Money Life with Chuck Jaffe

Schwab's Sonders: The market isn't 'uncertain,' it's 'unstable' and burning

Schwab IMPACT — the largest and longest-running annual gathering of independent registered investment advisers -- is back in Boston, and Chuck is one of the nearly 6,000

Briefing.com's O'Hare: This market won't overcome inflation, high rates forever

Patrick O'Hare, chief market analyst at Briefing.com, says he is concerned about the sustainability of earnings growth, and what it will mean for the market as profits, e

New Constructs' Trainer: Meta, Disney aare among big names headed for trouble

David Trainer, founder and president at New Constructs has been warning about off-balance sheet debt concerns — particularly among popular artificial-intelligence stocks

Oil expert Rozencwajg on crude prices: 'The worst is yet to come'

Adam Rozencwajg, managing partner at Goehring and Rozencwajg, says the spike in diesel prices — rather than crude-oil prices — was the unexpected symptom of trouble comin

Tier1 Alpha's Green: Retirement dynamics are setting the market up for a fall

Michael Green, chief investment officer at Tier1 Alpha Asset Management, says that the domination of index funds and passive investing has changed market kinetics, system

Economist DiMartino Booth hears 'echoes of Enron' in market's trends

Danielle DiMartino Booth, chief executive and chief strategist at QI Research, says the stock market "is shooting off warning signals" indicative of a market top, and she

Little Harbor's Lundgren: 'I do, absolutely, think we're in a bubble'

David Lundgren, chief market strategist at Little Harbor Advisors, says he thinks the market could rally in the short-term but that it is showing signs of material weakne

iShares' Akullian: Strong economic growth is fighting the inflation battle, for now

Kristy Akullian, head of iShares Investment Strategy for the Americas at BlackRock — who says her job is to look at the economy and translate macro to markets and markets

Dunham's Dykmans: A 'meaningful, material drawdown' is in the cards

Ryan Dykmans, president and chief investment officer at Dunham & Associates Investment Counsel, is expecting a market downturn that comes "in large chunks," and while he

Economist Zang on gold as the ultimate hedge for today's markets

Lynette Zang, chief executive officer at Zang International, says that between inflation and other concerns, investors need to be more heavily invested into gold to prote

MetLife's Kelly: 'Narrow booms' lead to bumpy rides, but 'Buckle up!'

Michael Kelly, portfolio manager and global head of multi-asset at MetLife Investment Management, says the artificial-intelligence evolution has broad implications but ha

Allspring's VanCronkhite: If Fed can't hit inflation bullseye, it'll change the target

Bryant VanCronkhite, senior portfolio manager at Allspring Global Investments, says that with the economy at full-employment levels, he expects the Federal Reserve to shi

Empower's Norton: Market will grind forward as earnings cool, 'normalize' into '27

Marta Norton, chief investment strategist at Empower, expects a "grind it out" market for the rest of the year, setting up for "normalization" on earnings that keeps mark

Regions' Thurber sees plenty of worries for the market to keep climbing on

Brandon Thurber, chief market strategist at Regions Asset Management, says that despite a prevailing sense of nervousness, the market can remain on its upswing, and is li

WCG's Leger: 'Valuations matter zero' when earnings are driving everything

Talley Leger, chief market strategist at The Wealth Consulting Group, says he sees the stock market rallying into the first quarter of 2027, noting that "earnings drive s

GammaRoad's Rizzuto: A 'wider band of uncertainty' could push markets higher

Jordan Rizzuto, managing partner at GammaRoad Capital Partners — which uses quantitative analysis of market risk through trends, economic expansion and consumer sentiment

Trustage's Rick: Economy is poised to continue modest growth through '27

Steve Rick, chief economist at TruStage, is forecasting slightly faster economic growth for 2027 — 2.2% real GDP growth compared to about 2% this year —  "so nothing grea

New Constructs' Trainer calls Anthropic is 'the most ridiculous IPO os 2026'

David Trainer, founder and president at New Constructs, put a pre-IPO Anthropic in The Danger Zone today, saying the $2 trillion valuation is "absolutely absurd" for a bu

3Edge's Cucchiaro says buy-and-hold won't work in the next correction

Steve Cucchiaro, chief executive and chief investment officer at 3Edge Asset Management, says that the market is masking potential troubles, flirting with record highs de

Trillium's Smith sees a comeuppance for the market, economy, likely in '27

Cheryl Smith, economist at Trillium Asset Management, says she is seeing "more economic warning signs," and worries that one of them — interest rates going up, but much l