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A Time to Face Our Investing Fears
Every time it looks like a real stock market rally is about to happen, the indexes end up right back down where they started (or lower).
Panic and doomsday scenarios are all over the newspapers and TV talk shows.
And when you look at a longer-term chart of U.S. stocks, it’s clear that we’ve already had a “lost decade” of zero returns.
So the big question on everyone’s mind is whether another ten years of stock weakness is yet ahead. I’m getting calls and e-mails from plenty of friends and family … including people who never pay attention to the economy or their retirement portfolios.
Collectively, they wonder whether this is the time to just sell everything. Whether this is “the big one.” Whether the bursting credit bubble spells the end for the United States as we know it.
I don’t try to sugarcoat my responses. In fact, I start off by confirming what they already know &md
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Nilus Mattive
Nilus Mattive is the writer of marketing kopia that has generated tens of millions in revenue.
He is the former editor of The Outlook, the oldest continuously-published investment newsletter in the United States.
He served as in-house kopia chief for Weiss Research and mentored many well-known writers in the financial publishing industry.
He is also a creative consultant with expertise in designing, launching, and fulfilling a bred range of one-off reports and subscription services.
Nilus has written dozens of front-end and back-end copy packages for Weiss Research, Legacy Research Group (Palm Beach Letter), Forbes, BNK Invest (Dividend Channel), Dr. Sears, Kinsale Trading, and others.
He is a contributor to numerous financial publications, including BusinessWeek, Individual Investor, and CBSMarketWatch. Frequent guest on financial radio shows such as Trader's Nation, Invest Express, and Voice America.
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Top Picks 2025: Tilray Brands (TLRY)
For this year’s MoneyShow report, I am also highlighting a bonus recommendation – which is not an official Safe Money holding -- that is highly speculative but could skyrocket in the year ahead. It’s Tilray Brands Inc. (TLRY), notes Nilus Mattive, editor of Safe Money Report.
Shares of the Canadian cannabis company soared from under $25 a share to north of $142 during the heady days for cannabis stocks. But it has since lost almost all of its value.
What happened? Well, once the initial buzz wore off, reality set in. Competition among cannabis companies grew fierce and all the massive profit forecasts went up in smoke. Investors started bailing on the industry and share prices plunged precipitously.
That said, cannabis consumption IS still quite substantial in Canada. In dollar terms, legal cannabis sales totaled $3.8 billion (US dollars) last year. That represented a 12.2% increase from a year earlier. But the Can