Valuetainment - February 14, 2026


“Lost $700 BILLION!” - Stock Market STUMBLES As Sell Off CRUSHES Wall Street


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12 minutes

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258

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The Dow Jones and S&P 500 hit new records and hit new all-time highs on a day where the economy added jobs and the unemployment rate hit 4.4%, beating expectations. Today, the markets are back up a bit, and the VIX and YOY are back in positive territory.

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00:00:00.000 Wall Street roars, higher after Blockbuster Jobs report.
00:00:03.400 This is two days, three days old, Rob.
00:00:05.340 Two days old.
00:00:05.960 So I'm going to read it, and then we can go to yesterday.
00:00:09.680 Stocks on Wall Street surged after new figures showed the economy had 130,000 jobs.
00:00:15.320 The economists had expected Labor Department to report job growth at around 75,000.
00:00:20.820 Only a modest improvement of December's week, 50,000.
00:00:25.980 January's unemployment came in at 4.3.
00:00:28.660 They were expecting 4.4.
00:00:30.860 They were at 4.4.
00:00:32.020 They dropped.
00:00:33.020 Tom, when you look at this, Wall Street roars.
00:00:35.200 Then yesterday, Rob, if you can go on the market, yesterday, how it performed.
00:00:39.400 This was the market yesterday.
00:00:42.260 Yesterday, the market lost $700 billion, okay?
00:00:47.600 You don't see green.
00:00:49.060 Everything was red.
00:00:50.520 Apple down 5%.
00:00:51.760 Amazon down 2%.
00:00:53.200 Tesla 2.5%.
00:00:54.980 You know, Meadow 2.3%.
00:00:56.200 JPMorgan Chase, 2.6%, 2.7%.
00:00:59.860 Visa down a point.
00:01:01.080 MasterCard down a point.
00:01:02.440 Everybody was down a point.
00:01:03.600 Cisco was down 11.8%.
00:01:05.720 Tom, what happened yesterday, and what do you think is going to happen moving forward with the market?
00:01:10.480 Yeah.
00:01:10.880 Hey, Rob, will you pull up VIX one year?
00:01:13.420 VIX one year.
00:01:14.240 I'll try it on that.
00:01:14.780 So, yesterday, there was three things that came together and created a storm in the afternoon.
00:01:21.180 The first was there was a lot of AI spooking on layoffs.
00:01:25.260 Second, there was poor guidance by some of the big techs.
00:01:28.660 And then, third, everybody thought the CPI that was coming out today, Pat, was going to be higher, proving that starting last April, all the tariffs by Trump created a problem.
00:01:42.440 Well, guess what?
00:01:43.120 The CPI, consumer price index, came out today three-tenths lower than people thought it was going to come.
00:01:51.400 Came out at 2.4.
00:01:52.700 People were saying it's going to be 2.7, going to be 2.7.
00:01:55.460 Consensus was really about 2.5, but it was actually now down 0.3 from the same time a year ago.
00:02:02.060 So, what that means is everyone that said, oh, gloom and doom on the tariffs, you know, this is going to create runaway inflation, the inflation now, Pat, a year later, is three-tenths, consumer price index, excuse me, is three-tenths lower than it was when Trump started the tariffs.
00:02:18.060 So, the one-year impact on tariffs as a boogeyman of inflation didn't come true.
00:02:23.000 Today, the markets are back up a little bit, but let's also look at the VIX.
00:02:28.140 So, these are daily swings, big daily swings that are happening.
00:02:32.420 Look at the VIX, Pat.
00:02:33.760 One year.
00:02:35.080 The VIX is holding around 21, which means that Americans are kind of neutral.
00:02:40.360 The risk is – look what happened last April.
00:02:42.680 See when the VIX shot up on – what did they call that?
00:02:45.240 Liberation Day, April 1st for tariffs?
00:02:47.260 Look at what the VIX did.
00:02:48.760 It went up over 50.
00:02:50.200 Over 50 means that the market was incredibly nervous and scared.
00:02:54.500 But see that?
00:02:55.320 See how low the line is?
00:02:56.440 That means even though we've had these market shifts up a bit, down a bit, up a bit, down a bit, overall, the VIX has been under 21 except for a couple pops.
00:03:07.280 And so, that is what I look at, Pat, the mood of the wider market as measured by a technical like the VIX.
00:03:16.440 You know, it's a nervous time, but guess what?
00:03:19.240 If you take a look at the least impacted was the S&P.
00:03:23.980 And the S&P over long term, what do they say?
00:03:26.940 Always a bad time to sell it.
00:03:28.420 There's never a bad time to buy it over the extent of history for the S&P 500.
00:03:33.280 I want to play this clip for you.
00:03:34.860 So, October 17, 2022, we're doing a podcast.
00:03:39.640 Is this the sidekick that you were talking about earlier?
00:03:41.440 He's awesome.
00:03:41.640 Yes, this guy's the sidekick.
00:03:42.980 Joe Biden's the president.
00:03:45.020 Dow Jones on this day was at $30,000.
00:03:48.360 Everyone's worried who's going to be the president next.
00:03:50.700 Doom and gloom.
00:03:51.840 You know, Trump is out.
00:03:53.300 This is when they were hating on Trump.
00:03:54.960 He's the worst.
00:03:55.680 He's this.
00:03:56.120 It's all his fault.
00:03:57.600 And I made this prediction on the podcast.
00:03:59.880 Go ahead, Rob.
00:04:01.120 What happens the day after election, everybody on the market is going to say the single biggest uptick in the history of the stock market a single day is going to be said the day after election in 2024.
00:04:12.580 Mark my words.
00:04:13.340 Wow.
00:04:13.620 And Dow's going to go to $50,000 in 2024, 2025.
00:04:16.900 $50,000.
00:04:18.140 That is a bold prediction.
00:04:19.720 That will go to $50,000 in 2025, 2026.
00:04:23.680 Remember when I said this to you.
00:04:25.240 I'm okay being wrong.
00:04:26.740 And there's an 80%, 90% chance I'm going to be wrong.
00:04:28.860 But I'm telling you, Dow, in my opinion, I'm not telling you to do this.
00:04:33.840 Talk to your experts.
00:04:34.780 Talk to your accountant.
00:04:35.400 Talk to your advisors.
00:04:36.800 I'm banking on Dow's going to be $50,000 in 2025, 2026.
00:04:41.600 Wow.
00:04:42.020 But it's going to be a shit show in 2022, 2026.
00:04:44.740 Watch what happens to this.
00:04:49.220 Great.
00:04:49.960 Great.
00:04:51.120 If anybody wants any predictions, anybody wants any psychic readings, go to the neck.
00:04:55.180 Hit a pat on the neck.
00:04:56.160 Well, by the way, can I give you the reason I think you know this?
00:05:00.760 Because you believe in America, and you believe in the free markets, and you believe in capitalism,
00:05:05.080 and you believe that even if Trump is president, or Biden is president, or Obama, or whoever
00:05:10.900 the next president is, you can still make money.
00:05:13.380 You know, people come to ask me, dude, I don't, I'm on Manect, a lot of, reach me on Manect
00:05:17.280 if you have questions.
00:05:18.500 Man, I don't understand markets.
00:05:19.780 I don't know what to do.
00:05:20.480 I don't know what to do.
00:05:20.760 Well, if you're a day trader, you're going to go insane, because the markets go up every
00:05:26.140 single day, red, green, red, green.
00:05:27.840 We don't know.
00:05:28.820 But over a decade, you're going to make money.
00:05:31.220 Do you remember when COVID happened?
00:05:32.660 Everyone thought the sky was falling?
00:05:34.260 Six months later, all-time highs.
00:05:36.640 I remember when we were in the lovely city of Addison, and I was in the room where I used
00:05:41.280 to shoot all the content there.
00:05:43.620 Breaking news, the Dow just hit 30,000 after almost tumbling to closer to 15,000 or 18,000.
00:05:49.860 But if you're, it's not timing the market, it's time in the market.
00:05:53.940 So as much as you are a great prognosticator and predictor, the reality is you have data
00:05:59.960 to show you that you should bet on America, and you're not going to lose.
00:06:03.160 Yeah, you know what it is?
00:06:04.780 Equities.
00:06:05.620 If you're in cash, listen, have cash, always have cash, because like right now, market
00:06:09.960 dropped.
00:06:11.040 I'm, you know, my guy and I are talking, I'm like, how much more do you think it's going
00:06:14.680 to drop?
00:06:15.300 Yeah.
00:06:15.680 Is there going to be more?
00:06:17.360 Discounted.
00:06:17.680 But regardless, we're all going equities.
00:06:19.860 Equities, equities, equities, equities.
00:06:22.380 Long term.
00:06:23.220 Why?
00:06:23.320 Can I ask you a question on that?
00:06:24.400 Why?
00:06:25.000 Why?
00:06:25.620 Because, look, the thing about right now where they're saying the dollar's going to get
00:06:30.860 weaker.
00:06:31.500 Yeah.
00:06:32.000 That's the topic, right?
00:06:33.260 Where the dollar's going to get weaker.
00:06:34.440 The dollar's going to get weaker.
00:06:35.840 Okay, great.
00:06:36.900 So if you, let's just say you know for a fact the dollar's going to get weaker.
00:06:40.060 Where should you put your money?
00:06:41.360 Gold, silver.
00:06:42.240 Where else?
00:06:42.840 Tom, if we know for a fact, let's just say the next three years' dollar's going to get
00:06:46.700 so weak, where would you put your money?
00:06:49.160 Equities.
00:06:49.800 Equities.
00:06:51.020 Anywhere equities.
00:06:52.160 And equities are just another word for stock.
00:06:53.740 Yeah.
00:06:54.400 Stock market.
00:06:55.180 Go equities.
00:06:56.360 Bet on the entrepreneurs.
00:06:57.280 If it's going to go, you know, it's going to be equities.
00:07:00.440 If you're sitting on the sidelines, you know, for me, a year ago, a year and a half ago,
00:07:05.080 I called my guy.
00:07:06.440 I said, hey.
00:07:07.100 He says, what's up?
00:07:07.780 I said, I want to find out what are the top five biggest startups or companies that are,
00:07:15.480 you know, valuation.
00:07:16.540 I gave them the range of where they're at that they specialize in nuclear energy.
00:07:20.880 Who are they?
00:07:21.940 So I got into the call with a Goldman's nuclear energy department.
00:07:25.640 We had a call together and I got, you know, the names of the companies I like.
00:07:29.980 I said, we're going to go nuclear.
00:07:32.000 Do you know the last 12 months, the best performing stocks I've had is nuclear.
00:07:36.580 Really?
00:07:37.380 What do you think?
00:07:38.180 Again, guys, don't take my advice.
00:07:40.140 I'm telling you what I'm doing.
00:07:41.280 You're a psychic.
00:07:42.280 I'm not telling you to go do it.
00:07:43.800 I'm telling you what I'm doing.
00:07:45.040 Don't go say, well, you told me this.
00:07:47.140 But one guy sends me a message saying, I put money in Palantir.
00:07:49.440 You were right.
00:07:50.020 A hundred thousand turned into, I don't know what the number he said, million, two million times.
00:07:53.240 I'm like, shit.
00:07:54.740 Congratulations, right?
00:07:55.640 You take 10%.
00:07:56.360 But what I'm saying is, why?
00:07:58.540 Like, go and look at the nuclear side.
00:08:00.620 Why?
00:08:00.840 I don't know if I know a forefact that's going to happen or not.
00:08:03.720 Guess what is a big problem amongst all of these AI companies?
00:08:06.660 What do you think they need?
00:08:08.380 Energy and power.
00:08:09.640 And we can no longer get it the way we're doing it.
00:08:12.460 So now the biggest thing that the government has to do and these companies have to do,
00:08:16.960 they have to get people to get more comfortable with what?
00:08:19.460 The word nuclear.
00:08:21.000 Nuclear.
00:08:21.720 The word nuclear.
00:08:22.720 And they've not done a good job, but they'll figure that out in the next 3, 5, 10 years.
00:08:26.900 And then all of a sudden, you're going to look at such and such company is officially valued at $1.3 trillion.
00:08:32.180 It was only worth $2.8 billion.
00:08:35.400 Now it's worth $1.3 trillion.
00:08:37.900 Wait, did you just say it 400x?
00:08:39.720 Yes, it 400x.
00:08:41.360 Damn.
00:08:41.960 So if a person put a million dollars in, it's not 400 million?
00:08:44.780 Yes.
00:08:45.460 Holy shit.
00:08:46.420 That's how this works out, right?
00:08:47.800 So to me, long-term equities, short-term, there's going to be some of this bumpy ride that you're going to go through.
00:08:53.960 You know, this is not an advice I would give to somebody that's in their 70s.
00:08:57.900 This is not an advice to 70s or even 60s, unless if you're 60s and you have the body of a 47-year-old
00:09:05.420 and you're a white Canadian guy who lives in Florida, your name is Tom Ellsworth,
00:09:08.980 and you're so sexy that you can't live in Miami.
00:09:11.000 God forbid if Tom walks to Miami, folks, it is out of – let me tell you, I don't want to embarrass Tom.
00:09:17.680 Can we do this?
00:09:18.300 Is this okay?
00:09:19.180 Guys, me, Vinny, and Tom, and Adam are walking in Miami.
00:09:23.680 I mean, people think like Adam's the girls, you know.
00:09:27.300 There's levels to this game.
00:09:29.160 Adam, girls see him.
00:09:30.760 They like him.
00:09:31.540 They're attracted to him.
00:09:32.740 But God forbid when women see Tom, when they see Tom, his windshield, car is filled with Victoria's
00:09:40.980 secret lingerie, thrown at his car.
00:09:43.160 Remember, we almost cracked?
00:09:43.860 And I'm like, listen, you know what?
00:09:45.140 I went and whispered to his wife.
00:09:46.280 I said, listen, you guys can never live in Miami.
00:09:48.040 That's true.
00:09:48.460 If there's a city you guys can't live in, you're better moving to Stewart.
00:09:51.580 Yes.
00:09:51.860 You're better moving to Jacksonville.
00:09:53.200 Yeah.
00:09:53.520 You're better moving to some of these small cities, you know, north of Jupiter.
00:09:57.320 But God forbid if Tom moves to Miami.
00:09:59.080 Oh, my God.
00:09:59.440 Too much.
00:10:00.200 Husbands phone their wives.
00:10:01.440 Go.
00:10:01.880 Go.
00:10:02.200 Go.
00:10:02.680 It's like, this guy.
00:10:03.800 I've seen it with my own eyes, Pat.
00:10:05.460 Yeah.
00:10:05.640 People think that Tom and I don't hang out because there's an issue.
00:10:08.080 I don't need him stepping on my turf, taking all my lady friends down there.
00:10:12.360 Pat, but when you pull up somebody in a Ferrari and you throw your keys and they know.
00:10:16.620 Too much.
00:10:16.900 I know.
00:10:17.680 You know what?
00:10:18.480 There's this guy they call Bad Bunny.
00:10:20.480 Yeah.
00:10:20.940 Tom's a crazy bunny.
00:10:22.040 Let me tell you.
00:10:22.640 The ladies call him crazy bunny.
00:10:24.020 But anyways.
00:10:24.560 But they don't call him funny.
00:10:25.560 They call him the bunny.
00:10:26.620 Okay.
00:10:27.200 Okay.
00:10:27.580 Okay.
00:10:28.080 By the way, Adam, I wouldn't mess with any of your lady friends, Adam, at least until the
00:10:33.180 antibiotics kick in.
00:10:34.040 So it's the, thank you.
00:10:37.900 Like I said, not funny, gentlemen.
00:10:39.600 That's, that's a, the dad jokes are, you know, we were doing so well to change Tom's
00:10:45.200 algorithm on Manectin's getting, and then he gave the antibiotic joke, but back to Boomer's
00:10:49.940 Manectin.
00:10:50.680 A new Faith Over Fear hat is coming soon to a theater near you, but I just wanted to, this
00:10:55.880 morning I was listening to Billy Graham, which Pat, you told me to, to listen to him.
00:10:59.580 You're like, you know, Vinny, dive in and listen to him.
00:11:01.340 So I'm getting ready in the morning.
00:11:02.300 I'm just listening to Billy Graham and he said something that I hadn't heard, uh, in
00:11:06.180 a while.
00:11:06.580 And it was the apostle Thomas, uh, when Jesus rose from the dead, Thomas wasn't there to
00:11:11.840 see the resurrection.
00:11:12.720 So Thomas goes, I'll believe that he rose.
00:11:15.200 If I get to put my hands in his wounds and in his side.
00:11:17.880 So then he finally sees Jesus and he goes in there, he goes, God, Thomas, God, put your,
00:11:21.760 put your hands in here.
00:11:22.580 And Jesus looks at him and goes, because you have seen me, you believe blessed of those
00:11:26.880 who haven't seen me and still believe it in that moment, Tom, it hit me.
00:11:30.460 He's talking about us.
00:11:32.120 Okay.
00:11:32.440 We weren't there.
00:11:33.300 We didn't see Jesus walk.
00:11:34.340 We didn't see him die.
00:11:35.020 We didn't see him rise from the dead, but we believe, and that is faith in real time.
00:11:40.300 And he's talking about us.
00:11:41.200 And the last one, you mentioned the story about the Nigeria that we're sending 200 troops.
00:11:45.400 Um, Trump is sending 200 troops.
00:11:47.080 They're saying they're not going to do anything crazy, but think about that.
00:11:49.880 Think about the priests.
00:11:50.800 Think about the parishioners in those churches that were bombed and murdered and slaughtered.
00:11:54.800 And they were in that church praying and saying, please help.
00:11:58.360 That is faith over fear in real time.
00:12:01.160 And that's how, that's what we're about.
00:12:02.440 And that's what the brand is about.
00:12:03.360 And I can't tell you how many people see me with the shirt, because the shirt's on the
00:12:06.840 back and just tap me on the back and go, I'm with you.
00:12:09.180 Or they see this hat and they go, where can I get that hat?
00:12:11.360 So you go on, um, vtmerch.com, uh, get the hat.
00:12:14.080 We have the hoodies.
00:12:14.720 We have here, my send me, which is Isaiah chapter six, uh, verse eight as well.
00:12:19.040 But, um, yeah, let's go to vtmerch.com and pick it up.
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