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Another Crypto Victim Bites the Dust

I have been warning readers for years about the dangers inherent in crypto investment. Even if you get the direction right, there is a high probability that your platform will steal your money, or someone pretending to be your platform. Below is the story of a long-time reader whom I only just learned about. “Here […]

You’re Wrong About AI

You’re probably using AI wrong – that’s the message that MIT gave us after their report that 95% of companies in the dataset, generative AI implementations are falling short. Despite the rush to integrate powerful new models, about 5% of AI pilot programs achieve rapid revenue acceleration. This pours cold water on the concept that […]

August 25, 2025

Global Market Comments August 25, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (THE MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or LEADING INTO A PUNCH), (UUP), (AAPL), (GM), (F), (RKT), (PLD) (AMT), (PEP), (DUK), (ZION), (IJR), ($SPX), (QQQ), (MS)

The Market Outlook for the Week Ahead, or Leading Into a Punch

There’s nothing worse than leading into a punch. The outcome for any mixed martial artist or karate black belt is usually disastrous: a broken nose, brain damage, or death. It only took a few choice words from Jay Powell’s Friday Jackson Hole speech to set the markets on fire and trigger a 1,000-point rally in […]

Powell Moonshots Tech Stocks From Wyoming

US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s speech at the Jackson Hole Symposium today was an admission that he has allowed the market to box him in. The Fed didn’t do enough to tame inflation since 2020, and now they are on the brink of surrendering the inflation fight and cutting rates when core inflation is […]