Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Welcome to Monday, the S&P 500 was up 1.4%. Today, great start to the Santa Claus Rally, the week after Christmas has gone up 77% of the time. So this is the what they call the Santa Claus Rally. And today was a really good start to that, we’ll see how this
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Thursday, the S&P 500 was up point 6% today, and it actually closed at a record high. And so that’s really fantastic. Some more good news was coming out, we had a couple more studies done one in England and one in Scotland, that came out talking about
Transcript: Hello, everybody, welcome to Wednesday, the S&P 500 was up 1%. Today, good day, actually lots of good things happening. Lots of good news that was coming that was kind of driving the market all day, actually, South Africa reported that the case count is coming down fairly quickly. And that the virus seems
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Tuesday, the S&P 500 was up 1.8% today. And I want to start off just by answering a question, you know, why did I get more defensive yesterday, right before a green shirt day. And so let me describe some of the things that I see that are
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: The Federal Reserve says they’re going to increase rates three times and 2022, should I change my allocation? Or should I keep my same allocation? Maybe change? What’s in my stock piece? Or what’s the bond piece? You know? Do we wait till there’s actual raises before we make the changes? Or
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: So this question came in from Richard. You know, the 2021 congressional sessions have ended on the 10th. What are your thoughts on tax increases for 2022? You know, when they decrease taxes usually takes time to go into effect. But what about tax increases? Do they do they have that same
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Monday, the S&P 500 was down 1.14%. Today, we can a little bit more conservative today in our allocations, we cut back the four pieces of our targeted indexes, we now have 75% exposure for our stock market, you know, components. We did this in the IRAs, not
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: I’d like to start off the show just quickly talking with a summary of kind of what happened this week in the stock market. I’m going to do a little bit different though, because this is the last show of the year, I really want to talk about kind of what I
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: “When do we start considering the high inflation not transitory, and ‘just the new normal?’” Tom Vaughan: Yeah. So I think inflation is an interesting piece, right? Because it impacts us on two sides. One as a consumer, and so we really want inflation to be very, very temporary as a consumer
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: “So you talked about the Build Back Better Plan. So, I know the proposal, the tax proposals are changing each week. Can you give kind of like a summary of what’s on the table right now?” Tom Vaughan: Yeah, actually, it’s really kind of interesting. And of course, keep in mind that