The SVB Crash Was Just The First Domino
In light of the past week’s extraordinary market events, we’re releasing this “state of the markets” briefing.
In light of the past week’s extraordinary market events, we’re releasing this “state of the markets” briefing.
In today’s special edition of Something You Don’t Know, you’ll find an important briefing from credit analyst and author Martin Fridson, who leads Porter & Co.’s Distressed Investing team.
Current Fed Chairman Jerome Powell wants to put an end to inflation. Unfortunately – for Powell, for markets, and for investors – it appears increasingly unlikely that he’ll get his wish.
The type of situation we’ll introduce today doesn’t come around often, but when these opportunities arise… they can make you fortunes, even during bear markets. It is the ultimate safe play for a high-risk market.
Norfolk Southern is the latest poster child for the pitfalls of financial engineering. Years of reckless cost cutting and debt-fueled buybacks, at the expense of infrastructure upgrades, have caused an ecological disaster.
Right now, U.S. gas prices are among the lowest in the world. But as America increasingly expands its LNG export infrastructure, U.S. natural gas prices will increasingly converge with much-higher international prices. And the companies that own low-cost gas reserves today will reap a windfall.
In many ways, the 2020s inflation scenario matches that of the 1970s.
The REIT we’ll introduce today offers an extra degree of safety. It avoids physical real estate properties entirely, and instead invests primarily in mortgage securities that are effectively backed by the government. And they’re a better buy than government bonds.
One of many casualties of the coming corporate debt implosion.
Today, we’ll introduce a security that offers a higher margin of safety than the common stock, while still offering plenty of upside for investors.