Send us a text At the end of it every straightaway, there's a curve. But this exciting and informative episode of my podcast is not about auto racing. It's about how to preserve and grow the assets in your 401(k). In the last two years the S&P 500 has grown over 50%, and the NASDAQ, over 70%. With each passing day the number of times the word bubble appears in the Wall Street Journal increases. Wall Street Dummies understand that now is the time to keep emotions in check. They also unders...

Send us a text During my 62-year journey with Wall Street, I have been a witness to and a participant in, many significant events. I was there on Black Monday, 1987. I enjoyed the ride of the once in a lifetime 1990’s bull market. I chuckled my way through the dot.com bubble and cried in my beer during the subprime meltdown of 2007 to 2009. All of these events were profoundly documented and dissected by the financial median and their Wall Street cronies. The subject of this incredibly i...

Send us a text Up until a few weeks ago I had no desire in delving into the mystic world of crypto currency. However, when Trump announced that he was going to direct the Department of Labor to allow cryptocurrency and private equity as an option to the country’s 90 million 401(k) participants, I concluded it was time to risk becoming tainted and find out what all the hoopla was about. Not to become proficient in it, but rather to understand what form it might take in order to enter the 401(k...

Send us a text As we transition from summer into the fall months, the words of Will Rogers come to mind: “The worst month to invest in the stock market is September. The others are January, February, March…..November, and December. So far, the stock market year 2025 has been interesting, but not overly dramatic. In this episode of my podcast, I will provide listeners with my thoughts and observations on where we are, how we got here and some comments about where the remainder of t...

Send us a text There are 90 million American workers with company sponsored 401(k)plans. These 7,143 plans have a cumulative value of $14 trillion. This figure is twice the amount of the federal budget and 25% of the total value of the US stock market. Plan participants are required to choose their investments from a list of mutual funds prepared by a financial professional who is compensated by the funds they recommended. In 2015, the US Supreme Court mandated that employers must provi...

Send us a text Eighty million American workers participate in their companies 401(k) plan. Collectively, they have $14 trillion dollars invested in these plans. They make their own investment decisions by selecting mutual funds from a list prepared by an investment professional who is compensated by the mutual funds they place on the list. Last year, American workers paid $275 billion dollars in fees to have Wall Street manage their mutual funds. Over the course of the next decade this figure...

Send us a text In this stop on my 62-year journey along Wall Street, I discuss the evolving nature of the stock market. Today’s market is not your father’s market. Sixty years ago, less than 3 percent of the American public owned stock. Today that number is north of sixty percent and growing. Sixty years ago, Wall Street brokers were the gate keepers to the equity markets. Today, eighty million American investors make their own investment decisions using discount brokers and index funds...

Send us a text During a debate on the Federal budget, Herbert Humphry, the late, great Senator from Minnesota, said, “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon it starts to add up.” The same thing can be said for today's 401(k) program, except you need to change the B to a T. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 7,834 active 401(k) plans with 90 million participants. The value of their combined investments is in excess of $12 trillion. That's a number twice the ...

Send us a text The stock market loves good news and hates bad news. The problem is that it has trouble deciding which is which. It also reserves the right to pause and change its mind midstream, without prior notice to the investing public. Last week, the US Congress passed what the media refers to as “The Big, Beautiful, Bill. It covers a sweeping number of topics that will impact the trajectory of our society and economy for years to come. Many of the issues addressed in the Big, Beau...

Send us a text The normal half time segment of a televised football game, begins with a petite blond female reporter accosting the loosing coach with a mike and screeching at him, “Your losing by 49 points, what do you need to change in the second half?” The answer is obvious to everyone except the blond reporter: Score more points. In this exciting and insightful episode of my podcast, I will discuss what the experts predicted the market would do during the first half of 2025, and repo...

Send us a text Our lives are dominated by and consumed by technology. We can turn our house lights on from a phone in our car. Our car recognizes us. The best chess player in the world is a server farm. This has lead us to believe that all our problems can be solved by technology. We refuse to believe that the best investment outcome is simple and close to free. In this episode of my incredibly insightful podcast, I will explain why mutual funds managed by Wall Street’s best and brightest are...

Send us a text What's in a name? I have chosen this iconic line from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to impress you with a fact that I am a learned, erudite professional and not just some off the street strapping hanger, bloviating about the market. This episode of my incredibly insightful podcast is directed at the 90 million Americans who have their life savings invested in a 401(k) plan. Their only investment options are mutual funds and the mavens of Wall Street are trying to convince them...

Send us a text Wall Street Dummies are engaged investors who realize that Wall Street’s jibber jabber generates more money for Wall Street than for Main Street. They view the moniker Dummy as a badge of honor and a single digit salute to the Wall Street elite. They are vigorous advocates of index funds and discounts brokers, and employ them in their retirement accounts to outperform the pros. Support the show

Send us a text The internet has been flooded with articles claiming that emulating Buffett will make you rich. Unfortunately, the methodology most cited was in vogue 40 years ago. Using antiquated methodology to deal with modern technology is an exercise in futility. A more reasonable approach is to do as Buffett says, not do as he does. This incredibly insight episode will document Buffett’s REAL advice to individual investors. Support the show

Send us a text Over the course of the past few weeks, Mr. Market has been on a tear. Most people view his actions as chaotic, unexplainable and unpredictable. In this incredibly insightful and entertaining episode of my podcast, I will explain to you the rationale behind Mr. Markets seeming irrationality. By pealing back, the smoke and mirrors of the financial media’s ramblings, Wall Street Dummies can learn how Mr. Market really works and use that insight to grow their retirement accounts. S...

Send us a text Shakespeare wrote, “A rose by any other name would still smell sweet. That may apply to horticulture, but it doesn’t work when applied to stock market indexes. In this incredibly insightful episode of my podcast, l explain the differences between the primary indexes and those bastardized versions created in the smoke field back rooms of Wall Street’s marketing departments. Support the show

Send us a text If you think that Mr. Market’s recent hissy fit was the result of a gaggle of investors, calculator in one hand and index finger on the execute button; GUESS AGAIN. In this captivating and insightful episode, I will take you through, blow by blow, how the rapacious mavins of Wall Street used computers and snake oil to turn news blips into ginormous trading profits. I will close with comment on how Wall Street Dummies view this as an opportunity to add to their own coffers. Supp...

Send us a text In this episode of my extremely insightful podcast, I document the evolution of the financial services industry from one that was an entirely manual process dominated by the legacy Wall Street firms to the current electronic system where the internet discount brokers are now the dominant party. Support the show

Send us a text According to a small gaggle of self-appointed fortune tellers in the financial media, the market is on the verge of a horrific collapse, hurling all non-believers into a fiery pit. The cause of this rapidly approaching market apocalypse is the S&P 500’s concentration in the magnificent Seven; Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla. Last year, more than half of the S&P 500’s 26 percent gain came from these seven companies. In this exciting episode ...

Send us a text Wall Street Dummy’ s are shrewd investors who realize that Wall Street’s jibber jabber generates more money for Wall Street than Main Street. They view the moniker DUMMY as a badge of honor and a put down of the Wall Street elite. In this episode I introduce my Dummies Half Time Reports that help them navigate Mr. Market’s periodic hissy fits. Support the show