Lawrence McDonald: How To Listen When Markets Speak
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🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode of On the Tape, I welcome back, my friend Larry McDonald. |
| 0:05.0 | Larry was on the tape about a year ago, and I thought it would be good timing to get an update from him and his thoughts on the markets. |
| 0:11.0 | Just to refresh your memory or introduce Larry to you if you aren't familiar with him, |
| 0:15.0 | where was a distressed credit trader at Lehman Brothers during the GFC and wrote a book about it titled A Colossil Failure of Common Sense. |
| 0:22.4 | Soon after, Larry started the Bear Trap Report and still going strong today, not satisfied with one New York Times bestseller, |
| 0:29.2 | Larry wrote a book in 2024 entitled How to Listen When Markets Speak and the Risk, Myths, and Investment Opportunities he sees today. |
| 0:36.5 | We're going to get into those risks, myths, and opportunities and be sure to. We're going to get into those risks, |
| 0:38.1 | myths, and be sure to stick around for my Cal She Picks of the Week and enjoy my conversation |
| 0:43.0 | with Larry. Larry, welcome back to On the Tape. |
| 0:47.4 | Danny Motus, thank you, my friend. Good to see you. So last year we had you on almost exactly a |
| 0:52.3 | year ago, and a lot of your predictions actually have come to fruition. |
| 0:57.0 | And I want to just go over some of these because we're going to get to them and talk about present day and what you're going to see ahead here. |
| 1:02.9 | At that time, we just come kind of out of the tariffs a little bit. |
| 1:06.6 | We needed to raise the debt ceiling, which we ended up doing. |
| 1:10.2 | You talked about Bessent pulling out his bag of tricks, which he has, which we'll get to, |
| 1:13.9 | which includes stable coins. |
| 1:15.3 | We talked about regulatory relief coming for the banks in the form of SLR, right? |
| 1:19.8 | We talked about kind of energy potential rotation into those stocks. |
| 1:26.0 | And one of the things you hammered on was if you really |
| 1:28.4 | believe in this AI trade and the tech trade, then you have to believe in nuclear and all the |
| 1:33.4 | infrastructure stuff around it, namely the NUKZ, which is up nicely. And by the way, some of those |
| 1:38.3 | energy stocks, whether for it in Apache or APA, whatever it's known now, have more than doubled. |
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