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The AI Trade Is Global: Derek Yan on Dollar Weakness, EM Tech, and Hidden Concentration Risk
U.S. equity concentration has reached historic extremes. The next leg of the AI trade may not be where most investors are looking.
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Kai Wu: The AI Trade Is Entering Its Most Misunderstood Phase
The buildout boom may be peaking. The real opportunity could lie in the companies quietly turning AI into measurable productivity gains while the market remains fixated on infrastructure.
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Three Rate Cuts, Small Caps, and the 9% Income Trade
If inflation is already at 2% beneath the surface, the Fed is behind the curve — and markets are mispriced for what comes next.
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Commodities, Rates, and the Repricing of Scarcity
A deep dive with Will Rhind on platinum’s resurgence, gold’s strength, and what it means for portfolio construction.
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Hype vs. Deployment: Derek Yan on Humanoid Robotics, KOID ETF, and the Global AI Arms Race
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Scarcity Is Back: John Love on Why Commodities Are Repricing Fast
From natural gas volatility to gold above key milestones, the USCF CEO breaks down what’s driving the renewed commodity cycle.
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Trust Is Broken: Inflation’s Illusion, Fed Doubt, and the Gathering Risk in Mega-Caps
Ted Oakley warns that policy credibility is fading, Big Tech dominance may be cracking, and energy could be the market’s most mispriced opportunity.
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Playing Offense With Wealth
Grant Cardone on Bitcoin, Real Estate, and Conviction
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Seth Cogswell on Echoes of 1999
How AI Optimism, Market Concentration, and Risk Blindness Are Repeating History
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Lead-Lag Live: Why Equity Isn’t Ownership
Kaitlyn Walsh on Stock Options, Tax Traps, and Costly Employee Mistakes
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How Japan, AI, and Defense Spending Are Colliding
In this episode of Lead-Lag Live, portfolio manager Hervé Van Caloen of Mercator Investment Management joined the discussion to unpack what he sees as a powerful global rotation underway—one that stretches well beyond U.S. equities and into Japan, Europe, Latin America, and strategically critical industries like semiconductors,
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The Bailout Economy: Luke Lloyd on AI Liquidity, Asset Ownership, and Why Retirement Thinking Is Broken
In the latest episode of Lead‑Lag Live, host Melanie Schaffer sat down with Luke Lloyd, President and CEO of Lloyd Financial Group, to unpack a theme that increasingly defines modern markets: liquidity first, fundamentals second, and government backstops everywhere. Lloyd framed today’s environment as a “bailout economy,” where