10-15-25 Is the Fed Poised to Pause Quantitative Tightening?
2025-10-15
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell just hinted that the Fed may soon pause its balance-sheet runoff — a potential shift that could reshape market liquidity and investor sentiment.
Lance Roberts breaks down:
* Why the Fed may pause QT — and what it signals about financial conditions.
* How ending balance-sheet runoff affects liquidity, yields, and asset prices.
* What history tells us about QT pauses and subsequent market rallies.
* Why the Fed’s portfolio composition (Treasuries vs. MBS) still matters for inflation and housing.
* Portfolio tactics if the liquidity tide begins to turn.
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First Brands: Canary In The Rehypothecation Coal Mine?
2025-10-13
The First Brands Group, manufacturer of auto parts, including Raybestos brakes and FRAM, filed for bankruptcy on September 29th. This bankruptcy is troubling in two ways. First, per the ZeroHedge chart below, the price of First Brands loans fell by 80% in a day. In other words, the loan market had no clue of financial …
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10-10-25 Maximize Your Money: The Hierarchy of Smart Savings Strategies
2025-10-10
How do you make every dollar work harder for you?
Richard Rosso breaks down the Hierarchy of Smart Savings Strategies — a smart, structured approach to prioritize where to save and invest for maximum growth and minimum taxes. This simple yet powerful framework helps you build wealth efficiently, protect against taxes, and optimize your financial future.
0:19 – Foundational Basis & Economic Conundrum
8:05 – Prioritizing Saving Money – Pay Yourself First
12:58 – How to Create a Tax Management Wave
15:50 – The Triple Tax Benefits of HSA’s
18:39 – After-tax Contributions to 401k
21:04 – Investing & Spending
23:55 – Life Insurance applications
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Hosted by RIA Advisors Director of Financial Planning, Richard Rosso, CFP
The AI Trillion Dollar Question
2025-10-10
According to The Wall Street Journal, on an inflation-adjusted basis, technology companies have spent more in the last three years on data centers, chips, and energy than has been spent over the past forty years building out the nation’s interstate system. The massive amount of investments being put to work is stunning. But the Wall …
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