Sector Mail Archive
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 [...]
3-25-25: Some Good News and Bad News About This Correction
by Jason Bodner March 25, 2025 A kid says to his mom: “Ma? I have some good news and bad news.” Mom says: “Give me the bad news first.” Kid: “I took [...]
3-18-25: When (Precisely) Will This Market Stop Collapsing?
by Jason Bodner March 18, 2025 If I were to use “click bait,” I could headline this piece, “WHY THE MARKET IS COLLAPSING -- AND THE EXACT DAY IT WILL END, from [...]
3-11-25: Are We in the Midst of a Bubble Mania (the Madness of Crowds)?
by Jason Bodner March 11, 2025 In 1841, Charles Mackay wrote “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,” a thick read, but important in understanding the human mind’s approach to investing. [...]
3-4-25: March – A New Month That is Almost Like a New Year!
by Jason Bodner March 4, 2025 It’s March! Happy New Year – if you were born before 45 B.C. March was the first month of the year before the Roman calendar was [...]