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Hosted by Launch Live Now · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 43 episodes
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Lou Basenese breaks down market headlines -- and gives you actual insights into potentially massive opportunities in the stock market.
Launch Live Now hosts The Big Skinny, a business show with 43 episodes published.
Earnings bubble? Or earnings boom? Wall Street is suddenly worried that profit forecasts are getting too hot, too fast. Lou Basenese has a different take: stock prices follow earnings, and if profits are accelerating, in
Oil, small caps, biotech, AI, IPOs, prediction markets and the “there’s always a bull market somewhere” thesis are back on trial. In this episode, Lou Basenese and Dodd revisit The Big Skinny’s Top 6 Predictions for 2026
Oil, small caps, biotech, AI, IPOs, prediction markets and the “there’s always a bull market somewhere” thesis are back on trial. In this episode, Lou Basenese and Dodd revisit The Big Skinny’s Top 6 Predictions for 2026
Mag 7 lag, Meta’s AI cloud questions, biotech breakout signals, and the return of broader market leadership — that’s the point of this episode of The Big Skinny. Lou Basenese explains why investors shouldn’t bemoan the f
Mag 7 lag, Meta’s AI cloud questions, biotech breakout signals, and the return of broader market leadership — that’s the point of this episode of The Big Skinny. Lou Basenese explains why investors shouldn’t bemoan the f
Chip bubble calls, AI demand denial, semiconductor selloffs, prediction market hype, and the tippy-top trap. Lou Basenese takes on the insane idea that we’re already near the end of the AI chip cycle – when the world has
Too many ETF tickers, too little time. There are officially more ETFs than publicly traded stocks in the U.S., and no normal investor has the time — or the stomach — to sort through thousands of products that all claim t
GLP-1s are the first line of biotech innovations that are remaking medicine, GPUs are still fueling the AI boom, and the coming SpaceX IPO is about to test investors’ impulse control. That (and more) is the focus of this
This week on The Big Skinny, Lou Basenese goes straight at three huge market questions: Are semis too crowded? Is Nvidia still a buy? And how big could the SpaceX IPO really be? The setup is simple: Mag 7 earnings contin
This week on The Big Skinny, Lou Basenese cuts through the noise after a monster week of earnings from most of the Mag 7 and asks what investors should really take away. The answer: AI demand is real, cloud demand is com
This week on The Big Skinny, Lou Basenese cuts through the noise surrounding the Mag 7 and asks a simple question: is Big Tech really as dominant as the narrative suggests — or is the market already starting to broaden o
This week on The Big Skinny, Lou Basenese asks a timely question: if markets are headed into another storm, what should investors actually own? From bear-market scares and oil-price shocks to inflation jitters and dollar
This week on The Big Skinny, Lou Basenese asks a bigger question than whether AI is a bubble: what happens when the boom runs headfirst into reality? Lou breaks down why the next phase of the AI trade won’t be decided by
This week on The Big Skinny, Lou Basenese asks a simple question: when markets panic, who actually profits? The answer starts with oil. As conflict drives energy prices higher, Lou breaks down the winners, the losers, an
This week on The Big Skinny, Lou Basenese tackles the latest market shocks – from oil prices surging past $100 to growing fears that AI could disrupt jobs across the economy. Lou is joined by Mark Skousen of The Oxford C
This week on The Big Skinny, Lou Basenese breaks down Nvidia’s latest blockbuster earnings report and asks the question investors really care about: what happens next? With earnings accelerating and free cash flow surgin
This week on The Big Skinny, Lou Basenese goes head-to-head with Futurum Group's CEO Daniel Newman in a special debate episode sparked by a viral tweet defending Hims & Hers Health, Inc. (HIMS) compounding Novo Nordisk’s
This week on The Big Skinny, Lou Basenese dives into biotech’s comeback. After years of pain, the sector is showing clear signs of revival — from renewed IPO activity and M&A interest to improving stock price performance
This week on The Big Skinny, Lou Basenese cuts through the panic surrounding crypto’s latest selloff to ask the only question that matters: is fear creating opportunity? As Bitcoin slips below $80,000, Lou explains what
This week on The Big Skinny, Lou Basenese rolls out his Top 6 Predictions for 2026, cutting through bubble talk and doom headlines to focus on what actually matters for investors. From energy’s asymmetric setup and a sma
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Barron's
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David Dziekanski
Quantify Funds
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Matthew Tuttle
Tuttle Capital Management
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Josh Young
Bison Interests
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Mark Skousen
The Oxford Club
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Eddie Ghabour
Key Advisors Wealth Management
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Dale Smothers
RDS Wealth
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Futurum Group
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