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Global Market Comments February 3, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD or THE TRADE WAR BEGINS) (SPY), ($COMPQ), (TSLA), (VST), (MSFT), (ADBE), (DELL), (NVDA)

As I write this, tariffs are coming into force and confusion reigns supreme at the borders. The worst-case scenario has arrived. In the Marine Corp., they say that a missing 50-cent part can ground a $50 million dollar airplane. It turns out that many of the 50-cent parts are made in Canada and Mexico, which

'There is one peculiarity about mass psychology in that when you are in a bubble, you can't see it. Bubbles are invisible when you are inside the bubble,' said the charming Jim Dines, of The Dines Letter.

Global Market Comments January 31, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (JANUARY 29 BIWEEKLY STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A), (META), (AMZN), (NVDA), (AMD)  (GS), (SPY), (TSLA), (SBUX), (CCJ), (ADBE), (LMT), (GD), (RTX), (NVDA)

Below please find subscribers’ Q&A for the January 29 Mad Hedge Fund Trader Global Strategy Webinar, broadcast from Salt Lake City, UT. Q: Are AI stocks going to crash? A: Some already have, and others haven’t. It’s really about single-stock-picking the chip area and the pure AI plays, which have been enormously overextended. If you

Global Market Comments January 30, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (THE MAD HEDGE DICTIONARY OF TRADING SLANG)

Global Market Comments January 29, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (WHY GLOBALIZATION WORKS)

Having been a vociferous supporter of globalization since its dawn, first during a decade spent as a reporter for The Economist magazine, and then as an investor, I can explain how our international trading system works, and especially why it works for the US. While waiting for a flight at Miami Airport, there was a

“We have few, if any spare tires left,” said Mohamed El-Erian, CIO of mega bond house PIMCO, about the nail studded road ahead for the US economy.

Global Market Comments January 28, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (THE NEW OFFSHORE CENTER: AMERICA), (SIGN UP NOW FOR TEXT MESSAGING OF TRADE ALERTS)

Global Market Comments January 27, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or THE TRADE WAR BEGINS), (SPY), (TLT), (TSLA), (NFLX)

The punitive 25% tariff against Columbia for refusing to take back their own immigrants clearly signals how international relations will be conducted going forward. Never mind that it was rolled back 25 hours later. The intentions are clear. Notice that it is America’s biggest exporters, the Magnificent Seven, that are getting absolutely slaughtered this morning.

“To pursue the mosquito theory as a cause of yellow fever would be a complete waste of government money,” said an army doctor in 1898.  

Global Market Comments January 24, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (SOME SAGE ADVICE ON ASSET ALLOCATION)

“Fair value doesn’t mean you have to go down. It just means you have to be cautious,” said hedge fund legend David Tepper of Appaloosa Management.  

Global Market Comments January 23, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trades: (WHY WATER WILL SOON BE WORTH MORE THAN OIL), (CGW), (PHO), (FIW), (VE), (TTEK), (PNR), (WHY WARREN BUFFETT HATES GOLD), (GLD), (GDX), (ABX)

After seven years in the penalty box, gold is finally starting to come alive, and the Armageddon crowd is absolutely loving it. Maybe after ten years of rising, stocks are finally expensive on a relative basis? These are the guys who are perennially predicting the collapse of the dollar, the default of the US government,

Global Market Comments January 22, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trades: (TRADING FOR THE NON-TRADER), (ROM), (UXI), (UCC), (UYG)

Global Market Comments January 21, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trades: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD or NOW WE ENTER THE GREAT UNKNOWN), (GS), (MS), (JPM), (C), (BAC) (TLT), (TSLA)

I am writing this to you from Indian Rock Beach, Florida, an extended sand bar outside of Tampa on the west coast. Cabin cruisers pass by every five minutes. There is not much fishing though with rain and temperatures in the low 40s, the coldest of the year. leaving a lot of free time for