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Smart Investing with Brent & Chase Wilsey

Brent and Chase Wilsey

Smart Investing is the radio show where Brent and Chase try to make investing easier to understand. They demonstrate long-term investment strategies to help you find good value investments.

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February 15th, 2025 | AI Electricity Usage, Mag...

Smart Investing with Brent & Chase Wilsey ·

2025/02/14

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 electricity. How much electricity you may ask? AI data centers use about 30 Megawatts of electricity at a time. If you don’t understand megawatts, let’s just say it’s a lot of power. Picture 30 Walmart stores and how much electricity they use at any given time, that is estimated at 30 megawatts. Fast

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February 8th, 2025 | Job Openings, Jobs Growth,...

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2025/02/08

Job openings post a sharp declineThe 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 of 8 million and the reading of 8.09 million in the month of November. While this may sound disappointing, this still leaves the ratio of open jobs to available workers at 1.1 to 1. A softening labor market is still not a bad thing considering it is coming from such a strong spot where workers have had

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February 1st, 2025 | 2025 Bank Earnings, DeepSeek...

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2025/02/01

What bank earnings reveal for 2025Most 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 was only up 1.1% from a year ago. It is expected to see loan growth for 2025 of around 2.6%. Bank of America was the big winner here reporting loan demand grew 5 % from last year, but regional bank KeyCorp disappointed investors with their guidance as they are estimating loan balances would drop 2 to 5%

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January 25th, 2025 | Reduced Regulations for...

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2025/01/25

Businesses should do well with reduced regulations going forwardReducing regulations saves companies both time and money and time is always money. Starting in 2025, it is expected that for every new regulation that goes on the books, 10 regulations must be eliminated. I was unaware of what is known as the congressional review where a new President along with Congress can undo certain rules that the previous administration put on the books in the last few months. At this time, we’re not sure which

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January 18th, 2025 | Millennials and Home Buying,...

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2025/01/18

Millennials are a little gun shy on buying a home, but they have good reason to be concernedLooking back 30 to 40 years ago when families purchased a home, they did it as a place to raise a family and they weren’t so focused on how much money the house would be worth in the short term. Millennials who were born between 1981 to 1996 and are now between the ages of 29 and 44 years old are old enough to remember the 2008 Great Recession. In 2008 there were 2,330,483 foreclosures, roughly 3 times 2006

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January 11th, 2025 | JOLTs , Apple Intelligence,...

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2025/01/11

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 that at 256,000 jobs for the month of December and also increased from November when it was 212,000 jobs. This high increase in payrolls caused unemployment to drop to 4.1% and came along with an increase in average hourly earnings of 0.3% for December. Over the last 12 months average hourly earnings have

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January 4th, 2025 | Fraud, Airline Stocks, Private...

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2025/01/04

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 shopping, it has also invited more fraud than ever before and for the first three quarters of 2024 there was an increase of 14.5% to $8.7 billion of shoppers who lost money to fraud. Two things are happening here. First, consumers may be too emotionally excited about the purchase and they forget to look for

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December 28th, 2024 | Oil Demand, Understanding...

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2024/12/27

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 reversal in the price of oil. I base that on an estimate from the International Energy Agency as they expect a huge increase in the demand of oil. They are estimating oil consumption of 1.1 million barrels per day, which would be a 31% increase from the 840,000 barrels in 2024. I know from recent reports

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December 21, 2024 | Investing, Pharmacy Benefit...

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2024/12/21

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 increased by 38% compared to November 2023. The last time we saw this type volume was in 2021 when meme stocks were the major craze. The CEO of Robinhood, Vlad Tenev, stated a few weeks ago that they’re looking at expanding into sports betting. In my opinion that is not a far stretch from what they’re

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December 15th, 2024 | Upcoming Stock Market...

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2024/12/14

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 your positions and go to cash. What it does mean is you should take a close look at your portfolio and see if you’re over concentrated in certain positions, especially those that are trading at lofty valuations based on earnings, sales, book value, and cash flow. Many investors think that their stock or

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December 7th, 2024 | Job openings, labor markets,...

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2024/12/07

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 October topped expectations of 7.5 million and increased from September’s reading of 7.4 million. While it was nice to see the increase, I wouldn’t be surprised to see job openings decline further from here. Openings peaked in March 2022 at over 12 million and have been on the decline since then. While that

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November 27, 2024 | Educational show where Brent and...

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2024/11/27

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November 23, 2024 | SEC Changes, CEO of...

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2024/11/23

Changes in the SEC under Trump that you should knowThere will be many changes under Trump, but for investors the SEC, which is also known as the Securities and Exchange Commission could be a big one. The current head of the SEC, Gary Gensler, is likely gone for sure. He has been tough on Wall Street and even tougher on cryptocurrencies. It is likely Trump will appoint a new SEC chairperson who will want to have less control over Wall Street. One name on that list is Hester Pierce. She was appointed

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November 16th, 2024 | Consumer Spending, Tariffs,...

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2024/11/16

Are you spending like other consumers?Retail sales in the month of October showed an impressive gain of 2.8% compared to last year. With lower gasoline prices, gas stations were a major negative as they declined 7.1% compared to last year. If this group was excluded from the headline number, retail sales would have been up an even more impressive 3.7%. There were several areas of strength as gains were quite broad across various industries, but nonstore retailers, which was up 7.0% and food

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November 9th, 2024 | Dow Jones (DOW), Election,...

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2024/11/09

Major changes to the Dow Jones you should know about!The Dow Jones has changed again as Nvidia (NVDA) replaced Intel (INTC) and Sherwin-Williams (SHW) replaced Dow Inc. (DOW). The most recent change in the Dow Jones came on February 26th when Amazon (AMZN) replaced Walgreens (WBA). With the addition of Nvidia, much of the Mag Seven will now be present in the Dow Jones. As I mentioned Amazon was recently added, but Apple and Microsoft have been components for many years. It seems the Dow has really

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November 2nd, 2024 | Presidential Elections, Job...

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2024/11/01

Don’t let the presidential election be your investment indicatorPresidential elections, especially this one, make people become very emotional, but don’t let that sway you away from investing. Looking back to 1950, the S&P 500 index gained 12.1% per year under Democrats and 7.1% under Republicans. So based on that tad bit of information, you would think that Democrats are better for the stock market than Republicans. If we dig deeper, we will see that Nixon had a major negative impact as he

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October 26th, 2024 | T-Bills, Tesla, Luxury Brands,...

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2024/10/28

T-bills could be your worst investment Right off the bat you’re thinking what how could they say such a thing? Warren Buffett has hundreds of billions of dollars in T-bills! Why do we think it’s the worst investment? First off, Warren Buffett spends all day long reading, researching, analyzing and when he sees a good value investment, he will likely sell what he needs from T-bills to buy those good long-term investments. If you are someone that needs the money in 2 to 3 years, then this belief does

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October 18th, 2024 | Private Equity, Gas Prices,...

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2024/10/19

Where does private equity invest the money, you give them?Private equity invests money in many different areas, but the problem that they are having is that both them and venture-capital are sitting on $2.6 trillion, which is a record high. Ultimately, they are having a hard time finding where to invest. A private equity firm generally has to earn between 12 and 14% on their investments to cover their management fee and pay investors a worthwhile return. One area they have been attracted to is

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October 12th, 2024 | Inflation, PPI (Producer Price...

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2024/10/11

Inflation comes in hotter than expected, is that a problem?The Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed September headline inflation was up 2.4% compared to last year, which was a little higher than the estimate of 2.3%. Core CPI, which excludes food and energy was up 3.3% compared to last year and it also came in a little higher than the expectation of 3.2%. While the numbers were a little hotter than expected, headline CPI was down from last month’s reading of 2.5% and it registered the smallest

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October 5th, 2024 | Jobs data, Employment report, ILA...

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2024/10/04

More jobs data points to a healthy economyThe Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTs) showed a surprise increase in the month of August. Openings totaled 8.04 million, which topped the estimate of 7.64 million and July’s reading of 7.71 million. While this is still well off the highs from just a couple of years ago, there are still 1.1 available jobs for every person looking for one. On the inflation front, I believe it was positive to see the quits rate decline to 1.9%, its lowest level

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