Looking Back: The 2025 Crisis That Changed Everything Six years ago, COVID-19 didn't just shut down restaurants and cancel flights. It cracked the American economy wide open and exposed something most people already felt in their gut — the system wasn't working for regular people. At all. Back then, over 90% of Americans didn't have the collateral to access low-interest capital credit. The kind of credit that lets you buy income-producing assets — stocks, bonds, commercial real estate, intellectual property. The good stuff. The stuff that actually builds generational wealth. Instead, most folks were stuck on the consumer side. Borrowing…
