Reality Check—What's Going On With The Market Right Now? With the stock market seemingly unstoppable, investors, including me, can't help but wonder… Are we in a bubble? And considering that most of the gains are coming from the Big Tech names like Facebook, Apple, NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Netflix, collectively known as the FANGMAN [...]
Don't FOMO Into The Rekt Club The COVID-19 crisis continues to pressure the labor market. Last week, an additional 2.1 million Americans filed for unemployment, pushing the real jobless rate to 24%. That's the highest number since the Great Depression. What's weird about this is that, at the same time, the stock market keeps climbing [...]
How I Can Say With Confidence That The Worst Is Behind Us When I say that the stock market’s worst days are behind us, most say I’m overly optimistic. Why would I think that when we still don’t know how deep the 2020 recession will be nor how severe the final health care toll? My [...]
4 Predictions As We Embark On A New Decade So… we’re starting the ‘20s. Before we consider what this new decade might look like, let’s take a look at the ‘10s and what they brought. At the start of last decade, offshore and investment gurus were calling for the collapse of the U.S. dollar. The [...]
We Are Days Away From The Historic U.S.-China Trade Deal. Here's How You Can Profit From It Next week, a handful of high-profile Chinese officials will board a plane for Washington, D.C., to attend a two-day ceremony, the culmination of which will be the signing of the U.S.-China Phase One trade deal. No, this won't [...]
Volatility Is Here To Stay—Here's How To Profit Earlier this month I introduced you to the guy I think of as my find of the decade. His name is Leon Wilfan. This is the guy I'm listening to as I work to expand my stock portfolio in the face of the current turmoil on Wall [...]
Why 2019 Is The Year I’m Getting Out Of Global Real Estate As a New Year's exercise last year, I ran the numbers for a rough comparison. I was wondering how the US$50,000 I had invested in real estate 20 years prior and rolled over in series into new properties over the course of ensuing [...]
Your Best Strategies For A Volatile Market Turbulent times are upon us. Volatility has returned to the financial markets with a vengeance and finding opportunities to profit is now much harder than it was just a few years ago. Five years ago, you could have created a portfolio of random blue-chip stocks and been positioned [...]
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