Archive Category: Green Zone Fortunes Updates

There’s a whole new gold rush happening out there… From Main Street investors to central banks, from Wall Street hedge funds to sovereign wealth funds — it seems like everyone has become a gold bug in 2025. President Trump’s bold new trade policies have upended expectations, promising to transform the global order as we know it. But investors don’t yet know exactly what that new world order will look like.

Back in 1936, John Maynard Keynes revolutionized the study of economics by pointing out that humans weren’t always rational actors. Instead, especially in times of uncertainty, investors are often driven by what Keynes called “animal spirits,” or the “spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by qualitative probabilities.”

A little over a year ago (on March 28, 2024, to be precise), I recommended adding shares of Palantir Technologies (PLTR) to your Green Zone Fortunes portfolio. As I explained at the time, Palantir had a unique early advantage in developing high-end Closed AI systems:

It’s been an unprecedented week for stock markets, to say the very least. We’ve seen steep declines, sharp reversals, and a general sense that the market’s trying to react and respond to an unpredictable situation that’s still unfolding in real time. In fact, my goal with today’s video was to show you why it doesn’t pay to panic right now … and while recording, the White House announced its 90-day tariff pause, sending all major indexes into a neck-breaking rally higher … thus proving many of the points I argue in the video below!

We’re now just minutes away from President Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement scheduled for 4 p.m. ET. While we wait for the exact details of the president’s sweeping new tariff package, it’s a good time to take stock of our current Green Zone Fortunes model portfolio. Specifically, how do our 25 active holdings compare to the performance of the broader S&P 500 index?