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11/04/2026

Back in 2009 the consensus was "we're running out of oil." Panic mode. $147 a barrel. Everyone convinced the wells were running dry.⁣
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I called it then and I'll say it again now: that was never true. There was always more oil under the ground — new fields, new tech, unconventional plays nobody was pricing in yet.⁣
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Then US shale happened. The US became the world's largest producer. Brazil, the Middle East, all found more supply than anyone predicted.⁣
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Lesson that applies way beyond energy: when everyone agrees on a scarcity story, that's usually the moment to question it. Markets overreact to short-term cycles and call it a permanent crisis. It rarely is.⁣
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Read the cycle, not the panic.

11/04/2026

Put an oil and gas deal inside your IRA and the drilling deductions you bought it for do nothing for you.

I see this a lot with people who just sold a business or have a big old 401(k) sitting there. They learn a self-directed IRA can hold private deals, and the next move feels obvious.

The catch is that depreciation and drilling deductions only help whoever owns the investment. When the IRA owns it, those deductions stay in the account and never touch your W-2 or business income. Held personally, whether you can use them depends on how you own the interest and your tax situation.

There is a second catch. If the account earns business income through a partnership, it can owe its own tax on Form 990-T, paid out of the account. That applies to a Solo 401(k) too.

Deals that pay interest or produce stock gains, like private credit or pre-IPO shares, tend to fit inside more cleanly. Structure changes the answer, so bring this chart to your CPA before you move money.

If you want to talk this through with other accredited investors, the community is at theWealthElevator.com/club.

Educational content, not tax, legal, or investment advice. We are not attorneys, CPAs, or financial planners. Need a referral to a CPA, lawyer or other vendor? thewealthelevator.com/vendor

11/03/2026

Everyone "knew" US oil was done. Steady decline since 1970. Onshore played out, old fields, nothing left. That was the consensus view — right up until it wasn't.⁣
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One stubborn guy named George Mitchell didn't buy it. He spent years grinding on the Barnett Shale in Texas, trying every technique to crack how to actually get gas out of tight rock. Everyone else had moved on or given up.⁣
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Then he found the right mix of water and chemicals to make the fracturing work. Barnett turned into a major gas play. A few years later people asked the obvious next question: if it works for gas, does it work for oil?⁣
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By 2008-2009, the answer was yes. That's the real start of the shale oil boom — and it flipped a 40-year decline into the biggest production growth story in US history.⁣
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The lesson isn't about drilling. It's about conviction versus consensus. The "experts" were right about the data and wrong about the future, because they stopped looking for a different answer. Worth remembering next time someone tells you a market is "played out."

11/03/2026

With this many investors in our community, we've lost a handful unexpectedly in their late 40s and 50s.

We've also watched plenty of members reach financial independence and step away from full-time work. The lessons our retirees pass along are rarely about returns. They talk about health and about the friends and family they want time with.

If you just sold a company or you're deep in your peak earning years, it's easy to push the physical, the trip and the estate plan to next year. The investors who didn't get a next year are why I'm posting this.

An early retiree shared in a talk that a routine blood test caught his leukemia at 34, after years of skipping the doctor. He caught it in time. A checkup and a current will won't remove the risk, but they buy you options.

Save this, book the appointment you've been putting off, and grab our free Family Emergency Binder at TheWealthElevator.com/binder. It's the fill-in checklist of the accounts, documents and contacts your family would need.

Educational content, not medical, tax, legal, or investment advice. We are not attorneys, CPAs, or financial planners.

11/03/2026

Nov 3 decides who holds the tax pen in Washington for the next two years.

The midterms land halfway through a president's term. The president isn't on the ballot, but Congress is. All 435 House seats and 35 of the 100 Senate seats are up. Republicans hold both chambers right now by thin margins, and Democrats need a net gain of about four seats in each to flip them.

Why I care as an investor: every tax bill has to start in the House. A new tax law needs the House, the Senate and the President to agree. When one party holds all three, big changes can move fast. When control is split, gridlock is common and the current rules tend to stick around longer.

I don't make tax plans around election predictions. I look at what's already law, then think through what could change and how exposed I'd be if it did. Save this one and bring it to your CPA if you're planning a big sale or a large capital gain next year.

Educational content, not tax, legal, or investment advice. We are not attorneys, CPAs, or financial planners.

11/02/2026

China didn't out-innovate the world on nuclear. It out-executed everyone.⁣
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Same reactor design, built over and over, at scale, until the cost curve actually bent down. No reinventing the wheel every project. No decade-long permitting fights. Just relentless standardization.⁣
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Meanwhile the West still treats every nuclear plant like a custom science experiment — and wonders why costs balloon and timelines blow out.⁣
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Nuclear isn't dead. It's mismanaged almost everywhere except China, and increasingly South Korea, who's now exporting reactors to places like the UAE.⁣
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The lesson translates way beyond energy: complexity kills ex*****on. Repetition is what actually gets big, capital-intensive projects built on budget.⁣
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Ask yourself where in your own business or portfolio you're rebuilding the wheel every single time instead of standardizing what already works.

11/02/2026

I took the party labels off this year's biggest political checks and looked only at who is writing them.

Five groups stand out: crypto firms, AI money (split between a light-touch camp and a tighter-rules camp), a few Wall Street fund founders, sportsbooks, and energy. Most of it flows through super PACs that run ads for or against candidates.

Each group has rules it cares about: who regulates crypto, how AI gets governed, how investment gains are taxed, how far legal online betting spreads, and how fast pipelines and drilling get permitted.

For investors, that is policy risk. If you own index funds, public stocks, energy or crypto, some of this exposure is likely already in your portfolio whether you chose it or not, and a rule change can reprice a sector quickly.

The catch: money does not guarantee the outcome. Crypto PACs spent heavily in some primaries this year and still lost, and markets often price in news before a vote happens.

Save this as a reference when you review what you own with your CPA or advisor.

Educational content, not tax, legal, or investment advice. We are not attorneys, CPAs, or financial planners.

11/02/2026

Prices rose 3.7% over the past year, and the forces behind it don't look like they'll fade quickly.

The September CPI report came in nearly double the Fed's 2% target. Energy was up about 20% from a year ago, and airfare jumped more than 22%.

What caught my eye is how many places it's coming from at once. Oil, housing, tariffs, and the AI data center build-out are all pulling on prices together. The AI piece gets less attention. Those projects have deep pockets, and they're competing for the same contractors and equipment everyone else needs.

If you sold a business and parked the proceeds in cash while you decide what's next, run the math. At 3.7%, $10 million gives up roughly $370,000 of buying power in a year, before whatever interest it earns.

The catch is that inflation numbers move around, and energy can fall as fast as it rose. Nobody knows the next print. Cash that sits too long still loses ground.

Save the chart and bring it to your next conversation with your CPA.

Educational content, not tax, legal, or investment advice. We are not attorneys, CPAs, or financial planners.

11/01/2026

Same oil crisis, two different Americas.⁣
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A supply shock in the Strait of Hormuz hits Asia and Europe hard. The US? Domestic production is at all-time highs, and producers are cashing in on the higher prices.⁣
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But zoom in and the split gets local fast. You're in Texas, this is a boom. You're in New York or California, you're just watching gas and diesel prices climb with none of the upside.⁣
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Global markets don't distribute pain or profit evenly. They never have. Know which side of the map your portfolio sits on before the next headline hits.

10/31/2026

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