The Investopedia Express with Caleb Silver

Rising Oil’s Ripple Effects

23 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

With no clear resolution to the war in Iran in sight, rising oil prices have already had a cascading effect on economic growth which is barreling into...

Behind the Bitcoin Breakdown

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What really drove Bitcoin prices down 50% in yet another one of its spectacular crashes? Ric Edelman explains what caused the original cryptocurrency’...

Wealth Management in the Age of AI

09 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The $2 Trillion wealth management industry is facing an existential pivot point as Artificial Intelligence has made financial planning much more effic...

Fallout From the Attack on Iran

02 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The attack on Iran led by the U.S. and Israel has global markets reeling as investors brace for more uncertainty in the oil-heavy region. Jay Woods of...

The Vibe Economy is Not Vibing

23 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

With the Supreme Court striking down the Trump Administration’s reciprocal tariffs, and the announcement of new 15% tariffs by The White House, the ...

Looking for a Reason to Believe

16 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

With the stock market coming off its worst week all year and the biggest stocks rolling over, investors continue to believe better times are ahead. Gu...

What Is, and Isn’t Working in this Market

09 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The icy winds of volatility could not break through investors’ willingness to buy the dip, sending the Dow Jones Industrials beyond 50,000 for the f...

Debasement Trade About Face

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The shine came off of precious metals just as investors piled into the debasement trade on the heels of the Dollar’s decline leaving a raft of quest...

The National and Economic Security Portfolio

26 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

There’s a through line that runs through the White House’s ambitions in Venezuela and Greenland, and it has all been laid out in its National Secu...

The Real Deal Inside the Jobs Market

19 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Greenland becomes the new chip in the tariff war and the European Union threatens to pull out an economic bazooka to deter the White House. Investors ...

What’s Next For Bitcoin After the Fall?

12 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

2025 was looking like yet another banner year for Bitcoin for Bitcoin prices until a wave of selling in the Fall sent the cryptocurrency into a bear m...

Investing in the New World Order

05 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

2026 came in like a lion with the U.S. invasion of Venezuela and a bull market charging into its fourth year testing investors’ confidence. Liz Thom...

Jim Cramer’s Lessons for Investing in Any Market

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jim Cramer, the legendary investor, educator, best-selling author, host of CNBC’s Mad Money and Squawk on the Street, joins the Express with lessons...

Acorns Plants its Next Seeds for Growth

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Acorns, the 14-year old investing app that became popular by letting its customers invest their spare change into the stock market, has grown into a...

Diving Deep into Investor Sentiment

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As the year winds down, we wrap up our final investor sentiment survey which shows that we are as optimistic as we’ve been in months even though we ...

The Power of Financial Coupling with Heather and Douglas Boneparth

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Over half of married couples divorce, and money is usually the root cause or a symptom of their problems. But what a lot of couples don’t realize un...

Signals and Noises at the End of the Year

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

2025 has been a very noisy and volatile year as a new administration shook up economic policy, the AI-spend stretched valuations and consumer confiden...

The Most Important Charts in the Market Right Now

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It may be a headline driven market but the charts and patterns inside the capital markets always tell the truth. We go inside the most important chart...

The Power of the Plan in Family Finances

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Family finances can be complicated by emotions and expectations. That's why having a solid financial plan that starts with good communication is param...

Ripping Through a Risk Reversal

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Risk-Off trade has taken over bringing the pain to the biggest and most widely held stocks in the market proving, as the legendary Jimmy Cliff san...

Slip-Sliding Through Sector Rotation

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The cold winds of volatility have been blowing through the markets leaving many to question the durability of this bull market. Is this just good old ...

Separating Facts vs. Feelings as Investors

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Investors can’t help but feel like the stock market might be riding on the thin skin of a bubble, but the facts will tell us that even if we are, it...

What Really Caused the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rampant speculation, a divided Federal Reserve, big companies making big bets, and geopolitical instability. Sound familiar? That’s exactly the envi...

Playing Offense and Defense in Q4

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A potential tariff truce between the U.S. and China has stocks hitting new highs around the world despite the ongoing government shutdown and a slowin...

The Truth About Our Financial Futures

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Investors continue to climb over walls of worry and keep buying, even amid the latest concerns about regional bank credit risk, the prospect of even h...

How Not To Invest

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Volatility is back just in time for the October scaries as new tariff threats rattle investors just as the markets reached new record highs. Is this a...

Chef Tom Colicchio on Innovation and Inspiration in and out of the Kitchen

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For nearly forty years, Chef Tom Colicchio has been one of the most dynamic innovators in the culinary world through his restaurant empire, “Top Che...

Shutdown Showdown Amid Record Highs

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The U.S. Government shutdown has done little to scare investors off of ‘Risk Mountain’, as stocks, Bitcoin and Gold are all at record highs. With ...

Can the Relentless Bid be Stopped?

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The stock market defied its historical odds by surging in September despite concerns about a slowing economy, overvaluation, and tariffs. So what, if ...

The $16 Trillion Stock Rally

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The stock market rally has added $16 Trillion in market capitalization so far this year, and momentum is still in the drivers’ seat. What, if anythi...

The Future of the Fed at a Crossroads

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The future of the Federal Reserve’s independence will come into clearer focus this week as the central bank will likely lower interest rates for the...

Future-Proofing Wealth Management

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The wealth management industry finds itself facing a cascading wave of wealth transfer, A.I. disruption, and a never-ending conveyor belt of product c...

Over-Concentrated or Over-Diversified?

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With the stock market near record highs again, and nearly every valuation metric pointing to extremes, are we at the precipice of our own “irrationa...

Inside the World’s Biggest Wealth Festival

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We go inside Invest Fest, the biggest and best wealth festival on the planet, as it celebrates its fifth year of bringing education and empowerment to...

Riding High on Optimistic Vibes

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Individual investors are feeling as optimistic as they’ve felt all year according to our recent sentiment survey, and with stocks dancing around rec...

How to Climb the Ever-Rising Wealth Ladder

11 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The pursuit of wealth has never been more intense, but the path to getting there has never been steeper. Nick Maggiulli, the founder of ofdollarsandda...

Investing Through a Cloud of Dubious Data

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The recent firing of the Commissioner of the BLS and the resignation of a top Fed official have cast even more doubt on the trustworthiness of governm...

Low-Riding Through Short Squeezes to Higher Highs

28 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On what could be the most important week for investors in years, markets keep riding to higher highs, and meme stocks keep spinning into the silly-sph...

Investing Through a Regulatory Overhaul

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From the passage of the “Big Beautiful Tax Bill”, to new laws around stablecoins, investors have been navigating one massive change after another ...

Testing the Limits of American Exceptionalism

14 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As yet another new wave of tariff threats come out of the White House, investors have yet to bail out of the U.S. stock market like they did in April....

High Anxiety Inside the Everything Rally

07 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Markets are steaming into the summer at all-time highs as the July 9th reciprocal tariff deadline approaches and the Big Beautiful Tax bill has been s...

Fear and Loathing on the Way to New Record Highs

30 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Everyone from corporate executives to Wall Street’s top strategists feared the worst for the stock market and the U.S. economy as the new administra...

Why the A.I. Revolution is Just Getting Started

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As the U.S. attacks Iran, tensions in the Middle East tighten as the one of the key chokepoints for global oil is at risk. The Federal Reserve held in...

Event Risk Rattles the Rally as Middle East Tensions Rise

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As Israel and Iran exchange missile attacks, the new bull market faces its first real challenge as ‘Event Risk’ takes over and oil prices spike. J...

The Bro Billionaire Basket of Stocks Leads a New Bull Stampede

08 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As trade tensions ease and the headline economic data eases recession fears, a new bull market is picking up speed led by what Bank of America Securit...

The New Age of Cryptocurrency is Here - Get On-Chain!

01 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From inside the Bitcoin 2025 Conference in Las Vegas, it is clear that the new era of cryptocurrency is here and fully backed by the Trump administrat...

A New Bull is Born and the U.S. Gets a Downgrade

18 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The 90-day tariff truce boosted markets and propelled the Nasdaq into a new bull market as the A.I. trade got some beneficial treatment from the White...

eToro CEO Yoni Assia on the Long Road to its IPO

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You Can Now Trade eToro on the eToro online brokerage platform as the company joined the capital markets through an IPO on the Nasdaq. Co-founder and ...

Playing With Our Patience as the Rally Resets

11 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fed Chair Powell is preaching patience as the Fed held interest rates last week, but individual investors have been leaning back into the stock mark...

Inside the Berkshire Shareholder Meeting as Buffett Says He's Stepping Down

04 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It may have come as a surprise to those of us in attendance at the Berkshire Hathaway meeting in Omaha this Saturday, but Warren Buffett gracefully sa...

What is Behind Chef Kwame Onwuachi's Recipe for Innovation

30 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Chef Kwame Onwuachi is one of the most influential and innovative chefs working today. A James Beard Award-winner, best-selling author, entrepreneur, ...

The De-escalation Trade Roars Back, but Halloween May Get Ghosted

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A de-escalation in the tariff sabre rattling between the U.S. and China brought the buyers back into the stock market, lifting it well out of correct...

David Booth on the Birth of Big Data and Dimensional Funds

23 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

David Booth, the founder and Chairman of Dimensional Funds, on how he and a group of future Nobel Prize winners came together at the University of Ch...

The 7th Circle of Uncertainty and Sanctity of the Fed

20 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Big Money continues to flee U.S. assets amid more policy uncertainty and lack of guidance from C-Suites, but that hasn’t stopped individual inve...

Trying to Catch Falling Knives, Retail Investors Rush In

18 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As the biggest stocks in the market continue their dizzying selloff, retail investors have been buying the dip at levels we haven't seen since just a...

Tariff Flip Flops Supercharge Our Animal Spirits

14 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Last week's softening of the Trump administration's tariff policies super charged the stock market to its biggest daily gains in years, but incoheren...

Why The Big Short is Not Short Right Now

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Eisman, who was profiled in the terrific book and movie, "The Big Short", explains why he's not shorting any parts of the market right now, but ...

Powell Preaches Patience as Trump Tariffs Topple the Bull

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Liberation Day last week brought the biggest selloff in the stock market since the early days of the pandemic as investors couldn't get out of stock...

Bracing for 'Liberation Day', and the Dizzying Decline of the Dollar

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Investors have been bracing for, and selling ahead of April 2nd, dubbed "Liberation Day", by The White House, when hundreds of billions of dollars in ...

The Fed Said the "T" Word, and Individual Investors Buy the Dip

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Stocks rallied last week following dovish comments and forecasts from the Federal Reserve, but Chair Powell said inflation may be 'transitory', which...

Seema Shah on How to Invest Through Policy Chaos

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Seema Shah, the Chief Global Strategist at Principal Asset Management, on how and where to invest as tariff and policy uncertainty roils markets and e...

The Correction Cometh as the Fed Put Goes into High Gear

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The S&P 500 fell into a correction last week as sentiment soured to multi-year lows amid tariff and economic policy uncertainty. Don't look now, but c...

Tech Gets Corrected Triggering the Titanic Syndrome

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Another week of selling as the stock market suffers its worst week since early September sending the Nasdaq into correction territory and triggering t...

Momentum Loses its MoJo, and the Risk Trade Gets Wrecked

03 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

February was a short and brutal month across the capital markets as the momentum trade into Big Tech and A.I. stocks reversed, leaving a pile-up of ma...

Sentiment Shaken, Stocks Stirred, and Retail Traders Rush In

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A swift drop in investor and consumer sentiment rattled the ‘Immaculate Rotation’ from growth to value stocks, sending the stock market off of rec...

The Bull Goes Global, and Welcome to the Age of Electricity

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Stocks snapped a two-week, battling through tariff and inflation headlines, to come within a fraction of all-time highs. What's driving the market hig...

The Securitization of the "America First" Agenda

10 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Investors are bracing for more political chaos after last week's tariff wars which tripped up sentiment, sending the dollar higher and Gold to record...

DeepSeek, A.I., Tariffs, and the Future of Economic Security

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A jam-packed January full of news also brought DeepSeek into the future of A.I. conversation, deep-seating Nvidia as the world's most valuable compa...

The Upcoming Showdown at the Fed, and Making Cents out of Eliminating the Penny

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On The Express this week, we dissect the flurry of economic executive orders and announcements from the Trump administration and identify the new pow...

The New Economic Policy Playbook and the Future of TikTok

20 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's a newer, faster version of The Express, and we break down the path of economic policies promised by the incoming Trump administration, including ...

Reasons to Remain Bullish as the Bond Vigilantes Circle

13 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Despite the recent and relentless rise in Treasury bond yields and a sell off in the stock market, Dr. Ed Yardeni, President of Yardeni Research, rema...

What to Expect Across the Capital Markets in 2025

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Following back to back years of twenty-percent plus gains for the stock market, what should investors expect in 2025 as a new administration moves int...

Why the Bitcoin Bonanza Might Just Be Getting Started

23 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After a blowout year for Bitcoin, the runway to higher highs could be clearing as a crypto-friendly Trump administration is set to take office, insti...

Austin Hankwitz Wants to Show You His Portfolio

16 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Austin Hankwitz, co-host of the "Rich Habits" podcast and author of the Rate of Return substack, has built a successful career as a Fin-fluencer by s...

Investopedia's Top Terms of the Year and Yet More Reasons to Be Bullish

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Investopedia is out with the Top Ten Terms of the Year, our list of the most searched terms, trends and themes by our millions of readers throughout 2...

Setting Longer Tables with Chef José Andrés

02 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A conversation with José Andrés, world renowned chef, entrepreneur, author and humanitarian, on where he finds his inspiration and the business skil...

The ETF Industry in Search of the Next $10 Trillion

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Anna Paglia, the Chief Business Officer for State Street Global Advisors, joins The Express to help uncover where the next $10 Trillion in assets und...

Ray Dalio and His Principles For This New World Order

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ray Dalio, one of the most successful investors of all time and the author of the best selling "Principles" series, rejoins The Express to help us und...

Breaking Down the Election Mega-Rally as the Bond Vigilantes Circle

11 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the wake of the equity markets' largest election rally in history, we break down the winners across sectors, asset classes and sizes with Cameron...

Why the Federal Budget Deficit Could Trigger the Next Financial Crisis

04 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

No one wants to talk about the $1.8 Billion Federal Budget deficit - especially the two candidates running for president and their political parties...

What Actually Happened to the Investors Who Joined the Market During Meme Stock Mania?

28 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Sikes, the Chief Operating Officer for Public.com, explains what happened to most of the retail investors who jumped into the stock market i...

How to Really Get Better With Our Money

21 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From Philly Phinancial Literacy Week, founder Nisiar Smith takes us inside the movement he helped create to extend financial education into the under...

How to Have the Most Challenging Financial Conversations in Our Lives

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We don't like talking about money - especially among family. But family finances are the most important finances in our lives, so breaking through t...

The Brain Behind the Biggest Breaking News Stories of Our Generation

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

David Faber, co-host of CNBC's Squawk on the Street, and the creator of The Faber Report, takes us through how he has broken some of the biggest bus...

Inside the Front Lines of a Modern Day Whiskey Rebellion

30 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From the Food & Wine Classic in Charleston, S.C., new whiskey distillers like Company Distilling are battling for shelf space and brand recognition ag...

The Fed's Big Recalibration, and the Most Important Macro Trends in the Economy Today

23 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Federal Reserve went big with its first interest rate cut since 2020, and it's biggest cut in 16 years as it lowered the Federal Funds Rate by ha...

Rebuilding the 'American Dream' Through Real Estate

16 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Americans from every generation still believe that owning their home is one the greatest investments they will make and a key component of realizing t...

Secrets Every Investor Should Know with Downtown Josh Brown

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Josh Brown rejoins The Express to talk about his latest book, "You Weren't Supposed to See That: Secrets Every Investor Should Know", and explains wh...

Investopedia Celebrates 25 Years, and The Investor Post-Summer Playbook

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Investopedia is celebrating its 25th Anniversary, and we are joining the party with the most important innovations, financial events and terms of the ...

The ABC's of Alternative Investing

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Once the playground for high-net worth and institutional investors, alternative investing is opening up to individual investors like us through ETF...

WIll Regulators Really Break Up Big Tech, or Are They Already Too Late?

19 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With the Dept. of Justice's recent antitrust victory over Google and its online advertising practices ruled monopolistic, the breakup of the biggest t...

What Broke, and What Got Stronger Amid the Market's Summer Storm

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On our 200th episode, JC Parets of AllStarCharts climbs back aboard The Express to assess the damage across the capital markets following the 2024 Sum...

Market Meltdown: Is This 1999 All Over Again?

05 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stock markets around the world are melting down as the most popular trades around A.I. and Tech are unwinding amid worries about overvaluation and si...

Political Chaos and Our Portfolios: What Investors Really Need to Pay Attention to in this Election

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The past month has been one of the most chaotic four weeks in U.S. political history, and the election is still over three months away. Michael Tow...

Behind the Historic Small Cap Breakout, and Investing Lessons for Millennials

22 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Callie Cox, the new Chief Market Strategist at Ritholtz Wealth, rejoins The Express to unpack the historic break out in small cap stocks of late, and ...

Investors' Great Expectations Meet the Economic Realities of the 2nd Half of 2024

15 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Buoyed by more record highs, investors have been reinvigorated by the prospect of interest rate cuts in September as inflation slows. But, as SoFi's L...

How to Find the Next Unicorn Wines

07 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Great wine enthusiasts and collectors are no different from investors. We like to find value and growth potential before anyone else, and back the n...

How the Trolls Took Over Wall Street, and Where They are Now

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nathaniel Popper joins The Express to talk about his latest book, "The Trolls of Wall Street: How the Outcasts and Insurgents are Hacking the Markets"...

Unlocking the Super Powers of Supercommunicators

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Charles Duhigg, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and best-selling author talks about is latest book, "Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secre...

Making the Case Against the 401(k)

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Teresa Ghilarducci, a labor economist and retirement expert at The New School for Social Research, has been arguing for years that the 401(...