Investment Friday
Investment Friday® is a weekly podcast offering clear, fiduciary-led insight into investing, financial markets, and the global economy.
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When Your Emergency Fund Saves the Day: Cash Reserves, Bonds & Financial Security (opens the original)
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What happens when an unexpected emergency turns your financial plan into real life? This week on Investment Friday, Hannah shares how a flash flood left the lower level of her Arizona home underwater—and why having cash reserves made an incredibly stressful situation much easier to navigate. Then Hannah and Brad dig into rising Treasury yields, the competition for investor capital, and why higher bond yields may create new opportunities for retirement portfolios and tax-efficient investing. In t
When You Inherit Wealth—and the Money Story That Comes With It (opens the original)
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What happens when you inherit more money than you've ever managed before—but also inherit decades of fear, scarcity, and beliefs about what you're “supposed” to do with it? This week on Investment Friday, Hannah and Brad start with the latest economic news—from inflation and rising oil prices to Treasury yields and the enormous amount of debt being issued to fund AI infrastructure. Then the conversation turns to something much more personal: the invisible money systems passed from one generation
You Don't Have to Be a Financial Expert to Build Wealth (opens the original)
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The stock market is hitting all-time highs, but for a lot of people, everyday life still feels expensive. So what does that mean for your money? This week, Hannah is joined by X² Wealth Planning Practice Manager and Expansive CEO co-host Lauren Ammon to talk about investing, financial fear, and the hidden assumption that you need to understand everything before you can make good decisions with your money. Because building wealth doesn't require becoming a financial expert—or doing it all yoursel
Treasury Yields Are Surging: What AI Spending Means for Stocks & Bonds (opens the original)
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Stocks are near all-time highs. Long-term Treasury yields are reaching levels we haven't seen in decades. And some of the world's largest technology companies are borrowing enormous amounts of money by issuing bonds to fund the artificial intelligence buildout. So what happens when all three collide? In this week's Investment Friday, Hannah and Brad unpack what's happening in the bond market, why rising Treasury yields matter far beyond bonds, and how the massive race to build AI infrastructure
The Real Reason the Stock Market Is at Record Highs (opens the original)
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If geopolitical conflict is escalating, oil markets are under pressure, interest rates remain high, and the headlines seem filled with reasons to worry. Why is the stock market still hitting all-time highs? In this episode, Hannah and Brad look beyond the headlines to examine what's actually happening underneath the economy and financial markets—from rising worker productivity and strong corporate earnings to the changing role of the bond market. They also dig into the ongoing conflict with Iran
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