Archive Category: Green Zone Fortunes Updates

“Volatility” — it’s a “four-letter” word to most individual investors. But Wall Street … well, Wall Street loves volatility. It’s both the lifeblood of their own profits and the “boogeyman” they point to when they tell you how much you need them.

“It is cheaper to drill for oil on the New York Stock Exchange than it is to drill directly.” Those were the words of famous oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens when he dove headfirst into the oil merger mania of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

In Tuesday’s Money & Markets Daily, I told you about the “Phantom Bank Crisis” that’s slowly unfolding for hundreds of regional banks… For today’s Green Zone Fortunes update, I’d like to provide an even deeper analysis — along with specific actions you can take to protect your portfolio immediately.

AI quickly became one of the stock market’s biggest investing trends over the last year. Investors eagerly snapped up shares of mega-cap “Magnificent Seven” tech stocks, driving them more than 100% higher in 2023. But this breakthrough new technology is still just in its infancy…

America invented the semiconductor … but today, only 10% of the world’s chips wear a “Made in the USA” badge. And as we’ve learned through years of supply chain disruptions, relying on Asia — for chips or anything else — is downright foolish. That’s without even touching on the risk of our dependence on a potential “enemy” of the state, like China, for our most foundational technological needs.