About The Free Markets Report

The Free Markets Report is a free, independent publication tracking deregulation across Washington and its downstream effects on markets. Every weekday we cover the executive orders, agency rule rollbacks, and regulatory reversals that are quietly reshaping entire industries — and the specific investment ideas they create.

This is not investment advice, and it never mentions any fund the author manages. It's straight analysis: what changed, why it matters, who benefits, and what the market has and hasn't priced in yet.

The Free Markets Report is published by Lead-Lag Publishing, LLC.

About the author

Michael A. Gayed, CFA is the Founder of Lead-Lag Media and Publisher of The Lead-Lag Report. A five-time recipient of the Dow & Founders Award for market research, he has spent over fifteen years managing portfolios using intermarket analysis. He hosts the Lead-Lag Live podcast and writes daily market commentary followed by hundreds of thousands of investors, advisors, and allocators.