🚨 Investors Could Get Blindsided.. (CRUCIAL Market Update 2026)

This is the Saturday news roundup and today's May 23rd, 2026. Most people are not aware of what's happening in the bond world and how that's an even scarier idea than a stock market crash. The war in Iran is still happening in the background and the straight of Hermuz is still effectively closed. So, there are still major ramifications from all of this. All the while, the stock market just keeps booming with new all-time highs and major indexes. One huge development is in the world of quantum computing where the US government just gave a major shot in the arm to the whole sector and those stocks are going crazy with some over 50% gains in just the past couple days. I'm going to go over this in a short concise way, give you all the information that you need to be very well informed so that you can invest well in the coming days. My name is Nolan Goa. My students call me Professor G, and I made this channel to make investing simplified. Remember that all investing carries risk, so do your own research. This is not financial advice and I'm not a financial adviser. First, last week I told you all that I was going to give away one free year to somebody to my exclusive group over on Patreon to someone who signed up for my free newsletter. As of right now, I have over 11,000 subscribers on the newsletter that's totally free and goes out every other week straight to your email. So, I took all the current subscribers, exported the file, and then input the file to Claude and told it to randomly select one person that I could announce on here. To keep everyone safe, I didn't want to show the actual name or any emails. And so, I've emailed you, Laura Lynn P, and I look forward to having you in the exclusive group. Now, I'm going to be doing this again next month. And so, for anybody that signs up for the free newsletter between now and then, I'll do this exact same process again. take everybody who signed up for it. So, if you've signed up for it in the past and you've just been a loyal subscriber, thank you. So, in the next month, I'll pick one more person to get a free year in my exclusive group. Don't miss out. Now, let's move on to that quantum computing deal. I've made multiple videos in the past couple weeks about the quantum computing space. One of my videos talks about actual companies and one talks about quantum ETFs. I'd highly recommend you check those out after this video. So now before I came on here on YouTube to talk about quantum computing, I first made sure and let my private group know about these stocks that I had been researching very very heavy and why I just made some very important buys. These were two new buys in my portfolio. I made a blog post there specially for them on April 29th, as you can see here, explaining the two new buys I made and why I was considering these companies. You can see here that I bought Regetti Computing at $15.79. Today, Regetti is at $27.70, up over 50% in the past month. In that blog post, I told them I was buying ION Q at $419. And now today, ion Q's over $65. These are some massive gains, and a lot of people in that group made a lot of money over the last couple of weeks. So, let me explain exactly what happened this last week that made those companies shoot off straight to the moon and then more importantly, how to invest moving forward, especially if you haven't yet pulled these into your portfolio. The US government just made one of the biggest quantum computing bets ever, and that's why quantum computing stocks exploded this week. Here's basically what happened. The US announced about $2 billion in funding and investments into quantum computing companies through the Chips and Science Act. The goal is to make sure America stays ahead of China and what many believe could become the next major computing revolution after AI. The government is now directly backing actual quantum companies and manufacturing infrastructure. Major winners included IBM, D-Wave Quantum, Regetti Computing, Global Foundaries, Side Quantum, Quantinuum, Atom Computing, and Inflection. So now, why is this such a big deal? Up until this point, a lot of investors and just people in general kind of looked at quantum computing almost like science fiction. Like, is this even real? This announcement changed the conversation because the US basically said, "We believe quantum computing is strategically important enough for national security and economic dominance that we're willing to fund it aggressively right now." So, the stock market obviously went crazy over the past couple of days. These companies have gone up just crazy. Quantum's no longer just experimental. The government sees it as critical infrastructure. Billions more in future funding could follow and quantum computings may survive long enough to reach commercialization. That's why the quantum computing stocks went crazy right after that announcement. Now what the money is actually being used for. The funding's aimed at several things. The first one is building quantum chip factories and the biggest award went to IBM. The government and IBM are jointly funding a new US quantum chip manufacturing business called Anderon. This is important because quantum chips are extremely difficult to manufacture. The US wants domestic production capability and they don't want dependence on foreign supply chains. Think of this like the early semiconductor race all over again. Number two, the money went to scaling quantum hardware. Companies like D-Wave and Regetti specifically got a lot of funding to be able to scale their operation. Right now, quantum computing still have a lot of errors. They still are super loud and noisy. They're very much difficult to scale. The money is basically trying to go towards this idea of these machines actually being commercial, being able to be used and being able to solve realworld problems reliably. Now third, this money basically went to national security. This is probably the biggest one from the US side. This is kind of why the government wanted to get involved, especially seeing how much China is putting into this and probably other countries as well. Quantum computing could eventually break current encryption systems, revolutionize military simulations, optimize logistics and defense systems, and create major cyber advantages. The US just absolutely does not want China winning this race. That's where that fourth place is basically where that money is going to. And it's because they want to compete with China. It's basically becoming a tech arms race. At this point, the government's basically saying that they see quantum technology basically on the same or in par with AI, space technology semiconductors. Whoever gets this massive lead will definitely have a leg up both economically and military. It's going to give them an advantage in so many different ways. And the US is showing that they're taking this very seriously. Now, yes, quantum computing is very exciting and it's absolutely booming right now. But I told my Patreon group exactly what I'm going to tell you here as far as investing moving forward. I'd bet that traders and short-term investors start to take profits soon and by next week we see a good dip in these companies. For now, if you're not already in them, I'd suggest taking the weekend to do major research. Watch both of my most recent videos on YouTube where I talk about these quantum companies and then also the ETFs. Make sure and figure out if this is the right move for you and your portfolio. These are still very high risk and volatile. Now, that second part, that second paragraph there is very important. I do believe that all of these will soon be added to QQQM or SCHG or any of the growth ETFs eventually as long as they keep growing. So, you may have exposure there down the road. I would not recommend FOMOing in right now at the top. Be patient and trust the process. And just like this, people have been asking me, "What are you going to do with the SpaceX IPO or the Anthropic IPO or any of these huge IPOs that are coming?" And I tell them the same thing. There's so much hype. They're so overvalued. It's going to be so very expensive that I'm not going to be taking part of the IPO. Statistically, IPOs do very, very bad. Now, SpaceX could definitely just soar from the beginning and never stop. But I think it's going in very, very expensive. And for me personally, I'm just going to watch and see what happens. If you're investing in like my three fund portfolio that I always talk about, you're going to have exposure to these companies if they ever become what they're supposed to become. If SpaceX is even half of what it's supposed to do, if any of these IPOs are even half of what they're supposed to do and half of the hype that they're getting at IPO time, eventually they're going to be added to things like the NASDAQ 100, the S&P 500, the total US stock market. And so you're going to have exposure to these no matter what. That's the beauty of investing in the three or four fund portfolio and why it's so simple and it's really really the way to go. But let's move on to the bond market because this is very important for investors and most people are not really understanding what's going on here. Right now overall investors are selling bonds. Bond prices are falling sharply and bond yields are going up sharply. The key number everyone watches is the 10-year Treasury yield. It recently surged toward levels not seen since 2025. And in some parts of the market, long-term yields are approaching highs not even seen since 2007. That's a huge deal because the 10-year Treasury influences mortgage rates, corporate borrowing, auto loans, credit cards, and more. This absolutely brings slower economic growth. Businesses become less willing to hire or expand or invest. And then consumers also spend less when financing costs rise. This raises the risk of slower growth or even a recession later if rates stay elevated for too long. What this is also doing is it's making the government's interest costs explode. We have a huge debt crisis on our hands and the interest on that debt is already very hard to pay down, almost impossible. And so as the rates go up, that just makes the interest on that crazy debt even crazier. So, this is going to create a very dangerous cycle because they're going to have to issue more debt. But at this time, higher yields are demanded. Nobody wants to give money over at the current yield. They'll give it over at a higher yield, meaning that maybe in the short term, we make a little bit of money to pay off our debt, but in the long term, we're going to owe even more as a country. Then we're going to have even higher interest cost, meaning that we're going to have to issue more debt. And markets are starting to pay very close attention to this. So what does this mean for investors? Basically that stocks face major pressure. Higher bond yields hurt stocks because future earnings become worth less. Investors can suddenly earn attractive safe rates in treasuries. This especially pressures high growth tech stocks, speculative companies, and unprofitable businesses. So, I know I just showed a lot of exciting reasons why quantum computing has been booming through the roof, but there's also that pressure that we see things like quantum or AI or semiconductors or things that are very high growth take a huge nose dive if this bond world gets worse. Our stock market is definitely skating on thin ice. It feels like we're all built on a house of cards and at any point that could easily fall over. We also have a new Fed chair that just took office and there's a lot of interesting moves that this person is deciding that they might do moving forward that actually in the past has not been great for the country overall. I'm still working on the research for that, but I'll bring that to you next Saturday in the news breakdown next Saturday, which is very important. So, flag that one. For now, watch either of these quantum computing videos that I just did. And remember to sign up for that free newsletter for a chance to get a free year in my private group. And remember to keep investing simplified.