Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: The first question is about some news that came out of China this morning, how they’re essentially cracking down on cryptocurrencies and then are looking to outlaw their transactions. “So, do you think if cryptocurrencies fail, will there be a ripple effects throughout the rest of the markets?” Tom Vaughan: Yeah, you
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: You’ve seen like many different retirements. What are some habits, outside of the world of personal finance/money, that leads to a happy retirement? So like a fulfilling retirement? Tom Vaughan: Yeah, that’s kind of interesting question. Because, mostly we deal with the finance, right? I mean, that’s just what what we’re responsible
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: Chairman Powell’s term is ending in February. How does that kind of play into the market, too? Tom Vaughan: Yeah. This is a question that came in, I think this is kind of interesting. So Chairman Powell is the chairman of the Federal Reserve. So the Federal Reserve, they do lots of
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: So another news event that’s been kind of… been pretty prominent this week is, “The Republicans are refusing to raise the debt ceiling. Should I be worried about the market, and what kind of volatility should I expect?” Tom Vaughan: Okay, so, in my opinion right now, this is the reason the
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Monday. It’s a red shirt day, unfortunately, today. I haven’t worn this in a long time. The S&P 500 was down 1.7%. Let’s just talk about some of the things that happened and what we might watch for. So first of all, one of the big catalysts seems
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: So in one of your videos you mentioned quadruple witching Friday, which is today, please describe what that is. And why is it important to know about it? Tom Vaughan: Yeah. Okay. So quadruple witching Friday is, is the 17th of September. In this particular case, that’s today. And there are four
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Thursday. The S&P 500 was down .16%, today. Not exactly the follow through day we were looking for. We’ve had a couple of times here we’ve had little up-market hoping for kind of a second up-market day. It reminds me of a joke about a young trader who
Tom Can Help You Change Your Financial Path Transcript: Tom Vaughan: So the first question I’m going to kind of present because it came in this week. And we really, you know, thought it was an interesting question. And we decided to do a deep dive on it and show exactly how we would do
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Monday. The S&P 500 broke its five day losing streak today: It was up .23%. The Dow was up, and the Russell 2000 Small Cap index was up, and the NASDAQ was down, but just a little bit. So, several important things that I think are worth looking
Tom Talks Stock/Bond Mix and Risk Tolerance for Retirement Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: I have a mix of stocks and bonds in my portfolio. I’m getting close to 60. And you know, as I age, should I change how my my allocation is? Should I be more conservative? As I get older? Tom Vaughan: I get