Bear Traps In The News

Watch Larry McDonald; founder of Bear Traps Report, contributions to CNBC, RealVision and other media

NOVEMBER 2025

 

How to Navigate the New Investment Paradigm | Lawrence McDonald

In Episode 450 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Lawrence McDonald, the founder of The Bear Traps Report and the author of a recently published book about the risks and investment opportunities present in today’s radically reshaped economy titled “How to Listen When Markets Speak.”


 

 

Larry McDonald: A Credit Crisis Has Already Started 'No Question'

New York Times’ bestselling author Larry McDonald, founder of The Bear Traps Report, returns to The Julia La Roche Show for episode 310. McDonald warns that a credit crisis has officially started with 16+ "idiosyncratic" events spreading tentacles across markets, while a big disruption is coming in Q1 as $6-8 trillion may leave the NASDAQ 100. But this creates an incredible opportunity for the cheap part of the market as the great rotation from growth to value begins, with coal and natural gas companies offering 15% free cash flow yields while tech giants burn cash in an AI arms race that's destroying their balance sheets. The market has internally crashed with the average S&P stock down 30-40%, but a handful of names are masking the carnage—and Larry reveals where the smart money is rotating.


 

 

Old Market Playbook Is Dead: Massive Rotation into Hard Assets Ahead, Top Picks 2026: Larry McDonald

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief of Miles Franklin Media, sits down with Larry McDonald, Founder of The Bear Traps Report and New York Times bestselling author, for a deep-dive into the biggest shift in global markets in decades. McDonald says the old disinflationary playbook is dead and a new regime is taking over: structural inflation, financial repression, stealth QE, a weakening dollar, chronic resource shortages, and geopolitical fragmentation. According to McDonald, this is triggering a massive multi-year rotation out of overvalued AI and passive mega-caps into hard assets like gold, copper, energy, aluminum, coal, and natural gas.


 

 

Buy Real Assets Like Real Estate, Gold, Uranium, Oil | Larry McDonald and Jimmy Connor

Larry McDonald, New York Times Best Sellers 'How To Listen When Markets Speak' and A Colossal Failure of Common Sense ' provides his views on the current economic environment and market valuations.


 

OCTOBER 2025

 

VanEck: The Future Hard Asset Supercycle: Inflation, Credit & Geopolitics

Larry McDonald, founder of the Bear Traps Report, unpacks market signals, inflation, de-dollarization, AI, and how demographic and geopolitical shifts impact investment strategy.