This morning, I saw the market rallying, and everyone’s talking about the U.S. government shutdown. Trump is giving Americans $2,000, and now it’s just one vote away. I immediately opened @opinionlabsxyz to check the capital flow verification because everyone’s judgment based on the news will reflect on the prediction market. Let me explain what a government shutdown is: Recently, the U.S. government is facing another shutdown. Basically, Congress is still arguing over the budget, there’s no money to pay salaries, departments shut down, and data updates stop. This has a pretty big impact on the market. Every time this happens, the U.S. government ends up using the same old solution: printing money, giving out benefits, and injecting liquidity to stabilize the situation. Right now, the Senate is voting, and it’s just one vote away from passing the plan to resume operations. Once it’s passed, the market will most likely see the Fed opening the floodgates again: issuing dividends, subsidizing businesses, boosting 401k accounts, and stimulating investments. Economic boom, factories everywhere, and record-breaking stock markets. This is also closely tied to bull markets. Whenever the dollar floods the market and liquidity is loose, money flows outward in search of higher returns and more imaginative assets, like Bitcoin, BNB, Ethereum, and gold. This kind of monetary easing becomes the fuel for bull markets. The moment they restart the money printer, a new wave of capital begins. Funds flow from U.S. bonds (yields drop by 10bp) to BTC/gold (gold has already hit a record high). If everything goes smoothly, BTC could surpass $150,000.