Episode 222

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11th May 2026

Fed Chair Drama, CPI Spin, and Mega-Caps at All-Time Highs (Audio)

The S&P 500 is up roughly 17% since April 1 and mega-caps are sitting at all-time highs — while South Florida gas clears $5 and diesel runs above $6. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley argue the gap between reported numbers and lived costs isn't noise; it's the whole story. Wednesday's CPI print carries a 3.7% year-over-year consensus, but both hosts question whether that figure has any real connection to what people pay at the pump, the grocery store, or the airport. The Fed chair conversation goes deeper than a personnel swap — Jerremy and Dave examine what the chair actually controls and whether administration pressure to cut rates is quietly hollowing out institutional independence. With Trump sitting down with China this week, they're expecting volatility and flag specific trades in data and AI names — IREN, WULF, INOD — plus GoDaddy and Tesla as a direct gas-cost hedge.

Timestamps:

  • (00:00) Fed chair swap incoming – what the administration wants and why it matters
  • (02:14) What the chair actually does – rate authority, independence, and real limits
  • (04:59) CPI at 3.7% – consensus print vs. what inflation actually feels like
  • (08:44) $5 gas, $6 diesel – South Florida prices and the consumer squeeze
  • (11:16) Trump meets China – market outlook heading into a volatile week
  • (12:24) Mega-caps at all-time highs – Apple, Google, Amazon, and the pullback case
  • (15:04) Disconnected from reality – when market charts and paychecks don't match
  • (18:20) Politics is your portfolio – China trade tension and what's already priced in
  • (19:42) Stock picks of the week – IREN, WULF, INOD, GoDaddy, Tesla as gas hedge
  • (23:46) Final read – what to watch before Wednesday's print drops

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Jerremy Newsome:

Ooh, Quasar Markets.

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It's Jerremy, I like to introduce him,

with Dave DC Conley, with the Solving

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America's Problems collaboration, uh,

where we are creating a cool intersection

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of finance, politics, money, what's going

on, what's present, what's happening.

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And do you have any data,

Dave, on new Fed chair stuff?

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Getting a new, new Fed

chair is happening today.

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Dave Conley: Any data, uh, any,

any data on, uh, datum, uh, datum

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on the, on the new Fed chair?

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No.

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not, not really.

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Uh,

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Jerremy Newsome: Yep.

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Dave Conley: so I, I, I know, you

know, this administration, like, went

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hard in the paint, uh, on, on Powell.

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Jerremy Newsome: Yep.

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Dave Conley: it was, it

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Jerremy Newsome: Yeah.

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Dave Conley: just like, you know, "Bend

to my will and lower rates," right?

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Like, this is a real estate guy,

and he wants low, low rates,

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and we've had the, have these...

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We've had, you know, low rates

for a quarter of a century, right?

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and, you know, the Fed, it seems like

that they did relatively amount of, you

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know, sort of independence and be like,

"Well, you know, we gotta raise rates, and

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now we're gonna do a pause, and now..."

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I mean, everything I've s- I've seen is

just like, look, you know, like you, you,

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uh, you jump oil by, by, you know, 40%,

and that's inflationary, and we got all

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this other stuff going on in the economy.

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So it's like now they're, they're

kind of like that emoji that's

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like the, you know, hands up in

the air and like, "We don't know."

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Jerremy Newsome: Yeah.

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Dave Conley: of as sort of, uh,

you know, like just bending to

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the will of the administration.

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They're not independent.

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The Fed's supposed to be independent

and yada, yada, yada, right?

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So the question is, is like, you know,

what are they gonna do once they get in?

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you know, I think some of Trump's,

uh, Supreme Court picks have surprised

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people in their independence, right?

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certainly right-leaning or, or,

you know, constitutionalist or

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corporatist more often than not.

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I think that's surprised

people somewhat pleasantly.

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But, like, when you put in a Fed chair...

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Frankly, I don't know

what a Fed chair does.

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Do they just like, you know, gavel

the meetings, uh, together, and like

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the other Fed, Fed people are like,

"Okay, this is what we're gonna do,"

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or do they have decision-making power?

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I don't know.

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What d- what does a Fed d- chair do?

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Jerremy Newsome: They just-- They,

they're the talking head for what

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the president tells them to do in

the back office, is my thought.

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You know?

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yeah, I, I, I do envision them sitting

down with like a, with like a small

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glass of neat brandy, and they got

some-- they got a bunch of like

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newspapers around, and people walk up...

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Their, their buddies come up to them,

and they kinda like just talk about the

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economy and the CPI numbers, and then they

just kinda throw darts at the board and

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so they flip, they flip a coin a bunch.

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Dave Conley: They...

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All the, all the libertarians

will scream like,

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Jerremy Newsome: Yeah.

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Dave Conley: end the Fed."

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Jerremy Newsome: Yeah, precisely.

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We've had, It, it's a very interesting

position, like the Fed chair,

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you know, if you think about it.

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It's really interesting.

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Like from example, like

who, who votes on them?

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How do they get in?

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Dave Conley: Yeah.

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Jerremy Newsome: long are they there for?

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What's their, what's their tenure?

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What's their background?

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Dave Conley: Yeah.

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Jerremy Newsome: your

point, what do they do?

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I mean, most people, most

people don't even know what the

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Fed is, uh, w- 'cause it's...

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Well, what's, what's interesting,

I mean, quick, super fast, I'm

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not gonna go down this tangent,

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Dave Conley: Mm.

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Jerremy Newsome: but it's not a federal

anything, and it's not a reserve.

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Dave Conley: So it has,

has neither reserves nor...

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But don't they, like, keep

things on their balance sheet?

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Like, they, they buy, like,

a lot of stuff and, like, so

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the-- But that's not the Fed.

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There's something else.

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I don't know.

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Jerremy Newsome: Yeah.

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A

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Dave Conley: Like,

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Jerremy Newsome: l- yeah.

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Dave Conley: do humans need to know?

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Like, what, what...

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Like, how does it affect our lives?

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Like, what happens?

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Jerremy Newsome: Yeah.

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Well, ultimately, it's, to me,

um, the, it, it will be a very

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interest rate dependent, right?

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And I've, I've been saying this for a

while, Trump's number one goal is to get

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interest rates lower and to buy more oil.

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Increase, increase the prices of real

estate, increase the price of the stock

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market, and decrease the, uh, the cost

of living, which hasn't happened yet.

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And obviously, uh, get more oil, you know,

'cause we need more, we need more of that.

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So those are the two big things that

Trump's goals are kind of focused on.

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I said two.

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two that haven't happened

yet specifically.

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But ultimately, I think, yeah, Fed chair

coming in is just interesting because

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people love to blame the Fed chair on

the stock market moving based on what

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they say, and so they're gonna have a

whole bunch of algorithms tied to that.

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And so I'm looking forward to the new

memes, 'cause, you know, Je- Jerome

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Powell had the meme for a long time, as

well as with all the other w- Fed chairs

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in the past of like printing the money

machine and just spinning, spinning the

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wheel of the printer, the, the magical

money printer in the US where, "Oh,

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we need more money to buy something?

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Yeah, yeah, just turn the printer on.

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Let's just make more of it.

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It's not a big deal.

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It's fine."

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So speaking of inflation, CPI

comes out Wednesday, I believe.

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Dave Conley: ooh.

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Jerremy Newsome: anticipated

results of that are...

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Or, uh, the expected number

is three and some change, 3.7%

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Dave Conley: Yeah.

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Jerremy Newsome: the

consensus year over year.

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Uh, and again, s- same thing, man.

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I'm always kind of like,

"What, what is this number?

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And w- what does it, what

does it actually mean?

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How does it actually affect me?"

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Dave Conley: Right.

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Jerremy Newsome: there was a very short

period of time in the markets where this

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number really, really mattered, and people

did s- pay all kinds of attention to it,

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Dave Conley: Mm-hmm.

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Jerremy Newsome: right now

they just really don't.

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but generally, generally this

number is supposed to mean

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like, how high is inflation?

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How does it feel?

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Uh, from an inflationary standpoint.

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And there was a time not that long

ago where this was in the six percent

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ti-- you know, six, seven percent.

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People were like, "Man,

inflation sure is high.

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We have so much inflation.

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Dave Conley: Mm-hmm.

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Jerremy Newsome: The cost

of goods are so high."

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I mean, this, this is the

consumer price index, right?

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So it's like, how much-- I am a consumer.

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What are the prices of

things that I spend on?

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And when it was at six percent, everyone

said, "Man, it sure feels a lot higher."

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And now that it's at three,

it's like, wait a minute.

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So, so prices of things have gone down?

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Although every time I

spend money, I spend more

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Dave Conley: Well,

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Jerremy Newsome: than ev-

than I have in the last decade

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on almost, almost anything?

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Dave Conley: e-e-everything.

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Well, well, inflation, inflation is

a cumulati-cumulative number, right?

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So like when it's, uh, you know,

like if it's 3% or it's 6%, and

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then like at the end of the day,

those are-- that's 18%, right?

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And like

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Jerremy Newsome: Yeah.

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Dave Conley: you know, like it, it has to

show negative for it to actually go down.

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And, uh, you know, just talking to, to

my, my buddy Joe and Julie, who were

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here for a couple of days, like they

were, they were kind of blown away.

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You know?

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Like they, they are feeling it, they

are seeing it, and like these are, these

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are not people that are like, you know,

uber, you know, connected into like

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what the sort of the ins and the outs.

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But they were, they were saying what,

what, you know, everyone that I'm

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talking to is saying is like, "Holy

smokes, things are really expensive,

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and gas is out of control," and,

you know, food and, you know, like

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there's, there's, there's nothing

that's, that's getting more reasonable.

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At least like you, you could have

maybe have counted on, you know,

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being able to get a, get a cheap TV.

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But, you know, even then, you

know, it's like, oh, how many

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TVs are you buying, right?

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Jerremy Newsome: Yeah.

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Dave Conley: or getting your

Teemo, uh, Temu, you know?

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You know,

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Jerremy Newsome: Yep.

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Dave Conley: to get, uh, you know,

something, something quite reasonable.

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And like I'm, you know, like I'm

feeling it in the areas where I'm,

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uh, you know, making, making some,

uh, some, some choice purchases.

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And it's like, I, I look at the

numbers, and it just seems out of--

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uh, completely disconnected from value.

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And that's, that's where,

where I'm running into it.

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And I can imagine people who are living

paycheck to paycheck or only have

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$500 or are like one, know, like one

broken, uh, uh, car, uh, you know, one

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car, uh, car, uh, you know, payment,

uh, away from, from like disaster.

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like that's, that's all the disposable

income that somebody might have.

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You know, like you and I are talking about

UBI in our next series, and that's, that's

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gonna be coming up with, um, you know,

like with, with all the different programs

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that, that we have in the United States.

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You know, like if we're driving

people into poverty, that's an issue.

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Like I-- It's totally

under-reported in the United States.

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You know, like I'm reading

what's going on in Europe.

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Like they had riots in

Ireland, like actual riots.

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You like that's, that's

no kidding, you know?

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And it was

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Jerremy Newsome: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Dave Conley: right?

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Jerremy Newsome: Yep.

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Dave Conley: you know, uh, here in South

Florida, you know, like, uh, I, I, I,

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I walked by, walked by a, uh, a, uh, a

gas station and like regular gas was,

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was, uh, you know, over $5 a gallon.

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Uh, diesel was over $6 a gallon.

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And, you know, everything that, that, that

uses diesel, which is basically everything

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that you, uh, you know, can consume in any

given day, from the food in your mouth to

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the power that's in your head, you know,

uh, over your, uh, head, uh, is, uh, is,

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is done with, with, uh, fuel like that.

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And, you know, like that's being

passed on directly to people,

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and end in sight on that.

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You know, like even if things like

magically popped up tomorrow, um,

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with, uh, "Hey, all's, all's good,"

know, these are really sticky

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markets, and so it's gonna be this,

this slow sort of drift, you know?

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You know, like will we see $60 a barrel

oil gas in our, in our lifetime again?

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I don't know.

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Jerremy Newsome: Yeah.

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I mean, that's actually a great,

that's actually a great question.

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Uh, will we?

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Uh, I would take the...

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I think I would take the under on that.

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Yeah, like we don't.

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Dave Conley: I, I, Right?

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Uh, I mean, I, I, I was looking at, you

know, getting some, um, plane tickets.

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It is, it is not...

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It's a, it's, you know...

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Like we are coming

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Jerremy Newsome: Bro, I

don't wanna fly anywhere.

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I don't wanna fly anywhere.

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Dave Conley: No.

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You know, it's like,

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Jerremy Newsome: And I have co- I have

two or three flights sched- yeah, two or

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three flights scheduled, uh, but they are.

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It is, it is price-zilla out there.

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It's, it's on the, on the expensive side.

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So...

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Dave Conley: I don't know what CPI

actually measures because it doesn't seem

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Jerremy Newsome: Yeah, precisely.

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No,

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Dave Conley: Like the

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Jerremy Newsome: some.

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Dave Conley: pain that people are feeling.

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Like, if it's like, oh, you know, cost of

this and cost of that, I'm like, "Oh, wow.

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I don't know, man."

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so, uh, it- it- that's what I, I

think, you know, like if our, if, if

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our listeners, um, and, and people are

watching us, you know, we, we say it on

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Tuesdays, I say it on Tuesdays, I say it

on Thursdays when we're, we're with Steve.

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You know, like, if you're not paying

attention to politics, you're not

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paying attention to your portfolio.

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And so, like, when you're

wondering, it's like, "Hey, how

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does these two things work?"

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you know, like, that's where the

rubber's gonna meet the road on things.

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Um, now you don't have to be like

completely like, like in it like I am,

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you know, like a that, that you'll need

like a sort of a, sort of a shower every

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day to kind of get the politics off you.

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but, uh, but you do need to pay

attention because it's the, it's

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the biggest, um, biggest employer

in the United States, and it's the

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biggest spender in the United States.

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And so that's, that's where, you

know, things really make a difference.

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And, you know, coming up this week also

is, is, uh, Trump meeting with China.

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Where do you think that's, uh...

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What, what do you think that's

gonna do to portfolios this week?

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Jerremy Newsome: This week

should be pretty volatile.

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I mean, there, there's a lot

going on, um, ironically enough.

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And, and realistically, if I pull up

a quick screen share of the market,

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ultimately what's happening is...

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And this, this does-- always occurs

at very unique times, but essentially

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with the, the market as high as it is,

so here's the broader S&P 500, right?

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All-time highs.

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Here's a crazy thing.

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If we go back to April 1st, AKA a month

and a half ago, we're up seventeen percent

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on, on the S&P 500, which was one of

the largest moves, uh, in human history.

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Just straight up V bottom recovery from

a very, very, very small down move.

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and so we actually need volatility

and turbulence up here just to

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have some level of actual normalcy

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Dave Conley: Yeah.

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Jerremy Newsome: And traders,

investors like myself are like,

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"We're too high to do anything."

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Dave Conley: Yeah.

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Jerremy Newsome: We actually need a

little bit of selling for just some,

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some form of like, okay, this is not an

actual bubble to come in so that people

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can actually have and taste some fear.

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Dave Conley: Mm-hmm.

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Hmm.

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Jerremy Newsome: and

you had great earnings.

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I mean, again, look at this, dude.

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Apple, a hundred and eleven

billion dollars in a quarter.

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And so this is, this-- I- in my opinion,

this-- Apple earnings are CPI because

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that- that's what people actually spend

money on is computers, iTunes, the Apple

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Store, iPads, iPhones, and they spent it.

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They spent it.

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And so f- looking at the chart, to me,

just kind of briefly, uh, we have a little

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bit of a wave structure that I would

expect Apple, if it does pull back to two

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eighty-seven, to be very, very buyable.

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And I've been telling people

since earnings that we'd hit

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three hundred before July.

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So I think that still

actually ends up happening.

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Really, really beautiful,

beautiful price action.

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general nice movement.

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Google, again, highest price

in human history as well.

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Dave Conley: Wow.

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Jerremy Newsome: called a very large

open gap right here that occurred

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on pretty stupendous earnings also.

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So if we just look at Google's earnings,

they did a hundred and nine billion.

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Look at their earnings per share.

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I mean, they just knocked it out

the park, so their earnings were

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sh- almost stronger than ever.

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Uh- Again, people are like, how?

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But these are the companies

that are spending a lot of

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money on marketing advertising.

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They need to get in front of new people.

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So Google, incredibly, incredibly strong.

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This gap, I would imagine, does

fill at some point this three-sixty

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price area on Google, but that to

me is extremely, extremely buyable.

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Uh, very, very strong trend.

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Kind of, kind of similar

to this one right here.

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Uh, although it wasn't earnings related,

it had that previous all-time high gap,

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and we traded back into that and then just

kind of continued to rip a little bit.

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So buy the dip is still, in my

personal opinion, in full force.

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Amazon, highest price in human history.

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Again, uh, had a really, really remarkable

move from two hundred, which it hit back

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on last earnings, into two seventy-two.

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So again, Apple up-- uh, sorry,

Amazon up thirty-five percent in

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the last two and a half months.

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Again, highest price ever, which is nice.

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That's gonna allow for a little bit of a

retracement to happen back into two sixty,

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and again, that would also be buyable.

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So again, looking at the largest names

on Earth, the biggest, biggest companies,

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although I didn't look at Nvidia,

it's the same, it's the same thing.

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It's like, well, the chart

says they're gonna go higher.

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So we, we gotta be, we gotta be bullish.

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I mean, we-- you can't make,

you can't make these new highs.

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I know, it's wild.

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It's, it's one of those,

like, why would it?

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But it, it will.

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Dave Conley: it is-- Look, it's

so disconnected from reality.

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and, and that's, you know, like the,

the markets don't seem to be pricing

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in, like, what's actually happening.

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Now, I get it.

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You know, like, there's,

there's money that's being...

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It's

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Jerremy Newsome: Uh-huh.

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Dave Conley: and we've, we've

talked about, like, it's

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Jerremy Newsome: Yeah,

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Dave Conley: you know, money's

going to Nvidia, and Nvidia

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Jerremy Newsome: yeah, yeah.

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Dave Conley: So the value

underneath it is, is kinda like, eh.

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And then it's like AI, and

we talk about an AI bubble.

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Well, it's bubblicious sort of

everywhere, and then underneath

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it, what is it actually creating?

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you know, like, the molecules have to

be drilled out of the ground, right?

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atoms have to be moving.

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high, high levels, you know, I don't,

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was it Cas-Cassandra about this?

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It was like, "Oh my God," you know?

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I was around in '99, um, you know,

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know, like, and what there is, when there

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like it is musical chairs at this point.

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look, be careful, guys.

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protection on the downside.

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underneath it, you know, it feels

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fundamentals underneath it are

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kind of like bonkers, right?

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Dave Conley: uh, you, know, you don't,

you don't really, you know, um, create,

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uh, uh, create expenses going through

the roof like this through, through oil

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and have it sit there for two months

and really having no end in sight.

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isn't an end to sight on this.

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It doesn't look like

anything's going to get better.

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get better today, it doesn't mean

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like, like floil, you know, oil

starts flowing out of the ground.

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Like there's a, there is a future

rea- the, the, the, the stock futures

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seem, futures, like stuff that

you're predicting in the future,

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that we're predicting in the, uh, future,

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uh, seems to be disconnected between

what's happening in reality right now.

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ability to predict the future

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would be, you know, wild.

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uh, you know, I'd probably have a,

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a totally different, uh, lifestyle

if I was, uh, predicting the future.

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that I listen to, the economists, the,

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the, you know, the stock folks like y-

you and, and Steve, uh, you know, it's

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like I'm, I'm looking for what un- what's

underneath that's actually, like, real.

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and it's like, it feels very, very,

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um, you know, man behind the curtain.

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that's, you know, like, that's

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where we need the pullbacks.

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We need reality to set in somewhere.

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I don't know when.

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You know, like you and I have

talked about this forever.

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You can't predict when these

things are going to be happening.

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can do to protect yourself is

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going to be, you know, clutch.

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there's only so much.

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but, you know, on the political

side, you know, I think, uh, you

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know, China is gonna be, uh, key.

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Like, the United States is really,

really needs help, uh, uh, with the,

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uh, Israeli-US, uh, uh, war with Iran,

and China can be a big player there.

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Uh, and, and, like, we, we might be

able to see some real movement there

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and with, uh, the stuff in, in Russia.

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of the way, you know, like reasonable

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heads can really prevail there,

and we could have, like, some s-

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some, some sustainable things happen

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Dave Conley: we don't hear that, then

what we are going to hear is, like, a lot

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of fluffy stuff around chips and AI and,

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Dave Conley: maybe some manufacturing

stuff, and that's like a, kind

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of like a big yawn as far as I'm

concerned because those, all of

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those deals, like, what have, um...

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I mean, how many trade deals were

thrown up in the air with tariffs

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last year, and how many d- how many

trade deals do we actually have today?

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I think we have two.

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Vietnam and maybe India?

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I, I, I, or UK.

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Yeah, UK was, like, the other one.

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I mean, that's out of throwing

out, like, 100 trade deals.

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We have, uh, two.

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Art of the Deal.

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It's like, bro, you, you didn't

do, you didn't do a great job.

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Dave Conley: Boo.

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Jerremy Newsome: Yeah.

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Dave Conley: are the big movers

this week for your stocks?

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Jerremy Newsome: well, so I, I re-- A

lot of data and a lot of data centers

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Dave Conley: Yeah.

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a, a lot of data plays.

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I mean, that's, that's the ironic part.

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So you have IREN, uh, I-R-E-N, is

a data processing service company.

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they just did a convertible two billion

dollar note after earnings, so that's

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gonna be one to really keep an eye on.

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Uh, Wolf, Terawulf, W-U-L-F.

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Would love for this to pull back into...

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I'll do another scr- quick screen share.

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I would love for it to pull

back into approximately $22.

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Give me one second.

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I know you made a, a cute amount

of money on Wolf not that long ago.

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Here's the overall trend for that.

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So Terawulf, again, just in

general looks, looks really strong.

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I mentioned IREN.

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So again, this is gapping down, which

will be a fun day trade opportunity.

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chart does look quite nice.

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INOD, INOD, another data play,

had a huge move on earnings.

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I know, crazy.

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So, uh, just out- absolute

just rippage, uh, for this one.

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So th- this would be a probably, as

of right now, a much faster trade for

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anyone who's watching and tuning into

these, uh, episodes often and frequently.

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GoDaddy, believe it or not, I,

I still think is kinda cool, um,

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just at the levels that it is.

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I don't know why my screen's not loading.

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But, you know, if AI is a big thing,

obviously it is, are people gonna

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be using more or less websites?

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And I think people are gonna

be using more websites.

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I think more purchases will happen.

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And in general, the, the company's

still fundamentally quite strong.

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pullback on GoDaddy.

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It was at $210, and has pulled all

the way back to $91, which is a pr-

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the previous breakout range of this,

you know,:

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So I actually am buying

some GoDaddy down here.

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I like it And then, you know,

we'll see what happens obviously,

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but I'm picking some up.

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Tesla, so this is one I really,

really like from an oil play.

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We keep talking about oil, but my

actual anticipation on this one

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realistically is we've had three

beautiful buying days in a row, which

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was Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

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We're above the hundred, two hundred,

so expecting Tesla to probably most

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likely, hopefully, pull back to four oh

six before it does end up going higher.

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But if you think about it, the oil, right,

if everyone's, uh, vehicle expenses are

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going up because of gas expenses, well,

Tesla doesn't have any gas expenses.

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And one of the things that hasn't been

dramatically noticeable, believe it or

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not, at least to me, is energy expense.

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that it will not ever be this way,

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but like just the heating and cooling

costs, right, the electricity costs of

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the-- of my house, water bill, things of

that nature, haven't been dramatically

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increa-- uh, changed by the gas prices.

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So, uh, people are, I'm noticing,

seeing that they're like, "Well,

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hey, I gotta go buy more Tesla.

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I gotta go buy more, uh, Tesla stock, and

I gotta go buy the actual vehicle because

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I can't spend this much money on gas."

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Dave Conley: Well, that's

that's exactly where I, I'm

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going to be in your Q2 numbers.

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you know, like I

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Jerremy Newsome: Yep.

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Dave Conley: "Hey, Jerremy,

how do I buy a Tesla?"

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And he goes, "Let me show you," and,

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Jerremy Newsome: Yeah.

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Dave Conley: tesla.com."

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Jerremy Newsome: Which is cool, yeah.

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Exactly, and you, you can customize it

and it's, you know, it'll, it'll show up.

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It'll drive itself to your

house, which is really wild.

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Dave Conley: I'm down.

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Dave Conley: to

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Dave Conley: uh, you know, like, I don't

know how you, how you do it, but like

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comparison like a gallon of gas versus

like a, like whatever the wattage is?"

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And he goes, "Yeah, it's, it's,

it's pretty reasonable, right?

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Like even when, when you go out, you

know, like, uh, and, and charge it, it's

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like, it's, it's, it's not, you know,

it's not, you know, what you'd consider

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cheap, but it's cheaper than gas."

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Jerremy Newsome: Yeah.

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Agreed, agreed.

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Dave Conley: week.

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I think there's a lot going on,

both politically and, uh, you know.

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We'll, we'll, we'll keep on watching

it, and we'll keep on, uh, you

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Jerremy Newsome: That's,

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Dave Conley: joining you here every

Monday, and, uh, look for us on

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Jerremy Newsome: that's a

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Dave Conley: at Quasar Markets.

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Jerremy Newsome: great

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Dave Conley: it's

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Jerremy Newsome: way

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Dave Conley: It's been real.

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Be careful.

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I think that's,

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Jerremy Newsome: to

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Jerremy Newsome: put it.

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That's right.

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Dave Conley: What was it?

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There was a, there was an old, uh, TV show

called, um, God, uh, Hill Street Blues.

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I, I didn't watch it.

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It was a little bit, you know,

outside of where I was watching.

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It was like, "Be careful out there."

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They would, they would end

every single briefing with the

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Jerremy Newsome: right,

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Dave Conley: be careful out there."

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Well, that's, that's what,

that's what your stock

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Jerremy Newsome: yeah.

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Dave Conley: uh, tips for today

is, is be careful out there.

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Jerremy Newsome: Buy low, buy low and

buy slow right now, that's for sure.

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Appreciate you, everyone.

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Thanks so much for tuning in.

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You rock.

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Solving America's Problems
Solving America’s Problems isn’t just a podcast—it’s a journey. Co-host Jerremy Newsome, a successful entrepreneur and educator, is pursuing his lifelong dream of running for president. Along the way, he and co-host Dave Conley bring together experts, advocates, and everyday Americans to explore the real, actionable solutions our country needs.

With dynamic formats—one-on-one interviews, panel discussions, and more—we cut through the noise of divisive rhetoric to uncover practical ideas that unite instead of divide. If you’re ready to think differently, act boldly, and join a movement for meaningful change, subscribe now.