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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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00:55:37

The glut of apartments on the market, Are large...

Smart Investing with Brent & Chase Wilsey ·

2025/11/15

No surprise to me that there’s a glut of apartments on the market I saw the potential for this oversupply happening in San Diego a couple of years ago. It seemed anywhere you drove within a short distance you would see the construction of new apartment buildings. It is not just here in San Diego though as the glut of apartments is happening around the country. With the dynamics of supply and demand, if you’re looking... Are the large hyperscale companies like Meta, Microsoft, and Alphabet inflating

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00:55:39

November 7th, 2025 | Apple CEO Tim Cook pulled three...

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2025/11/11

Apple CEO Tim Cook pulled three rabbits out of a hatPulling a rabbit out of a hat is a pretty good trick, but pulling three out of a hat is nothing short of a miracle. In the spring of this year, Apple stock fell below $170 a share as it was faced with enormous tariffs on iPhones, the potential loss of a $20 billion per year payment from Google, and sales for iPhones seemed to be stuck in the mud. To handle the tariff situation, Tim Cook promised US investments of $600 billion over four years. This

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October 31st, 2025 | Big brokerage firms fighting for...

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2025/10/31

The big brokerage firms are fighting for your investment accountsOur investment advisory firm over the years has never been a favorite of the big brokerage firms because we generally only do three, maybe four trades on average per year. But the big brokerage firms are now acting like the casinos in Las Vegas and are doing everything they can to get you on their platform. They will give you all kinds of tools and seminars, so you’ll take higher risk and do more trading. In the meantime, they're

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October 24th, 2025 | Fed Rate cut looks likely after...

Smart Investing with Brent & Chase Wilsey ·

2025/10/24

Inflation report likely solidifies Fed rate cut this month The September Consumer Price Index, also known as CPI, showed inflation climbed 3% year over year for both the headline and core numbers. Core CPI, which excludes food and energy, came in better than both the estimate and the previous month's reading; both stood at 3.1%. It was a surprise to get this data with the government shutdown, but since it is used as a benchmark for cost-of living adjustments in benefit checks by the Social

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October 17th, 2025 | Will gold hit $5000 an ounce?...

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2025/10/18

Will gold hit $5000 an ounce?With all the excitement surrounding the run up in gold this year it seems to be an easy target. However, as investors pour money into precious metals, such as gold, people have to remember that President Trump has pledged to stimulate the economy through tax cuts. The run up in gold has been due to investors that worry about the future of the dollar and other major currencies. Wall Street has labeled this the debasement trade. The dollar did decline in the…Great news,

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00:55:38

October 10th, 2025 | Do stock dividends give you...

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2025/10/10

Do stock dividends give you better returns?With the S&P 500 currently paying a dividend of only 1.1%, which is the lowest in about 25 years, people may wonder if they should even care about dividends. In 2024, dividends were only 36% of profits, which was 20 points below the average going back nearly 100 years. Looking at return figures, if you go back 65 years, reinvested dividends did account for roughly 85% of the S&P 500’s total return. With the market at all-time high valuations,

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October 3rd, 2025 | Is cardboard demand a warning...

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2025/10/03

Is a reduction in cardboard demand a warning sign of a slowing economy?The simple answer is yes, but it also is one of many indicators we are seeing. Cardboard is used in many items in the economy from pizza boxes to the multiple items you get delivered from online stores. The numbers show that box shipments after reaching record highs during the pandemic are now down to levels not seen since 2016. If you look at a per-person basis, the numbers are pretty staggering, as they are down over 20% from

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September 26th, 2025 | Investors false sense of...

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2025/09/26

Investors have a false sense of safety in the stock marketA psychologist by the name of Gerald Wilde came up with the term homeostatic years ago and I believe this is totally relevant in today's market. It essentially means that when the environment comes to feel safer, people’s behavior becomes riskier. A great example he used was that people will probably drive faster in a big SUV than in a little tin can of a car. Relating it to today's market, investors seem to feel safer because of the

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September 19th, 2025 | Retail sales surprisingly...

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2025/09/19

Retail sales are still surprisingly strongAlthough the labor market has been softening and consumers say they are worried about inflation, people are still spending money. August retail sales were up 5% compared to last year and if the annual decline of 0.7% in gasoline stations was excluded, sales would have increased 5.5% compared to last August. Strength was broad based in the report and outside of gasoline stations the only other major categories that saw declines were department stores where

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00:54:49

September 12th, 2025 | Should members of Congress be...

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2025/09/13

Should members of Congress be allowed to trade stocks?I recently saw there was a bipartisan bill presented in the House that would ban lawmakers from trading individual stocks. I feel like we have been hearing about this for years, and according to NPR, “For more than a decade, a series of bills have been proposed to address such trades, but differences about the details and a lack of support from top congressional leaders stalled past reform efforts.” The question is, will this time be different

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00:55:39

September 5th, 2025 | You Don’t Need Hot Tech Stocks...

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2025/09/06

You don’t always need to pick the hot technology stocks to get great returnsInvesting is very emotional and it’s always nice to be part of the crowd and buy the hot stocks like Apple, Alphabet and Amazon, but they are not always the top performers. Sometimes your boring, undervalued companies can do very well. As an example, Apple over the years has performed nicely, but over the last five years the gain was 114%. Not a bad return, but if you held a boring company like Tractor Supply over the same

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00:55:40

August 29th, 2025 | Another warning on private...

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2025/08/30

Yet another warning on private investments!I remember hearing about a company by the name of Yieldstreet a few years ago and how it was a new way for smaller investors to get access to private investments and diversify away from stocks. The company promoted their platform with the tagline, “Invest like the 1%.” Unfortunately, it is now coming out that several investors may have lost everything they invested in the platform. One gentleman shared with CNBC how he invested $400,000 in two real estate

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August 22nd, 2025 | EV car makers lose in credits?,...

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2025/08/23

How much will EV car makers lose in credits?The nations Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards are still in place; however, penalties for violating those standards have been removed. So obviously there’s no incentive for any car maker to abide by them. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is focusing on standards to try to make cars more affordable again. But the big EV car makers, I will call them the big three which are Tesla, Rivian, and Lucid will have some

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August 15th, 2025 | 401(k) Withdrawals, Mixed...

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2025/08/16

Unfortunately, more Americans are using their 401(k)’s for financial emergenciesI’m sure some will disagree with me based on the headlines arguing they were so happy that they had their 401(k) to tap for whatever their financial emergency was. In my opinion, people are thinking short term and not thinking about the long-term crisis when they retire in 20 or 30 years and then might be living at the poverty level because their 401(k) was not large enough to generate a decent income and social security

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August 8th, 2025 | Stock Market, Consumer Credit Card...

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2025/08/08

Will the stock market crash?With the market continuing to march higher and setting record high after record high, I do worry more and more that a crash could be coming. It doesn’t mean it will happen tomorrow, next week, or maybe even this year, but I do believe the risk to reward of investing in the S&P 500 at this point is not favorable when you take all the data into consideration. I have talked a lot about the fact that the top 10 companies now account for nearly 40% of the entire index and

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00:55:39

August 1st, 2025 | Worrisome Jobs Report, June Job...

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2025/08/01

Should you be concerned by the jobs report?The July jobs report showed nonfarm payrolls grew by 73k, which missed the estimate of 100k. Unfortunately, the news got even worse as you dug into the report. The prior two months saw major negative revisions as June was revised from 147k to just 14k and May was revised from 125k to just 19k. This amounted to a total negative revision of 258k when looking at the two months combined. Another negative was job growth in the month of July was heavily reliant

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July 25th, 2025 | Cautious Bank Outlook, Crypto Law...

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2025/07/26

Big bank earnings give a cautious green light on the economyEvery quarter we get excited about listening to and reading about how things went for the big banks in the most recent quarter as they release their earnings. I’m primarily talking about JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo. We have held a couple large banks in our portfolio for years and they have provided very useful information along with great returns as well. Overall, the big banks were happy with the low rates

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July 18th, 2025 | Tariff Impact, Market Bubble,...

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2025/07/19

Are tariffs impacting inflation yet?The Consumer Price Index, also known as the CPI, in the month of June showed an annual increase of 2.7%, which was in line with expectations. Core CPI, which excludes food and energy, came in at 2.9% and was also in like with expectations. It was slightly above May’s reading of 2.8%, but given all the news around tariffs I think most would be surprised to see the limited change in prices given all the concerns. Some economists that tried to find evidence of the

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00:55:27

July 11th, 2025 | Crypto Crash, ETF Complexity, Dark...

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2025/07/12

Crypto losses increase 66% in 2024At first you may be saying I thought Bitcoin has been increasing in value? While that is true, you have to remember that is only one of the many thousands of cryptocurrencies that are available. According to the FBI in 2024, there was 149,686 complaints for total losses of $9.3 billion. It was somewhat surprising to learn that people over 60 years old, who I thought knew better than to gamble with cryptocurrencies, was the most with losses totaling nearly $3

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July 3rd, 2025| Jobs Report Illusion, Job Openings,...

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2025/07/04

The June jobs number looks stronger than it really isI want to be clear; I wouldn’t say this was a bad report, but the headline number that showed an addition of 147,000 jobs in the month of June doesn’t show the full picture. The number did come in well above the estimate for 110,000 jobs and it follows upward revisions in the months of April and May that have totaled 16,000 jobs, but the concerning part I saw was government accounted for 73,000 new jobs in the month of June. This did not come from

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