I'm being patient and paying very close attention to a single group of investors.
I'm not listening to price targets from Wall Street analysts.
I'm not turning on CNBC to hear what a money manager is doing with his money.
Instead, I'm looking at companies that have one distinct signal.
And I'm not talking about moving averages or technical indicators either.
I'm simply talking about what the people who know their companies best are trading.
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If you're living on a fixed income – a 10-year bond rate under 2% isn't going to do much for your money, given the rate of inflation sits at 1.8% in the United States.
Instead, you should look at real estate investment trusts (REITs).
These alternative vehicles produce gobs of cash thanks to their rental activities, higher appreciation upside due to increasing real estate demand, and favorable tax benefits to their unitholders.
Today, I'm going to uncover a REIT that pays a 5% dividend yield and could quickly surge 60% in value by this time next year.
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Chaos is bubbling just below the surface this week.
In three extraordinary moves, the Fed has injected $205 billion in liquidity into the little-known but vital "repo" market.
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"Don't kick a person when they're down." That's one of the cardinal rules of sporting behavior – one that'll serve you well pretty much anywhere on or off the field… pretty much.
But let's face it: Sportsmanship ends where the market begins. Across that line, massive fortunes can be made "kicking" a company when it's down…
Take a certain shadowy hedge fund I'm following. These investors have decided to move in for the kill on a fallen American legend: General Electric.
They've fallen in behind Bernie Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos who's made very public, very shocking allegations of fraud and manipulation in GE's Boston C-suite.
Markopolos – the forensic accountant who, as I said, called shenanigans on Bernie Madoff's $64 billionPonzi scheme – has potent "do-gooder" credibility.
In fact, these allegations probably would've been front-page news had they been brought in GE's prime, or had markets not been sinking on the day. Be that as it may, the accusations battered GE's shares and made massive waves just the same.
But there's a big, big problem with Markopolos' accusations. And I have a big problem with the anonymous backers on whose behalf he's making these allegations.
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The UK has recently appointed Boris Johnson as its new prime minister during its "Brexit" departure from the European Union.
Now not paying attention to what's happening in Britain is an expensive mistake.
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Last Friday, our Garrett Baldwin warned readers against the Deutsche Bank and German banks as a whole.
Well, as it turns out, there's yet another European country that could go bust at virtually any second now.
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In 2008, just before Lehman Brothers' balance sheet collapsed and a furious employee punched CEO Dick Fuld square in the face, then-New York Fed President Timothy Geithner had a big idea…
Take the big, failing U.S. banks, and sell them for pennies on the dollar to the larger, somewhat healthier banks.
Make these institutions larger, and they could absorb all the toxic balance sheets – and save the global financial system from calamity.
That was the theory, at any rate. We all know how it worked out in the end: Counter-party risk froze the global credit markets and sent the financial system into a tailspin.
Congress failed to grasp what would happen to a financial system that lacked sufficient liquidity to function – like a brain running low on oxygen – before it passed the $787 billion stimulus of 2009. Two more rounds of quantitative easing, courtesy of an "independent" Fed, would follow.
Of course, the "real" costs are virtually incalculable – incalculable costs that are still, a decade later, being borne by the middle class and working people of this country.
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Only a day after markets cheered the U.S.-China trade truce, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to slap $4 billion in tariffs on goods flowing out of the EU, causing oil prices to plunge this past Tuesday.
Since you can't really trust the chatter about oil prices heading higher in the third quarter, Garrett's going to show you how to make money on this trend…
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For the market to work, bad ideas need to fail, and stocks need to go up and down – also known as volatility – for anyone to make any money.
Unfortunately, what's happening right now is regulators and big players tipping the scales and rigging the markets.
And the net effect of all this is strange – and dangerous.
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