Best Money Life With Chuck Jaffe Podcasts (2025)

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Stock Traders' Almanac's Hirsch on AI masking troubles but spurring a boom 1:00:30

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Jeffrey Hirsch, editor of the Stock Traders Almanac, says that artificial intelligence is creating a "super boom," because it's a "culturally-enabling, paradigm-shifting technology," which he says can drive the Dow Jones Industrial Average to 62,000 — up about 30% from current levels — in just a few years. Hirsch, also the chief executive of Hirsch…

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Regions' Thurber isn't expecting big troubles for the market in '26 59:39

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Brandon Thurber, chief market strategist at Regions Asset Management, says climbing the proverbial wall of worry has "supercharged the market," making it hard "to find reasons to be anything less than positive and constructive for 2026." While he worries that the message could be that "The only thing you have to fear is fear itself" — and he descri…

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Altimetry's Litman: 'We think this market is still a screaming bull' 1:00:00

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Joel Litman, founder/chief investment officer at Altimetry Research, says that investor worries about valuations are overblown because "good data" shows that current conditions are more like the mid-1990s — the middle of a bull market — than 2000 when the Internet bubble burst. He says in the Market Call that with real core earnings growing for a l…

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Trustage's Rick sees inflation at 3.2%+, but no recession in '26 59:30

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Steve Rick, chief economist at TruStage, says he expects inflation to rise to roughly 3.2 percent early in 2026, and says that increase — a long-awaited after-effect of tariffs — to mute the impact of interest rate cuts and other policies. Still, he stopped short of calling for a recession, noting that he thinks the market can overcome extremely hi…

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FTSE Russell's De sees the biggest opportunities overseas in 2026 59:10

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Indrani De, head of global investment research at FTSE Russell, says that there are tailwinds in place — from currency fluctuations, valuations and geopolitical changes — that make developed markets outside of the United States look particularly promising for next year. She says in The Big Interview that correlations between domestic and internatio…

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After 2025 struggles, Americans expect a bounce-back in '26 1:00:02

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Sonia Fraher, head of cash management at Vanguard says that while nearly three-quarters of Americans say they will fall short of their saving and spending resolutions for this year, most are optimistic that they can pull off a "resolution rebound" in 2026. Vanguard's survey research showed that 84 percent of Americans expect to make a financial res…

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We're Black Friday 'shopping' for stocks, closed-end funds and more! 58:39

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It's a day for talking smart holiday shopping, and the show takes that focus to the investment world. John Cole Scott, president of CEF Advisors — the chairman of the Active Investment Company Alliance — is back on Black Friday for the fourth straight year looking for big discounts among closed-end fund, and he's got several names that might work f…

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Argent Trust's Stringfellow sees market/economy 'maintaining,' not breaking 58:55

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Tom Stringfellow, chief investment strategist at Argent Trust, says that he expects stock market volatility to increase, especially as the Federal Reserve makes fewer cuts than observers are hoping for, but he doesn't see "a worrisome correction, I just see market testing." Those tests will break some trends in sectors and industries, but shouldn't…

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Empower's Norton: The market's not bubbly but the economy is facing trouble in '26 1:00:28

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Marta Norton, chief investment strategist at Empower, says the stock market has high valuations, but notes that it lacks the excessive economic risk-taking and the fear-of-missing-out sentiment that are necessary to create true bubble conditions. But she notes that avoiding a bubble doesn;t mean it's smooth sailing ahead, as she says in Empower's o…

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Hartford Funds' Reganti: There's a risk that rate cuts could spur more inflation 1:01:16

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Amar Reganti, fixed income strategist at the Hartford Funds, says "The uncertainty is real," over the potential not only for what the Federal Reserve could do but how the market and economy will respond to whatever decision gets made. Reganti says investors are facing the prospect of rate cuts spurring higher inflation, but a lack of action resulti…

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Stack Financial's Jonson sees a bubble with 'a trifecta of bear-market risks' 1:04:06

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Zach Jonson, senior portfolio manager at Stack Financial Management, says the stock market is facing a trifecta of bear-market risks that could lead to "one of the great bear markets of our lifetime," with losses surpassing 40 percent and lasting for as long as 18 months when it finally bursts. Despite that, he says there are ways to "invest throug…

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Seafarer's Foster: We're still in 'the bottom of the first' on tariff impacts 1:04:26

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Andrew Foster, founder and chief investment officer at Seafarer Capital Partners — manager of the Seafarer Growth and Income Fund — says that it's the "bottom of the first or, maybe, bottom of the second inning with respect to how tariffs will play out," but he notes that emerging markets companies have pushed higher prices back on U.S. consumers, …

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TradeStation's Russell: A.I. boom has masked emerging economic weakness 58:52

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David Russell, global head of market strategy at TradeStation, says that as artificial intelligence become less of an economic focus, the market will wake up to potential weakness on Main Street, where "recessionary patterns" are already visible. He is expecting "one of the weaker holiday seasons in a while," and says that a lot of signs that have …

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Merrill's Quinlan: Market's 'heck of a ride' will keep going 'up and to the right' 59:26

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Joe Quinlan, head of market strategy for Merrill Lynch and Bank of America Private Bank, says that the U.S. consumer higher-income households "are in great shape heading into 2026," and so long as the Boomers continue spending, the economy and stock market can roll along. Quinlan says that the economy can avoid a recession if the Federal Reserve ca…

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BlackRock's Chaudhuri: It's not a market downturn, just 'a regular cleaning period' 1:02:24

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Gargi Chaudhuri, chief investment and portfolio strategist for the Americas at BlackRock, says the market's recent action represents "a fairly healthy pullback," the kind of periodic "cleansing" that markets go through, and that the recent action is less based on whether earnings can continue to drive valuations higher than it is on nervousness ove…

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Chase Investment's Klintworth sees small correction/buying opp ahead 59:18

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Buck Klintworth, senior vice president and portfolio manager at Chase Investment Counsel, says the market isn't looking like it will make dramatic moves before the end of the year, but he does expect a "small correction." Because he believes that the underpinnings for the economy are solid and forces like the artificial intelligence boom are backst…

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Google AI gets about 40% of personal finance questions wrong 58:35

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Robert Farrington, founder of The College Investor, posed 100 personal finance questions to Google AI and came away with 37 "misleading or inaccurate" answers, and while that sounds horrible, it actually represents an improvement of six percentage points over the results Farrington got making the same queries a year ago. Farrington notes that the o…

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Stock Traders' Almanac's Hirsch on AI masking troubles but spurring a boom 1:00:30

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Regions' Thurber isn't expecting big troubles for the market in '26 59:39

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Altimetry's Litman: 'We think this market is still a screaming bull' 1:00:00

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Trustage's Rick sees inflation at 3.2%+, but no recession in '26 59:30

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FTSE Russell's De sees the biggest opportunities overseas in 2026 59:10

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After 2025 struggles, Americans expect a bounce-back in '26 1:00:02

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We're Black Friday 'shopping' for stocks, closed-end funds and more! 58:39

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Argent Trust's Stringfellow sees market/economy 'maintaining,' not breaking 58:55

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Empower's Norton: The market's not bubbly but the economy is facing trouble in '26 1:00:28

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Hartford Funds' Reganti: There's a risk that rate cuts could spur more inflation 1:01:16

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Stack Financial's Jonson sees a bubble with 'a trifecta of bear-market risks' 1:04:06

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Seafarer's Foster: We're still in 'the bottom of the first' on tariff impacts 1:04:26

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TradeStation's Russell: A.I. boom has masked emerging economic weakness 58:52

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Merrill's Quinlan: Market's 'heck of a ride' will keep going 'up and to the right' 59:26

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BlackRock's Chaudhuri: It's not a market downturn, just 'a regular cleaning period' 1:02:24

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Chase Investment's Klintworth sees small correction/buying opp ahead 59:18

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Google AI gets about 40% of personal finance questions wrong 58:35