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Options Arena: Expat Edition
July 10, 2022 Investing, Options Arena, Trading Strategies, True Options Masters
In this week's Options Arena, our experts traveled outside America's borders to find the best investments available to you... Hydrogen’s Shell Game, Toyota’s Wheely Screwed & Boeing’s Mother Ship
July 7, 2022 Great Stuff
Shell Be Comin’ ‘Round The Mountain… Great Ones, my best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with a girl who saw that Shell PLC (NYSE: ) is building the “largest” green hydrogen plant in the world. I guess it’s pretty serious? You’re darn right it is! […] The “Stuff” Surplus Has Started; Like Taking Candy From Buybuy Baby
June 30, 2022 Great Stuff
Did Somebody Say “Blue Light Special?” Great Ones, we’ve long talked up the average consumer’s willingness to overspend like no tomorrow. You might fancy yourself a thrifty shopper, but c’mon: Who doesn’t at least shell out for the good frozen pizza every once in a while? No? Call it a willingness, call it an active […] How Wall Street Really Works (2022 Edition)
June 29, 2022 Big Picture. Big Profits., Trading Strategies, U.S. Economy
Human beings are NOT machines. We’re driven by natural instincts that can send asset prices swinging like a pendulum. Fear and greed, fight or flight … these basic emotions are the primary cause behind the market’s violent up-and-down moves. Shifting from one emotion to the other can radically alter the market’s course, which is why we’ve seen growth stocks plunge so far so fast in 2022. It’s enough to make me wonder whether my college years may have been better served studying psychology! Today I’m going to show you the pendulum on full display and what you can do to cash in on the market’s volatile emotional swings. The Fed’s $8,000/Year “Mortgage Tax”
June 28, 2022 Big Picture. Big Profits., Investment Opportunities, News, U.S. Economy
Inflation is caused by a mismatch between supply and demand. The Federal Reserve can’t increase the supply of goods and services. So, to control prices it must engineer “demand destruction.” That’s as nasty as it sounds. I’ve already explained how the Fed uses the “wealth effect” to make households with lots of stocks cut spending … and why that strategy won’t work with U.S. wealth concentrated in so few hands. I also explored how big changes in the U.S. and global economy since the 1970s will force the Fed to raise interest rates A LOT to bring inflation down. Today, we’re going to look at the impact of their demand destruction on U.S. households.