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Key Highlights * Market leadership in 2025 has shifted away from mega-cap growth stocks toward small-caps, value-oriented sectors, and emerging markets. * The rotation reflects improving risk appetite and broader market participation rather than a move toward defensive positioning. * Small-cap and emerging-market strength has historically aligned with
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Key Highlights * Small-cap stocks have begun to reassert leadership after years of trailing mega-cap technology.¹ * Falling interest rates and improving cyclical conditions have historically favored smaller, domestically oriented companies.³⁴ * Tactical allocation strategies such as ATACX are designed to participate in risk-on environments while actively managing downside risk.
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Key Highlights * Industrials have historically outperformed early in deregulation cycles, as expectations for lower compliance costs and faster permitting drive earnings re-rating before policy changes are fully implemented. * Regulatory relief creates operating leverage, particularly for industrial and mid-cap companies where compliance costs weigh more heavily on margins and
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Key Highlights * As inflation pressures ease in 2025, U.S. policymakers are shifting focus from price control toward measures that support economic growth. * Deregulation has re-entered the policy toolkit as a way to reduce business costs and improve economic efficiency without relying solely on monetary or fiscal stimulus. * Recent
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In early 2025, Washington reversed course after years of expanding regulation. The White House’s new executive order—dubbed the “10-for-1 Rule”—requires agencies to repeal ten regulations for every new one introduced¹. The intent is explicit: shrink the regulatory state and drive compliance costs below zero². For
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A political leader cutting through a stack of red tape may seem symbolic, yet in a slowing economy it signals something deeper: a policy pivot toward growth through deregulation¹. When interest rates are near historic lows and fiscal tools are constrained by deficits and politics, easing regulations can act as
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It wasn’t long ago that Washington appeared ready to tighten controls on artificial intelligence. Lawmakers held headline-grabbing hearings, agencies floated new guardrails, and the policy world seemed braced for a sweeping federal framework. That momentum has shifted. Instead of pushing ahead, regulators across the federal landscape are slowing
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Key Takeaways * The SEC has retreated from defending its climate-disclosure rule, signaling a major shift away from the aggressive regulatory posture of prior years. * Court actions, combined with the end of Chevron deference, have made agencies more cautious and pushed regulators toward restraint. * The broader deregulation trend spans energy,
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Deregulation rarely dominates election-year headlines, yet Washington is steadily unwinding rules across energy, technology, and banking. This shift isn’t a wholesale return to past free-market eras. It’s a targeted recalibration aimed at boosting America’s competitiveness as global rivals expand their own industrial and technological ambitions.
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Key Takeaways * Washington’s post-2024 policy pivot is setting the stage for a broader deregulatory cycle, easing barriers across banking, energy, and industrial sectors. * Early signals—from FDIC merger-review rollbacks to faster energy-permit approvals—suggest conditions are forming for a potential M&A acceleration. * Investors are
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One stroke of a presidential pen can reshape entire industries. In 2025, a wave of new U.S. executive orders began doing just that—unwinding restrictions, accelerating competition, and reshaping the investing landscape. For investors in The Free Markets ETF (FMKT), which targets companies positioned to benefit from freer economic
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