“Technical Difficulties” with Brad Lamensdorf  on “Money Life with Chuck Jaffe”

By John Del Vecchio Ahhhh retirement! Most of us would love to be on a beach somewhere right now sipping a frothy Bahama Mama. But very few of us want to put in the right kind of effort to get us there. Retirement may seem way off in the distant future or even simply an…

I’m all for progress. But, sometimes, you can have too much of a good thing. Take automation, for example. It’s a hot topic these days, and the trend has gone way beyond automated factories. The juicy stuff is new technologies that impact our everyday life. Self-driving cars are a big one. It sounds pretty cool,…

Facebook is under fire after one of its digital consultants, Cambridge Analytica, misused data on tens of millions of Facebook users. Now, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, faces grilling from Congress on the company’s policies and pitfalls in securing its user data. Facebook has been transformative in the way people connect and interact. Security breaches threaten…

Hey John, Recently, I wrote about how automation is increasingly becoming a part of our lives. I’m ultimately bullish on automation in cars, not so much for my beer-drinking experience. Computers and robots have pervaded our lives at an ever-increasing rate – not always for the good. Regardless, the concept of automating just about everything…

The U.S. markets are nearly back to all-time highs. Does that mean it’s time to pop the corks and celebrate? Well, if you’re keeping track of market breadth, you’re probably still chilling the Moët & Chandon right now. What is “market breadth,” you ask? Think of it as the number of individual stocks that advance alongside…

“The Big Interview” with David Tice on “Money Life with Chuck Jaffe” Hear David Tice weigh in on the current state of affairs with the economy and the pandemic: “This is not a standard garden variety recession.”  “We have a depression on our hands.”