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WEALTHSTEADING Podcast investing retirement money stock market & wealth

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... a holistic lifestyle to build & preserve wealth

Episodes
101
Releases
Weekly
Typical length
19 min
On air since
2023
Latest episode
4 days ago

Episodes

101 episodes, newest first

  1. Google isn’t having a Kodak Moment

    Show notes

    Episode 537

    00:00 Introduction

    02:03 Part 1 of AI-bubble series, driven by listener questions

    04:58 Google is not having a Kodak moment

    05:59 Kodak’s Kodak Moment

    09:11 Swatch cannibalized and thrived

    11:59 Intel invested in buybacks rather than fabs of the future

    16:08 Google’s spending is existential, cannibalizing search to build AI

    19:30 Google is winning: Cloud up ~100% yoy

    21:38 I probably own less Google than you- beware S&P 500 concentration

    25:23 DIP: Digitization Infrastructure and Parts

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    27 min
  2. Interest Rates are not high- they’re NORMAL

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    Episode 536

    00:00 Introduction

    01:45 – Market Resiliency & Normalizing Rates

    04:15 – Historical Rate Regimes (Post-WWII to 1970s)

    07:30 – The Natural Rate Benchmark & Nominal GDP

    10:00 – Economic Benefits of Higher Interest Rates

    12:15 – The “333 Plan” & Rate Outlook

    15:00 – Market Adaptation & Shift in White-Collar Jobs

    17:45 – Debunking the “Bond Vigilantes” & Global Yields

    21:30 – Oil Price Disruption & Refuting Stagflation

    24:45 – Personal Action Strategy

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    25 min
  3. Stock Market: Party like it’s 2017-GARDEN PARTY

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    Episode 535

    00:00 Introduction

    02:09 2017 comparison to today’s market

    04:03 Planting a Garden Portfolio

    06:32 Netflix Potential

    07:23 Canadian Pacific Kansas City

    08:08 Utility Stocks

    09:04 Nucor

    09:59 Texas Instrument & Intuitive Surgical

    10:59 Growth Adjusted Value Stocks

    14:56 AAII investor sentiment survey

    20:21 Investor Sentiment is bearish but Cash Reserves are low

    22:30 Deregulation

    24:26 Broadening Market Equal Weight

    26:47 2018 downturn

    27:56 Data Center Hate

    28:46 Government Debt versus Government Assets

    30:20 Interest rates and diesel aren’t the only record highs

    31:19 Reindustrializing USA

    32:28 Nuclear deregulation

    33:59 Natural Gas bridge to Nuclear energy

    34:58 Midterms are meaningless to long term stock market performance

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    38 min
  4. AI CEO gaslighting: flatten the curve & wear a mask

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    Episode 534

    00:00 Introduction

    00:13 AI Fearmongering

    02:30 Regulatory capture Big AI wants to write the legislation

    04:02 SaaS is Back

    04:28 AI pandemic type fearmongering: flatten the curve & wear a mask

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    6 min
  5. HORMUZ chokepoint: Tech Stocks still outperform

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    Episode 533

    POST PUBLICATION CORRECTION: A sorting error in our source spreadsheet jumbled several data columns (John’s fault), so the numbers Joe states are inaccurate. While our overall analysis and takeaways remain completely spot-on, please disregard the individual figures mentioned.

    00:00 Introduction

    00:36 Tom Selleck shirt

    01:39 Correlation is not Causation Follow up

    05:00 News Headline Fears

    06:30 S&P 500

    08:43 NASDAQ

    11:06 Technology Stocks

    19:26 Copper Mines

    20:10 Railroads

    22:09 Heavy Equipment

    24:28 Aerospace

    25:27 SAAS

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    31 min
  6. Don’t be FOOLED: Correlation is Not Causation

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    Episode 532

    00:00 Introduction

    00:20 Correlation is Causation Illusion

    03:15 Correlation is not Causation Story

    09:15 Market Assessment

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    10 min
  7. AI Infrastructure Stocks & NOT

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    Episode 531

    00:00 Introduction

    02:15 $APH

    03:49 $DELL

    04:37 $CIEN

    05:51 $COHR & $LITE

    06:29 $GLW

    07:13 $CSCO

    08:00 $FLEX & $JBL

    09:05 $NDSN

    10:14 $RAL

    11:08 $ROK & $HON

    12:15 $ZBRA

    13:23 $GSAT

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    15 min
  8. Another S&P 500 record high that Ray Dalio hates

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    Episode 530

    00:00 Introduction

    00:19 S&P 500 is at record high

    01:18 Inflation and Fed rate hike

    06:20 Stagflation not a problem for USA

    06:50 Disruption of Strait of Hormuz

    08:28 AI Bubble and Circular investing

    13:57 Extreme daily stock price volatility

    17:36 Sold Anheuser Busch InBev $BUD

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    21 min
  9. Chinese Tech panic selloff & other unfounded fears

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    Episode 529

    00:00 Introduction

    00:48 Chinese Technology Threat

    04:47 Lower Tech cost means more use cases: Technology lowers incremental cost

    07:00 Technology is becoming a Utility

    11:20 Is this a Tech Bear Market?

    17:57 DotCom Bubble 2.0?

    21:14 Nvidia has better valuation than Costco & Walmart and most of &P 500

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    24 min
  10. Warren Buffett evolving view on Tech & Google

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    Episode 528

    00:00 Introduction

    00:31 Has Warren Buffett changed his view on Technology Stocks

    06:18 Warren Buffett philanthropy

    08:47 Berkshire Hathaway large cash position

    13:14 China’s Moonshot AI

    16:41 Regional Bank update

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    19 min
  11. Selling the Fear as Iran Escalates & Building Cash for My Next Move

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    Episode 527

    00:00 Introduction

    00:51 Notification of when I buy or sell a stock

    01:28 Learn to identify stock trading patterns during a crisis

    02:45 Stock Market rotation from Risk On to Risk Off

    03:42 I sold non-core positions that are getting a bounce from Iran chaos

    04:35 Raise cash and patiently wait in a Money Market Fund

    05:57 Potential for an Amphibious Assault on Kharg Island

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    9 min
  12. SpaceX dud, Hormuz reignites, Railroads chug along

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    Episode 526

    00:00 Introduction

    00:40 SpaceX dud IPO

    02:01 Hormuz reignites

    03:31 Railroad stocks outperform

    05:31 Ignore the media noise

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    6 min
  13. Podcast Anniversary: 12 years of Cynical Optimism

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    Episode 525

    00:00 Introduction

    00:53 Winning Attitude

    01:00 Cynical Optimism

    01:45 Focus on what works

    02:05 Insurmountable problems that no longer exist

    02:26 Threat of nuclear war with USSR

    03:56 Oil energy crisis that wasn’t

    05:21 USA world’s largest Oil producer

    05:55 Stop worrying

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    7 min
  14. Stock Market: Glass Half Empty or Half Full?

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    Episode 524

    00:00 Introduction

    00:21 Market two steps forward one step back

    01:33 Google glass half empty or half full

    06:16 IPO pullbacks

    07:25 Google In DOW Verizon Out

    09:07 Honeywell Future

    12:05 Fedex Freight Spinoff

    14:00 Apple Price Hikes

    16:07 Ciena

    19:41 Oil Glut

    22:51 Wealthsteading Anniversary

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    25 min
  15. 2026 CHAOS: midyear BEST performing Sectors

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    Episode 523

    00:00 Introduction

    01:02 Gold and Silver not risk free

    02:35 Bonds aren’t safe either

    03:00 10 year Treasury dismal performance

    04:23 Oil prices dropping

    05:31 3 Best S&P 500 Sectors

    08:00 Industrial Technology long term trend

    09:00 I own Companies not Commodities

    12:08 Technology, Materials, Industrials

    13:37 You missed the bottom, not the opportunity

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    17 min
  16. SpaceX IPO: John’s not Buying… What about Joe?

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    Episode 522

    00:00 Introduction

    01:00 Nature of IPOs

    02:30 SpaceX Future opportunities

    03:22 No good or bad stocks

    03:50 Elon Musk skeptic

    04:38 Tesla over promise

    06:49 SpaceX package bundle

    08:40 Earthly opportunities Berkshire Hathaway home builder segment

    10:40 SpaceX alternatives GSAT

    11:40 Space is hard VSAT

    12:43 Tesla performance

    14:51 Want to invest in space look at the supply chain

    15:25 Will investors sell Tesla to move into SpaceX

    18:05 Ignore Media negativity

    19:04 S&P 500 28.6% profit growth

    21:16 Company backlogs

    22:55 Space competition on the horizon

    25:00 Starlink as a business expense?

    26:50 Final thoughts- these profits are REAL

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    29 min
  17. intel inside the DEEP STATE

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    Episode 521

    00:00 Introduction

    01:58 AI layoffs impact on commercial real estate

    03:30 Logistic & Industrial real estate growth

    05:05 Intel exponential performance of past 12 months

    15:44 Boeing too big to fail … 2020 flashback

    20:00 Next book: invest with the Illuminati

    21:16 Nvidia upcoming earnings what for backorder issues

    29:45 Alphabet is the best Deep State stock

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    31 min
  18. Sell in May & go away?

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    Episode 520

    00:00 Introduction

    00:34 Sell in May?

    05:40 Cashing in on CHAOS chart

    07:50 Profits with less People chart

    14:58 Trump in China

    18:40 New Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh

    22:51 GameStop eBay acquisition

    26:25 Trading Rules

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    30 min
  19. LIVE Q&A: How old is Joe?

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    Episode 519

    00:00 Introduction

    04:52 Michael Saylor says he might have to sell Bitcoin

    07:25 Market at record highs ... what do you do with new money?

    09:25 It's a stock picker's market

    14:13 $FLEX up 35% today

    16:22 How old is Joe?

    18.43 Not a typical Millennial

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    23 min
  20. Cashing in on Chaos – Cashing in on Earnings

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    Episode 518

    00:00 Introduction

    00:31 Live YouTube Q&A

    00:52 Cashing in on Chaos

    02:12 Markets bounce before crisis resolution

    03:48 Iran War April bounce

    04:43 Cashing in on Earnings

    05:25 1st Quarter record earnings

    06:20 Broad market beats Mag7 earnings

    10:54 SAAS stock contrarian opportunity

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    13 min