Transcript: Hello, everybody, welcome to Monday, the S&P 500 was down about .3%, today. And really the big story of the day, and it will continue to be big story for a while here, is just the debt ceiling issue that’s happening. And unfortunately, the debt ceiling expires at the end of this week. Looks
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: I’d like to start off the show with just a summary of what I saw happened this week in the market. One of the biggest things that we do, heading into retirement or in retirement, is managing the money that we have. Eventually, once you retire, you’re going to be living off
Transcript: Hello, everybody, welcome to Thursday. The S&P 500 was up a lot today: It was up 1.2%. The Dow was up almost 1.5%, NASDAQ 1%, the Russell 2000 Small Cap index was up about 1.9% today. Everything was green. Not everything. But, most everything was green today, it was really an incredible day all
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: Tom Vaughan: Everybody, welcome to Wednesday, the S&P 500 was up almost 1%, today. All of the indexes were up a lot. The Russell 2000 was actually up 1.6%, today. Really strong day. It started off with the big company in China, called Evergrande, that has $300 billion in debt who had $84 billion
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 Tuesday. The S&P 500 was up .08% today, and it really was a decent day altogether. It was up for most of the day, the Dow was up for most of the day. The Dow also ended up down, but the NASDAQ and the Russell 2000 actually ended
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