Charles Sizemore

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.

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.

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.

What happens when someone asks you a question on a topic that should come with a trigger warning? You don’t hold back. At least, I didn’t when I answered the question Philip emailed…

The 1600s were a golden age for the Netherlands. Apart from producing some of the finest painters to have ever picked up a brush, it was a time of economic and political advancement.  Newly independent from Spain, the Dutch Republic was one of the first to experiment with a republican government outside of Italy. And they became fantastically wealthy as traders. Until they weren’t. With all our evolution in the markets, people are fundamentally still the same. So here’s how to avoid the “tulip” trap forming today.

Gold goes through regular seasonal cycles each year. That makes some times better than others to be a gold buyer. And we’ve just entered one of the best times of the year for a particular kind of gold trade.