Money Life with Chuck Jaffe

Jonathan Browne, director of closed-end fund research at Robinson Capital, discusses the yield challenges facing investors today, when low interest rates have challenged the traditional 60-40 portfol…

Mark Hines, managing director at Left Brain Investment Research, says that the 5G evolution is fueling growth among major players -- notably Nvidia -- that is going to continue even when the pandemic…

Ryan Detrick, chief market strategist at LPL Financial, says that economic surprises over the last six months have built up 'animal spirits' for the market to push higher, and that once vaccines help…

Clyde McGregor, who recently celebrated his 25th anniversary at the helm of the Oakmark Equity and Income Fund, says that fixed income simply will not deliver the kinds of income investors have tradi…

Sir Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics for his groundbreaking work on 'deaths of despair' says that statistics don't support the critics of coronavirus shutdowns, who suggest that …

David Brady of Brady Investment Counsel talks in the Market Call about the importance of making good buys with the right long-term prospects because the ideal investment behavior would be to hang ont…

Blair Sheppard, author of 'Ten Years to Midnight: Four Urgent Global Crises and Their Strategic Solutions," discusses current situations that threaten orderly governments, economic systems and more i…

Howard Dvorkin of Debt.com discusses his site's study of 1,200 adults, of whom six in 10 expect to spend less this holiday season, even though that cutback is not caused mostly as a result of the pan…

Ed Shill, portfolio manager for the QCI Balanced Fund says in today's Market Call that he is feeling defensive about the market now, putting airbags on portfolios with more cash to insulate against a…

Roger Conrad, editor of Conrad's Utility Investor, says in the Market Call that while the stock market bounced back from its late winter freefall, some groups -- including utilities -- were left behi…

Stephen McKee, editor at the No-Load Mutual Fund Selections and Timing newsletter, says that a mix of investment styles are in his methodology's top ranks, which means that the market's advance is br…

Bond-fund manager Bruce Monrad, chairman of the Northeast Investors Trust, discusses the way that investors may want to look at junk bonds as a way to boost a portfolio's equity returns while reducin…

Jeffrey Cleveland, chief economist at Payden and Rygel, says the economy is recovering faster than most people expected, and that it will pick up steam next year as the services sector catches up a b…

Tom McIntyre of McIntyre, Freedman and Flyn says in the Market Call that the wild swings in headlines running from the tumultuous election through the pandemic and the twists and turns of the economy…

Brian Frank of the Frank Value Fund, an absolute-value manager, says in the Market Call that the rising tide of the market has not been lifting all boats, but rather has been lifting the top technolo…

Terri Spath, chief investment officer at the Sierra Mutual Funds, says that muni bonds, high-yield corporate bonds and emerging market stocks -- all of which were becoming a strong play leading up to…

Jeffrey Miller, portfolio manager at Incline Investment Advisors, says in the Money Life Market Call that the current economic recovery has been 'overstated,' leaving a division between the stocks th…

Adam Grimes, president of Talon Advisors, expects the market to find conviction and direction after the election, whether it takes a turn for the dark with strong selling -- a week or two with no sna…

David Trainer, president of New Constructs, says Wayfair, Carvana, Beyond Meat, Dropbox and Spotify Technology all qualify as popular stocks -- despite being saddled by what the Nashville-based firm …

Jeffrey Kleintop, chief global investment strategist at Charles Schwab, says that the market and economy are likely to slog through the election, the rest of the pandemic and the continuing recovery,…