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Pelosi Made 178% While Your 401(k) Crashed

Nancy Pelosi: Up 178% on TEM options
Marjorie Taylor Greene: Up 134% on PLTR
Cleo Fields: Up 138% on IREN

Meanwhile, retail investors got crushed on CNBC's "expert" picks.

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The Path of Progress: How to Catch It Early

Supply Constraints & Early-Mover Advantage

Why early investment in tight-supply markets can deliver outsized returns.

Real estate rewards people who arrive early and punishes those who show up after the balloons and banners. Every hot market in history has followed the same plotline: a handful of investors recognize the shift, slip in quietly, and make a fortune. Everyone else hears about it on the news, rushes in, and wonders why the numbers don’t “work” anymore. It’s the economic version of arriving at a party when the good snacks are already gone.

So let’s talk about spotting the next hot market before it’s labeled the next hot market.

There are two categories of clues: micro signals (local), and macro signals (regional/national). When both line up, you get the kind of early-mover opportunity that delivers outsized returns with far less drama than trying to pick bargains after the stampede.

Micro Signals: The Local Path of Progress

For years, my favorite leading indicator was simple:

“Watch where Starbucks is building.”

They have research budgets that make mine look like a lemonade stand. When they planted a store somewhere, it was because they saw growth, disposable income, traffic, and long-term stability. All I had to do was buy near the green siren and wait.

But lately… well… Starbucks is not quite the flawless oracle it used to be. So I’m on the hunt for the next reliable corporate cartographer. If you have a company with brilliant site selection, deep demographic analysis, and a knack for avoiding bad neighborhoods, please apply within. Ideally someone with fewer union issues and a cleaner balance sheet.

Until then, micro indicators still matter, including:

• New grocery stores (especially Publix, Whole Foods, Wegmans)

• Expanding medical centers

• Improved highways / interchanges

• New high schools (cities don’t build those for fun)

• Rising rents BEFORE rising prices

• Developers quietly assembling land

These don’t require mystical forecasting abilities—just the ability to observe the physical world with the attention of someone who has read a little too much Marcus Aurelius.

Macro Signals: The Regional Herd Migration

People vote with their feet long before economists publish reports about it. Right now, the macro trends are loud enough to wake Cicero:

• New Yorkers are leaving.

• Californians are leaving.

• Seattleites are thinking very seriously about leaving.

Where do people go when they’ve had enough of high tax rates, high housing costs, or high levels of legislative whimsy?

• Florida

• Connecticut

• Tennessee

• The Carolinas

• Texas (Austin is still a darling, even if it’s getting pricey)

• Idaho (Boise remains a quiet winner)

• Utah (Salt Lake and its orbit)

These migration flows create tight supply, which creates price pressure, which creates equity growth, which—if you timed it right—creates outcomes your accountant will describe as “unusual.”

The Sweet Spot: Just Behind the Bleeding Edge

No investor should try to be on the absolute front line. That’s where the bleeding edge lives—where the risk is highest, the data scarcest, and the pioneers sometimes end up with arrows in unfortunate places.

You want to be:

• behind the speculators,

• ahead of the masses,

• and early enough that the fundamentals still make sense.

Then—this part is crucial—you stay alert for the early signs that a market is cooling, plateauing, or beginning its decline. If you’ve been in real estate long enough, you develop a sixth sense for this. And if you haven’t, borrow mine:

When the local news starts running nightly “boomtown” features, you’re getting close to the exit ramp.

Supply constraints can be a gift. Early-mover advantage can be a windfall.

But timing—not perfection—is the real trick.

Better to arrive a little early than too late. The snacks, after all, go quickly.

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