Sector Mail Archive
6-17-25: How Has the Market Reacted to Recent Middle Eastern Wars?
by Jason Bodner June 17, 2025 The Middle East is geographically at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe. Conflicts in that region go back to the dawn of human civilization. It [...]
6-10-25: The Road to Wealth is Often Rocky
by Jason Bodner June 10, 2025 The first roads were made by animals. Eons ago, animals like dinosaurs, and then mammoths, walked over the same areas repeatedly. These paths eventually turned into [...]
6-3-25: Turn Up the Quiet
by Jason Bodner June 3, 2025 Imagine what life was like thousands of years ago. The usual depiction is struggle; visceral survival ruled prehistoric life. But I also imagine how wonderfully quiet [...]
5-28-25: Ignore the News Feed, For Your Psychological (and Financial) Health
by Jason Bodner May 28, 2025 Scanning the news feed is not for the faint of heart. A few recent headlines make my point: President Trump is embroiled in a battle with [...]
5-20-25: May 12-16 Was “Hug a Suffering Bear” Week
by Jason Bodner May 20, 2025 Bears have feelings, too…. And they might need a hug right now. You may worry that hugging a bear will provoke an attack, but bears are [...]
5-13-25: Don’t Let the World’s Greatest Entertainer Derail You
by Jason Bodner May 13, 2025 My bold take: Donald Trump is the world’s greatest entertainer. Love him or loathe him, the Commander in Chief takes up as much media oxygen as [...]
5-6-25: My Stock Market “Baptism of Fire” Was in 1998 (When Was Yours?)
by Jason Bodner May 6, 2025 Stocks always seemed to rise in the 1990s, when I was young, but in 1998, when I was 24, the stock market was in a tailspin. [...]
4-29-25: Survival Techniques in a Confusing Market Year
by Jason Bodner April 29, 2025 Survival is encoded into our DNA and affects everything we do at a deep subconscious level. Some animals have wild ways of reacting to life-or-death situations. [...]
4-22-25: Make Market Volatility Your Friend
by Jason Bodner April 22, 2025 It’s been a volatile year thus far – one of the highest on record. Upon that, I think we can all agree. There are, however, many [...]
4-15-25: Probability is Harder to Track During this New “Age of Uncertainty”
by Jason Bodner April 15, 2025 Uncertainty was once left to fate, divine will, or simple luck. But in the 16th century, Gerolamo Cardano—a mathematician, physician, and gambler—applied logic and numbers to [...]
4-8-25: The Tariffs Will…Anyone? Anyone?… Raise or Lower Revenue?
by Jason Bodner April 8, 2025 There was a classic scene from the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, in which the high school teacher (played by economist Ben Stein) was talking [...]
4-1-25: Did Margin Debt Fuel This March Market Madness?
by Jason Bodner April 1, 2025 “Upon us all a little rain must fall.” - from Led Zeppelin’s The Rain Song. April begins today, and there are songs about “April Showers” as [...]