MoneyMasters Podcast 🎙️12/11/25: Hard Assets vs. Financial – McDonald on What Leads in ‘26

Mike Larson | Editor-in-Chief

Recorded LIVE at the 2025 MoneyShow Masters Symposium in Sarasota, this episode features Larry McDonald, bestselling author and founder of The Bear Traps Report. We sat down for a high-impact breakdown of the macro forces that could define 2026 – and what investors should DO in response!

Larry explains why falling rates, aggressive fiscal spending, and the energy demands of the AI boom are setting the stage for a major rotation into hard assets. He also pulls back the curtain on the risks building inside the $1.8 trillion private credit market and how financial repression is steering banks deeper into Treasuries.

It’s fast, punchy, and packed with insight for anyone positioning their portfolio for the year ahead.

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Will Fed Rate Cut Afterglow Offset Oracle AI Spending Worries?

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by ANOTHER 25 basis points yesterday…but there was dissension in the voter ranks. That could signal a slower pace of interest rate cuts in 2026.

Meanwhile, Oracle Corp. (ORCL) reported a massive Capex bill in the most recent quarter — raising questions about whether enormous AI spending NOW will deliver big AI profits LATER. Get my thoughts on how it’ll all shake out for investors in this MoneyShow Market Minute video update. 

• Fed: What Stood Out to Me About Yesterday's Policy Meeting
  👉️ TICKERS: TLT, SPY
  With not much to go by hard-data-wise in the initial paragraph on the economy, the Fed repeated that “economic activity has been expanding at a moderate pace.” Bottom line: While we knew exactly what the Federal Reserve was going to do (cut rates by 25 basis points) because John Williams told us recently, it still is a very tricky time for the Fed in balancing their two mandates, notes Peter Boockvar, editor of The Boock Report.

• SPX: Why 2026 Could be Much BETTER Than Investors Think
  👉️ TICKERS: NVDA, SPX
  Contrarians love to talk about buying when there’s blood in the streets. But the most profitable opportunities often emerge not when the world collapses, but when investors are simply exhausted. Here’s a five-part framework to capture that edge, writes Nicholas Vardy, editor of The Global Guru.

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