CNBC asked about mining stocks. The answer was basically,... “We avoid businesses without cash flow.” That tells you how misunderstood this sector still is. Many investors are using an old playbook while today’s metal prices are turning miners into cash flow machines.show more

JUST IN: Bank of America just told its clients... to take profits. About 70% of its bear-market signals are flashing, a level it typically reaches only near market tops. Weeks earlier, BofA's own fund manager survey showed the largest one-month jump into stocks ever recorded, with cash down to 3.9%, under the 4% line the bank treats as a sell signal. Read those together. Investors made their biggest dash into equities in the survey's history at almost the exact moment BofA's own indicators say the top is near. But the number that should actually stop you is buried in the note, and almost nobody is quoting it. The companies driving this entire rally, the AI hyperscalers, are on track to spend nearly 100% of their operating cash flow on capex by year-end. In 2023 that figure was 40%. Sit with that. Big tech used to throw off cash and hand it back through buybacks, which lifted the stocks. Now it is pouring almost every dollar it generates into chips and data centers. BofA notes buybacks have slowed and cash conversion has flat-lined. The engine of the rally is consuming the fuel that powered the stocks. It is the same $725 billion build that companies are now blaming for layoffs. The whole market is priced on one bet, and that bet has grown large enough to eat the cash that used to support the share prices. This is not a crash call. BofA's year-end target is 7,100, about 4% below today, and the median outcome after this cash signal since 2011 has been a 1% dip, not a collapse. The posts screaming sell everything are wrong. The real message is quieter. You are being paid less and less to stay, while the engine runs hotter and hotter.show more

In 2020, we put $110,823 into a $550,000 mountain... cabin in Gatlinburg and bet that strangers would pay to stay there. First year cash flow: $109,000... That's nearly a 100% cash on cash return in 12 months. Two years later it appraised at $900K... We refinanced, pulled out ~$200K tax-free, and rolled it into the next property. This is the exact strategy I've been implementing since then, across now 14 properties. We bought it because we knew what it would become. Still cash flows to this day. If you want to learn how to find and set up your first cash flowing Airbnb, DM me "START"show more

While we are talking about tariffs, I have to... remind you that Mark Carney campaigned on tariffing our own industries with increase in taxes and red tape because he didn't Canadians use what big industries produces, like steel 🤦🏼‍♂️ "What what the big companies are producing, by and large, are not products that we are consuming. How much steel are you using these days, Todd?" Do you understand how economically illiterate and damaging this is? This is still the goal though.show more

“The best thing about being an apprentice is I... get to learn while I earn as well." This #NAW2025, we asked apprentices from OxfordshireAdvancedSkills how they're gaining #SkillsForLife in science & tech roles. Apprentices are vital for businesses & driving innovation.show more

Stablecoin regulation has arrived, and here’s why it matters... for merchants: After years of uncertainty, stablecoins are now supported by clear regulations in the US, EU, and UK. They are no longer seen as just a speculative technology. They are now a practical, regulated option for payments. For merchants, this opens the door to faster settlements, lower costs, improved cash flow, and a smoother checkout experience. With regulatory clarity in place, businesses can adopt stablecoins without hesitation. The opportunity is real. The path is clear. Now, it’s all about execution. Read the full blog:show more

Excel just got a lot less terrifying. Grok for... Excel is now live, powered by Grok 4.5. That means you can drop Grok straight into the spreadsheet and ask it to explain trends, build formulas, generate charts, and run scenarios without pretending you enjoy wrestling with cells for sport. Financial models. Market data. Revenue forecasts. Cash flow stress tests. Basically, the spreadsheet is still a spreadsheet. It just finally has someone smart sitting inside it. Grok xAI / Writer: Annette, Designer: Jannéshow more

🚨While DC elites like Leader Thune brag about "rooting... out waste, fraud, and abuse" with their tax cut bill, our hard-earned dollars are STILL flowing to the Taliban! $40 MILLION a week! Cash flown in, auctioned off, straight into terrorist hands. 🚨This is why we despise the swamp!show more

> Signed up for Consulting(.)com as a teenager >... Went to one mastermind >Didn’t completely align with the advice they were giving > They spent years trying to turn info into something they could sell > I just kept focusing on being profitable and innovating > Eventually bought their entire business > The domain, all the IP, the email list, ten years of testimonials, everything > Turns out I was right that info businesses are only cash flow businesses > They were never meant to be sold > I bought my old school because I learned a lesson they couldn’tshow more

This was Hamas’s own PR: an 8-year-old hostage begging... for her life. But they still won the PR battle, with the full support of Western media. If you are wondering why that is, you don’t know much about Jew-hate.show more

We are going to 10-20x from these prices I... bet my entire life, 10yrs worth of research & entire net worth on this moment I’m warning you that life changing wealth is about to come The market isn’t dead, people are just impatient. Wealth flows from the impatient to the patient. Understand that, and you beat 95% of investors. You all deserve what’s about to happen. I’ll share the alts I’m buying. If you still haven’t followed me, you’ll regret it.show more

🚨 While British families are struggling to afford basics,... illegal migrants are turning shoplifting into a social media flex. Look at this absolute haul - mountains of stolen detergent, toiletries, and groceries dumped on the floor like it’s some victory lap. Zero shame, zero consequences. Retail theft is exploding, police are stretched thin and prioritised elsewhere, and the public foots the bill. This isn’t “asylum seekers” - this is an invasion that’s bankrupting shops, hiking prices for everyone else, and mocking our broken system. How many more videos like this before we admit the truth? MILLIONS MUST GO. 🇬🇧show more

The average U.S. home is $400k. • You put... $80k down • Mortgage = $2k/month • Rent it out for $2.6k/month You’re left with ~$400/month after property taxes & maintenance. It would take over 15 years to get your initial investment back. Now let’s look at the Laundromat: • Purchase price: $799,000 • Down payment: $79,000 • SBA loan: $719,100 • Monthly Cash Flow: $18,833 • Monthly loan payment: ~$9,100 You’re left with $9,733/month. That’s 24x the cash flow from the same money. & you don’t have to work in the laundromat at all because there’s a cleaning team in place, and the rest of the time it’s not staffed. So what do you actually do? 1. Weekly check-ins 2. Track key metrics (revenue, profit) 3. Improve the services you offer (optional) You could run it in 1-3 hours/week. We’ve been conditioned to believe that real estate is automatically a safe investment. & if your goal is to build wealth slowly over 30 years, it is. But if your goal is $5,000+ per month cash flow without waiting 30 years? You need to start looking at buying businesses. I own 8 right now, and they paid me $900k last year. I only worked 20 hours/week running this portfolio. If you want to learn exactly how to find & acquire your first business for little to $0 down… DM me “Biz” and I’ll show you how.show more

THIS IS WHY YOU WILL LOSE MONEY IN THE... STOCK MARKET CHASING HYPE! $IONQ, $RGTI, $LAES, $BTW , $OKLO , $JOBY , $META Peter Lynch – one of the greatest investors of all time – sums it up perfectly: - "Stocks are not lottery tickets" - "There is a company behind every stock, if the company does well the stock does well...it's not that complicated" - "People get carried away and first of all they try and predict the stock market, that is a total waste of time, no one can predict the stock market" This advice is timeless. Unfortunately, many new investors are jumping into hype sectors and stocks like Quantum ( $ionq, $rgti, $laes, $btq), Nuclear (e.g., $oklo), and flying cars (e.g., $joby). Some of these bubble stocks are up 4,000% in the last 12 months even though they are not profitable, some have zero revenue, yet they are valued at billions of dollars. Keep your investing strategy simple. Don’t chase hype - look for profitable, growing companies that are actually doing well. That’s why I like $META - it’s a cash cow and it keeps compounding. Unfortunately, a lot of beginners get sucked into these bubbles and buy at the top, right as the algo's and hedge funds are exiting - joining the feeding frenzy for quick profits. Retail investors end up holding the bag as reality hits. We’ve already seen it in the past month alone - many of these companies have crashed 50–60%, with potentially much deeper drawdowns. DON'T CHASE HYPE. STOCKS ARE NOT LOTTERY TICKETS. CHASE WELL-RUN COMPANIES. KEEP IT SIMPLE!show more

This is an 80,000-tonne hydraulic forging press from China’s... Northern Heavy Industries, one of the largest metal-forming machines ever built. But it is not simply a machine that bends metal like traditional presses do. At this scale, forging is about changing the internal structure of the material itself, compressing the metal, refining its molecular grain flow and eliminating hidden defects that could cause failure decades later. Machines like this are used to create some of the most critical components on Earth, aircraft landing gear, titanium aerospace structures, nuclear reactor components, massive gas turbine rotors and ship propulsion shafts. The metals being forged are among the most advanced engineering materials available, ultra-high-strength steels, titanium alloys and nickel-based superalloys designed to survive extreme temperatures, pressure and millions of fatigue cycles. An 80,000-tonne press is an industrial ecosystem by itself. The press, hydraulic systems, furnaces, manipulators and supporting infrastructure can require hundreds of millions of dollars in investment, with hydraulic systems requiring tens of megawatts of power to control forces equivalent to thousands of tonnes. The biggest industrial machines often do not make the final products. They make the materials that make those products possible.show more

Almost every brand I’ve talked to has asked me... about showing up in LLM answers. Here’s what matters most: 1. Mentions → Does AI actually bring up your brand? 2. Sentiment → When it does… is it positive or negative? 3. Citations → Are you being referenced as a source? You can win in traffic and still lose here. So what actually moves this? 1. Visibility across AI platforms (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, etc.) 2. Site structure that machines can understand (not just humans) 3. Content designed to answer questions (not just rank for keywords) 4. Trust signals across the internet (reviews, mentions, third-party validation) We’re early, but the data is already clear. AI-attributed commerce is growing fast, and this is only going to compound. You can treat this like SEO in 2012. Or you can get ahead of it now. We put everything we’re seeing into an AI visibility playbook for ecommerce brands. Worth a read if you care about how customers will find you next.show more

🔥MSTR VS. THE MAGNIFICENT 7🔥 Strategy will be the... most valuable company in the world. Latest cash cushions (USD billions): Microsoft: $102.0 B Alphabet: $98.5 B Amazon: $94.2 B Nvidia: $60.6 B Apple: $54.7 B Meta: $44.4 B Tesla: $41.6 B Strategy BTC reserve: $62.5 B Strategy’s stack of Bitcoin now tops the cash war-chests of Apple, Meta and Tesla, and sits between Nvidia and Amazon. Mag 7 cash looks big until you do the one math they’re allergic to. Purchasing power math: Cash is a melting ice cube at 6% inflation. Strategy’s reserve is an asset compounding at 30% (even if you haircut it, the spread matters). Real return spread = ~24% per year. That means Strategy’s war chest a GROWTH ENGINE. 20-year compression: Mag 7 cash sitting still loses ~70% of its purchasing power. (1 / 1.06^20 ≈ 0.31) Strategy’s reserve in REAL terms GROWS BY 50x. ( (1.30 / 1.06)^20 ≈ 50 ) Microsoft can have $100B cash, fine. In two decades, that’s the buying power of $31B in today’s dollars. Strategy’s $62.5B turns into ~$3.1T in today’s dollars, assuming the spread holds. And that’s before the real unfair advantage kicks in: Cash can’t be rehypothecated into an empire without political, regulatory, and shareholder limits. A compounding reserve can be used as collateral, capital formation, refinancing, acquisition currency, and liquidity backstop, without shrinking the core reserve. Will the Mag 7 continue to add cash to fight the decay? Absolutely. But Strategy will, more importantly, continue to add Bitcoin to outrun the monetary death spiral. Mag 7 is “operating cash.” Strategy is “strategic collateral.” When your treasury compounds faster than your competitors’ revenues, you stop competing with companies, you start competing with sovereign balance sheets. The Mag 7 doesn’t stand a chance because they’re playing defense with melting dollars while Strategy is playing offense with compounding capital.show more

🚨 THE BIGGEST AI BUBBLE IN HISTORY MAY BE... PEAKING RIGHT NOW. SpaceX. OpenAI. Anthropic. Trillions in valuation. Hundreds of billions about to hit public markets. And almost nobody understands how dangerous this setup could become. Because this is exactly how late-stage bubbles behave: massive narratives, record valuations, and investors convincing themselves growth will last forever. The scary part? Most of these companies are still burning insane amounts of cash while markets price them like perfection is guaranteed. 2000 felt unstoppable too. Until liquidity disappeared and the entire Nasdaq collapsed.show more

If you import anything into the United States and... your records are public, you are basically leaving your playbook on the table. Because people like me will look. We will pull your shipment history. We will see where you are buying from. How many containers you move. Who your suppliers are. Then we will copy the entire strategy without you noticing. This is why you should request manifest confidentiality with CBP. CBP lets importers request confidential treatment of vessel manifest data so your name and address do not show up in public datasets. Once approved, it lasts two years and you have to renew it. CBP also has an online application portal to submit and manage the request. Do not wait until you get copied. If you are building a real import advantage, protect it the same way you protect a customer list. Do not hate the player. Protect your data.show more