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Investing in Real Estate with Clayton Morris | Investing for Beginners

1189: It’s All Crashing Down and Wall Street Is Panicking - Episode 1189

Investing in Real Estate with Clayton Morris | Investing for Beginners

Clayton Morris

Investing, How To, News, Education, Business, Business News

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve been watching the markets lately, you know exactly what panic looks like.
We saw gold and silver crash at historic rates and then rebounding the very next day. Then of course, there’s news of the dollar declining. Stocks have been up and down, and the markets are panicking.

Today I want to break down exactly why stocks, tech, precious metals, crypto, all of it, feels unstable, what the Federal Reserve has to do with this mess, and why boring, predictable assets might be the only thing keeping portfolios stable in 2026.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It is all crashing down right now, and Wall Street is in a panic mode.

0:09.0

If you've been watching the markets lately, you know exactly what panic looks like, right?

0:12.6

We saw gold and silver crash at historic rates, then rebound the very next day.

0:17.6

Then, of course, there's news of the dollar declining, which it is.

0:22.3

The S&P 500 came in mixed with performance, no clear direction to it. Then the NASDAG dragging lower and lower,

0:27.3

pulling down by mega tech stocks that have essentially carried the stock market for the last

0:31.3

couple of years, a lot of software companies unloading. The VIX, Wall Street's measurement of fear in the market, jumping over 10%.

0:40.2

So there's a clear indicator that investors are scared about what is next to come. I mean,

0:45.3

over the last two years, AI stocks have seemed unstoppable. But now, reality is starting to kick in.

0:51.3

Building AI is insanely expensive. Think about it, data centers, chips,

0:55.7

power consumption, billions in infrastructure. Analysts have been openly talking about an AI bubble

1:01.5

for a while now, and we're starting to see investors panic. The question is, how profitable is AI

1:07.4

long term? Big tech companies saw a $1 trillion wipeout as the reality of AI's future

1:12.8

set in. Well, meanwhile, we saw Bitcoin, right? Other cryptocurrencies also under pressure,

1:17.4

dipping the levels not seen since early 2024. Bitcoin down like $67,000 a Bitcoin, proving the

1:24.8

point that not even non-traditional assets are not immune to the broader market shifts right now.

1:30.3

And they compare this to its highest point, Bitcoin has lost more than $1.2 trillion in value.

1:35.9

Cause Grant Cardone, you know, real estate investor, Grant Cardone to say, I have to sell my private jet because Bitcoin's collapsing.

1:42.5

So no matter where you look right now, almost every so-called

1:45.1

safe investment right now is acting risky. So today I want to break down exactly why stocks, tech,

1:50.5

precious metals, crypto, all of it feels unstable, what the Federal Reserve has to do with this mess,

1:57.6

and why boring, predictable assets might be the only thing keeping portfolios stable in

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