Energy has been a political nightmare - and these three stocks could benefit

[Reports]( Live]( Me Anything](     MAIN STORY Energy Has Been a Political Nightmare - And These Three Stocks Could Benefit from the Turmoil   Note from Mark: President Biden just signed the $1.7 trillion spending bill into law, Putin is planning on banning oil exports to countries imposing a price cap, and all eyes are on renewable energy development projects moving into 2023. There's no one better to offer insider insight into these political events - along with trade ideas benefiting from them - than our K-Street Expert, Frank Gregory. Read below and you won't be disappointed...   By Frank Gregory Dear Profit Takeover Reader, A friend of mine once said the following about jobs in the financial services industry: Be a trader. If you can’t trade … sell. If you can’t sell … be an economist. That’s because most economists are good at couching things to always be right … even when they’re wrong. Let’s hope this time they’re wrong. Seven out of ten say there’s a chance the U.S. will sink into a recession next year. Those odds are up from 65% last month and more than double six months ago. According to a Bloomberg survey, they also expect GDP to average a whopping 0.3% in 2023. That includes an annualized 0.7% decline in the second quarter and flat readings in the first and third. The general blame is being placed on surging interest rates, elevated inflation, the end of fiscal stimulus, and weak export markets. Government Spending Congress is certainly not shy about spending. Negotiators on the Hill announced a massive $1.7 trillion funding bill last week. They passed the 4,155-page bill and stalled a government shutdown, and President Biden just inked his signature. The bill includes $772.5 billion in non-defense discretionary spending and $858 billion in defense funding. The bill also includes more than $45 billion in funding to support Ukraine, which is up from the $37.7 billion recently requested by the White House. The bill was not without its detractors. Sen. Rand Paul commented that “I object to the way we run our government, the way Congress really abdicates its power of the purse … [the bill is] thousands of pages long created by a few people basically in secret.” He promised to be “very loud” in his opposition. Despite that opposition, it passed. Broken Windows From the 8th Commandment on down, we’ve been taught not to steal. Walmart (WMT) announced that shoplifting could lead to higher prices and store closures. Like many retail outlets, WMT has been suffering from organized theft. Almost 70% of retailers have reported spikes in theft. Target (TGT) reported that year over year theft is up 50% with a $400 million hit to its bottom line. Rite Aid (RAD) reported $5 million in losses last quarter at just its NYC locations. Total theft losses last year were estimated to be over $69 billion. That’s a lot of theft. Energy Use Europe is still struggling with energy concerns as winter kicks into high gear. Last week, the European Union set a cap on natural gas prices. The move is meant to prevent wild price fluctuations in an attempt to protect citizens from excessive costs. The cap will kick in if gas prices exceed 180 euros ($191) per megawatt-hour on the Dutch Title Transfer Facility for three working days; and gas prices are 35 euros ($37) higher than a reference price for liquefied natural gas on global markets in the same period. The move is temporary. It will take effect on Feb. 15, 2023, and last for 20 working days. And Putin retaliated with by claiming that Russia will ban oil sales to countries that impose a cap. The situation is developing and we're following closely. Regardless, energy concerns are why global coal usage reached an all-time high in 2022. The International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that coal usage will surpass 8 billion metric tons for the first time this year. The report blames an increase in natural gas prices that have forced consumers to switch from gas. But that report did note that China accounts for half of all coal consumption and is hopeful that the deployment of renewable energy sources and weakening global economic growth will limit coal demand elsewhere in the world. Let me get this straight – bad economic news causes global slowdowns, which causes less fuel use, which is good. That message should sit well with the Biden Administration. Winds of Change Since day one in office, President Biden has pushed a strong climate-based policy. It has overtly and subtly defined most agenda items. The agenda was bolstered by the Democrats’ House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. That committee is expected to be dissolved when the Republicans take the House majority in January. But the committee has been effective in advancing the Biden agenda. More than 300 of the committee’s 715 policy recommendations made in 2020 have become law. Many of those provisions were instituted through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Inflation Reduction Act, the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act, and the Energy Act of 2020. According to the committee, it has helped reduce methane emissions from the fossil fuel industry, upgraded the electrical infrastructure, and incorporated climate resilience into national security and military readiness. If Democrats maintained a majority, the committee said it would also address increasing the transmission of electricity required for more electric vehicles on the road, and reforming mining laws to overhaul the process of extracting critical minerals for decarbonization. We’ve been focused on electric vehicles and renewable energy and that does not look to slow down going into the new year. That not only includes traditional renewable sources like solar and wind, but liquified natural gas (LNG), hydrogen, and nuclear. We are looking at a couple of ideas: LNG – Excelerate Energy Inc. (EE) is a Texas based company that operates as an oil and natural gas company. The Company offers flexible liquefied natural gas sales and distribution solutions, as well as LNG terminal services worldwide. It should benefit from increased European demand. LNG+ – Kinder Morgan (KMI) is one of the largest energy infrastructure companies in North America. KMI transports natural gas, LNG, ethanol, biodiesel, hydrogen, refined petroleum products, crude oil, carbon dioxide, and more. It too should benefit from increased demand. Wind – Global X Funds Global X Wind Energy ETF (WNDY). Wind is not always easy to trade, but WNDY tracks a market-cap-weighted index of global wind energy companies that comply with the UN Global Compact principles compliance. Who doesn’t love a good U.N. trade? You can’t fight the future, but you can trade it. Cutting Through The Noise For YOU, Frank Gregory PS: This article originally appeared on Option Pit, which you can access by [clicking here](.   FEATURED ARTICLES [Pocket Profits in GM, BP, M, and...]( Quadruple-witching is coming tomorrow, and I expect to see another big volatility spike before the end of the week... [$3.2 Trillion Move Coming Friday]( The market and the VIX is currently reflecting known unknowns. The Fed is raising rates – but we don’t know by how much… [Going "Short Short"]( The market and the VIX is currently reflecting known unknowns. The Fed is raising rates – but we don’t know by how much…   GET STARTED [The VIX: My Biggest Moneymaker in 20 Years of Trading]( The VIX is actually the single-biggest moneymaker in my trading arsenal. And in this report, I’ll tell you exactly how to use it to your advantage. 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