, and the Fed just forecast the opposite. Until the inflation data cracks, that ceiling stays.

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At a presentation called "Take Control," Coinbase laid out one blunt goal: be the only money app left on your phone. One login for your stocks, options, bank account, and crypto wallet.

The targets are Robinhood, Schwab, and your bank. You'll trade stocks next to your Ether, get exposure to private companies like OpenAI and Anthropic before they go public, and spend on a card that pays 5% back in Bitcoin. There's even an AI advisor baked in that turns headlines into trade ideas.

Nearly $1 trillion in stablecoin volume already ran through Coinbase products last year, so the plumbing is real. It's the most credible run at crypto's "everything app" anyone has made. The question is whether you want one company holding all your money at once.

Binance, the biggest crypto exchange in the world, may have to stop serving European users at the end of June. Reuters reports that Greece's market regulator is set to reject Binance's license application under MiCA, the EU's new crypto rulebook. After July 1, any unlicensed exchange operating in the bloc is breaking the law.

Greece was Binance's chosen home base in Europe. Co-CEO Richard Teng picked it himself and said he'd let regulators make the final call. That bet is looking shaky now, after an 18-month application the company believed it had passed.

For a European user, this is a real disruption with a hard deadline, not a rumour. The biggest name in crypto could go dark in your region in under two weeks — and a "too big to regulate" exchange just found a regulator that didn't blink.

This is The Crossover. We read the dot plot so you don't have to. We don't tell you what to do with your money — if we were that good at predicting the future, we'd have our own task force.