The First Thing Trump Should Do for the Economy

Shah Gilani

Editor's Note: The market has pared its losses, but we can expect some chop over the next few days. Shah is worried that this volatility could distract from a major investment opportunity – one that could get this entire country back to growth again. So he wanted us to get this out to everyone today. Here's Shah…

The stock market was supposed to have a major beef with Donald Trump's election.

Now that Mr. Trump is the president-elect, market-watchers are asking, "Where's the beef?"

Well, as far as stocks are concerned, as I see it this afternoon, there looks to be a lot of red meat in the economic future President-elect Trump's proposing, and as U.S. investors start to "get it," they're rotating into select stocks instead of shedding portfolios as everyone expected.

Now, it's still a little too early to tell what investors are or aren't going to fully embrace, since we don't know who President-elect Trump will surround himself with, or what his agenda will be.

But this is no time for investors to stand by with their "wait-and-see" glasses on, not when there's this much money to be made (and we're so well positioned to do it)…

Smart Investors Will Key In on This Right Away

There's one arena of investing opportunity in our future that's a no-brainer, because it is the central pillar of Donald Trump's economic plan.

In a word, it's "infrastructure."

America's infrastructure is in deplorable condition. Politicians have wasted all the resources at their disposal for decades and not attended to modernizing infrastructure since the late 1960s.

That's going to change under President Trump, and you can take that to the bank.

It's simple, really. It's not just not about modernizing airports and highways and bridges and ports and schools and everything else that needs rebuilding. It's about everything that rebuilding our infrastructure has to start with, what it produces and how it all benefits America's economy, that matters.

We already know the Federal Reserve's economic health prescriptions have done everything for the benefit of the big banks they set out to save and make profitable again and almost nothing in trickle-down terms for America's hollowed out middle class and the country's underserved lower socioeconomic classes.

With the Fed out of effective ammo, fiscal stimulus is going to be the new gunpowder.

Investors, worried that fiscal spending, amounting to hundreds of billions – if not trillions – of dollars, are understandably nervous about infrastructure spending pushing interest rates higher, rising deficits, and busted budgets.

Actually, none that has to happen. In fact, there's a lot of good that Mr. Trump's team can effect on all those fronts.

Shah Gilani

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Shah Gilani boasts a financial pedigree unlike any other. He ran his first hedge fund in 1982 from his seat on the floor of the Chicago Board of Options Exchange. When options on the Standard & Poor's 100 began trading on March 11, 1983, Shah worked in "the pit" as a market maker.

He helped develop what has become known as the Volatility Index (VIX) - to this day one of the most widely used indicators worldwide. After leaving Chicago to run the futures and options division of the British banking giant Lloyd's TSB, Shah moved up to Roosevelt & Cross Inc., an old-line New York boutique firm. There he originated and ran a packaged fixed-income trading desk, and established that company's "listed" and OTC trading desks.

Shah founded a second hedge fund in 1999, which he ran until 2003.

Shah's vast network of contacts includes the biggest players on Wall Street and in international finance. These contacts give him the real story - when others only get what the investment banks want them to see.

Today, as editor of 10X Trader, Shah presents his legion of subscribers with the chance to earn ten times their money on trade after trade.

Shah is also the proud founding editor of The Money Zone, where after eight years of development and 11 years of backtesting he has found the edge over stocks, giving his members the opportunity to rake in potential double, triple, or even quadruple-digit profits weekly with just a few quick steps.

Shah is a frequent guest on CNBC, Forbes, and Marketwatch, and you can catch him every week on Fox Business's "Varney & Co."

He also writes our most talked-about publication, Wall Street Insights & Indictments, where he reveals how Wall Street's high-stakes game is really played.

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