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President Trump has signed off on a $14 billion TikTok sale, handing the app’s US future to a billionaire-heavy cohort that includes Oracle’s Larry Ellison, Rupert Murdoch, and Michael Dell. Oracle and Silver Lake will control about half of TikTok's US operations, giving Ellison a direct line into one of the most powerful consumer platforms in the country. Also, RIP to Andreessen Horowitz’s (a16z) share in this deal apparently?

For Ellison, this is less about cloud servers and more about becoming a media kingpin. His son already controls Paramount and CBS, with his sights set on Warner. Add TikTok’s 170 million US users to the mix, and the Ellison family suddenly looks like the Murdochs 2.0.

Investors should be watching Oracle closely. The company’s stock has long been valued for enterprise software, but this deal cracks open a consumer-facing growth story. If TikTok thrives under its new American ownership, Oracle could trade more like a media-tech hybrid than a sleepy database giant.

A lot of people think we’re in a tech bubble and that it may pop soon, but Congressman Cleo Fields is all in on tech stocks. According to AltIndex, he posted 23 tech stock buys in August alone, with zero sells.

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Fed Chair Jerome Powell admits the central bank is stuck between rising inflation and a cooling job market. Just a week after cutting rates, Powell warned that “downside risks to employment have risen,” while inflation remains stubborn. Translation: stagflation risk is back on the table. Meanwhile, Trump posted an… AI-generated meme of himself firing Powell:

JPMorgan’s economists see the slowdown already taking shape. They expect GDP growth to fall from 2.5% in Q3 to just 1.2% in both Q4 and Q1, with consumer spending barely budging. That’s not the kind of backdrop that makes equities easy to hold without a strong stomach.

Layer in the White House’s new $100,000 H-1B visa fee, which could sideline 5,500 skilled workers a month, and tech companies face another headwind. For investors, this is a reminder to be selective: defensive sectors and companies with pricing power may hold up better than growth names that rely on cheap labor and easy money.

Elected officials have had a tremendous amount of success in the market recently.

I want to keep you updated on what they’re trading and when—so you can leverage that intel as you plan out your own portfolio.

Data provided by ​AltIndex.com.

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— Brandon and Blake with Invested Inc.