The Investopedia Express with Caleb Silver

The Federal Reserve went big with its first interest rate cut since 2020, and it's biggest cut in 16 years as it lowered the Federal Funds Rate by half a percent. We look at what usually happens in the stock market - which hit new record highs last week - when the Fed gets this aggressive. Plus, Dr. David Kelly, the Chief Global Strategist for JP Morgan Asset Management, joins The Express from the...

Americans from every generation still believe that owning their home is one the greatest investments they will make and a key component of realizing their own version of the 'American Dream'. But rising prices and tighter supply have made that dream less of a reality for many. Angie Hicks, the founder of Angi and one of the country's leading real estate luminaries, explains how to find value and q...

Josh Brown rejoins The Express to talk about his latest book, "You Weren't Supposed to See That: Secrets Every Investor Should Know", and explains why the relentless bid in the stock market is everlasting, where all the public companies went, the economic creation and destruction behind scarcity and abundance, why trillions of dollars in economic stimulus created economic armageddon, and other lig...

Investopedia is celebrating its 25th Anniversary, and we are joining the party with the most important innovations, financial events and terms of the past quarter century. Plus, Jay Woods, the Chief Global Strategist for Freedom Capital Markets helps us prep our playbooks for the rest of the year as the stock market dances near record highs ahead of interest rate cuts and an election that is bound...

Once the playground for high-net worth and institutional investors, alternative investing is opening up to individual investors like us through ETFs and Interval funds. Shana Orczyk, the founder and CEO of Banrion Capital, also known as "The Queen of Alternatives", educates us on the universe of alternative investments outside of collectibles, and how investors can weave them into their portfolios...

With the Dept. of Justice's recent antitrust victory over Google and its online advertising practices ruled monopolistic, the breakup of the biggest technology companies in the world seems like a real possibility. But, as William Kovacic, former Chair of the FTC and now a Professor of Law and Global Competition at The George Washington School of Law explains, the cases against these giants can tak...

On our 200th episode, JC Parets of AllStarCharts climbs back aboard The Express to assess the damage across the capital markets following the 2024 Summer Volmageddon. As it turns out, some sectors and asset classes actually got stronger despite the headlines, and may provide the set up for the next leg of this Bull Market. Plus, sentiment indicators have been flashing warning sirens among individu...

Stock markets around the world are melting down as the most popular trades around A.I. and Tech are unwinding amid worries about overvaluation and signs of weakness in the U.S. economy. Paul La Monica from Barron's joins The Express to help us find the key similarities and differences between the Internet Bubble of 1999 and the A.I. craze of today. Plus, one of the most popular trades in the world...

The past month has been one of the most chaotic four weeks in U.S. political history, and the election is still over three months away. Michael Townsend, Chares Schwab's political analyst and a long-time Washington watcher, joins The Express to explain what's next in the political process for the Democrats, the likelihood of major policy changes to tax rates and the Inflation Reduction Act, and wh...

Callie Cox, the new Chief Market Strategist at Ritholtz Wealth, rejoins The Express to unpack the historic break out in small cap stocks of late, and why the prospect of lower interest rates is actually good news for investors seeking balance. Plus, Callie's advice to Millennials looking to build a balanced portfolio that doesn't look anything like their parents' standard 60/40. And, some weeks la...

Buoyed by more record highs, investors have been reinvigorated by the prospect of interest rate cuts in September as inflation slows. But, as SoFi's Liz Young Thomas explains, interest rate cuts into a slowing economy are not always followed by great returns. Liz rejoins The Express to share her outlook for the second half of the year, and how to invest now to take advantage of sector rotation and...

Great wine enthusiasts and collectors are no different from investors. We like to find value and growth potential before anyone else, and back the next great company or vintage. From The Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, Kerrin Laz, David Parker and Charles Antin, three of the top wine experts in the country, explain how to find the next Screaming Eagle before it leaves the nest. Learn how they use th...

Nathaniel Popper joins The Express to talk about his latest book, "The Trolls of Wall Street: How the Outcasts and Insurgents are Hacking the Markets", and explains the origins of meme stock explosion which actually took root during Occupy Wall Street, and made their way through online forums like 4chan where throngs of disillusioned young men found community in the stock market. Popper draws the...

Charles Duhigg, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and best-selling author talks about is latest book, "Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection", and how each of us has this superpower, but we just need the right tools to access it. How becoming a supercommunicator can improve your relationships in life and work, and what modern neurology is teaching us about how to...

Professor Teresa Ghilarducci, a labor economist and retirement expert at The New School for Social Research, has been arguing for years that the 401(k), which was never intended to be the primary retirement savings vehicle for most American workers, only helps high earners and is riddled with misaligned incentives. She joins The Express to make the case for a new government sponsored retirement sa...

Jayson Bronchetti, Chief Investment Officer for Lincoln Financial, joins The Express to deliver the realities of what happens after the Fed cuts rates, and what to expect from the stock market in this unpredictable election year. Plus, why big institutional investors and insurance love companies love private markets as the number of public companies continues to dwindle. And, the hyper-concentrati...

Kyla Scanlon, who coined "The Vibe Economy", climbs back aboard The Express to check in on the vibes of consumers and investors following the release of her new book, 'In This Economy?". Kyla explains why people feel disconnected from the economy, and how to help them find their role in it. Plus, consumers are becoming much more discerning about their discretionary spending, and that is having a p...

Julian Hebron of The Basis Point rejoins the show to myth-bust many of the media reports that have painted the real estate market with a broken brush. From affordability to supply, and the impact of A.I. to the seminal broker commission settlement, Julian shows why potential homebuyers and sellers are in the sweetest spot they've been in for years. Plus, more investors are sniffing around the junk...

From WealthStack at Inside ETFs, a conversation on building portfolios for the future that are built to withstand inflation, geopolitical uncertainty and volatility, with David Blanchett from PGIM, Jonathan Shelton from KraneShares and Michael Meehan from Nuveen. From farmland investing to China and Carbon Capture, professional investors are leaning into alternatives in ways that were hard to imag...

Tom Sosnoff, the visionary fintech entrepreneur who created Think or Swim and TastyTrade, rejoins The Express to talk about why we need to be teaching Risk as part of financial literacy, why investors need to lose in order to win, and what the future of trading and investing technology looks like over the next ten years. Plus, some of the top performing global markets in the world are all in South...

The Express returns to Omaha, Nebraska where tens of thousands of Berkshire Hathaway shareholders have gathered for 60 years to hear words of wisdom from Warren Buffett and listen to how he intends to keep growing their investment. Absent this year, of course, was Charlie Munger, Berkshire's former Vice-Chairman and Buffett's partner in building the conglomerate, who passed away last November just...

Carson Block, CEO of Muddy Waters Research, joins The Express to explain how one of the most influential short sellers identifies the frauds, the lies, the half-truths and the warning signs that companies sometimes use to dupe investors. Block discusses why his firm and others are looking deep into the commercial and residential real estate markets for what might be rotting inside balance sheets,...

Bethany McLean, author of best-selling books including, "The Smartest Guys in the Room", and "All the Devils are Here", climbs back aboard to The Express after receiving the SABEW Distinguished Achievement Award, to talk about how she broke open some of the biggest business stories of the past thirty years. From Enron to Elon Musk's SolarCity, Bethany talks about how she developed her sense of wro...

Over the past 100 years, Edward Jones has become a ubiquitous financial advice business with over 15,000 locations in North America overseeing $2 trillion in household assets. Penny Pennington, CEO and Managing Partner of Edward Jones joins The Express to talk about what American families are doing with their money, what they are worried about, and how they intend to transfer their wealth to their...

Sam Stovall, Chief Investment Strategist at CFRA, rejoins The Express to put stock market pullbacks in perspective, and why the recent declines are to be expected and relatively minor given historical averages. Plus, there is a growing chorus of Fed presidents who don't think interest rate cuts are warranted at all this year given the hot labor market and persistent inflation. Do investors and sav...