Global markets are feeling whiplash as Europe severs financial ties to Russian gas and oil providers. The race to renewables is on, but will we get there before a major economic slowdown? In today’s weekly recap, Ted dives deeper into the war for our energy future and shares his favorite pick for weathering the current storm.
Would World War II have come as quickly as it did? Probably not. In reality, Germany was already isolated. After 1933, the Nazis moved to make the country self-reliant. Everything went to Hitler’s war machine. Germany didn’t depend on Europe for anything in 1939, and vice versa. From its spurious historical rationale to its bloodiness, Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a carbon copy of Hitler’s invasion of Poland (with one exception: Putin’s blitzkrieg appears to be failing in the face of fanatical Ukrainian resistance).And yet, Russian commodities still flow westward. Although Western sanctions have ratcheted up faster than I expected, there are still big carve-outs for Russian energy exports.
Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine is official. With tanks in the street, sanctions set to fly and Russia’s stock market in free fall, Ted Bauman takes a moment to zoom out and look at the bigger picture for your portfolio. Today’s video covers Russia’s motivations for going to war, the likely outcome for global commodities prices, and how you can safely grow and protect your wealth as history unfolds in Eastern Europe.
If you called ARKK’s top and sold it in February 2021, you would have made a lot of money. On the other hand, whoever bought ARKK from you has lost half their money in just a year’s time. Going even further, if you took your ARKK gains and put them into BRK.B on February 12, you’d be up 30% on that trade. The chances that any investors actually made that “switcheroo” are vanishingly small. The move looks good in hindsight … but at the time it would’ve seemed ludicrous to most investors. That’s why you should always follow one key rule when it comes to maximizing your long-term potential…Don’t be a trader … be an investor.
In addition to George Washington’s already long list of superlatives, we can add that he was also history’s wealthiest president (until 2016). In total, Washington owned 50,000+ acres with a value equivalent to 0.19% of the country’s gross domestic product. In today’s terms, that would make him worth $43.6 billion. Richer than Michael Dell. So, what was Washington’s secret for building a fortune that outlasted even him?
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