How Government Spending Really Works

2024-03-05

Valuation metrics have little to do with what the market will do over the next few days or months. However, they are essential to future outcomes and shouldn’t be dismissed during the surge in bullish sentiment. Just recently, Bank of America noted that the market is expensive based on 20 of the 25 valuation metrics they track.

2024-03-01

Nothing sinks a marriage quicker than money issues. If the Valentine’s Day glow has faded, promise you’ll respect your lover’s credit, communicate about your money, and share together money tips to help revive your financial harmony.

Hosted by RIA Advisors’ Director of Financial Planning, Richard Rosso, CFP, w Senior Financial Advisors, Danny Ratliff, CFP, & Jonathan MCCarty, CFA, CFP, NSSA
Produced by Brent Clanton, Executive Producer, & Erica Theriot, Marketing Director

0:10 – INTRO
1:30 – Don’t Disrespect the Credit
8:30 – Are You Talking?
11:35 – Do You Understand my Blueprint?
21:29 – Avoid “Bailout City!”
25:50 – Resentment is Poison!
30:25 – What Successful Couples Do
35:20 – Big Purchases? Talk First!
40:55 – Don’t Dismiss Money DNA!
50:49 – The Bailout Rule. One and Done

2024-02-27

Preparing for this week’s economic data releases; what the Fed looks at for Inflation; earnings season concludes with good beat-rate…on lowered expectations. Dow Theory theory and Amazon’s joining the S&P 500: When does Nvidia enter the index? Analysts are raising targets for the S&P to 5800 by the end of the year, based on performance of Nvidia and other tech stocks: This is nuts. Markets continue to trade within narrowly-defined trading range based on rising 20-DMA. Marriage Rules are nuts; Nvidia’s price-to-sales ratio is un-attainable and un-sustainable. Nvidia’s market share gains are other stocks’ market share losses. Wall Street’s perceptions of the economy vs the rest of us; the dichotomy between headline economics and reality. Why food is taking a bigger bite out of our

2024-02-23

Is Nvidia more than a market darling, and has it entered the "tulip stage?" (We don’t know when the tulip will die.) How to invest with the maddening crowd without going mad. Candid Coffee preview (registration link is below!) Couples, Money, & Communication: Make it fun (Amazon shots?) Pensions vs Social Security: the confounding Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) rules. Why you cannot (fully) take both SS and Pensions. What to do when you regret retiring; even transition to retirement is a regret. Why small business owners sabotage their transition. Failing to prioritize health in retirement; the new Score dating app. Why retirees have regrets; How to leave a legacy without heirs. The importance of physical excercise for mental health & wellness.

2024-01-09

(1/9/24) Wall Street begins a new round of quarterly earnings, looking at the results of Q4; estimates for 2024 are allready falling. What are you really paying for earnings? Why we have to be in ETF’s, even though we don’t like them. There is evidence of an uptick in inflation this year. Markets miss achieving January Trifecta by .13%, despite tax gain selling pressure. Will January be similarly weak? We polled our viewers/listeners for their takes on what 2024 will hold: Polling the People includes commentary on S&P 500 Seasonality and bullish sentiment, and where the markets may end in 2024. There’s an expectation for negative returns, higher inflation, slower economic growth and Real GDP; higher unemployment, higher interest rates, and the odds for recession.

Hosted by RIA Advisors’

2023-12-19

(12/19/23) Markets are winding-down to the Christmas hoiday; trading volumes will be light. We’ve seen record inflows to S&P 500 ETF’s as markets have rallied = too much exuberance. Forgetting the basisc: Buy under-valued, sell over-valued. How the Dollar drives markets. Counting out the 12-days of Christmas: Why so many birds? Sell cash, buy stocks, as Powell pivots; how government intervention (the Fed) affects investor psychology: Did we get our money’s worth? Where did all that money go?? The disconnect of markets from the economy; market rescues funded on debt. Pre-market commentary; holiday spending: more money, less stuff; Lance’s weekend on the border; earnings preview: Shipping & freight commentary; don’t expect a big crash. Yet. Unexpected, exogenous events are catalysts of

2023-12-07

(12/28/23) Newly proposed rules for raising major banks’ reserve requirements are raising the ire of Bank CEO’s like JPMorgan/Chase’s Jamie Dimon. Boo-hoo. either get completely under government control, or exist as independent private business, and be allowed to fail without bailouts. Why the government wants to force banks to hold more reserves: Buy more bonds. Bitcoin: Why is Dimon so opposed? The alternative to banking. The difference between Bitcoin vs Blockchain; Crypto is the ultimate fiat currency, backed by nothing. Why Dimon should fear blockchain.

Hosted by RIA Advisors’ Chief Investment Strategist Lance Roberts, CIO, w Portfolio Manager Michael Lebowitz, CFA
Produced by Brent Clanton, Executive Producer
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