Investor's Edge with Gary Kaltbaum - The big slush fund [02.04.2025]

Episode Date: February 4, 2025

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Investor's Edge with Gary Coltbaum. Straight talk about you and your money. Now from the BizTalk Studios, here is Gary Cultbaum. And welcome once again to Investors Edge. I'm Gary Colpom, your host. A thanks of being with us today. Glad you hear, ladies and gentlemen, happy that you are listening. It is Tuesday, February 4, 2025.

Hope you having a good day. In case you don't know, this is serious talk on everything that affects you. That's what we do. We'll do the markets, the economy. your job, your industry. Washington, D.C., the past administration, this administration, their proposals, their moves, are they going to affect us in a good way or a bad way? We covered it all without any agenda, ulterior motive, or bias.

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We have the Trump moment every day because boy, oh boy, I don't think the man sleeps. And we're going to tell you what we think is good. We're going to tell you what we think is not so good. We're going to tell you what we think is fantastic. And I must tell you how many times on this show throughout the years we have stated, we hope somebody shows up that looks through. what government is doing and make them accountable for where our tax dollars are going. He's doing it.

They are doing it. Everything I ask for, they are doing it. And you know how you know? Do you know how you know they're doing a good job already? Because the culprits are crapping in their pants and suing them. Forget this. just going into the checkbook and seeing where our tax dollars are going. We love that.

So in today's Trump moment, let's spend a few moments on what they are finding. And it's unbelievable, ladies and gentlemen. And we love simplifying things. And by the way, we'll do the markets, I promise. We love simplifying things. We've got a lot of compliments on simplifying things. Like if they spend $10 million on the green horned frog in outer Mongolia and their sex habits, we tell you, look at your community and how's the homeless shelter?

Can you do better there if they had more money? And what if they took that $10 million and just helped out your community? Maybe the sidewalks and the streets and the roads and the bridges need some help. Maybe there's some young kids that don't have enough food. Maybe there's some poor kids in school that need lunches or the elderly. No, 3.7 billion. And I was hoping I was making this up. 3.7 billion of our tax dollars have gone to the Taliban.

You know, those wonderful human beings? You know those wonderful human beings, right? The Taliban, who Joe Biden left to do as they want in Afghanistan, and they have now sent the women back to the dark ages. And the media, of course, never covered it because it was Joe Biden. How about $3.4 billion to the Houthis? Do you know who they are? They're attacking us.

Yeah, that's good. How about the PLO? Two billion. That's a total of 9.1 billion. So you all in your communities, you all in your communities, what do you think? Could you have used some of that, just 9.1 billion. You see, the problem is they have turned the number 10 billion into a freaking footnote. That's how much money they've spent.

and abused us. The Taliban got 3.7 billion of our dollars. You think I'm done? We're going to be doing this every day. Every single day. You remember Pakistan which harbid Osama bin Laden, right? They got 600 million of our dollars for a public works project in a place called Seed.

Don't worry about our public works. Let's send it 600 million. million. Pakistan. Do they just hate us? Do they hate us? They sent eight billion to Syria. Yemen. These are Iranian puppet regimes. Only eight billion. I don't even know what to say. When I repeat this to you, but we're going to be covering it every single day as the numbers come out. like the $2 million for Moroccan pottery classes. But that's only $2 million. Do you know what some dolt on TV said yesterday?

It's just a small amount. You know what I would say to her? It was a her. Actually, I can't say that. I take it back. How about $2 million we sent to Lebanon to promote tourism? I think I mentioned yesterday, $20 million for a Sesame Street show in Iraq. Amazing.

It's freaking amazing. And we'll cover every day. What else in Trump land today? Well, I don't know if they're going to be able to, but they're looking to shut down the education of department and do better things. I have no clue if that's the right thing or not, but what have I been complaining to you for ages about? How is it that I have a choice to go to a Chevy dealership to buy a car or an infinity dealership?

I have a choice for my sons what doctor to use. But I don't have a choice for my sons if their school sucks. I'm locked in unless I take out the big buck and put them in private school. They're talking about that. And there's these vouchers already that are out there for certain places. And no, I'm not one that puts down schools as a whole. But if you look at our numbers on reading and math for our kids, wow, there needs to be a ton of improvement.

And every time I see the head of the union of the teachers on TV, she's never talking about the kids. She's always talking about how Republicans suck. So I'm glad they're addressing that. And who else have I complained about the United Nations, that anti-Semitic, anti-Jews suckfest? that allows the worst of the worst on their women's rights commissions and their human rights commissions and all kinds of stupid commissions. Who do they have on there? Like Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela, that the guy lost the election.

He's supposed to be out of power. And no, he kidnapped everybody and the military took over. They're withdrawing from a bunch of the UN things. And you know what that means? The UN ain't getting our money. And what I loved what Trump said today, the UN could be doing such magnificent, wonderful things, but look what they're doing. How do you have these dictators, these slime balls on these human rights commissions? By the way, go look it up. You would think I was lying to you.

When I tell you, the worst of the worst are on their commissions, and I believe one of them is running it. I love that. I'm complimenting Trump a lot right now. And by the way, the way he's done some things, I'm not exactly thrilled. But I have to tell you, I can't ask for much more when they're stripping the noise out of how much they're wasting our tax dollars. And we'll see what else is to come. Up next, the market raft, whatever else. I'm Gary.

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that others have not done before. Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology? There will come a point when it will mature. Right? Yeah. My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far are we from that point with Quantum? By 2029, we'll build the first fault-tolerant quantum computer.

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You're listening to. Hey, this promises to be fun. Investors Edge. The last bastion of quality programming. With Gary Coltbaum. It doesn't get better than this. And welcome once again to Investors Edge. And just do not forget, we have called out Trump on the things we don't like.

But wow. And Elon Musk has been coming out and saying, we think easily we're going to be able to knock out a trillion. Why? Because they made it easy for us. There's so much crap out there, so much waste, so much corruption, so much bull crap, that it's easy. And remember what we really do believe.

We think that some of these government organizations doled out crap loads of money to what we call buddies that donated back a lot of that money for elections. In other words, legalized

corruption. And the Democrats are having a fit about this thing called USAIDs that basically doles out, they're the ones doling out all this, and USA don't want anybody looking at where the money's got. Remember,

It ain't their money. It's our money. And we are finding out, holy moly, these people had to be sitting in a boardroom and saying, how can we do this and make sure nobody knows about it? That's what they had have been saying to themselves. I'd be embarrassed. And I believe there's going to be a hell of a lot more to come

in the days and weeks ahead, and we will report on every single one of them. By the way, we're also finding, get this, roughly $15 billion a year, is being spent on maintenance and utilities of U.S. government buildings, both here and abroad, that we're never using. Which begs the question, why haven't they got some sort of real estate genius to take a good look at all this and say, well, wait a minute, we don't need that building.

Let's sell it off and return that money to the taxpayer. Oh, that's right. That's what they're going to do now. Logic. Remember, I call myself Mr. Logic for a reason, and finally we may have some logical people running the joint when it comes to our tax dollars. And we'll let you know. We'll gladly let you know if they do good. We'll let you know if they don't do so good.

But so far right now, dang. And I repeat, the problem. bad people have made it easy. The wasteful have made it easy. Fifteen billion. Man, is this sucker going to be adding up? Okay. I'd rather do it this way if you don't mind. For the week, for the week, the NASDAQ's up 26 points. For the week. For the week, for the week the Dow is up 11 points

for the week the S&P 500 is down two points for the week and of course we had a rough day yesterday but definitely off the lows and we had a good day today

and I can I always look on a good day at one place first The 10-year yield was down, the 4.513, and the dollar was down. And there has been a pretty darn good correlation with a weak dollar and lower yields, and markets go in higher. You can go look up why. So we had a good day today.

What happens tomorrow beats the heck out of me, as I always say. But good day. even led today by some weak big cap mega cap names that have such big influence on the markets. Apple, which has been weak, finished up today $4.80. And by the way, it doesn't sound like a lot, but for an Apple, it's a lot. Netflix was up 13 today. Costco was up 14. That's top 10.

Tesla was up six. I'd like to say Google was up, but Google reported earnings and is down $14 in the aftermarket to $192. Was up five on the day before earnings. But of course, that can change because as you know, you have conference calls and this and that.

But the initial reaction actually was down about 17. I have it down about 14 in the end. aftermarket right now. I believe there's a few others of note on earnings. I will report to you and we'll let you know, but that is the big one as of this juncture. Oh, AMD's up a couple of bucks, but that stock is crashed. Chipotle is actually down. Every time I go to Chipotle, they're packed. and that was down a couple of bucks. Cirrus Logic, that's up $10. That's been a weak semiconductor name,

so that'll have a better day in the morning. Yeah, that's been weak. And there'll be a few more the rest of this week that will report to you on. But I do also have to mention you had some pretty darn good moves overnight today. Palantir up 19 to 103, Ferrari up 30 to 459, and Spotify who missed their earnings number was up 72 bucks to 621.

And by the way, I screwed up that stock so bad I can't even begin to tell you. I hate me sometimes. Not all the times, but whenever I screw up a stock, I didn't lose money, but I didn't lose money. screwed up the stock. Spotify. Good move, but by the way, interesting. Decelerating sales and they miss numbers, but I guess something they said, the market liked. Spotify. Also of note today, overnight, China was better, even though the tariffs are still on between them. Oil stocks bounced after a couple of weeks are just getting trashed. And you had little bounces in the housing today and

some of the financials and software names pretty decent. I just liked. I'll tell you what I liked. The market shrugged off last Monday and yesterday. We'll see if that continues. Up next, more on the markets, much more. This is the one only investors edge. Hello, I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of Smart Talks with IBM.

I recently spoke with IBM's new director of research, Jake Embatta. We discussed his vision for the future of quantum computing. At IBM research, what we always do is answer what is the future of computing, whether it's coming up with new algorithms, coming up with better AI, coming up with quantum, or coming up with just how do different accelerators go together. It's our DNA to answer the question of what is the future. Isn't it a perfect problem for IBM because you kind of need to have a legacy? of building stuff, building actual physical machines.

Yeah, it's why I came to IBM. I wanted the experience, the culture of building hard things that others have not done before. Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology? There will come a point when it will mature. Right? My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far are we from that point with contact?

By 2029, we'll build the first fault-tolerant quantum computer. That is one that can run a very, very large, large problem. To learn how IBM is building the future of computing, visit IBM.com slash quantum. Amazon Hub Delivery wants to partner with your business. Help your business. Help your neighbors. Discover a new stream of income for your business when you partner with Amazon Hub delivery. You and your team will deliver Amazon packages to customers in your neighborhood, on a schedule that works for you, and you'll be paid for every package you deliver.

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And welcome once again to Investor's Edge. Thanks for joining. Always a pleasure of being here. Just remember again, and I mean this big time. We do everything without an agenda, alternative or a bias. It's all based on what we think is good policy to enable this country to go forward. And as I said to you, and I pulled no punches, we could not. continue with the trajectory of the last administration that was determined to bankrupt the living

crap out of us while doing favors for the favored and blowing us off. Talking down wealth and success, not fighting crime, never mentioning it, and their foreign policy, I got to tell you, I'd beat at the game of risk in five minutes. And the tax part. She, anything that moves, she was ready to raise taxes on. And we did not know what

we were going to get. With Trump, you never know. And still there's, you know, I'm not thrilled with certain things. But on the big stuff, if they follow through on the debt, the debt, the deficits, the onerous regulations,

the fighting of crime, and the border, which is down 93% in crossings in the last week I'm hearing. And then streamline the immigration process. We want people to come in. We want, we're a nation of immigrants. it's got to be controlled

and you cannot continue to shoot that certain finger at people that came here legally and I want you to know the past administration could have done all of this look how quickly this was done and there's still more work to be done but when you disincentivize it ain't coming so quickly

but when you put up a sign hey come here here and we're going to treat you better than Americans. Of course they're going to come here. And that is all. We move on. So I said to you, I'm a big believer in taking a couple of steps back and looking at markets. Just so you know, the major indices are just range bound. And when I say range bound, wickedly range bound.

And what I mean by that is we've had some. wild days. Starting with what day was when we dropped December 18th, the NASDAQ dropped, oh, 900 points that day? The Dow dropped, let's see, 4,300 points that day? It's been wicked. And we've had differing things come at us. And who knows what's next. But the Dow is above the 50 day. The S&P just got above it again today, but it's just range bound. And in case you don't know is done nothing since mid-November. And most people don't know this. The NASDAQ 100, everybody talks about NASDAQ 100 and how good and whatever.

The NASDAQ 100 is up like 3% in eight months. from the high in July. And that's coming off of we're 21,000 yesterday morning. We're 21566 now. But above the 50 day. If price can stay above the 50 day

moving average, good. Below, not so good. doesn't mean end of world below. It just doesn't help. And I have to tell you that normally I'm selling below. But I had recognized it's happened quite a number of times where the price has gone below that all important 50-day moving average for a few days and right back up. So I guessed it.

And we're back above it and we'll see what comes of it. If we can break out to all-time highs, you'll know it, I'll tell you, and could be meaningful. That said, I still think about 50% of the market looks like caca. So it's still narrow, but less narrow than the last go-round, because China's better. And a few other areas are better. It's just we are looking for major league uptrens. The transports aren't in an uptrend. By the way, the transports just dropped from 16-7 to 15-5, 15-8 in four days.

Did you see what FedEx did? Crumbled, 280 to 250 before you say boo. And UPS crashed also. So when I do my scans, there's less names to write down. but I have stronger highlights, highlighters on the names that are working, and easily and easy to decipher what ain't. The new yearly high list is still minimal,

but that's a little bit better. I find names today like Costco, snuck up, closed at a new yearly high today. You already know about, that Palantir which by the way I always get asked about this because it's trading a 230 billion of market cap with less than 3 billion of revenues just letting you know but the market don't care as of the second will it care one day we'll see make

that 236 billion with less than 3 billion of revenues Normally, that's high. A Starbucks, new yearly high, even though, well, they had a very good reaction to earnings that were down 23%. Revenues were flat, and comps, you know what comps are, same store sales, down 4%. But the new CEO said, we're on track. And I was just thinking to myself, wait a minute. You're on track with those numbers? Get out of here.

But what do I know? That hit New Yearly highs today. So that gapped up and so far is acting pretty decently off of that gap. Here's another one for your IBM. Gapped up and is still moving. On 1% earnings growth, 1% revenue growth. That sucks. but market doesn't care right now.

I never know why a stock is being paid up for in cases like this, but we are letting you know in those two cases, they are. And since I'm at Starbucks every day, I get a decent feel. Ain't that busy compared the way it used to be. So, go figure. Fargo, New Yearly High, Walmart, New Yearly High, Kroger, New Yearly Highs. Not bad. Up next, what else we got for you? We'll think of something. I'm Gary. This is the one only investors' edge. Hello, I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of Smart Talks with IBM. I recently spoke with IBM's new director of

research, Jake Embatta. We discussed his vision for the future of quantum computing. IBM research, what we always do is answer what is the future of computing, whether it's coming up with new algorithms, coming up with better AI, coming up with quantum, or coming up with just how do different accelerators go together. It's our DNA to answer the question of what is the future. Isn't it a perfect problem for IBM because you kind of need to have a legacy of building stuff? Yes. Building actual physical machines. Yeah, it's why I came to IBM. I wanted to.

the experience, the culture of building hard things that others have not done before. Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology? There will come a point when it will mature. Right? Yeah. My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far are we from that point with Conton? By 2029, we'll build the first fault-tolerant quantum computer.

That is one that can run a very, very large, large. problem. To learn how IBM is building the future of computing, visit IBM.com slash quantum. Want to earn extra income for your business? Amazon Hub delivery is looking for ambitious business owners to assist with local deliveries. When you become a partner, you and your staff will deliver packages to customers in your area on a schedule that works for you. With each package delivered, you'll gain extra income and exposure for your business. Plus, Amazon Hub delivery makes it easy to get started. There's no upfront costs, delivery experience, or long-term contracts required. Sign up to learn more at Amazon.com slash hub delivery.

That's Amazon.com slash HUB delivery. Hey, it's Ryan Sechrest for Albertsons and Safeway. It's stockup savings time now through March 31st. Spring in for store-wide deals and earn four times of points. Look for in-store tags to earn on eligible items from Celsius, Body Armor, Oiraida, Silk, Capri-Sun, Bavarian Meats, and Charmin. Then clip the offer in the app for automatic event-long savings. Stack up those rewards to save even more.

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In the Gester's Edge. With Gary Culpa. Uh, uh, um, A.MD is now down four bucks in the aftermarket instead of being up. and Google is down 14.5 bucks now

in the aftermarket and that's not going to help the NASDAQ 100 going into tomorrow typically. But I'm noticing I don't see any news yet. Broadcom closed at 222 and is it 232? I know

they didn't have earnings. So I wonder if AMD said something that helps Broadcom. know. I'm sure we shall find out. The Super Bowl is this weekend. I got Amazon down five bucks in the aftermarket also. The hell's with that? The Super Bowl is this Sunday. Do you know the cheapest ticket right now finally is under $4,000? Why would anybody go to the Super Bowl and pay $4,000 for the worst seat in the house? I couldn't do it. Anyway, as you know, I think we've lost three Super Bowl since the year 2000. We're pretty good with the

playoffs. And we didn't do the playoffs this year. But we told you, we would have been three and one in the division championships. I have to tell you, I love Philadelphia, getting up, what is it, like a point in a half. But I also have to tell you, I don't think I can bet it. And do you know why? They're playing Kansas City. And some teams just know how to win. They just win. I pick apart Philadelphia, and I'm like, okay, they got the quarterback that can run. Sequin Barkley, the best running back in the league. Their offensive line is amazing. And nobody's really talking about, they got A.J. Brown wide receiver and a good tight end. They can open this sucker up but good. But they're playing Kansas City. And the coach

knows how to put up schemes and stop things that other people can't. So I got to tell you, the only thing I'm going to be doing more than likely, and I'll let you know on Friday the official, the official thing, I think the over 48 and a half is good. And we had the over in both the division the division championships. I got to believe this one's going to go in the 50s, if not more. That's my thought. We'll see. For all I know, the score is 7.3.

Tough game. As I said, I love Philly against Washington. That to me was easy, easy to gauge. This one, I love Philly. I'm not so sure I can do it because KC again just wins games. And I believe it's for the third Super Bowl in a row, right? And that'd be the first time ever. And you know how tough it is to get to the Super Bowl?

That's some good stuff. And consider where my giants are. Okay. Back on. I didn't mention gold in another new high. It's extended overboard here, maybe a pullback here. The gold miners acting better. Few are actually new yearly highs, but a bunch of them are really still weak.

That's because the dollar's sinking pretty good right now for whatever reason. The tariffs as of this second are off with Mexico and Canada. They say 30 days. Who the hell knows what's next? China's going on right now. I don't know what's going to happen there. Certainly did not affect a thing today in the marketplace. And I'm not so worried about 10% tariffs, but if they get bigger, then you've got to be thinking about it.

I don't want you to believe a bunch of BS artists that I saw on TV today that say tariffs are great, and it would be great to get rid of the income tax and just pay everything on tariffs. if you want the world to go topsy-turvy, if you want the United States to, don't do it that way. If you want to change things up from the income tax, just a freaking flat tax with a charity write-off, a mortgage right-off, maybe a kid's right-off, and that's it. What is this? 70,000 pages of tax code and litigation. Why did they do that? Why do you think they did that? confuse the living hell out of us or is the accountant lobby that good? If I was president,

I'd be trying to take us to a flat tax with a few little write-offs and that's it. Have a nice day. Do you know what the cost to comply for taxes is? Like a bazillion dollars. I know the accountant lobby would not be happy. My accountant, I gather, would not be happy. I pay. I pay him some good bucks every year. I'm not so sure that gets off the ground. Gabbard, Kennedy, and Patel, all three will be voted in. I am not a Kennedy fan. Patel, I am hoping, walks back 900 things he has said the last couple of years about going after the enemy. Gabbert, I have not done enough homework on, but I read some not-so-good things and some good things, we'll see. I'm not a Kennedy fan. and just because Trump picks somebody, that doesn't mean they're good.

But if he is head of the HHS, I hope he does good things. We'll root them on, but I don't like BS artists. Aren't we tired of BS artists? I don't like him standing up saying, I never said vaccines are bad. And you can watch 400 videos of him saying vaccines are bad. That should come in the next day or two. And we'll cover it all as we move forward,

because all we want is them to set good policy and get out of the way. And let us do our thing. Let the great technology companies advance productivity gains. Let the great medical companies come out with unbelievable medical breakthroughs that save lives. Let our teachers teach our kids great. Let our police and firemen protect us and fire women. and get out of the way. That's all.

You'll have a great evening, drive carefully. When you get home to like we do, it's quite simple. Make sure you hug your family. Make sure you hug your children. They will feel better. You will feel better. I promise they will, be well, serenity now. Peace out all.

Good night. This has been Investors Edge with Gary Cult Bomb on BizTalk. To listen to past episodes or to get in contact with Gary, go to GaryK.com. That's GaryK.com. Amazon Hub Delivery wants to partner with your business. Help your business. Help your neighbors. Discover a new stream of income for your business when you partner with Amazon Hub

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