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Originally Posted by Boomer

No matter how we are perceiving our current economic times, we might be starting to feel like we are on information-overload.

But here's more: I listen to podcasts, while I am doing other things, like chores, around the house. In the past few days, I ran across two financial interviews that I found particularly interesting. Here we go.....

April 4: On WealthTrack, Consuelo Mack interviewed Robert Kessler who has been in the world of finance for a long time. The title of this week's interview is "Zero Stocks."

While all around us, we are hearing things like, "Stay the course," and "The market goes up and the market goes down. This is normal," it is interesting to hear a different point of view on that. Kessler is all out. He refers to Warren Buffett now sitting on $325 Billion in sideline cash, waiting to buy value.

Consuelo brings up the standard routine about market timing, but Kessler does not really agree. At the end of the interview, my takeaway is that Kessler is retirement age and he simply does not think we retirees have time to wait for all this dust to settle.......

If you want to hear everything Kessler has to say, go to wealthtrack.com and find "Zero Stocks" -- the recent interview.

April 10: The other podcast I heard this week was on Taylor Schulte's Stay Wealthy Retirement Show. That was the one titled "How Tariffs Actually Work." Schulte interviewed yet another expert, Cullen Roche. Unlike some other financial podcasts, this one is well done. (Too many financial podcasters or television people can get downright annoying because they try to do comedy routines or are way too into banter or talk over top of the person they are talking to.)

This interview though was professionally done and informative and did not try to be esoteric. If that sounds good to you, just give the title a google and you will find it.

(This "living in interesting times" sure is getting old -- but so are we. )

Boomer

That's all well and fine, but my tendency is to listen to my senior VP of wealth management at Merrill Lynch and not the "talking heads" on TV and the internet