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The Julia La Roche Show · Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Big Tech Underperformance Contrasts with Hard Asset Leaders

The performance of the Mag7 ETF is described as 'pathetic,' with only a 4-5% year-to-date gain. McDonald highlights that companies controlling hard assets are significantly outperforming Big Tech, attributing this to investor discomfort with the return on invested capital in tech companies.

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The Mag7, uh, ETF is, is really pathetic. It's literally the year today. It's up like 4, 5%.
And all the companies that control hard assets, which you and I have been talking about for a couple of years, are just destroying Big Tech. Absolutely destroying.
So I think it's because the return on invested capital, mystery meat that's in there, is is got a lot of people uncomfortable.
Heard on The Julia La Roche Show — “#407 Larry McDonald: The Bond Market's Biggest Contrarian Trade, published Tuesday, September 8, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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