And every year, investors make the same mistake. August is often the start of a seasonally weak period for stocks. Trading volumes thin out, Wall Street’s biggest players go on vacation, and volatility tends to pick up. It’s a set of conditions that make it far too easy to make the single biggest mistake investors can make.
It’s almost nonsensical to talk about “the economy,” because it’s wildly different depending on where you look. The tech sector is booming, and most white-collar and creative jobs are still in good shape.
But outside of the tech bubble, it’s not looking so hot. The middle class and blue-collar economy is hurting. Inflation still stings… The manufacturing renaissance has not yet materialized. What gives?
Wall Street is watching you… Not in a creepy surveillance-camera kind of way. Rather, it’s a type of financial surveillance that – without your knowledge – radically tilts the playing field in Wall Street’s favor. It happens every time you buy or sell a stock on Schwab, E*Trade, Fidelity, or other brokerage apps. As you can imagine, this surveillance strategy has been a gold mine. Now you can do it too.
AI is changing the world. We need it to do exactly that. But right now, the economics of AI are terrible.
Birthrates in the West have been low for decades. Today, women in all three countries give birth to just 1.6 babies on average. We’re now starting to see what a real worker shortage looks like. And it’s about to get a lot worse. Today, I’ll dig through the numbers to show you what our future may look like… and how physical AI might be our only solution at this point. Then I’ll show you how, as an investor, you can take advantage of this now unstoppable trend.
Thanks to AI, robots are now stepping off the screen and into the real world – and taking over physical tasks once reserved for humans. Given the right hardware and software, they’ll be capable of far more than household chores. This shift will reshape entire industries… and reward those who get in position early. So, today, let’s take a look at how Rosey the Robot is quickly coming to life.
President Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), last week. Unfortunately, nothings going to change. Here’s why, and how to prepare.
We’re on the cusp of AI’s “Day Zero” moment. This is when AI stops being a “cool tool” and starts actively transforming industries, infrastructure, and daily life. Once that happens, our world will look like nothing that’s come before.
Last week’s significant economic news – the positive GDP report and the hugely revised unemployment report – all but guarantees what the Fed will do next. So let’s discuss why markets reacted the way they did on Friday, with the S&P 500 and the Dow both losing more than 1.2% and the Nasdaq and Russell 200 tanking about 2% each. Then I’ll explain what all of this means for our portfolios.
The gist of Ms. Russell’s argument is that the deal includes requirements for Europe to buy energy and military equipment from the U.S. This kind of stuff is made by people wearing hardhats or wielding power tools, that is… by “blue collar” workers. Ms. Russell, who lives in Texas and has four children, must not have much free time. If she had, she might have thought this through a bit further.
