The Worst Path Is Inaction

Life is full of adversity.

When things are going well in life, it seems inevitable that we’re faced with a curve ball, throwing everything off track.

And when we’ve been faced with an attack or a tragedy, it seems to attract even more struggles.

Sometimes these events are the result of our own mistakes. But usually, they are outside of our control.

Marcus Aurelius said, “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

I was faced with the most difficult period in my life over the last few years. I was the victim of a series of vexatious lawsuits related to a property of mine, struggling with my own health problems, and the loss of my father. And then, suddenly, I was fired from a business that I spent eight years of my life building – Brownstone Research.

Seneca said, “We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.” Fortunately, this is a lesson I learned earlier in life through other adversity.

What I took from this is that the best path forward is to take action. The worst path is inaction, which allows our imaginations to run.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

– Marcus Aurelius

It never bothered me to lose my job. And it didn’t hurt my ego a bit. I just recognized it for what I believed it was… a horrible business decision.

In my mind, I’m too young to retire and there is too much fun to be had working in and with the industries and technologies I write so much about. I can’t imagine a more exciting time to be engaged. And I knew I could start my own business and/or take on positions in great companies with great people.

But what did hurt, what rubbed me the wrong way, what kept me up at night… was how the business decision to remove me from Brownstone Research would impact my subscribers. Marketing commitments and fulfillment obligations were made on my behalf, in my name, and while they were not my decisions, I would have no way to deliver on those commitments.

I knew that many of my subscribers wouldn’t understand what happened. They would perceive that as a breach of trust. And that is what bothered me. It was out of my control. And there was no way for me to fix it.

I am telling you this story today because I’d like for you to understand why I returned to Brownstone Research – to take the helm, this time as the Founder and CEO of the business with full operational control.

Previous management did not treat my subscribers well in my absence. That, too, deeply bothered me. I felt an obligation to make it right again. And so that is what I am doing.

I won’t ever be 100% accurate with my investment research and trading ideas. And I can’t ever guarantee my timing will always be perfect. There are simply too many things outside of my control.

But I can guarantee the quality of the research that my team and I produce will be exceptional. And I can fulfill promises made to our subscribers, both free and paid, in the past.

Our character is defined by the actions that we take in times of adversity, not in times of ease.

My choice was the hard path, to return to you, my subscribers, and my team, so that we could rebuild and make Brownstone Research even better than it was before.

My long-term vision has always been to have a team of researchers and analysts producing a wide range of investment and trading research, to ensure that subscribers would have information and analysis relevant to them regardless of what stage they are in life, where they are in their investing journey, and whatever market conditions we are faced with.

And I believe now, in times like these, more than ever before, the research my team and I produce is deeply needed.

But I don’t expect you to just take me at my word. I’d like to show you what we’ve done and what we’ll do going forward…

In the span of just five months, we at Brownstone have relaunched my flagship research product, Exponential Tech Investor, which focuses on small-cap high-growth stocks with distinct competitive advantages. The stocks in my model portfolio will thrive as inflation is tamed and interest rates come down.

We also relaunched Neural Net Profits, a very special trading product based on an artificial neural network that I call the Perceptron, which accurately predicts future price movements of cryptocurrencies. This was a multi-year project for me that required spending more than $1 million to develop – and it’s now working for my subscribers. I’m so excited to have this back in our research portfolio of products.

And we launched my first new product in more than three years, Deep Access. Deep Access is arguably the most unique product that has been developed in the industry. It incorporates all of the data on institutional short positions in more than 3,000 publicly traded stocks. There is so much market data, we had to develop a new neural network – our Deep Access AI – to interpret the information daily.

It allows us to see which stocks are highly likely to fall within the next few weeks, which gives us the ability to build a simple option trade that will profit from the expected move. And occasionally, it signals the high potential for a short squeeze in stocks – also creating an incredible profit opportunity. Either way, it empowers us self-directed investors with the kind of insights typically restricted to successful hedge funds.

And next month, we’re gearing up to launch Permissionless Profits, which will be my buy-and-hold flagship investment research product for cryptocurrencies. I would have launched this product earlier, but I felt it was important to wait until the outcome of the election in November before moving forward.

Due to the radically different policy positions on cryptocurrencies and digital assets, the industry was faced with either near collapse or a pro-crypto rebirth with incredible potential.

Now that we know we will have an innovation-friendly regulatory environment for the blockchain industry, it’s full steam ahead for Brownstone Research and digital assets.

And once the dust has settled on the new healthcare policies in the first half of next year, and interest rates start coming down, I expect that the biotech market will finally come back to life after three painful years.

Not only that, we will enter what I believe will be the golden age of biotechnology, largely driven by the advancements in semiconductor technology and artificial intelligence. In our own laboratory, we are already working on the foundation of what will be a biotech-centric research product designed to profit from major catalysts for biotech companies.

These have just been the near-term plans. As Brownstone continues to grow, we will build our team and continue to involve like-minded thinkers and idea men and women. There will be much more to come.

My goal has been simple. To restore trust with my subscribers – both free and paid – and to rebuild and grow the value of my membership to Brownstone Unlimited subscribers. I see my Brownstone Unlimited members as my “partners” in my business – my most valuable subscribers who have access to all of my research. And they are a source of critical feedback as we beta test new publications and services, and more.

That’s why we’ve been working so hard to restore the value that previously existed in our Brownstone Unlimited memberships as quickly as possible. And by next month, I feel we will have succeeded in that mission.

But we won’t stop there, as I plan to add even more value in 2025.

Today, I’d love to invite you with us on that journey. We’d love to have you as a Brownstone Unlimited member. Which is why I thought we’d do something special before the end of the year.

Our membership costs increase every time we add value and new investment research products, so there will never again be a better time to join – before that happens.

This is why I invited you to sit down with me yesterday.

If you missed it, you can watch it here.

But of course, if you have any questions, please call our client concierge Phil and his team at 888-344-8038. You may call any time between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET. Phil and his team will be happy to help.

I have one final thought that I’d like to share with you…

I have never been more excited about the future than I am right now. The policy changes that are coming in the U.S. are strongly supportive of the free flow of ideas, a lighter regulatory touch, reduced inflation, low interest rates, and technological innovation.

We have the tailwinds of advanced semiconductor technology capable of incredible computational power at the edge of networks (think robotics of any kind) and artificial intelligence, which will result in the greatest productivity boom in history.

It’s all happening now. I mean right now. I’ve predicted that artificial general intelligence will be achieved before the end of 2026. What a world that will bring. Quantum computing, nuclear fusion for clean energy, genetic editing to cure the world’s diseases… a world of abundance.

With it will be the most incredible investment and trading opportunities in our lifetimes.

And my team and I will be here with you to make sense of it all.

We have so much to look forward to,

Jeff

P.S. “Don’t hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.”  

– Epictetus