The stances below are c8alpha's editorial distillation of Paul Dietrich's public commentary — television, podcasts, and interviews — compiled by automated transcript analysis and dated to the episode they came from. They may lag the speaker's current view and may contain extraction errors. Text in quotation marks is verbatim from the episode; everything else is our paraphrase. Paul Dietrich is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.
Raw direction-aware returns on public statements — long calls credited when the price rose, shorts when it fell, shorts capped at −100% — in a rising market this mostly measures who was long, not who has skill. Returns run from the stance date; calls are rarely closed publicly, so fixed 90-day / 180-day / 1-year horizons are used. A horizon shows only once it has fully matured, and only at 5+ scored stances.
2025-03-13
TECHNOLOGY STOCKS
bearish
Fox Claman Countdown · video
The economy is entering a business-cycle recession and tech historically underperforms during downturns, making it the first sector to exit
“you're going to have to get out of tech”
Paul Dietrich Fox Business News 03 11 2025 The Claman Countdown
2025-03-13
HEALTHCARE
bullish
Fox Claman Countdown · video
Healthcare is a defensive sector that holds up during recessions and business-cycle slowdowns, warranting an overweight as the economy weakens
“you want to be in health care”
Paul Dietrich Fox Business News 03 11 2025 The Claman Countdown
2025-03-13
UTILITIES
bullish
Fox Claman Countdown · video
Utilities are a core defensive allocation that outperforms during economic slowdowns, consistent with a shift away from growth stocks ahead of a recession
“you want to be in utilities”
Paul Dietrich Fox Business News 03 11 2025 The Claman Countdown
2025-03-13
USTS
bullish
Fox Claman Countdown · video
As the business cycle turns toward recession, shifting equity exposure into bonds provides defensive capital preservation
90d +0.4% · 180d +4.2% · 1y +4.7%
Paul Dietrich Fox Business News 03 11 2025 The Claman Countdown
2025-03-13
GOLD
bullish
Fox Claman Countdown · video
Gold is part of his defensive repositioning out of equities as the economy heads into a recession-like slowdown
90d +12.1% · 180d +21.4% · 1y +67.5%
Paul Dietrich Fox Business News 03 11 2025 The Claman Countdown
2025-03-13
long COST / long WMT / long MCD
basket
Fox Claman Countdown · video
Consumer defensive names like Costco, Walmart, and McDonald's historically outperformed in the last two major recessions and will do so again in the coming slowdown
“these were the ones historically that did the best in the last two major recessions”
90d +9.3% · 180d +12.8% · 1y +25.8%
Paul Dietrich Fox Business News 03 11 2025 The Claman Countdown
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