Transcript: Tom Vaughan: So I always like to start off the show with just kind of a summary of what I see happening in the market. And although I was gone, one thing that I always do is keep track of what’s happening with the portfolios and with the market, and it’s been a really
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello everybody, welcome to Thursday. The S&P 500 was up almost 1%, today. Really hot day, actually. Lots of green on the board and what have you. I just got back, I was in Hawaii watching my son play in a college golf tournament, a really good time. And really happy to
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: “Are Treasury iBonds i.e. inflation protected treasury bonds a good bet for an inflation period? Tom Vaughan: Yeah. As Easan said, this came in as a comment on our YouTube video that we posted on our channel, dealing with how to deal with inflation. So the question is, should you use treasury
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: So, this is a planning question: “do you examples of poor financial decisions made by clients that by changing their plans, changed their plan’s success rate?” Tom Vaughan: Yeah, this question came in. So I’ve been thinking about, it’s kind of interesting…We have 270 households that we are helping, and it’s amazing
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: “There’s been a lot of changes to the “build back better” plan with new taxes and dropping of other taxes. So can you kind of give a basic summary. Also, there’s a lot of things that were removed from it, and how do you think that affects the market?” Tom Vaughan: Yeah.
Tom Vaughan: I do always like to start the show off with a summary of kind of what I saw happen in the stock market this week. And this was a really fantastic week actually going back to the end of last week, we actually had seven days in a row where the S&P 500
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Thursday. It’s a green shirt day today, haven’t worn this enough recently. Very nice day. Matter of fact, this is the best day since March. The S&P 500 was up 1.7% today. There was a slew of good things that happened today. The market started to move yesterday,
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: “Last week, you mentioned the 60/40 portfolio is really efficient. What does that mean? What are you talking about when you say “efficient?” Tom Vaughan: So, efficiency has at least with investing, in my opinion, has to do with what return you’re getting for each unit of risk that you’re taking. So
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Wednesday. The S&P 500 was up .3%, today. A lot of green on the board today, actually. The NASDAQ was up. There was a lot of good things happening. Earnings that came out today, that started from some of the bigger companies, were at least decent altogether, and
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: “So, earlier today, there’s some agreement on the 15% Global Tax. Could you explain what that is, and what it could mean for the US?” Tom Vaughan: Oh, yeah, this just came out literally just before the show started. I was reading an article on this. It’s been talked about for a