This week Derek Moore is joined again by ZEGA Financial CEO Jay Pestrichelli to talk about the recent blowups in Crypto and review some contrarian picks that worked and didn’t work. Plus, what is the recent backup in rates in the bond market telling us about the probability of a recession and negative GDP for Q2?

Yields backing off predicting a recession?

Flattening & Inverted (once again) yield curve

Crypto winter and blowups

What is the bond market telling us?

Contrarian corner - what has aged well and what has not?

Will the earnings story hold up? (Margins, EPS, inflation, inventory)

Top Gun movie gets a recommendation

Mentioned in this Episode:

Contact Derek Moore derek.moore@zegafinancial.com

Derek Moore’s book “Broken Pie Chart” https://amzn.to/3OGm1RG

ZEGA Financial www.zegafinancial.com

Jay Pestrichelli Book “Buy and Hedge” https://amzn.to/3y4wwak

MicroStrategy Bitcoin play https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-bitcoin-play-by-microstrategy-ceo-michael-saylor-crazy/id1432836154?i=1000567039227

Podcast 4 R’s recession, rates, reduction of https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/most-telegraphed-recession-ever-the-4-rs-recession/id1432836154?i=1000563145394

Death of 60/40 Portfolio https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/death-of-60-40-portfolio-markets-during-midterm/id1432836154?i=1000555384965

Earnings Multiple expansion vs earnings expansion (or reduction) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/desconstructing-stock-price-earnings-multiple-expansion/id1432836154?i=1000545436987