Wall Street for Dummies
Episodes
Season 2 Episode 3 The Rockets' Red Glare and Your 401k
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textA week ago, the skies over the Middle East were filled with more rockets than Times Square on New Year’s Eve. The following Monday mornin...
Season 2 Episode 2 All That Glitters Is not Gold
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textDuring my second junior year in college, I took a Shakespeare class. I was a business major and wore a coat and tie to class. In a roomful ...
Season 2 Episode 1 Your 401k, The Gift That Keeps on Giving
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe American economic engine is the greatest wealth producing machine the world has ever known. At the turn of the 20th century, it prod...
Season 1 Episode 28 Who's Been Naughty and Who's Been Nice
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textTis the season where we titillate our naïve young people with the story of a mystical elderly gentleman who rewards his followers with ...
Season1 Episode 27 The Wizard of Oz and Your 401(k)
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe Wizard of Oz is about a Kansas farm girl who is traveling along a yellow brick road to get to the City of Oz, home to a person with ...
Season 1, Episode 26 Investing is Not Rocket Science or a Roulette Wheel, It's a Plow Horse
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textInvesting is not rocket science, nor is it a roulette wheel. It's a plow horse, a giant animal who turns the earth over, step by ar...
Season 1, Episode 25 At the End of Every Straightaway is a Curve
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textAt the end of it every straightaway, there's a curve. But this exciting and informative episode of my podcast is not about auto rac...
Season 1, Episode 24 Massive, Not Passive; The index Fund Revolution
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textDuring my 62-year journey with Wall Street, I have been a witness to and a participant in, many significant events. I was there on Black...
Season 1 Episode 23 Cryptocurrencies and the Fed - Voodoo and Snake Oil
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textUp until a few weeks ago I had no desire in delving into the mystic world of crypto currency. However, when Trump announced that he was ...
Season 1 Episode 22 Where are we, How did we get here, and Where do we go from here?
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textAs we transition from summer into the fall months, the words of Will Rogers come to mind: “The worst month to invest in the stock mark...
Season 1 Episode 21 Trump's 401(k) Executive Order. Is the Juice Worth the Squezz
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThere are 90 million American workers with company sponsored 401(k)plans. These 7,143 plans have a cumulative value of $14 trillion. Thi...
Season 1 Episode 20 Who Wants to be a Millionaire??
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textEighty million American workers participate in their companies 401(k) plan. Collectively, they have $14 trillion dollars invested in the...
Season 1 Episode 19 The Weatherman, Tariffs and your 401(k) Plan
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this stop on my 62-year journey along Wall Street, I discuss the evolving nature of the stock market. Today’s market is not your fa...
Who Is Getting the Biggest Slice of the 401(k) Pie
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textDuring a debate on the Federal budget, Herbert Humphry, the late, great Senator from Minnesota, said, “A billion here, a billion there...
The Big Beautiful Bill and Your 401(k)
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe stock market loves good news and hates bad news. The problem is that it has trouble deciding which is which. It also reserves the ri...
Season 1, Episode 16 Half Time Score Stock Market 2025, Wall Street 2.7, Main Street 4.9
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe normal half time segment of a televised football game, begins with a petite blond female reporter accosting the loosing coach with a...
Season 1 Episode 15 Why buy the cow when the milk is free?
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textOur lives are dominated by and consumed by technology. We can turn our house lights on from a phone in our car. Our car recognizes us. T...
Season 1, Episode 14 What's in a Name?
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWhat's in a name? I have chosen this iconic line from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to impress you with a fact that I am a le...
Season 1, Episode 13 How to become a Wall Street Dummy
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWall Street Dummies are engaged investors who realize that Wall Street’s jibber jabber generates more money for Wall Street than for M...
Season 1, Episode 12 This Is What Buffett Says You Should Buy
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe internet has been flooded with articles claiming that emulating Buffett will make you rich. Unfortunately, the methodology most cite...
Season 1, Episode 11 Mr. Market Forgets to Take His Meds
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textOver the course of the past few weeks, Mr. Market has been on a tear. Most people view his actions as chaotic, unexplainable and unpredi...
Season 1, Episode 10, Shakespeare was wrong, roses can stink.
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textShakespeare wrote, “A rose by any other name would still smell sweet. That may apply to horticulture, but it doesn’t work when appli...
Season 1 Episode 9, WTF Just Happened
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIf you think that Mr. Market’s recent hissy fit was the result of a gaggle of investors, calculator in one hand and index finger on th...
Season 1, Episode 8 The King is Dead, Long live the King
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn this episode of my extremely insightful podcast, I document the evolution of the financial services industry from one that was an ent...
Season 1, Episode 7 The World is Coming to an End - AGAIN!!
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textAccording to a small gaggle of self-appointed fortune tellers in the financial media, the market is on the verge of a horrific collapse,...
Season 1, Episode 6 Wall Street Dummies Half Time Report
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWall Street Dummy’ s are shrewd investors who realize that Wall Street’s jibber jabber generates more money for Wall Street than Mai...
Season 1, Episode 5 There's a new sheriff in town, looking for deputies
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textSeventy three percent of all American workers now have access to a 401(k) plan. The total value of these plans is $10 trillion. The only...
Season 1, Episode 4 Buffett Copy Cats Are Stupid, Buffett Listeners are Rich
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textRemember when you were a kid and you did something stupid. You told your mom, “Everybody’s doing it.” She replied, “If all your ...
Season 1 Episode 3 The Magnificent 7
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe media is all the buzz about the so called magnificent 7. The magnificent seven are the biggest and most successful tech companies in...
Season 1 Episode 2 The Amazing Electronic Stock Market
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textFor the first 200 years of its existence, the New York Stock Exchange operated as a virtual monopoly. Then in 2007, the SEC decided that...
Season 1 Episode 1
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThere is an urban legend that Wall Street gurus hold the key to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Back in the day, that may hav...