Eliminating wasteful government offices is always controversial, especially since some federal workers will have vested interests in keeping those offices intact. Soon, however, President Donald Trump and Tesla founder Elon Musk will team up to “drain the swamp” of unnecessary federal employees.

As Joe Biden’s chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler did everything he could do to protect government money against threats like Bitcoin. In a couple of months, Gensler will be out of the picture, so who will protect the precious U.S. dollar?

Some folks say that the markets don’t lie, but there are times when it’s hard to overlook the dislocations in asset prices. For Greenlight Capital’s David Einhorn, the disconnect between prices and actual values is wide and only getting wider.

This is a textbook example of what happens when mandates go wrong. While President Trump will almost certainly push back against unnecessary regulations, California’s state government will likely continue to pursue burdensome and unfeasible policies.

The pundits are out in full force with poll data and theories galore. Yet, there’s no consensus on whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris will be the next U.S. president. Still, even amid the uncertainty, there’s one thing that Americans can count on.

It was fun while it lasted, and I hope you profited from the massive, unprecedented rally in large-cap stocks. According to a Goldman Sachs strategist, the S&P 500 index will only return 3% per year to investors, on average, through the next decade.

“It’s an AI arms race,” Bank of America strategists Savita Subramanian and Ohsung Kwon recently declared in a note to investors. Whether you see the impact in your day-to-day life yet or not, the future will be dominated by artificial intelligence (AI) technology and your investment positioning needs to reflect this.

They’re once loathed but now loved: uranium stocks have gone from hated to celebrated, but what’s prompting the shift in sentiment? After considering the imbalance of supply and demand for nuclear energy, smart-money investors are now adding uranium-bullish assets to their holdings.

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Inflation is supposed to be at 2% by now, and jobs should be plentiful in America, yet the latest data reveals growing cracks in the foundation. Why is the Federal Reserve’s election year plan failing miserably?

At first, the Federal Reserve’s “jumbo” 50-basis-point interest-rate cut from September was well received by the financial markets. Now that some time has passed, however, the central bankers’ decision to pivot so aggressively is being widely re-evaluated as a potential policy error.

As much as I talk about the importance of holding gold, let’s not overlook its less expensive counterpart, silver. When gold moves, silver tends to move faster and this should be perfectly fine with volatility-tolerant investors.