Markets , Economics and Insights Looking to learn from one of the greats – GOAT! This episode's guest: Jim Rogers - The Investment Biker Jim Rogers, a native of Demopolis, Alabama, is an author, financial commentator, adventurer, and successful international investor.  He has been frequently featured in Time, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Barron’s, Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Business Times, The Straits Times and many media...

Stocks breaking out – tech mania continues Apple finally announces AI – investors love it CPI comes in – yields drop – it is Goldie Lox all over again! And our guest this week is Steve Sanders – EVP at Interactive Brokers Steve Sanders is Executive Vice President of Marketing & Product Development at Interactive Brokers. In this capacity, he oversees all marketing and product development efforts at the company and introduces Interactive Brokers’ low commissions,...

Inflation comes and goes US Economy hitting a soft patch. Summer doldrums for markets. Guest Jim Bruce – Movie producer and writer of Money for Nothing and The Restless Billionaire. Money For Nothing, Inside the Federal Reserve  - Jim Bruce - Producer, Director and Writer of Money For Nothing, Inside the Federal Reserve. Money For Nothing is Jim Bruce's directorial debut. Jim was Editor/Writer/Co-Producer of Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars - finalist for the 2006...

End of May – 2/3 of the quarter is over Waiting for the Split as shares rocket higher Looking for reasons to be bearish or bullish And our Guest – Ross Gerber of Gerber Kawasaki   Ross Gerber is the Co-Founder, President and CEO of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management. Ross oversees Gerber Kawasaki's corporate and investment management operations as well as serves individual clients. Ross has become one of the most followed investors on social and in...

NVDA earnings so good  it sucks the markets dry. Fed minutes – sounding a bit hawkish. Bond yields on the rise again. Copper falls – from all-time highs. Michael Johnston, CFA is a financial industry veteran with a passion for improving outcomes for retail investors. Following stints in corporate finance and investment banking, Michael founded ETF Database (ETFdb) and grew it into the largest independent media property covering exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Under...

Good noews! CPI - not so hot. Bitcoin and Gold blasting off Meme Stocks – fly then die Thomas Thornton, Hedge Fund Telemetry Thomas Thornton is a former portfolio manager, senior trader, and technical analyst with Level Global Investors and Galileo Capital. Tom has written a daily market note for a select group of hedge fund managers for years and now has offered it for all investors with Hedge Fund Telemetry. His long term focus on sentiment indicators borders on the...

Market bonce continues and a few favorites breaking out… USD starts to roll – how long will that last? Guest, Frank Curzio – Curzio Research - he is naming names. Frank Curzio can be reached by email at [email protected] Frank Curzio is an equity analyst with close to three decades of experience covering small- and mid-cap stocks. Check out his newsletters. (Free trial subscriptions available) He has been the editor of several well respected newsletters with...

April ends with a thud. Oil prices comes in, Yields hold near recent highs. Flip Flopping Fed and maybe, perhaps could-be is the talk by Powell. And our guest - Tea Muratovic , Co Founder of Seasonax - provides 5 stocks with amazing seasonal trends. Tea Muratovic is an accomplished professional in the financial markets with extensive experience in the global market landscape. As a Co-founder of Seasonax, she developed an award-winning analytical tool that identifies...

Kicking off the MegaCap Earnings - some concerning items. Rate Cut Bets Fizzle Yields Keep Rising The VIX – Hovering around 16 And our Guest – Johns Williams from ShadowStats John Williams, founder and publisher of ShadowStats.com.   He received an A.B. in Economics, cum laude, from Dartmouth College, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth‘s Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, where he was named an Edward Tuck Scholar.   During his career as a consulting...

Herky-Jerky market action continues. Powell puts down the gavel. Tariffs enter the picture again And our Guest this week - Steve Selengut talking Retirement Money Secrets and The Biggest Mistakes People make investing.   Steve Selengut, a 40+ year professional investment manager/advisor/RIA/IAR whose current adventure is coaching both individuals and other advisors in creating income independence for themselves and their clients. I’m also promoting my 2nd book,...

What commodities look attractive here and why? Inflation CPI reports - just not looking good Major banks kick off earnings season.. Guest: Robbie Miles, CFA - Allianz Global   Robbie Miles, CFA, ACA - Portfolio Manager (Director) in the Global Thematic Equity team, London Robbie is a Portfolio Manager at Allianz Global Investors (AGI) with over 12 years of investment experience. He is the lead portfolio manager of two global equity strategies, Positive Change and...

Gold hitting new highs – and oil is on the rise Easy policy over in Japan  While China is stimulating Big employment report moves markets Guest David Gaffen – Editor at Reuters. David Gaffen is the U.S. breaking news companies editor at Reuters, where he has worked for 14 years. He also did stints as the U.S. energy editor and U.S. deputy markets editor and has been a business journalist for more than 20 years. In that time he has covered the 2008 financial crisis,...

Bang Zoom to the Moon – Bitcoin ramps to new highs - Then again so do equities. Goldilocks – SHE'S BAAAACK And our Guest today – my good friend Tom Nelson – SVP for Franklin Templeton Investments. Tom Nelson is a senior vice president and head of asset allocation portfolio management for Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions. He is a member of the Investment Strategy & Research Committee. He is a portfolio manager of a number of funds offered for sale in various...

The Fed – Is Powell throwing in the towel? AI – Profits spreading – lots of money to be made. Apple – dragged down by a new lawsuit. 90 years of evidence, this week's guest says this is the key asset class to own.. Paul Merriman is a nationally recognized authority on mutual funds, index investing, asset allocation and both buy-and-hold and active management strategies. Now retired from Merriman, the Seattle-based investment advisory firm he founded in 1983, he is...

Two more hot inflation reports – stickier than thought. What goes up – doesn't have to come down – but often checks back. Tax season is here – a few friendly reminders Guest – Paul Barron – The Paul Barron Network   Paul Barron is a technologist and futurist that has forecasted various major market shifts in the past 25 years from a 100 billion impact on the restaurant and retail business to the impact of social media on our society in 2007. He has built the...

Markets moving – pros thinking about hedging - March is here and thinking about consolidation potential AI hype continues and continues… This week's guest is Thomas Thornton - Hedge Fund Telemetry. Thomas Thornton is a former portfolio manager, senior trader, and technical analyst with Level Global Investors and Galileo Capital. Tom has written a daily market note for a select group of hedge fund managers for years and now has offered it for all investors with Hedge Fund...

Education and implementation of investing techniques. In this episode, we discuss the important aspects investing, best execution and  enhancements to a really cool trading platform. This episode's guest: Steve Sanders - EVP at Interactive Brokers. Steve Sanders is Executive Vice President of Marketing & Product Development at Interactive Brokers. In this capacity, he oversees all marketing and product development efforts at the company and introduces Interactive...

No stopping a speeding freight train A rising tide raises all CHIPS – and boy did they rise Inflation still an issue and the Fed trying to talk markets down (Not working) Guest: Larry McMillan takes us through some interesting options strategies. Professional trader Lawrence G. McMillan is perhaps best known as the author of Options As a Strategic Investment, the best-selling work on stock and index options strategies, which has sold over 300,000 copies. An active...

Inflation – Maybe Stagflation? Surging unprofitable stocks – a bit of déjà vu here AI fever rolls on (and on). After serving as a Captain in the United States Marine Corps, Dr. Gray earned an MBA and a PhD in finance from the University of Chicago where he studied under Nobel Prize Winner Eugene Fama. Next, Wes took an academic job in his wife’s hometown of Philadelphia and worked as a finance professor at Drexel University. Dr. Gray’s interest in bridging the research gap...

A banking crisis brewing? Say it aint so Fed’s trying to talk down rate cuts – Powell on 60 Minutes Looking like a pullback could be in the cards Guest, Frank Curzio – Curzio Research   Frank Curzio can be reached by email at [email protected] Frank Curzio is an equity analyst with close to two decades of experience covering small- and mid-cap stocks. Check out his newsletters. (Free trial subscriptions available) He has been the editor of several well...

January is in the books – and the results are mixed. The Fed gives and takes away – No cuts on the table just yet. Plenty of tech news this week  - Earnings and more earnings. And our guest this week – Tom McClellan of the McClellan Market Report. Tom McClellan is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point where he studied aerospace engineering, and he served as an Army helicopter pilot for 11 years. He began his own study of market technical analysis while...

US Economy humming along – better than expected – but calls for rate cuts continue. Is this the Year for Foreign? Not so fast says markets. Bitcoin – post ETF blues. This week's guest - Tim Knight – a self proclaimed Permabear.   Tim Knight has been charting and trading since 1987. His first stock trade was, in fact, on October 19, 1987 – the day of the crash – which perhaps goes a long way explaining his disposition toward bearishness. He has been involved in...

And on that server farm there was a chip - Ai-Ai-O Guests John Pugliano and Danielle Dimartino Booth are this week's guest - talking about the only two things that seem to matter - The Fed and Ai. Follow @andrewhorowitz   John Pugliano is the author of The Robots are Coming: A Human’s Survival Guide to Profiting in the Age of Automation. He’s also the host of the Wealthsteading Podcast where he shares his ideas and personal experience on wealth building...

CPI ticks up – PPI ticks down – never a dull moment.  Earnings season is here – Banks reported and most hit the skids. Bitcoin ETF approved and Bitcoin gets whacked and we enter a holiday shortened week – get ready! Guest: Vitaliy Katsenelson explains value investing and what he looks for in great stocks. His "Three Pillars" of quality are an important aspect of his research and what he looks for in companies that he plans to invest in for the long haul. Follow...