
October 9, 2025 • Addison Wiggin
Technology is a double-edged sword. We’re still living in the long tail of a hard money, capitalist society – and reaping new technologies out of it.
But the destruction of the purchasing power of the dollar stands to create a crisis – and drive investors back to safe havens like gold.
October 8, 2025 • Addison Wiggin
All these rumors could work out to Intel’s benefit. That’s something no investor can know. What we can know is that the road to recovery will be a rocky one, fraught with disappointments along the way. It is all but certain that at some point, Intel stock will once again be far cheaper than it is today. And at that later date, investors will have far more information to be able to judge the likely success of the promised comeback. We’re not going to buy the rumors. We will wait for the news.
October 8, 2025 • Addison Wiggin
There’s something about big, round numbers that draws investors like moths to a flame.
In the stock market, every 1,000 points in the Dow or 100 points in the S&P 500 tends to act like a magnet.
Now, after consolidating for five months, gold has broken higher to $4,000.
October 8, 2025 • Addison Wiggin
AI stocks are running hot. They’re not the only game in town… but they’re about half of it.
JPMorgan just reviewed all of the 500 companies in the S&P 500. A full 41 of them are AI-related. While that’s less than 10% of the index by total, it is over 45% of the index by market cap.