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2026 is right around the corner, and if you want to know where the wealthy are putting their money, you are in the right place. Every financially savvy investor wants to know where the economy is growing because that's where you're going to see the biggest investment opportunity. Right now, the United States economy is about $30 trillion big. It's expected to be even bigger in 2026. But if you can find out where specifically the economy is growing, you're going to have the opportunity for some of the biggest gains, and slightly better returns can add up to a lot more wealth over the course of your investing career. I'll show you what I mean.
If you invest $1,000 a month, you do this for 30 years, and you can get the average 10% return a year, you're going to have about $2.1 million. But if you can do slightly better, I'm not talking about finding the next Amazon or Apple. I'm not talking about finding Bitcoin before it exists. I'm not even talking about trying to meet Warren Buffett's returns. If you can get just 13% a year, you do the same thing, $1,000 a month for 30 years, now you're not going to have $2 million or $3 million. You're going to have about $4 million, almost $2 million extra just because you got a little bit better returns.
The mistake that so many people make is they try to get these better returns by investing in whatever stocks they see on CNBC and Reddit, but by the time it's on the news, a lot of the real money has already been made. This is where you have to be willing to go one level deeper and do some research. Now, in the past, this type of research was only available to Wall Street because of how expensive it was to access. But I want to break that down here. And this is why also on January 13th, 2026, I am hosting a live investor workshop where I'm going to be going over where money is shifting in 2026. A lot of changes happen in 2025. So, I decided in the beginning part of 2026, I'm going to host a workshop where I'm going to be going over how you can invest your money in this new economy and find better investment opportunities by going over where money is shifting in a lot of depth. So, if you are an investor and you want to see where money is shifting, I invite you to join me on this live investor workshop on January 13th. I'm doing it twice on January 13th. Once in the morning at 10:30 a.m. Eastern time and again in the evening at 8:00 PM Eastern time. It is going to be live. So, if you want to join, again, it's free. You do have to register because there's a limited number of people that can join me live. And in the past, we have hit capacity pretty much every single time. So, if you'd like to join me on this live investor workshop, it is going to be a ton of fun and a lot of value. I have the link for you to register for free down in the description below.
Now, let's talk about the five places where the economy is shifting in 2026 that the wealthy are looking to invest their money into. Starting with number one, minerals. Rare earth minerals are metals that are used in pretty much everything. They're used in things like your technology, like your iPhone. They're used in businesses. They're used in international defense systems. And in the past, the United States would buy these rare earth minerals from China. But this completely flipped in 2025 because after the Trump administration put big tariffs on China in early 2025, China responded and they said, "You, the United States, can no longer have all of our rare earth minerals."
Now, you can start to see why that's a problem. Because if there's no rare earth minerals coming into the United States now, you can't build iPhones. You can't run businesses. And our defense, our military starts to suffer. So in response, President Trump signed an executive order titled "Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production." The goal is for the United States to be able to produce these minerals without relying on China. And in addition to that, the Trump administration has also invested billions of dollars so that the United States can produce more rare earth minerals without China. So this can create an investment opportunity for some investors because we know that our economy is shifting into this industry because previously this rare earth mineral supply chain didn't really happen in the United States because we fully relied on China to do it. Now we need these metals and we can't get them from China. So we have to rebuild the supply chain, and so the United States is now investing heavily into this new industry that did not exist before and we need it to operate our economy.
And this brings us to the question of how do you actually invest in this shift? Now, I'm going to go over specific examples, but again, investing has risks. You are never guaranteed to make money when you invest. In fact, you will lose money at some point. So, make sure you always do your own due diligence and never blindly trust a random guy on YouTube. Everything that I'm about to show you is for example purposes only. And no, I'm not a financial advisor. So, make sure you do your own due diligence. Option number one to get exposure to this shift is you can invest in the individual stocks that the United States government has invested their money into. Because in 2025, we saw a major shift happen where the United States government actually started investing in private stocks on the United States stock market. So, you can just copy the same trades that the United States government is making. For example, the United States government invested hundreds of millions of dollars to buy a piece of the MP Material stock. And then in late November 2025, the United States government went out to lend $700 million to the Vulcan stock. MP Materials and Vulcan both trade on the United States stock market, meaning anybody can invest in them, and the United States government has invested money here and lent money here.
Now, this is more risky when you invest in an individual company because, well, these companies could have a bad CEO run the company into the ground. There could be a lot of changes. So, when you invest in an individual company, there's more risk than if you invest into something like an ETF. So, here are a couple of examples. REMX, Remix. This is an ETF that's created by Van Eck that's giving exposure to rare earth and strategic metals ETFs. So this is investing in companies that are producing, refining, and recycling rare earth and strategic metals. When you invest in this ETF, this ticker, you are getting exposure to 30 different companies. Or another example is DMAT. This is an ETF that's giving exposure to disruptive materials. This is investing in companies that are involved in the exploration, mining, production, or enhancement of rare earth materials. And this has a little bit under 50 stocks in its holdings, so a little bit broader here.
Now, again, just because we know that this shift is happening doesn't mean that every stock or every ETF is going to go up. There are risks. There are things that could cause it to go down like a recession, a market crash, or just a change in government policy. But we know that this shift is happening because as of today, the United States government is not relying on China for rare earths because China is restricting these rare earths to the United States. Could that change in 2026? Absolutely. But this is what we know today. This is why I want you to start thinking like an investor and make sure you understand the risks before you invest. So option number one is understanding the minerals investment shift.
Now let's move on to number two. When I first started off in business about 15 years ago, I bought a file cabinet to store all of my company files. And the way that I kept my company information safe was through a key and a lock. Today it's very different. Companies and businesses are storing all of their information in the cloud. And the cloud is not in the sky. The cloud is in a physical database. And that also means that the new form of security for pretty much every business is not a key in a lock. It's cybersecurity. The cybersecurity trend has been going on for more than a decade. But it just accelerated in 2025 because of AI. People have been pouring their life and businesses have been pouring their company's secrets into AI. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and more. And now because more and more businesses are getting involved putting all of their company's secrets into these AI tools, you bet that the importance of this cybersecurity has just accelerated faster than ever.
But it's not just people and businesses that are at risk. It's also our government. That's why President Trump signed an executive order to strengthen cybersecurity in the United States. Because even the United States government is putting their information on the cloud and they want to protect their stuff against foreign governments. And this is where the Trump administration is putting more of our tax dollars towards cybersecurity companies as a form of national defense to protect us against foreign cyber threats. So with the growth of people using AI tools, with the growth of businesses using AI tools, and with the growth of our government having their information online and with the threats of cyber wars and cyber threats, this is where cybersecurity becomes more and more important and this can also create an investment opportunity for you.
So let's break it down. Again, you can absolutely invest in individual companies. That comes with more risk, but also more potential returns. That's one of the things that I'm going to be talking about on my live investor workshop. But if you want a little bit less risk, you can also take a look at ETFs that are giving exposure to this type of cybersecurity. For example, ETF example number one is CIBR, Cyber. This is an ETF that gives you exposure to the First Trust NASDAQ Cybersecurity ETF. And this invests in cybersecurity-related companies. This ETF gives you exposure to 33 different companies. So instead of you going out and investing in 33 different companies, you invest in this one ETF, you get exposure to 33 different stocks. Or if you wanted to get a little bit more niche, another potential ETF that you can consider is HAK, Hack. This is another ETF that's giving you exposure to cybersecurity stocks. This is an ETF that's called Amplify Cybersecurity. And this ETF, if you invest in it, gives you exposure to 24 different cybersecurity stocks.
Now again, just because the shift is happening doesn't guarantee that you're going to make money because investing has risks and there are macroeconomic factors that can impact the shift and there are also individual company risks that are involved as well. The third place where money is shifting in 2026 is energy, and this one is super interesting. AI usage of things like ChatGPT and Claude and Gemini and Perplexity exploded in 2025. And every time you go into ChatGPT and you ask it, "How do I make a delicious guacamole?" you are firing off thousands of different endpoints. There's thousands of different computer chips inside of a giant data center every single time you put in a query into ChatGPT. Now, multiply that by every person in every business that's using AI every single day. This is why it is estimated that we're going to need twice as much energy in just the next few years to continue powering AI because of how fast it's growing and how much energy it's sucking.
Now, you can start to see how more money is flowing into the energy industry. But then it took another twist when President Trump entered the White House because up until 2024, under the Biden administration, the United States was moving away from traditional energy, things like oil and fossil fuels, that way we could fund more green energy products. But today in 2025, the Trump administration is really pushing two things. Number one, they're pushing energy independence, that we here in the United States should not rely on foreign countries to produce energy for us here. And number two, the Trump administration is also moving back towards those traditional energy sources, things like oil and fossil fuels, and taking funding away from those green energy projects and moving them towards the traditional oil projects. But the reason why energy is so interesting is because this traditional oil might not be enough. And this is where the Trump administration is also pushing heavily into nuclear energy, bringing nuclear energy back to the United States in a way that we've never really seen in recent history.
So the demand for energy is rising. Why? Because of AI. We need a lot of energy today. We're going to need even more energy tomorrow to fuel all this AI that we're producing. The second thing is we're seeing a shift in what type of energy that we're producing here in the United States. We know that the United States wants to be more energy independent. We know we're moving slightly away from green energy into more traditional oil and gas, and we're also pushing for nuclear energy. Can that create an investment opportunity for you? Potentially. And here are a couple ways that you can play it. Again, I can't tell you what to invest in. Here are just a couple ETFs that you can consider to help you start thinking like an investor. XLE is an ETF that gives you broader exposure to the energy sector in general. This is an energy sector ETF that gives you exposure to companies in the oil, gas, consumable fuel, and energy equipment industry. And this XLE ETF will give you exposure to about 22 different companies. Now, if you wanted to get more niche into something like nuclear energy, you can look at an ETF something like NLR. NLR is an ETF created by Van Eck that's giving exposure to uranium and nuclear companies. That's utilities, uranium miners, and service providers that will give you exposure to that nuclear shift. And right now, there are about 28 different holdings in this ETF. So if you invest in one ETF, you get exposure to those dozens of different stocks that you are investing in. Again, investing has risks, but we know that the economy is shifting in this direction at least for the time being.
For shift number four, let's get away from things that the government has been doing and away from technology and AI. Let's talk about biotech because this is something that is happening and a lot of people are completely overlooking it. During the COVID era, a lot of biotech companies were overordering products, things like syringes and vials and needles and lab equipment. And then when demand started to cool down, they realized they didn't need as much stuff. So over the last 2 years, 18 months, biotech companies were really not buying a lot of supplies. This was something called destocking, where they had so much stuff that they didn't want to buy anything else. So they just let their current stock of products get used. The change here is that this destocking is coming to an end. For example, West Pharmaceutical in the end of 2025 said that destocking is largely behind us, and analysts across Wall Street are saying the same thing that biotech product orders are starting to come back. So that's part one, that biotech companies are now starting to order more products again. Part two is that the administration of new drugs also requires more of these products. Over the last few years, we've seen the growth of a lot of injection drugs like Ozempic, these GLP-1s, which help people lose weight. And to administer these drugs, they need millions of injections every week. But that's not all, because in 2025, the FDA approved an at-home Alzheimer treatment, which allows patients to inject this medication at home every week, which means there might be a bigger need for certain products.
So, when I talk about this shift in biotech, I'm not talking about trying to pick the next drug that's going to change the world. What I'm talking about is only the picks and shovels that regardless of what happens in the drug market, people are going to need these products, these syringes, these vials, these tubes, these injections, these needles in order to administer these medications because we know that biotech companies are now starting to restock their supply. And we also know that more drugs are requiring a lot of these products. Now, from my research, there really aren't any ETFs that are going to give you exposure to these types of picks and shovels in the biotech space. You can invest in an individual company like West Pharmaceutical, like I talked about. But again, investing in individual companies have a lot more risk. It takes more time. It takes more research. So, you got to be willing to do all that. Again, I'm not telling you what to invest in, but that just takes more risk. The alternative is to invest in an ETF, but there are other ETFs that will give you exposure to the general biotech space. Take a look. Example number one is XBI. This is the SPDR S&P Biotech ETF, which is giving you exposure to a wide range of biotech companies. There are about 133 different biotech stocks in this ETF that you would get exposure to when you invest in this ETF. Example number two is IBB. This is an ETF that will give you exposure to the iShares Biotechnology ETF, which is giving exposure to large, established biotech companies. And so this is going to give you a little bit broader exposure with a little bit over 250 holdings in this ETF at the time of me recording this video.
So, what we've established so far is that if you can find where money is moving, you have the potential to get slightly better returns. And if you can get slightly better returns, that can add up to significantly more wealth over the course of your investing career. And what wealthy people want to know is where is the money moving? Where's the economy shifting? Because that gives you the potential to get better returns. And what we've talked about so far is number one, investing in minerals because the Trump administration is working to rebuild a rare earth mineral supply chain. We talked about number two, cybersecurity, because of the growth of AI, because of the growth of cyber threats, there's a lot of emphasis on cybersecurity. Number three is energy, because of the growth of AI, we need more energy today. And this demand is going to continue rising, and we're seeing a shift in what type of energies that we're producing here in the United States. Then number four, we talked about biotech because number one, we're seeing biotech companies start to order more supplies, and we're also seeing a shift in what types of drugs people are taking at home which require more different types of supplies. So you can invest in those picks and shovels in the healthcare industry.
And now let's talk about number five, AI infrastructure. Now when I say AI infrastructure, I'm not talking about investing in ChatGPT. I'm talking about investing in the backbone of AI. I don't know who's going to win the AI race. I used to love ChatGPT. That was my number one. Now I'm starting to be more team Claude. Things are shifting. But regardless of who wins the AI race, the AI infrastructure has to be there regardless. The best way to understand AI infrastructure is to go back to the internet back into the '90s. You could invest in individual companies that are producing internet products, or you can invest in the infrastructure for the internet. These were the companies that are producing the cables, the power, the servers, the plumbing, essentially the backbone to allow the internet to happen. AI works the same way. There are a lot of companies that are producing AI tools. There are a lot of companies that are using AI, which yes, you could invest in, but there's also the AI infrastructure that regardless who wins the AI race, the backbone of AI has to exist. These are things like data centers. These are things like semiconductors. These are things like servers. These are things like energy providers for data centers. These are things like cooling companies that cool down the data centers. These things have to happen regardless of who wins the AI race. And right now, private companies are investing billions of dollars into this AI infrastructure trying to control this piece of the AI race. And on top of that, the United States government even published a presentation called "Winning the AI Race" where the United States essentially said, "We are willing to invest whatever we got to do to win the global AI race." And now the government is getting involved as well. President Trump signed an executive order to make it easier to build data centers here in the United States. And President Trump has been working with foreign investors to bring more money here to the United States to build things like data centers and other AI infrastructure here.
Again, can this create an investment opportunity for you? Maybe, depending on your personal situation. But here are a couple ETFs that can give you exposure to this type of AI infrastructure. Number one is an ETF called DTCR, Data Center, which gives you exposure to data center operators, digital infrastructure, and physical assets that house AI and cloud companies. So if you want to get exposure to the data center industry, this is an ETF that gives you exposure to that. Or another one is CLOU, which is giving exposure to the cloud computing side of business. This is an ETF created by Global X that's investing in companies that are poised to benefit from cloud computing adoption. That's the infrastructure and storage that supports the AI industry.
Now, if you're one of the special people that are still here, I'm going to give you a little bonus. As I was about to record this video, my analyst said, "You should also throw in robotics into this video as well." Now, I wanted to talk about five, so I made the video about five, but I'm going to throw in robotics just as an added bonus because robotics is interesting. China has built this thing called dark factories, which are these factories that you don't need to turn the lights on because they are operated by robots and machines only, with minimal human supervision. In the United States, we are playing catch-up. So, we are pouring billions of dollars into the robotics industry trying to catch up with China. Now, the difficult part with robotics is it's a lot of cost to produce and it's not profitable initially. But very recently in 2025, Morgan Stanley came out and they said that we are getting closer to profitability with robotics than we think. And this shift with robotics can impact many different industries of our economy. It can impact warehouses and factories. But it can also impact healthcare with things like surgical robotics and diagnostics. And it can even impact the way you get your Chipotle or your Sweetgreen because now there are robots making food as well. It's a little bit more speculative, but it seems like that's where our economy is moving. And if this is something that you were interested in investing in, again, you can invest in individual companies, which has more risks. Or you can also look at investing in potential ETFs. Again, a little bit less risk, but does not mean there's no risk because, well, there's risk that the economy could go down, that the market could crash, or that the shift does not happen. But if it's something that you believe in that fits in with your portfolio, here are a couple ETFs that you can consider investing in. Number one is BOTZ, Bots. This is an ETF that gives you exposure to robotics and AI companies that's focusing in on industrial robots, automation, and non-industrial robots, including autonomous vehicles. So, if you were to invest in this ETF, it gives you exposure to about 51 companies. Another option is ROBO, Robo. This is an ETF that gives you exposure to the Global Robotics and Automation Index. This is an ETF that invests in companies in robotics, automation, and AI-enabled systems. This ETF will give you exposure to about 77 different companies. So, if you think robotics is interesting and if you believe that this is where the economy is going, it could potentially be an investment opportunity for you.
So, we talked about in this video is six different places where the money is moving in 2026 based off of what we know today. Now, of course, investing has risks. Things can change. We can enter a recession, a market crash, all of that. But despite that, here are different opportunities for where the economy is moving. Number one is in minerals because the Trump administration wants to build our own supply chain of rare earth minerals here. Number two is cybersecurity because of the growth of AI. Number three is energy, also because of the growth of AI. Number four is biotech because biotech companies are now loading back up on things that they need. And also we're seeing a change in the types of drugs which require different types of tools and solutions created by biotech companies. Number five is AI infrastructure. I'm not talking about Nvidia and ChatGPT. I'm talking about the infrastructure, the backbone of AI that regardless who wins the AI race, that you're going to need that AI infrastructure. And number six is robotics because, well, although it hasn't been profitable, we could be getting closer to profitability according to Morgan Stanley. Again, this is what I'm going to be going way deeper into on my investor workshop in January 13th, 2026. I invite you to register for me. I have so much research planned for you. There's so much value. So, if you are an investor or want to be an investor and you want to see where opportunities are shifting, you don't want to miss this workshop. It's free. I have the link for you down in the description. And if you got value out of this video, the best thank you is a referral. So, if you could please share this video with a friend, family member, colleague, or fellow investor, that way, we can continue to spread this type of financial education. Thank you.
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