Ray Blanco:

The Company Spending Millions To Build an Underwater Human Settlement

Humanity (or at least an eclectic subset of it) has been obsessed with exploring the deep seas for hundreds of years. Now, one company, named Deep, is taking that interest to an extreme. With the deep financial backing of an anonymous investor, the company is working towards creating a “permanent human settlement” under the sea.

It plans to create specially designed, house-sized submersibles they call “sentinels.” Equipped with multiple bedrooms and a communal area, these mobile research stations could one-day house residents at 80 meters below the ocean’s surface.

Living underwater requires some psychological adjustments, though. And the longest anyone has ever spent continuously underwater is 100 days, so it’s still unclear what if any physiological damage would occur to residents in deep-sea environments for several years at a time.

Despite the challenges, private companies and nation-states alike are racing to build new habitats for humans in a place once considered unlivable — from ocean beds to alien worlds.

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Enrique Abeyta:

A Trump “Trade War” Truth for You

One of the most perplexing aspects of this new administration and the media’s response to it is how surprised they are when Trump does what he said he was going to do.

Over and over, Trump has acted in a very predictable fashion. He comes out firing with statements about massive changes he is going to make politically or economically. Every time, however, he then uses the “threat” of his big changes to exact some sort of value in exchange for toning them down.

His actions this past week have me thinking about his method and its impact on the markets. What happens if Trump wins? If he goes out and threatens tariffs and other actions against our largest trading and economic partners and extracts benefits for our economy?

If that happens, I think the stock market goes higher — potentially a LOT higher. Not only would we reap the benefits of the value extracted, but we would also remove the “risk” of the apocalypse that is being fed to us all by the media and the “smart” money.

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Greg Guenthner and Enrique Abeyta:

Top Trades of February

The S&P 500 was down going into the year but now it has returned to levels we were at on December 1st. Meanwhile, there's all sorts of panic in the news about DeepSeek and tariffs, yet we're just kind of churning along and prices are showing a natural consolidation phase.

Let's dig into these market overreactions. For one, DeepSeek's AI claims made earlier this week have largely been debunked. And as for Trump's tariffs? He's just getting started – but he's picking his battles and has plenty of leverage as ammunition.

When irrational fear flares in a strong market, Enrique feasts on stocks that have dropped out of nowhere, ripe for the grabbing. You should be joining in with him.

Pay attention to the charts, not the media noise. Because price, not a headline, equals truth… and that's what's playing out.

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