Patience pays off🐾Meow Motto

Good morning,

Brace yourselves(and your portfolios)…trade wars are officially on. Canada and Mexico get slapped with a 25%-er and China gets a deal with a 10%-er. Tariffs all around.

Analysts say “listen to value investor #1, Buffet”! Save a bunch of cash(to shop when the market is down and value stocks are on sale), invest in gold/gold funds, Japanese stocks, utility stocks and the necessities.

Crypto is still bleeding even after the bullish news of imminent US crypto reserve in the makings, but big expectations for the future are set(MicroStrategy’s CEO Michael Saylor projects $10B single bitcoin value and $200T market cap).

Ray Dalio, the billionaire founder of hedge-fund giant Bridgewater Assoc, warns that within 3 years the US could wake up to a full-blown debt crisis(if Trump 2.0 doesn’t curb deficit spending, that is).

So the markets are sizzling, you just have to study, assess and play accordingly.

*Last Updated: March 4, 2025 7:30 a.m. EST. For updated market info click HERE.

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Bitcoin nosedives 9%, wiping out most of the gains from Trump’s crypto reserve announcement. Tariffs planned to start today also unsettled both the stock market and the crypto market.

Also rumors are circulating that Trump is about to announce 0% capital gains on crypto. Talk about a tax break!!!

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Capital gains tax

Capital gains tax is due when an investment is sold(think stocks, bonds, crypto, NFTs…even jewelry, coin collections or real estate…pretty much anything and everything you could sell for profit).

Long-term gains are assessed on profits of investments held for more than a full year, while short-term gains are taxed when the investment was held for one year or less.

Short-term gains tax is usually at the rate of the person’s regular income tax(which is unfortunately higher than the tax on long-term gains!).

MARCH IPO STATS

(*initial public offering - when shares of a private corporations are offered to the public in a brand new market stock)

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📢If you’re looking for investing advice, don’t 👀 at me! 🐾 Meow Motto

🧶 DISCLAIMER: None of this is financial advice. This newsletter is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Please be careful and do your own research.