Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: How does a strong US dollar affect the stock market? And are there any industries that kind of performed better in this environment? Tom Vaughan: Yeah, I read a really good article breaking down the problem with the dollar. And the last time we had really significant problems with the dollars was
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: How does the tax on share buybacks affect the market? Tom Vaughan: Yeah, part of the negotiated settlement at the moment that we’re hearing about, and again, keep in mind that none of these things we’re talking about have been signed in the law yet. So who knows what happens, but part
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: With Sinema agreeing, in principle [to sign the Inflation Reduction Bill in Congress], should I be buying Clean Energy and electric cars? Tom Vaughan: Yeah, WE did. So, last week, you know, clean energies jumped on the news, that there was some possible agreement on this inflation reduction bill. But it was
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: The job report came out. I heard it’s called a lagging indicator. What is a lagging indicator? Tom Vaughan: Okay, sometimes it’s easier to describe a leading indicator. So leading indicator leads the economy. So the S&P 500 is considered a leading indicator, it’s part of the leading indicator basket that they
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: I got I just got laid off. And what should I do? You know, what is what is my checklist? What should I read game prepared for, you know, what should I be looking at? You know, there’s so many things to think about when you get laid off. Tom Vaughan: We
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: I feel I missed my window to sell my house at the peak and move, should I wait until rates go back up? Or rates come back down and housing prices come back up? Or does this even matter? Am I trying to really min max in a situation where I don’t
Transcript: Easan Aruanantham: I’ve always thought about retirement at 65. And I’ve kind of got stuck to that age. But now that I’m in my late 50s, I’m starting to think about what if I retire early? Or what if I retire late? What would that effect be on my retirement? Tom Vaughan: Yeah, so
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: Recession causes oil use to go down. And inflation causes commodities, like oil, gold and silver to rise – this is also true. But what wins when you’re kind of playing them against each other? What are your thoughts on that? Tom Vaughan: Okay, so oil hit $130 A barrel after the
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: My portfolio’s down, is now a good or bad time to start thinking about conversion of my Roth? Tom Vaughan: So let’s say I’ve got an IRA, just to make up a number of $100,000 in the IRA, and I want to convert, say, 50,000, because that’s all I can afford, I’ve
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: Why is oil crashing we’ve seen this week where it just kind of dropping quite hard compared to where it was a month ago. Tom Vaughan: Yeah, so the, I think the biggest reason oil has been coming down because it actually hit $130 A barrel as a high, got down to