Like most gringos, this felt extravagant – even absurd – when I first got here. But when I realized I could hire a staff to run my household for roughly the cost of a monthly car payment, it was a no-brainer. But now, with Elon Musk’s Optimus robot nearing release, such luxuries might be closer at hand for everyone.
In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the crew hangs a dead albatross around the neck of the crewmate who killed it as punishment for his actions cursing the ship. Today, the U.S. dollar wears its own version of that dead bird. Here’s why, and what you should do about it.
Talk about a sweet setup… Back in April, I spotted the chance to double my subscribers’ money in a matter of weeks with one of my signature trades. This was in the wake of President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcements. Markets were in chaos. Volatility was spiking. And the TV news anchors and armchair analysts on social media were in full-on doomsday mode. But I wasn’t paying attention to the headlines or to the latest rant on X. Here’s what caught my attention instead…
Talk about a market that’s priced for perfection… The S&P 500 trades at 28 times reported earnings. That puts it between the 90th and 95th percentile of most expensive markets in history, depending on what timeframe you choose. So is now the time for buy-and-hold investing? Let’s talk through this…
On Monday, we were at war. By Tuesday, it was “TIME FOR PEACE.” And now, investors hold their breath, awaiting the next news flash. At any moment, the artillery shells could begin landing. And bonds are an obvious target of opportunity. They appear to have entered a long-term primary downtrend. If the patterns of history repeat themselves, we could be looking at higher interest rates for the rest of our lives.
There’s clearly no love lost between President Trump and Fed chair Jerome Powell. Trump doesn’t have the authority to fire Powell. So, Mr. Transitory Inflation will still be running the Fed for another 11 months, until his term ends. But Trump announced this week that he had already narrowed down Powell’s replacement to a handful of candidates… and that an announcement might be coming soon. As investors, we need to pay attention.
When you fight technology, you lose. Sure, you might win a few rounds. But it will always end in a knockout… with you on the mat. So, if you’re trying to trade without AI these days, you’re effectively fighting a losing battle. Because your competition on the other side of the trade is already using it. Here’s how to fix that.
Far too many traders made the WRONG bet on the direction of oil when war broke out in the Middle East earlier this month. Here’s what they did wrong…
If you know how to use AI, it makes you infinitely more productive. And this is true of investing, too. As colleague Keith Kaplan will be lifting the lid on tomorrow in a special broadcast, he and his team at TradeSmith have created a breakthrough new tool that can make you a better trader.
As we’ll look at today, the real risk isn’t of America getting bogged down in a messy war in Iran. It’s what the reaction to the war says about the lynchpin asset of the global financial system… and something we’re all exposed to as investors.
