The Tom Dupree Show

Interested in what is going on in banking? Our KY-6 Congressman and guest for this hour, Andy Barr is on the House Financial Services Committee and has had a front-row seat to the latest developments in Banking.

Lexington was graded a "D" for fiscal health accumulating over $9400 per local taxpayer. Liberals are historically not good with budgets and this is proving true in Lexington.

It just takes one bank getting into trouble before the banking system is delicately balanced. It causes stress and strain throughout the entire banking system. It is all about confidence in the system with banking.

Silicon Valley Bank has a company culture filled with social activism with a lot of funding for environmental technology groups. Get woke...Go Broke?

Interest rates and the foundation of all things investing. Everything is driven by interest rates.

Tucker Carlson's coverage of the January 6 attack on the Capitol. What is he thinking stirring everything up?

Regret leads to renewal. There is joy in starting over. It is never too late.

Any "green fund" is going to avoid energy which has been a very strong sector this year. Green Funds are defined as "investing to do the right thing." There is definitely a narrative for this type of investing.

Google and Meta are responsible for bringing in over 48% of all U.S. digital ad revenue. However, this is a decline from their peak of almost 55% in 2017.

A brave new world of hideousness was demonstrated at the Grammys. Where has the soul of the music business gone?

Recency Bias leads people to do things after they have already seen them happen. This happens not only in the stock market. It is almost like closing the barn door after the horse is already out. Investors sometimes make moves based on what has already worked. The goal is to buy low and sell stocks high. Often the reverse happens with the herd mentality and groupthink prevailing.

Inflation is the effect of the Government overspending trillions of dollars during Covid as well as printing money. Inflation is the value of the dollar going down with the currency being devalued by the government that prints it.

With the Tobacco industry being sued, a master settlement, and buyouts of tobacco growers...the tobacco industry has fallen out of favor with investors. What has happened to companies still in the business... the Non-Combustable market.

It takes Trump showing up in Ohio to get a response from the Biden administration.

What good is diversity in backgrounds if everyone thinks alike? Incompetence is a dangerous tradeoff for diversity in an administration.

Warren Buffet says it is important to view your investments as if you are an owner of a business and not view them as a trading vehicle. Buffet believes that setting yourself up as a long-term investor and not a stock trader is important to long-term success in the stock market.

In 2023, 36 countries worldwide have a digital tracking system. With the 15-minute city concept are we turning over more control than we are aware?

Has inflation turned the corner? You are always behind the curve when reacting to headlines. The big question is what will the stock market do this year. Year-to-date performance has been good. What we have been investing in and how we are positioning our portfolio...

When a target date fund doesn't cut it...What is not taken into account with this investment vehicle? What opportunities are missed when investing this way? What a target date fund is and isn't. One thing it lacks is continuity. Autopilot rarely works in the investment business.

Tom takes a trip down memory lane featuring the music of Jeff Beck and David Crosby following the passing of the two legends.

James O'Keefe from Project Veritas busts a Pfizer employee talking about Pfizer's business model for Covid.

Jim Salestrom is an Emmy-winning Songwriter. He performed in Dolly Parton's band for over 12 years. He also played with John Denver. Jim is in Lexington to visit a Mercy Chef deployment in Eastern Kentucky with Tom. We are so excited that he agreed to be on The Tom Dupree Show.

You need to have a relationship with a fee-only financial advisor… Have you ever gotten a phone call from a pitchy salesperson from a busy call center that went something like this: “Mrs. Smith, your name came across my desk this morning, and I want to let you in on the ground floor of an opportunity. It’s an opportunity that only comes around once in a lifetime. I am only letting in a few of the...

Tom comments on an article written by Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase that appeared in the Wall Street Journal.

Remember the lesson from the Dot.com bubble? Stocks that peaked in 2000 took 14 years to return to their highs. Every security has its own trading dynamic. It is important to position yourself in a security at a good price. Buy the dip when it drops. There is a big difference between that and Value Investing.