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21:57 | Feb 18th, 2019

The change in stance by the Federal Reserve from its announced plan in late December to continue hiking interest rates and reducing its balance sheet in 2019, to its early January announcement that it...Show More

21:01 | Jul 12th, 2018

The Trustees of the Social Security Trust Fund recently released their report to Congress, and the picture isn't pretty. For the first time in 36 years, they will have to begin drawing down their rese...Show More

14:52 | Jun 1st, 2018

In December, 2017 the government passed a new tax bill that lowered the corporate tax rate. One of the big benefits of this reduction touted by the administration was the ability of US companies to pl...Show More

20:00 | Apr 30th, 2018

In today's podcast we examine the drivers of market direction in both the short and longer term time frames. Factors like earnings and economic growth, interest rate direction and valuation influence ...Show More

13:58 | Apr 16th, 2018

For most of 2017, the equity markets seemed to be marching higher without much of any volatility. All that changed in early February, 2018, when the Dow recorded a decline of 1,175 points in a single ...Show More

20:53 | Apr 2nd, 2018

Improvements in medical care, more active lifestyles and healthier diets are providing the benefit of longer life expectancies. All this is great news, but along with living longer comes the reality t...Show More

35:40 | Mar 26th, 2018

The month of March marked 10 years since the collapse of Bear Stearns, the 5th largest investment bank in the financial system at the time. Though there were warning signs of impending trouble if you ...Show More

31:31 | Mar 18th, 2018

In this episode Randy discusses the recent movements in interest rates as graphically expressed in the Yield Curve. He explains how rates have recently narrowed along the curve, what are the likely dr...Show More