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Market Update: May 25, 2022 Insiders Are Starting To Buy

Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Wednesday, the S&P 500 was up almost 1%. Today, really important day in my opinion, just because we hit that low back and Friday morning, we rally back to a positive on Friday afternoon. Monday was a big up day yesterday, we opened up lower but then rallied

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Market Update: May 24, 2022 Another Earnings Miss Drops The Market

Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Everybody, welcome to Tuesday, the S&P 500 was down point 8% today. And what happened was after hours last night, a company called Snap, which is a digital advertising company that does Snapchat reported earnings that missed expectations and forward guidance, revolving around the fact that they saw higher prices due to

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What Are Delayed Retirement Credits?

Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: I’m nearing retirement, I recently heard about delayed retirement credits. And how do those work. Tom Vaughan: delayed retirement credits is a fancy word for the fact that if you do not take your Social Security at your full retirement age, you will actually start getting paid sort of a bonus and

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Market Volatility Makes Me Want to Stop Investing

Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: I feel a bit shaky with the market volatility and being in the stock market. What should I do? Tom Vaughan: Yeah, it’s kind of really the probably the highlight question right now. It’s just really, you know, what, what do I do? Right? I mean, we all got really used to

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Tom’s Week in Review May 16-20, 2022

Transcript: Tom Vaughan: I do always like to start off the week with a summary of what I’ve seen happen to the stock market this week. And so right now, as we speak, here on Friday, the markets still open. But we were hitting low points for the year so far, kind of broke through

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Covid: China Closed-Loop Bubbles and the Supply Chain

Transcript: Marie Marinovich: With China locking down, we hear a lot about the supply side interruptions, it seems factories are setting up closed loop bubbles to produce goods. What impact do you see on the market? Tom Vaughan: Yeah, so China’s the world’s, you know, supply chain, for all intents purposes, when they locked down.

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Why Does Inflation Take So Long to Slow Down?

Transcript: Marie Marinovich: Why does it take inflation so long to slow down? Tom Vaughan: Yeah, well, it does happen when it gets going. And one of the main things is this wage increase, right. So things cost more employees need to be paid more to be in the same spot. And inflation has actually

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