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10 Thursday AM Reads

The Big Picture

New York Times ) Be sure to check out our Masters in Business next week with Tom Wagner, Co-Portfolio Manager at Knighthead Capital. My morning train reads: • Stocks Took an 18-Month Round Trip From Tech Bear to AI Bull : The same handful of megacap names that led the market down have been powering the latest surge.

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Weekend Thoughts – Inflation Hedges, Bonds & The “This is Fine” Economy

Discipline Funds

Let’s look at the scorecard: Bitcoin – it boomed in 2020 well in advance of the big inflation spike in 2021 & 2022 and weirdly busted as inflation reared its ugly head. TIPS – Like most bonds, TIPS surged in 2020 & 2021 and then got clobbered when inflation spiked. 3) The “This is Fine” Economy.

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At the Money: How To Know When The Fed Will Cut

The Big Picture

To help us unpack all of this and what it means for your portfolio, let’s bring in Jim Bianco, Chief Strategist at Bianco Research, and His firm has been providing objective and unconventional research and commentary to portfolio managers since 1990, and it is top rated amongst institutional traders.

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Market Review 2021: A Recovery Amid Challenges

ClearMoney

Coming out of a volatile 2020, investors sought signals as to which way the global economy was headed. Throughout the year, the market continued a relatively steady rise, with large cap stocks in the US ending 2021 near a record high. After widening in 2020, credit spreads ended 2021 at levels narrower than pre-pandemic levels.

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We the People

David Nelson

Normally, as an analyst and on the line portfolio manager I would be diving into the merits of the bill pointing out its strengths, weaknesses and whether it could achieve its intended goal. The article points out trades ranging from $1 – $5 Million from June 2021 – June 2022.

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Market Commentary: Carson Investment Research Looks at the Year Ahead

Carson Wealth

We believe the odds of a recession remain low, with continued income growth, a recovery in rate-sensitive cyclical areas of the economy, and untapped potential for productivity gains helping to support the expansion. Market participants, strategists, policymakers, and the economy rarely saw eye to eye.

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Transcript: Maria Vassalou

The Big Picture

And all these questions that I was trying to answer had direct applications to hedge fund strategies and portfolio management. And the place where I was looking for this risk factors was in the real economy. Another the great lesson, and I was still a global macro portfolio manager with my own silo at SAC Capital.

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