Do Not Ignore - Read Immediately: Daniel Ferris predicted the failure of Lehman Brothers eight months before it collapsed. He called the post-Covid inflation crisis – and the bear market that followed. And in January, he warned silver would collapse. It crashed the very next day. Now he's stepping forward with a massive warning anyone with money in stocks needs to hear.
America's National Nightmare Is Coming – Are You Ready?
Dear Reader,
The reclusive Oregon forecaster who accurately predicted both the 2008 banking collapse and the post-2020 inflation crisis says a huge event is coming to America this month.
He's warning that very soon, life in America is going to take a strange and dangerous turn...
You'll wait in life for hours at the gas station... and pay $10 a gallon, if you're lucky. Whole aisles at the grocery store will be empty.
He says there will be violent protests on the streets... the National Guard will be deployed... and there'll be widespread panic in the stock market.
It all comes down to a nightmare scenario that insiders are already warning the White House about.
It's connected to the sudden spike in gas prices we've just seen – but it has nothing to do with the Middle East or the war in Iran.
Instead, it involves a looming crisis coming directly for America.
Like Covid or 9/11, it'll likely catch millions of people by surprise.
And it's nearly certain to hurt your savings, stock portfolio, and retirement plans.
"A lot of people will hate me for sharing this. And a lot of people will just dismiss me.
That's what happened when I warned Lehman Brothers would collapse in 2008. But that's exactly what happened," says Dan Ferris, who also recently predicted the silver price crash.
With time running out, he's agreed to step forward today to share his research with you – and give you a final chance to prepare before it's too late.
Most folks will pay no attention. Even fewer will take the basic steps he recommends. But for a small group, this information could change everything.
Everything you need to know is right here.
Regards,
Matt Weinschenk
Publisher, Stansberry Research
P.S. As you'll see, there's a big twist to this story that no one sees coming.
Because this isn't some random "black swan" event. It's largely the result of one man – a political insider with ties to China's Communist Party.
His actions could soon make him one of the most hated figures in American history, with millions of Americans paying the price.
But not everyone has to suffer. You can still prepare, with just a few basic steps laid out here. Don't delay. With gas prices already surging, you're running out of time.
The Arms Race Has Gone Airborne: What Investors Need to Know
Author: Bridget Bennett. Published: 4/6/2026.
The next stage of drone warfare isn't coming. It's already here. And the investment implications are bigger than most investors realize.
Cameron Chell, CEO and Executive Chairman of Draganfly (NASDAQ:DPRO), has spent more than 25 years building drone systems for military, public safety, and commercial applications. His assessment is blunt: if your offensive or defensive systems aren't deploying autonomous, AI-enabled drones today, they're already outdated.
That's the thesis driving a defense sector super cycle—and it's not consumer demand or hype behind it. It's geopolitics.
Edge AI Turns Drones Into Independent Decision-Makers
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Draganfly and Palladyne AI recently completed a SwarmOS integration milestone that enables decentralized autonomous drone swarming for U.S. defense applications.
Edge AI is transforming drone warfare by allowing drones to operate independently without internet connectivity, making GPS denial and signal jamming far less effective as countermeasures.
The drone defense sector is entering a policy-driven super cycle, with 2027 expected to be the breakout year for meaningful revenue scale across the industry.
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The concept accelerating everything is edge AI—putting computing power directly on the drone so it can process data, make decisions, and execute missions without relying on a constant internet connection or cloud infrastructure. Chell says even Draganfly's least expensive drone has compute capacity comparable to NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA).
That matters because connectivity has long been the weak link. Early countermeasures against small drones focused on jamming GPS or severing the radio-frequency link between the drone and its operator.
Edge AI removes that vulnerability. A drone with onboard intelligence can navigate using visual recognition, adapt to changing conditions like terrain or weather, and even abort a mission autonomously if circumstances change.
While the implications extend well beyond the battlefield, it's defense applications that are drawing the most capital right now.
Swarm Technology Changes the Math on Defense
The economics of modern drone warfare have flipped the traditional cost equation. Instead of firing a single missile system costing millions at a target, an attacker can deploy dozens or hundreds of inexpensive drones to overwhelm defenses at a fraction of the price. No existing surface-to-air system can reliably handle 50 or 500 drones arriving simultaneously, regardless of how costly that system is.
Draganfly is building toward that future through its partnership with Palladyne AI (NASDAQ:PDYN). In late March, the two companies announced a successful SwarmOS integration milestone, completing a flight simulation that validated decentralized autonomous swarming across Draganfly's platforms.
Unlike traditional swarm systems that rely on a single leader drone, Palladyne's SwarmOS enables multiple drones to act as independent decision-makers—perceiving their environment, collaborating with teammates, and adapting in real time without continuous communication links.
That capability aligns directly with what tier-one defense customers are asking for. Draganfly recently secured a contract to provide Flex FPV drones and training to U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command units, and the company completed an exclusive capabilities demonstration for the Canadian Armed Forces after participating in Canada's MINERVA working group—an initiative tied to Prime Minister Mark Carney's Defense Industrial Strategy emphasizing sovereign drone capabilities.
A Policy-Driven Super Cycle With a Long Runway
Chell calls this a policy-driven super cycle, and the distinction matters. This isn't demand generated by consumers or a short-lived tech trend. National security priorities worldwide are forcing governments to pour money into drone capabilities because the cost of not doing so risks the security of entire nations.
The Middle East conflict has accelerated the timeline. That region — one of the wealthiest on the planet and home to critical infrastructure — now needs drone-defense systems immediately. The industry investment projections, according to Chell, are about to be blown out of the water.
For investors trying to time this cycle, the revenue picture is still early. Chell says the sector is only now seeing the front edge of revenue scaling, with 2027 projected as the breakout year for meaningful top-line growth. Military procurement cycles that once took years have compressed to one or two years, and the first sizable contract awards are starting to land now.
Draganfly's Full Product Line Is the Strategic Bet
What separates Draganfly from most competitors, Chell argues, is its full product line. The company has four drone systems in production and a fifth in development, ranging from small five-inch first-person-view tactical drones to the Outrider—a nine-foot, dual-diesel-engine platform with seven-hour endurance and a 100-pound lift capacity. All are designed to be interoperable.
This ecosystem approach matters because real-world operations rarely need just one type of drone. A surveillance mission may require a strike drone, a target-acquisition platform, and a logistics delivery system. Chell says the only other company with a comparable full product line is DJI, which employs roughly 10,000 engineers.
Draganfly is also pursuing vertical integration through acquisitions to secure its supply chain and protect proprietary IP—while maintaining partnerships with sensor providers, software developers, and motor manufacturers across the broader drone ecosystem.
The Commercial Upside Beyond Defense
Defense applications are what's pulling capital into the sector now, but Chell draws a parallel to the early internet era that's worth considering. Twenty years ago, the internet was mostly replacing the yellow pages; nobody could have imagined what it would become. Chell sees a similar long-term trajectory for drones: they collect data better, communicate more efficiently, and deliver goods more cost-effectively than many alternatives.
The transformation of military drone technology into commercial applications could be as economically significant as the internet. That's a bold claim and will take time. But the underlying capability—autonomous machines making real-world decisions based on real-world data—has applications across agriculture, infrastructure inspection, logistics, public safety, and beyond.
For now, the investment case is straightforward: global defense budgets are expanding, procurement timelines are compressing, and companies building interoperable, AI-enabled drone ecosystems are positioned at the front of a multi-year spending wave. Revenue hasn't fully materialized yet, but the contracts are starting to land.
As Tech Earnings Grow, This ETF Still Hasn't Caught Up
Author: Jessica Mitacek. Published: 3/26/2026.
Key Points
- Despite strong earnings growth and record revenue driven by AI demand, the tech sector is down nearly 5% year-to-date, creating a disconnect between company health and share prices.
- The QQQM is trading in a tight range and approaching oversold territory, offering investors an entry point before tech stock prices catch up to their financial performances.
- While mega-cap Mag 7 stocks have struggled recently, QQQM’s exposure to steady performers in consumer staples and communication services has helped offset tech-sector volatility.
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Despite the tech sector’s struggles this year, companies in that corner of the market continue to show strong financial health.
Fueled by rising demand for artificial intelligence (AI), tech firms—especially those in the Magnificent Seven—have posted robust earnings growth, record revenue and confident guidance from management teams across cloud computing, cybersecurity, fintech and semiconductors.
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Discover the steps you can take to protect your finances nowSince Q4 2025 investors have rotated out of tech, yet analysts continue to raise 2026 earnings forecasts, and in Q1 many companies easily beat Wall Street’s expectations.
Stock prices, however, have not yet caught up to that earnings strength. As a whole, the tech sector is down nearly 5% year-to-date (YTD), making it the fourth-worst performer among the S&P 500’s 11 sectors.
On an individual basis, the picture is worse. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), for example, has fallen more than 20% YTD—the steepest drop among the Magnificent Seven, despite all of those stocks being down in 2026.
Tech is approaching oversold territory; once it bottoms and reverses, shares could begin to close the gap with improving fundamentals.
For now, that makes exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that track the tech sector—like the Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF (NASDAQ: QQQM)—an attractive way to get ahead of a potential rebound.
Despite Earnings Growth, QQQM Has Been Mostly Flat
Reflecting the performance of its tech-heavy holdings, QQQM is down nearly 5% YTD. Despite a more than 19% gain over the past year, the fund has traded in a tight range since early September 2025.
Those companies have reported blowout earnings, yet—whether due to valuation concerns or fears of an AI bubble—the market has repeatedly reacted negatively.
Investors’ emotions don’t change income statements. Take NVIDIA—QQQM’s largest holding at a current weighting of 8.80%—which, despite a YTD loss of more than 7%, shows no signs of slowing down.
In fact, among the fund’s top five holdings, four companies posted sizable quarterly earnings per share (EPS) growth. In order of their weightings, those gains were:
- NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA): 95.56%
- Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL): 18.33%
- Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT): 59.75%
- Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN): 13.60%
The only exception is Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA), which reports Q1 earnings on April 28.
So it’s reasonable to argue QQQM is merely biding its time before breaking out of its range. Institutional owners may have anticipated that: although institutional selling rose to $1.84 billion in Q4 2025, it was outpaced by $3.09 billion in institutional buying as smart-money investors bought the dip.
Outside of the Mag 7, QQQM Holds a Mix of Outperformers and Underperformers
The YTD losses among the mega-cap Magnificent Seven have masked notable gains from stocks further down QQQM’s roster.
Micron (NASDAQ: MU), QQQM’s 11th-largest holding at a 2.53% weighting, has been one of the fund’s strongest performers this year, continuing to exceed expectations after a nearly 217% gain in 2025.
Semiconductor-equipment maker Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT), at a 1.50% weighting, has also enjoyed an impressive run following a 54% gain in 2025.
By and large, however, the ETF is dominated by very large tech names that have lagged since the start of Q4. In addition to the beaten-up Magnificent Seven, QQQM has been held back by underperformance from Palantir (NASDAQ: PLTR) and Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO), which have trailed the S&P 500 this year.
Still, while the fund leans heavily into tech (nearly 47% of its portfolio), it also includes household names from sectors that have held up better in 2026.
Consumer staples, which make up more than 8% of the fund, are the fifth-best performers in the S&P so far this year. Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and Costco (NASDAQ: COST) represent 3.24% and 2.36% of the ETF’s portfolio, respectively, and have been reliable contributors as defensive, high-quality retailers outperformed many growth names.
Communication services account for about 14.6% of QQQM’s holdings, while consumer discretionary contributes 13.4%. So while investors wait for a tech rebound, the fund’s underreported diversification provides built-in hedges that have offset some of the larger positions’ YTD losses.
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