Smart Investing with Brent & Chase Wilsey
Brent and Chase bring their financial experience live to the listeners and answer questions about individual companies, the economy, and other financial matters. The investing team brings an “Unbiased, No Strings Attached, Fundamental Opinion” to all their listeners. They demonstrate long-term investment strategies to help you find good value investments and to show you exactly how they invest their money.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 66 minutes
- Episodes
- 310
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
April 19th, 2025 | Heartland States, Consumer Actions, TV Network Sports Deals, Life Insurance, Nvidia (NVDA), Hertz Global Holdings (HTZ), Car Max, Inc. (KMX) & (DOW)
Can the heartland states save our country?
The heartland states are 20 states pretty much in the center of the country. They have been regaining economic strength over the years and currently about 3…
April 12th, 2025 | Tariffs, Timing the Market, Collecting Tariffs, China vs. US Trade War, Certificate of Deposit (CD), RH (RH), Caterpillar Inc. (CAT), Harley-Davidson, Inc (HOG) & (WBD)
Why I’m so excited about the tariffs
You may be thinking I’m a little bit crazy or blind to what is happening now, but I really wish people would be a little more patient and give this a few months t…
April 5th, 2025 | Tariff Announcements, Trade Barriers, Jobs Report, Solo 401k’s, LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (LPLA), Deckers Outdoor Corporation (DECK), Apple, Inc. (AAPL) & Delta Air Lines Inc.(DAL)
Tariff announcements cause market chaos
In an effort to balance trade relationships across the globe, several new tariff announcements were made on April 2nd. This caused the markets to de…
March 29th, 2025 | Tariffs Push Back, 401(K) Investors, Contradicting Inflation Readings, Credit Score Boost Before a Mortgage, Nike, Stanley Black and Decker (SWK), Wingstop (WING) & Viasat (VSAT)
US retailers push back against tariffs
I believe it is good news retailers are not pushing back against the US, but against countries where they buy products from. Companies like Home Depot, Walmart …
March 22nd, 2025 | Stock Market Pain, Top Consumers, Long-Term Stocks, Form 5498, Tesla, Inc (TSLA), Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT), Lear Corporation (LEAR) & Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Is there more pain coming for the stock market?
Both the NASDAQ and the S&P 500 have now hit correction territory and people are hoping that the worst is behind us. I would tell people to be prepared…
March 15th, 2025 | Private Equity in 401K’s, Bitcoin Strategic Reserve, Inflation Report, Inflation Front, State and Local Tax (SALT), DoorDash, Inc(DASH), Rocket Companies, Inc.(RKT) & Verizon (VZ)
Should private equity be allowed in your 401(k)?
70 million Americans have roughly $12 trillion in retirement accounts and the high fee private equity firms want a piece of that. Private equity comes…
March 8th, 2025 | Church Pension Plans, Structured Products, Job Report, Avoid State Taxes from Federal Debt, Sempra (SRE), The Mosaic Company (MOS), Zoom Communications (ZM), & Discover (DFS)
Church pension plans may be at risk
I hate to say this because we all want to believe that one of the safest places to go is church. Unfortunately, there are church pension plans like Saint Claire’s …
March 1st, 2025 | Home Sales, Home Sellers, Overpriced AI, Berkshire Hathaway, Full Retirement Age, Freeport-McMoRan Inc.(FCX), Qualcomm Incorporated(QCOM), Super Micro Computer (SMCI) & (LLY)
Home sales are starting to look weak
Last week we saw the release of existing home sales in the month of January and the decline was far bigger than expected. The number of units sold on an annual ba…
February 22nd, 2025 | Senior Housing Market Boom, Young Investors, Weak Consumer Sentiments, Tax Traps with Rentals, Intel Corporation(INTC), Illumina Inc.(ILMN), The Kraft Heinz Company(KHC) & (HIMS)
Will the senior housing market boom continue going forward?
Investors may think with the population getting older that investing in senior housing could be a great investment going forward. They coul…
February 15th, 2025 | AI Electricity Usage, Mag Seven, Producer Prices, Credit Card Interest, Dollar Tree, Inc. (DLTR), Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (LOPE), Mondelez International, Inc. (MDLZ) & (PSX)
How much electricity will AI need?
To train AI models companies use graphics processing units, also known as GPUs. They are now starting to build larger clusters of GPUs, which requires even more ele…
February 8th, 2025 | Job Openings, Jobs Growth, Climate Mutual Funds, Private Equity, 401(k) Loans, Fox Corporation (FOXA), PVH Corp. (PVH), Dollar General Corporation (DG) & (UPS)
Job openings post a sharp decline
The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, also known as the JOLTs report, showed job openings of 7.6 million in the month of December. This was below the estimate …
February 1st, 2025 | 2025 Bank Earnings, DeepSeek News on AI, Custodians are not Fiduciaries, GDP Growth, Tax Time, Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), CSX Corporation (CSX), Dole PLC (DOLE), Juniper...
What bank earnings reveal for 2025
Most big bank earnings are out now and the news and the guidance did lean on the positive side. A concern was revealed, which was no surprise to us that loan growth…
January 25th, 2025 | Reduced Regulations for Businesses, Tariffs, Liquor Sales, Mortgages, Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST), Oracle Corporation (ORCL), The Walt Disney Company (DIS) & (GD)
Businesses should do well with reduced regulations going forward
Reducing regulations saves companies both time and money and time is always money. Starting in 2025, it is expected that for every new…
January 18th, 2025 | Millennials and Home Buying, Inflation, TikTok, Capital Gains and IRMAA, Moderna, Inc. (MRNA), Signet Jewelers Limited (SIG), Teladoc Health, Inc. (TDOC) & Qorvo, Inc.(QRVO)
Millennials are a little gun shy on buying a home, but they have good reason to be concerned
Looking back 30 to 40 years ago when families purchased a home, they did it as a place to raise a family a…
January 11th, 2025 | JOLTs , Apple Intelligence, Tariffs, Catch-Up Contributions, Expand Energy Corporation (EXE), Paychex, Inc. (PAYX), Cintas Corporation (CTAS) & United States Steel Corporation (X)
The job report was good, but why is that bad?
Before we go into why the good report was bad, let’s talk about some of the data. The expected number of payrolls was 155,000, which came in well above t…
January 4th, 2025 | Fraud, Airline Stocks, Private Prison Boom, Social Security Changes, Tidewater Inc (TDW), Constellation Brands, Inc. (STZ), Carvana Co. (CVNA) & VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN)
Watch out for record fraud when shopping.
With technology, shopping has become so easy and set records in 2024 of around $5.3 trillion. While this by itself is a problem as some people are over shop…
December 28th, 2024 | Oil Demand, Understanding Compounding, AI Stocks, Double and Triple Taxation, Macy's, Inc (M), Xerox Holdings Corporation (XRX), PepsiCo, Inc (PEP) &Mastercard Incorporated (MA)
We could see a huge increase in oil demand in 2025!
With oil trading under $70 a barrel, gas prices have continued to fall. But unless the world starts producing more oil in 2025, we could see a big …
December 21, 2024 | Investing, Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM), Stock Market Fall, Funding an HSA, Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), RH (RH), Broadcom Inc. (AVGO) & Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY)
Is investing just looking too good these days?
When everything is going up including stocks, commodities and cryptocurrencies, one has to stop and think is this the top? In November US equity trading…
December 15th, 2024 | Upcoming Stock Market Correction, Oil Drilling Technology, Inflation, Charitable Gifts, The Cigna Group (CI), The Kroger Co. (KR), The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (PNC)..
You should be prepared for the upcoming stock market correction!
At Wilsey Asset Management we are prepared for an upcoming correction in the stock market. That doesn’t mean we or you should sell all…
December 7th, 2024 | Job openings, labor markets, Holiday spending, 24 hours Trading, Tax Problems with Overconcentrated Portfolios, Intel Corporation (INTC), Target Corporation (TGT), The Gap, Inc...
Job openings remain strong, what does that mean for our economy?
The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, also known as the JOLTs Report, showed job openings of 7.74 million in the month of Octobe…