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In this episode of Money Matters, brought to you by Greenberg Financial Group in Tucson, Dave and Todd hold down the fort while Dean is in San Diego coaching the University of Arizona lacrosse team and Dylan takes Sebastian to his first SEC game in Kentucky. They dig into something Dave says he has not seen in his career. The S&P 500 and the NASDAQ both set new all time highs in the same week the ten year Treasury hit a 24 year high, and the technical oscillator was reading oversold at the top. Rising rates are supposed to work against stocks, so we get into why this market has been able to shrug that off, how multiple compression is quietly squeezing price to earnings ratios across the board even for NVIDIA, and why earnings growth has been doing all the heavy lifting. The more useful conversation for anyone near retirement is what high rates do to the math. When you can lock in north of five percent on long duration, the old four percent withdrawal rule starts looking like a relic of a three percent world. Todd walks through why we built the four percent rule the way we did, what a 60/40 portfolio actually generates in this environment, and how our strategic income model keeps five years of your spending in bonds so we never have to sell equities at the bottom to pay you. Dave shares what he told a client in a planning meeting last week, which is that this may be one of the more forgiving moments in decades to be stepping into retirement. Haley Glick joins us for the tax segment and untangles one of the most confusing calculations in the code, which is how much of your Social Security actually gets taxed. She explains provisional income, the thresholds where zero, fifty and eighty five percent of your benefit gets pulled into your taxable income, and why Congress built it that way in the first place. We walk through a real client with a small pension and thirty thousand in Social Security who owes nothing on that benefit, and how the One Big Beautiful Bill stacks a new six thousand dollar deduction per person over 65 on top of an already enlarged standard deduction. She also gets into what she keeps finding when she reviews returns prepared elsewhere, and why the phrase it is a write off has cost people more money than it has saved them. On the market side we cover Micron reporting the biggest quarter in its 48 year history with revenue up roughly 380% from a year ago and guidance calling for an even bigger one, Marvell taking orders into 2031, and why memory is on its way to being treated like a utility. We get into the SpaceX spectrum deal that knocked ten to fifteen percent off Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile in a single session while the cell tower stocks rallied, and why Dave changed his mind about what satellite service can actually replace. There is also Apple falling five percent on iPhone 18 order cuts right before the Duo launch, Cisco quietly becoming the top Dow stock of the year, nuclear names popping on the Meta and Constellation deal and a $34 billion government loan to Vistra, and a line item in NVIDIA’s filing about who owes them money that is worth watching. Plus Costco’s September numbers and a real disagreement about whether its membership base is aging out or aging in, Brian Niccol running Starbucks from Manhattan Beach while rumors swirl about Chipotle, a record low 54% of American adults who drink at all and what that does to restaurant margins, and a Tucson fun fact about how a University of Arizona lab helped NASA pick where to land on the moon. Our next free interactive financial planning seminar is Friday, October 30th from 11:30 to 2:00 at La Paloma Country Club. It is already about half full. Lunch is included, Haley will be there for tax questions, and you will see our full planning process and risk analysis start to finish. Register at www.GreenbergFinancial.com under the resource tab or give us a call. If you have been thinking about taking us up on the free financial plan, this is the kind of clarity it brings. If you would like to contact us to learn more about our firm, our seminars, and our process - call us at 520.544.4909 or go to our website at www.Greenbergfinancial.com or email us at [email protected] Disclaimer: This show discusses different investment products and strategies. Every product and strategy has some type of inherent risk and we strongly encourage our listeners to properly understand these risks. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. The information presented on this program is believed to be factual and up-to-date, but we do not guarantee its accuracy and it should not be regarded as a complete analysis of the subjects discussed. The material covered on this program does not involve the rendering of personalized investment advice, but is for general information purposes only. A professional advisor should be consulted before implementing any of the options presented. Greenberg Financial Group is registered as an investment advisor with the SEC and only transacts business in states where it is properly registered, or is excluded or exempted from registration requirements.

In this episode of Money Matters, brought to you by Greenberg Financial Group, Dean Greenberg, Dave Sherwood, Dylan Greenberg, Todd Glick Jr. and Sebastian Borsini sit down after a September that looked very different depending on where you checked. Big tech carried the Nasdaq to a gain while the equal weighted S&P 500 slipped about 5%, and we talk through why that gap matters, what history says about October's reputation, and why staying measured into the midterm elections can make more sense than chasing the next headline. Dean also shares his long view on the AI data center build out and his ideas for putting Social Security and Medicare on firmer footing for the next generation. From there we get into the interest rate story that keeps pressuring the broader market, why the Fed only controls the overnight rate and not your mortgage, and why individual bonds with set maturity dates can behave very differently from bond funds when rates rise. We also cover Micron's earnings and its shift toward long term contracts, NVIDIA's record buyback, Nike's rough year, the latest from the auto makers, and a Tucson fun fact about how A Mountain got its letter. Hailey Glick from G&G Tax Advisors joins us to explain why a big refund is really an interest free loan to the IRS, how tax brackets actually work, why withholding often changes in retirement, and what to keep in mind on required minimum distributions, qualified charitable distributions and estimated payments before the year runs out. We also share a note from a new client about the care she received from Todd and Sebastian, and invite you to our next financial planning workshop on October 30 at La Paloma Country Club, from 11:30 to 2. Want to see how all of this fits your own situation? Ask us about a free personalized financial plan. If you would like to contact us to learn more about our firm, our seminars, and our process - call us at 520.544.4909 or go to our website at www.Greenbergfinancial.com or email us at [email protected] Disclaimer: This show discusses different investment products and strategies. Every product and strategy has some type of inherent risk and we strongly encourage our listeners to properly understand these risks. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. The information presented on this program is believed to be factual and up-to-date, but we do not guarantee its accuracy and it should not be regarded as a complete analysis of the subjects discussed. The material covered on this program does not involve the rendering of personalized investment advice, but is for general information purposes only. A professional advisor should be consulted before implementing any of the options presented. Greenberg Financial Group is registered as an investment advisor with the SEC and only transacts business in states where it is properly registered, or is excluded or exempted from registration requirements.

In this episode of Money Matters, brought to you by Greenberg Financial Group, Dean Greenberg, Todd Glick Jr., Dave Sherwood, Dylan Greenberg and Sebastian Borsini take stock of a September that has treated the big indexes better than the calendar usually allows. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq have eked out gains for the month on the back of a tech bounce, while the Dow, the Russell 2000 and the equal weight S&P are all lower, and we spend real time on what that split means if your own portfolio is not keeping pace with the headlines. Dave runs the math on what a typical 60/40 mix might reasonably show year to date when the bond side is fighting the highest 10-year yield in 19 years, and Dean explains why he stays cautious inside a trading range with an election a few weeks out. Meta is the story of the week. A few weeks after the headlines had it going the way of the tobacco companies, the lawsuit is settled and the stock is running on Muse, a personal AI agent that hit number one on the App Store. Dean has been using it to shop for a television, Todd lays out why an agent that learns you is different from a search box, and the whole table gets into the glasses, the memory chips behind all of it, and what happens to chip stocks once the CHIPS Act buyback restriction expires in December. Then Dean draws the line that matters for this business. Computers ran the trading in 1987 too, right up until they sold the market down twenty percent in a day, and the circuit breakers we have now exist because humans had to step back in. AI can build a portfolio. It cannot ask what you actually want your life to look like, which is why we say we do not plan for your retirement. We plan for what comes after it. The rate side is where the planning conversation gets practical. Diesel has doubled in twelve months, the 30-year mortgage is back above seven percent, and the show walks through why a short term bond fund is sitting flat this year while the long bond fund is down more than six percent. We explain why we build ladders of individual bonds for larger accounts instead of bond funds, what a multi-year guaranteed annuity can do in a taxable account that a bond cannot, and why the money sitting in your checking account may be the most expensive thing you own. There is also a look at the bottom of the Dow, a sell call on Netflix, the retailers that are still winning, and Oracle's data center trouble. Firm news: our free interactive financial planning workshop is Friday, October 30, 11:30 to 2 at La Paloma Country Club, lunch included. All three advisors will be there along with Hailey Glick from our tax team, and we will walk through a complete plan from start to finish and take your questions. New TV episodes are coming to KVOA channel 4 at 10 p.m. after the news. And Dave has a fun fact about a plumber in Alaska and the number one salad dressing in the world. If you have never seen what a real plan looks like, the workshop is the easiest place to start, and the personalized plan we build afterward is free whether or not you ever become a client. If you would like to contact us to learn more about our firm, our seminars, and our process - call us at 520.544.4909 or go to our website at www.Greenbergfinancial.com or email us at [email protected] Disclaimer: This show discusses different investment products and strategies. Every product and strategy has some type of inherent risk and we strongly encourage our listeners to properly understand these risks. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. The information presented on this program is believed to be factual and up-to-date, but we do not guarantee its accuracy and it should not be regarded as a complete analysis of the subjects discussed. The material covered on this program does not involve the rendering of personalized investment advice, but is for general information purposes only. A professional advisor should be consulted before implementing any of the options presented. Greenberg Financial Group is registered as an investment advisor with the SEC and only transacts business in states where it is properly registered, or is excluded or exempted from registration requirements.

In this episode of Money Matters, brought to you by Greenberg Financial Group, Dean Greenberg, Sebastian Borsini, and Todd Glick break down a week where the Federal Reserve raised interest rates a quarter point and the market barely flinched. The Dow and the Russell 2000 each slipped 1.7%, the S&P 500 finished close to flat, and the Nasdaq managed a small gain. We get into why the bond market had been pushing the Fed in this direction for weeks, what a 5% yield on the 10-year Treasury is telling us, and why a rate hike can say more about the strength of the economy than most people expect. From there we spend real time on the story that rattled tech stocks early in the week, a new round of headlines warning that AI could be a threat to humanity. Dean looks back at duck and cover drills, Y2K, and the Industrial Revolution to talk about how fear and progress have always traveled together. Sebastian brings in the Luddites, open source versus closed source models, and what is at stake if the United States slows down while other countries lean in. We also talk through oil and record diesel prices, the Bank of Japan's latest move, a volatile week for Bitcoin, the IPO calendar, and the corners of the market that have been quietly holding up, from energy and cybersecurity to value names. Dean also shares why he is staying patient heading into the fall and why having a plan matters more than having a prediction. Hailey Glick of G&G Tax Advisors joins us for the tax segment with year end right around the corner. We walk through required minimum distributions, who has to take them and when, and the penalty for missing one. Then we get into qualified charitable distributions, a little known rule that can trip up people still contributing to an IRA after 70 and a half, how Roth conversions can fit into the early retirement years, and what changes when you inherit an IRA. We also touch on 401(k) plans for business owners and when it might be time to ask whether an S corp makes sense. If a market drop has you wondering how your portfolio would hold up, our free financial plan and risk analysis are a great place to start. No cost, no obligation, and the plan is yours to keep. If you would like to contact us to learn more about our firm, our seminars, and our process - call us at 520.544.4909 or go to our website at www.Greenbergfinancial.com or email us at [email protected] Disclaimer: This show discusses different investment products and strategies. Every product and strategy has some type of inherent risk and we strongly encourage our listeners to properly understand these risks. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. The information presented on this program is believed to be factual and up-to-date, but we do not guarantee its accuracy and it should not be regarded as a complete analysis of the subjects discussed. The material covered on this program does not involve the rendering of personalized investment advice, but is for general information purposes only. A professional advisor should be consulted before implementing any of the options presented. Greenberg Financial Group is registered as an investment advisor with the SEC and only transacts business in states where it is properly registered, or is excluded or exempted from registration requirements.

In this episode of Money Matters, brought to you by Greenberg Financial Group, Dean Greenberg opens the show with a personal story from 1998, a round of golf with a stranger from out of town, and a job offer on the upper floors of the North Tower that came with a piece of advice he still lives by. Twenty five years after 9/11, it is a reminder that a financial plan is really a lifestyle plan, and that the biggest opportunity is not always the right one. From there Dean, Dave Sherwood, and Sebastian Borsini get into a market that has had everything thrown at it and still sits just 2% off its all time high. We talk through oil up more than 25% in three weeks, a two year Treasury jumping to 4.63%, a 30 year at levels last seen in 2007, and what all of that means as we head into the seasonally tricky stretch between September and late October. We also spend real time on why 5% on high quality paper matters for retirees, why the Fed's next quarter point may be less important than the one after it, and the Arizona community property rule that can wipe out a lifetime of capital gains at the first spouse's passing. On the company side, Oracle's post earnings reversal, Meta's new AI agent and the settlement bill that comes with it, Intel and AMD raising prices, NVIDIA's stubborn stock, Qualcomm's new partnership with Amazon, and a Costco mystery that has nothing to do with gasoline. Hailey Glick of G&G Tax Advisors joins us to break down the difference between the standard deduction and itemizing, why only about one in ten filers itemize, how the bigger state and local tax bucket could change that, and why a credit is worth more than a deduction. Then estate attorney Jonathan Sibilia walks through the documents he updated before his own surgery last week, and explains why a mental health power of attorney can be the difference between a family decision and a courtroom. Our next interactive financial planning workshop is October 30th at 11:30 AM at La Paloma Country Club, and as always, the personalized financial plan is free whether or not you ever become a client. If you would like to contact us to learn more about our firm, our seminars, and our process - call us at 520.544.4909 or go to our website at www.Greenbergfinancial.com or email us at [email protected] Disclaimer: This show discusses different investment products and strategies. Every product and strategy has some type of inherent risk and we strongly encourage our listeners to properly understand these risks. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. The information presented on this program is believed to be factual and up-to-date, but we do not guarantee its accuracy and it should not be regarded as a complete analysis of the subjects discussed. The material covered on this program does not involve the rendering of personalized investment advice, but is for general information purposes only. A professional advisor should be consulted before implementing any of the options presented. Greenberg Financial Group is registered as an investment advisor with the SEC and only transacts business in states where it is properly registered, or is excluded or exempted from registration requirements.

In this episode of Money Matters, brought to you by Greenberg Financial Group, Dean Greenberg opens the Labor Day weekend show with a look at the tug of war between the Federal Reserve and the White House over interest rates, why today's rates are closer to historically normal than many people remember, and what a hot jobs report and a strong GDP print mean for inflation. He also makes the case for embracing AI rather than fearing it, shares how the firm is using it to streamline its own work, and explains why data centers may bring more to local communities than the headlines suggest. Then Dean, Dave, Sebastian, and Todd break down a flat week for the S&P 500 that hid a softer broad market, the September seasonality question, and the rising odds of a Fed move later this month. We get into why global bond yields have been climbing, how that pressures stock valuations, and whether the Fed can really push mortgage rates lower while the long end of the curve has other ideas. Todd's beach ball analogy explains it better than any economist. Hailey Glick joins the tax segment to clear up one of the most misunderstood parts of the tax code: withholding and estimated payments. Extending your return is not extending your payment, and the IRS charges interest and penalties that are tough to outrun. We cover who needs to make quarterly payments, the safe harbor rule, why a new pension or a January stock sale can catch people off guard, and the difference between your tax bracket and your effective rate. Plus the one bracket that actually deserves your worry. Estate planning attorney Jonathan Scibilia stops by to introduce HLAEstate.com, a new attorney-built site for simple wills, trusts, beneficiary deeds, and powers of attorney, complete with attorney review and remote notary signing now that Arizona allows it. Later, we get into NVIDIA's Hugging Face acquisition, what open source really means, a Tucson fun fact involving the boneyard on Kolb Road, and a few ticker symbols that made us smile. Your free financial plan is waiting whenever you're ready. No obligation, no phone tree, just a real conversation. If you would like to contact us to learn more about our firm, our seminars, and our process - call us at 520.544.4909 or go to our website at www.Greenbergfinancial.com or email us at [email protected] Disclaimer: This show discusses different investment products and strategies. Every product and strategy has some type of inherent risk and we strongly encourage our listeners to properly understand these risks. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. The information presented on this program is believed to be factual and up-to-date, but we do not guarantee its accuracy and it should not be regarded as a complete analysis of the subjects discussed. The material covered on this program does not involve the rendering of personalized investment advice, but is for general information purposes only. A professional advisor should be consulted before implementing any of the options presented. Greenberg Financial Group is registered as an investment advisor with the SEC and only transacts business in states where it is properly registered, or is excluded or exempted from registration requirements.

In this episode of Money Matters, brought to you by Greenberg Financial Group, Dean Greenberg, Dave Sherwood, Todd Glick Jr. and Sebastian Borsini close the books on August with the indexes near highs and the calendar turning to September. Dean opens with the thing that gets him going every time. So many people say they are doing retirement planning, and he cannot stand the phrase. Retirement is the end of something. You spent forty years working for your money. He wants to talk about what happens when your money finally starts working for you, and why so many people who can afford to enjoy that are too afraid to. Then there is NVIDIA. The quarter was enormous. The stock popped, never made a new high, and gave it back by Friday. The team pulls that apart from a few angles, including the part where a chipmaker quietly turned into a lender, what higher yields are doing to the price of growth, and whether the receivables number deserves a second look. The data center conversation gets lively. Sebastian brings a town of 8,600 in Washington that now hosts thirty of them and just built itself a new aquatic center, new roads, a new high school stadium. Dean has thoughts on what Tucson turned down and the reason it gave. Dave tracks the software names that AI was supposed to bury and somehow did not. Hailey Glick joins to introduce G&G Tax Advisors, and this segment might be worth actual money to you. Arizona has four separate tax credit buckets most people never touch. Dollar for dollar against your state liability, up to roughly $5,600 if you are married, and you have until April to use them. Todd admits on air he has been leaving them on the table. If you are doing your own return, you may be too. Also in this hour, a forty year mortgage with a thousand dollars down and what the catch might be, why waiting for the housing market to crash keeps costing people houses, the Meta settlement and the odd way the market reacted, why nobody wants to buy shoes, and Dave's fun fact on the hidden ocean sitting underneath Tucson. Our next quarterly seminar is Friday, October 30th at La Paloma Country Club, 11:30 to 2. Sign up on the Resources tab at GreenbergFinancial.com. And the financial plan is genuinely free. No cost, no obligation, yours to keep whether you ever become a client or not. If you would like to contact us to learn more about our firm, our seminars, and our process - call us at 520.544.4909 or go to our website at www.Greenbergfinancial.com or email us at [email protected] Disclaimer: This show discusses different investment products and strategies. Every product and strategy has some type of inherent risk and we strongly encourage our listeners to properly understand these risks. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. The information presented on this program is believed to be factual and up-to-date, but we do not guarantee its accuracy and it should not be regarded as a complete analysis of the subjects discussed. The material covered on this program does not involve the rendering of personalized investment advice, but is for general information purposes only. A professional advisor should be consulted before implementing any of the options presented. Greenberg Financial Group is registered as an investment advisor with the SEC and only transacts business in states where it is properly registered, or is excluded or exempted from registration requirements.

In this episode of Money Matters, brought to you by Greenberg Financial Group, Dean opens with a word he says he is sick of hearing. Retirement. His problem with it is that it names the end of something and tells you nothing about the part that actually matters, which is everything that comes after. So we plan for lifestyle instead. He also gets honest about free financial plans, because everybody offers one now and some of them exist only to move you into an annuity or an insurance policy. He explains how to tell the good ones from the bad ones, why he went fee based back in 1988 when almost nobody was talking about it, and why there is an estate planner and a tax team sitting under the same roof at River and Campbell. He is cautious right now and he says exactly why. Every midterm year since 1990 has seen a drawdown somewhere between August and the end of October, averaging about 7 percent. His point is not to sell everything. It is that this is not the stretch of the calendar to go get aggressive, and he walks through what the team does instead. Then Dave brings the two headlines of the week and admits he could not decide which one was bigger. Merck and Moderna used the same mRNA technology behind the COVID vaccine to build something for patients who have already had a cancerous tumor removed, and it showed a 50 percent higher success rate than Keytruda by itself. Roughly 40 percent of us will deal with a malignant tumor at some point, so this one reaches a lot further than the market. The other headline was Bitcoin, up 22 percent in three days while the Treasury doubled its buyback of longer dated bonds. Dave said he could not remember ever seeing that. Todd ran the back test and found 17 separate times in the last eight years, which opens up a bigger conversation about why gold, quantum and nuclear all caught a bid in the very same week. The guys also go through the data center myths one at a time, starting with the water, since these facilities use less than a typical golf course and run a closed loop system. That one hits close to home because Project Blue is a 3.6 billion dollar data center proposed for Pima County, the largest construction project in southern Arizona history, and the pushback it is getting locally is exactly the kind Dave and Todd think is built on things people were told rather than things people checked. Plus a rare week with no all time highs on any index, Walmart down and Target up on the very same consumer, what TJ Maxx admitted about its own shelves, why Dave told his office to sell Krispy Kreme the day he spotted them on a rack at Walgreens, the largest IPO in American history and the one that may top it, and a Tucson fun fact about the first skateboard park in the country, which was not in California. Every question in this episode is the kind we work through in the free financial plan we build for anyone who asks, whether you ever become a client or not. Our next Interactive Financial Planning Workshop at La Paloma Country Club is coming in October. Details and the sign up link go live Monday under the Resources tab at greenbergfinancial.com. If you would like to contact us to learn more about our firm, our seminars, and our process - call us at 520.544.4909 or go to our website at www.Greenbergfinancial.com or email us at [email protected] Disclaimer: This show discusses different investment products and strategies. Every product and strategy has some type of inherent risk and we strongly encourage our listeners to properly understand these risks. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. The information presented on this program is believed to be factual and up-to-date, but we do not guarantee its accuracy and it should not be regarded as a complete analysis of the subjects discussed. The material covered on this program does not involve the rendering of personalized investment advice, but is for general information purposes only. A professional advisor should be consulted before implementing any of the options presented. Greenberg Financial Group is registered as an investment advisor with the SEC and only transacts business in states where it is properly registered, or is excluded or exempted from registration requirements.

In this episode of Money Matters, brought to you by the Greenberg Financial Group, Dean opens with a warning for a week when everything feels good. The S&P has traveled from about 7,300 to 7,800 in two weeks on news that has not really changed, and his point is not that it ends tomorrow. It is that you should not forget how you felt a week and a half ago. From there he gets into why he believes AI is the beginning of what computers were to our economy rather than another dot com, what a shrinking workforce has to do with all of it, why the IRS and our air traffic control systems are still running on technology built decades ago, and why Chandler, Gilbert and Mesa keep growing while Tucson keeps saying no. Then Dave, Sebastian, Dylan and Todd pick up the number that got their attention. Net profit margin for the S&P 500 came in at 16.9 percent, the highest in history, and Todd explains what that actually means using a lemonade stand that costs 30 dollars to run. The market hit its third straight week higher with all time highs on the S&P, the Russell 2000 and the equal weighted S&P, and the VIX sat at a low for the year. Dave's word for it is complacency, right as we head into the eight weeks that have historically been the toughest stretch of the calendar. The guys also dig into Berkshire's latest 13F, where Google is now the third largest position at roughly 38 billion dollars, alongside a return to Delta and a move into home builders, which has Dave remembering when Buffett said he would never buy technology because he did not understand it. And there is a real conversation about who to believe, starting with the analyst who went on CNBC and said oil would hit 200 dollars if the Strait of Hormuz stayed closed for 30 days. It never got over about 120. The takeaway from the table is to take the headlines with a grain of salt and do your own homework. Sebastian brings the story of Richland Parish, Louisiana, where Meta built a 10 billion dollar data center in an economically challenged part of the country. Sales tax revenue went from 21.3 million dollars last year to 65.3 million this year, some teachers there are in line for bonuses, and meanwhile New York became the first state to put a moratorium on building them. Plus a Tucson fun fact about three miles of Prohibition tunnels under downtown that city officials will not talk about, what Prohibition has to do with the fact that you pay income tax, and the 86 year old client who now wants her statements texted to her. The last stretch turns personal. The average car payment in America is now 785 dollars a month, more than double Dave's first mortgage payment, and that opens the door to Roth conversions, including the cases where they do not make sense, along with IRMAA and the charitable giving strategy a nonprofit board member had never heard of. Every one of those questions gets answered inside the financial plan we build free for anyone who asks, whether you ever become a client or not. Our next seminar is this Friday, August 21st from 11:30 to 2 at La Paloma Country Club, lunch included, and we still have a few seats open. If you would like to contact us to learn more about our firm, our seminars, and our process - call us at 520.544.4909 or go to our website at www.Greenbergfinancial.com or email us at [email protected] Disclaimer: This show discusses different investment products and strategies. Every product and strategy has some type of inherent risk and we strongly encourage our listeners to properly understand these risks. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. The information presented on this program is believed to be factual and up-to-date, but we do not guarantee its accuracy and it should not be regarded as a complete analysis of the subjects discussed. The material covered on this program does not involve the rendering of personalized investment advice, but is for general information purposes only. A professional advisor should be consulted before implementing any of the options presented. Greenberg Financial Group is registered as an investment advisor with the SEC and only transacts business in states where it is properly registered, or is excluded or exempted from registration requirements.

In this episode of Money Matters, brought to you by Greenberg Financial Group, Dean Greenberg opens with a market that spent one week terrifying everybody and the next week going up six days in a row. Same headlines, same war, same worries about AI spending. He explains why almost all of it is noise, and why letting that noise decide when you buy and sell is exactly how people end up buying high and selling low. Then Dave, Todd, and Dylan get into what actually drove the move, and it was earnings. Growth across these companies came in near 50% year over year when the street was looking for 20%. We talk about why the memory names sold off anyway, why value has quietly had such a strong year, and the odd standoff where the CEOs sitting on the real numbers keep saying spend more while investors keep saying stop. Somebody is wrong. Todd also explains AI agents in a way you will actually remember, with a desk, a pile of Post-it notes, and a filing cabinet underneath. That one picture tells you which parts of the computer this whole build out is going to need next, and it is not the part everybody talks about. There is more on the jobs report that came in negative and somehow cheered everyone up, copper setting an all time high, gold's big week, Bitcoin as a read on liquidity, and the quiet story of what Japan's interest rates have to do with ours. We spend real time on SpaceX too, since it is the one we get asked about more than anything else, and Dave shares a couple of simple observations he has picked up over the years about when a stock is telling you something and when it is just sitting there. Dean makes his case on Trump accounts as well, and why a grandparent putting in a little each year could be the most valuable thing they ever do for a grandchild. We close with seasonality heading into September and October and an honest conversation about risk tolerance, because the time to find out how much risk you can really live with is not while everything is going straight up. Plus a Tucson fun fact about the year the city decided it needed its very own time zone. If you have never had a real financial plan built for you, we will build one at no cost, whether or not you ever do business with us. If you would like to contact us to learn more about our firm, our seminars, and our process - call us at 520.544.4909 or go to our website at www.Greenbergfinancial.com or email us at [email protected] Disclaimer: This show discusses different investment products and strategies. Every product and strategy has some type of inherent risk and we strongly encourage our listeners to properly understand these risks. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. The information presented on this program is believed to be factual and up-to-date, but we do not guarantee its accuracy and it should not be regarded as a complete analysis of the subjects discussed. The material covered on this program does not involve the rendering of personalized investment advice, but is for general information purposes only. A professional advisor should be consulted before implementing any of the options presented. Greenberg Financial Group is registered as an investment advisor with the SEC and only transacts business in states where it is properly registered, or is excluded or exempted from registration requirements.

In this episode of Money Matters, brought to you by The Greenberg Financial Group, we unpack one of the strangest weeks the market has handed us in a while. The Dow dropped 1,000 points on Wednesday and took it all back over the next two days, and if you only checked your account on Friday you would think nothing happened at all. The Fed got the blame in the headlines, but the real story was a 25 year old former OpenAI employee whose hedge fund was up roughly 1,500% in two years, ran four times leverage into the memory and data center trade, and got picked apart by other funds once his book became visible. A $40 billion valuation became an $8 billion sale to Citadel. We walk through how forced selling moves an entire market, and why the lesson is not about being right but about staying solvent long enough to find out. Dean opens the show on volatility and why selling into weakness leaves you with the hardest question in investing, which is when you plan to get back in. He also lays out something that separates how we work from most firms. We do not plan for your retirement. We plan for your lifestyle changes, whether that means a $40,000 family vacation every year, a remodel, more travel, or simply never stopping work at all. He walks through what that planning actually covers, from Social Security timing to Medicare costs to how much you can spend each year without running out, and why we hand you the completed plan for free whether or not you ever do business with us. We also get into the capital expenditure fear that has dominated the tape. Meta's free cash flow collapsed and the stock got clobbered 10% despite revenue up 28%. Google went negative on free cash flow for the first time in its history. Then Amazon reported and its CEO talked openly about the profitability of data centers, and suddenly Google popped 7% on Friday. Every hyperscaler CEO is saying go, and investors keep saying stop, which means somebody is wrong. We look at Apple's 9% drop on a memory shortage that is now showing up in laptop and iPad prices, Microsoft's 24.6% month, the buyback restriction lifting at the end of 2026, and why the 30 year Treasury at a 19 year high and mortgage rates at 6.66% may matter more to this market than any earnings report. The second hour takes a different turn. Dean brings in attorney Mike Story, who represents Tucson police officers through their unions and responded at 2:30 in the morning to the mass shooting outside Empire Pizza in downtown Tucson. Mike walks through what actually happened that night, why a single shot from a seven year veteran ended the threat without endangering the crowd behind the gunman, and the question that officer asked him first. Am I going to prison for this. We talk about the shooter's prior gun offense, how that case was handled, what a 30% smaller police force means for a downtown everybody says they want to save, and what it would take to bring it back. We close with SpaceX heading into its first earnings report and the insider lockup expiring days later with 35% of the float sold short, energy leading all S&P sectors with XLE up 35% on the year, an options based income strategy that Todd and Dylan have been researching directly with the portfolio managers for its 60/40 tax treatment, and why Trump accounts may be the most powerful generational wealth tool available to a grandparent right now. Plus a Tucson fun fact about how the University of Arizona ended up here in 1885 because our representative showed up late. Our next free interactive financial planning seminar is Friday, August 21st from 11:30 to 2:00 at La Paloma Country Club. Lunch is included and you will see our full financial planning process start to finish. Register at www.GreenbergFinancial.com under the resource tab. If you have been thinking about taking us up on the free financial plan, this is the kind of clarity it brings. If you would like to contact us to learn more about our firm, our seminars, and our process - call us at 520.544.4909 or go to our website at www.Greenbergfinancial.com or email us at [email protected] Disclaimer: This show discusses different investment products and strategies. Every product and strategy has some type of inherent risk and we strongly encourage our listeners to properly understand these risks. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. The information presented on this program is believed to be factual and up-to-date, but we do not guarantee its accuracy and it should not be regarded as a complete analysis of the subjects discussed. The material covered on this program does not involve the rendering of personalized investment advice, but is for general information purposes only. A professional advisor should be consulted before implementing any of the options presented. Greenberg Financial Group is registered as an investment advisor with the SEC and only transacts business in states where it is properly registered, or is excluded or exempted from registration requirements.

In this episode of Money Matters, brought to you by Greenberg Financial Group in Tucson, Dean opens the show with three straight down weeks behind us and a market that has decided every headline is bad news. Google reported negative free cash flow for the first time in company history, investors headed for the exits, and the hyperscalers took it on the chin for spending money on the one thing everybody agrees is the future. We get into why capital expenditure became the fear trade, what $794 billion in projected 2026 spending across Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and SpaceX is actually telling us, and why not one CEO in the industry is calling a top. Dean spends his monologue on volatility and self-knowledge, which is really the same conversation. Memory chips, Intel's foundry buildout in Phoenix, the hyperscalers that keep getting punished for building, and the question every investor has to answer honestly before choosing a portfolio. Where is your stomach on this. He also walks through how ETFs can give you exposure to a volatile group with a smoother ride, and why diversification and risk tolerance still do more work than any single call. From there Dave, Todd, Dylan and Sebastian dig into a week where good news kept getting read backwards. Oracle hit a 52 week low right after signing a ten year, $8 billion Department of Defense contract. Intel posted its biggest revenue jump in 15 years and closed lower anyway. Meanwhile the quiet story of the year keeps going, with the equal weighted S&P 500 running ahead of the headline indexes while everyone watches the chips. We also look at what railroads and shippers like CSX are saying about the real economy, and why a 55 year low in unemployment claims is doing more to hold up interest rates than anything else. The back half is all planning. Hailey Glick joins us to walk through the deductions showing up on 2025 returns under the One Big Beautiful Bill, including no tax on tips up to $25,000, the overtime rules almost everyone gets wrong, the enhanced senior deduction for filers over 65, and the new car loan interest deduction that landed on its own Schedule 1A. Most of these phase out by income and most of them expire after 2028, which is exactly why we spend the rest of the segment on Roth conversions. We share a real client story about an 85 year old living in Belgium where the conversion math came down to two countries' current tax rates rather than a guess about future policy, because guessing is not a strategy. We also open up Trump accounts and what compounding actually looks like for a newborn, including the $1,000 government seed for children born 2025 through 2028, why any child under 18 can have one, and the Roth conversion opportunity waiting at age 18. Plus a Tucson fun fact about a street that is not a street and not an avenue either. Our next free interactive financial planning seminar is Friday, August 21st at La Paloma Country Club. Lunch is on us and you will see exactly what our planning process looks like, start to finish. Sign up at www.GreenbergFinancial.com under the resource tab. If you have been thinking about taking us up on the free financial plan, this is the kind of clarity it brings. If you would like to contact us to learn more about our firm, our seminars, and our process - call us at 520.544.4909 or go to our website at www.Greenbergfinancial.com or email us at [email protected] Disclaimer: This show discusses different investment products and strategies. Every product and strategy has some type of inherent risk and we strongly encourage our listeners to properly understand these risks. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. The information presented on this program is believed to be factual and up-to-date, but we do not guarantee its accuracy and it should not be regarded as a complete analysis of the subjects discussed.  The material covered on this program does not involve the rendering of personalized investment advice, but is for general information purposes only.  A professional advisor should be consulted before implementing any of the options presented.   Greenberg Financial Group is registered as an investment advisor with the SEC and only transacts business in states where it is properly registered, or is excluded or exempted from registration requirements.

In this episode of Money Matters, brought to you by Greenberg Financial Group, Dave, Todd, and Dylan run the show while the rest of the team is traveling, breaking down a rough week where the chip stocks led the market lower. We get into what Dave dubbed the "chip wreck," with the semiconductor group dipping into bear market territory for the month, and why we look at that kind of volatility as part of the territory when an entire industry is going through price discovery rather than a reason to abandon good companies. We talk through the names in the middle of it, from Micron and SanDisk to Taiwan Semi's blowout earnings and its plan to pour another $100 billion into Phoenix, and why we still believe the demand story for AI is only getting started. We also dig into some encouraging news on inflation, with both CPI and PPI posting their biggest monthly drops in years as lower oil worked its way through, even as tensions in the Strait of Hormuz pushed crude back up sharply on the week. And we spend real time on the shift at the top of the market, with Apple retaking the largest company crown from Nvidia, and what that rotation is telling us. The back half of the show is all about planning, and the levers that actually matter in retirement. We walk through Roth conversions and the sweet spot in your early sixties, why QCDs are the underappreciated cousin of tax planning, how RMDs work and when to take them, and why owning individual bonds, treasuries, and fee-based annuities can serve the more conservative saver who wants off the rollercoaster. It all ties back to our fiduciary, fee-based, financial-planning-first approach, and the difference between being a true advisor and just a money manager. We are also thrilled to introduce the newest member of the Greenberg Financial team, Hailey Glick, who is helping us build out an in-house tax practice launching in 2027. It is the next step in Dean's vision of a true family office, everything you need under one roof, and we get into how bringing tax planning alongside investments, estate work, and financial planning lets us look at your whole picture over decades rather than one filing season at a time. If you have been thinking about taking us up on the free financial plan, this is exactly the kind of clarity it can bring. If you would like to contact us to learn more about our firm, our seminars, and our process - call us at 520.544.4909 or go to our website at www.Greenbergfinancial.com or email us at [email protected] Disclaimer: This show discusses different investment products and strategies. Every product and strategy has some type of inherent risk and we strongly encourage our listeners to properly understand these risks. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. The information presented on this program is believed to be factual and up-to-date, but we do not guarantee its accuracy and it should not be regarded as a complete analysis of the subjects discussed.  The material covered on this program does not involve the rendering of personalized investment advice, but is for general information purposes only.  A professional advisor should be consulted before implementing any of the options presented.   Greenberg Financial Group is registered as an investment advisor with the SEC and only transacts business in states where it is properly registered, or is excluded or exempted from registration requirements.

In this episode of Money Matters, brought to you by Greenberg Financial Group, Dean phones in the monologue before Dave and Sebastian take the reins for a wide-ranging show. We open on the markets, where the rotation out of technology and into value has been the story of the summer, and where the chip stocks in particular have been testing everyone's patience with sharp swings in both directions. We talk through why that volatility comes with the territory in the AI space, how we think about it as long-term investors rather than getting shaken out of good companies, and why the earnings underneath all of it keep telling a story worth paying attention to. That leads into the bigger picture on the AI revolution, from the massive data center buildout that is really just getting started, to the eye-opening fact that a huge share of this quarter's earnings growth across the market is now tied to AI infrastructure. We get into the names in the middle of it all, the compute race playing out between the biggest companies, and why we still believe we are in the early innings of this cycle. The heart of this week is a conversation with our estate planning attorney we partner with, Jonathan Scibilia, and it is exactly the kind of thing that sets our one-stop-shop model apart. We dig into what happens when a minor is named as a beneficiary, why a conservatorship is a costly headache most families never see coming, and how the right trust structure can protect your heirs and keep more in the family. We also get into inherited IRAs and the ten-year rule, incentive trusts that reward the milestones you care about, and why getting this right up front saves so much down the road. We also cover the new Trump accounts now available for eligible kids, the ongoing situation with Iran and where oil goes from here, and a few individual stories moving stocks this week. And as always, we come back to the plan, because coordinating your investments, your taxes, and your estate under one roof is the whole point of what we do. If you have been thinking about taking us up on the free financial plan, this is exactly the kind of clarity it can bring. If you would like to contact us to learn more about our firm, our seminars, and our process - call us at 520.544.4909 or go to our website at www.Greenbergfinancial.com or email us at [email protected] Disclaimer: This show discusses different investment products and strategies. Every product and strategy has some type of inherent risk and we strongly encourage our listeners to properly understand these risks. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. The information presented on this program is believed to be factual and up-to-date, but we do not guarantee its accuracy and it should not be regarded as a complete analysis of the subjects discussed.  The material covered on this program does not involve the rendering of personalized investment advice, but is for general information purposes only.  A professional advisor should be consulted before implementing any of the options presented.   Greenberg Financial Group is registered as an investment advisor with the SEC and only transacts business in states where it is properly registered, or is excluded or exempted from registration requirements.

In this episode of Money Matters, brought to you by Greenberg Financial Group, Dave, Dylan, and Sebastian run the show while Dean and Todd are out, breaking down all the latest as the country celebrates its 250th birthday. What caught our eye this week was the rotation out of technology and into value, with the Dow and the equal-weighted S&P both outpacing the S&P 500 so far this year. We walk through what that rotation is telling us, why we always come back to the equal-weighted S&P as the benchmark that actually makes sense, and how we are thinking about the seasonal patterns that tend to shape the back half of the year. We also dig into oil, which has slid more than 40% and dropped back below 70 for the first time since tensions with Iran flared up. As that conflict looks to be winding down, we talk through how cheaper oil tends to work its way through the whole economy over time, why the rate-hike chatter feels disconnected from where commodity prices are actually heading, and what the latest jobs report is really telling us underneath the headline number. And we have some fun with the World Cup, on US soil for the first time, and the wave of American pride pouring out of visitors from all over the world. It stands in sharp contrast to the story so much of the world has been told about this country, and we get into the very real economic ripple it is creating in host cities across the map. As always, we keep you current on the AI revolution and the companies driving it, from the massive data center buildout to memory chips, cybersecurity, quantum, and the latest shakeup inside the Dow itself. We also spend real time on the discipline that matters most, why trying to time the market so rarely works, how we think about raising a little cash without heading for the exits, and why owning individual bonds gives you something a fund simply cannot promise. We close on two things worth your attention. First, preservation of principal, and the options that exist beyond a bank paying next to nothing, from treasuries to corporate bonds to a MYGA. And second, an important warning about the rise in financial scams targeting older investors, and the simple habits that can keep you protected. It all ties back to having a plan you can lean on when the headlines get loud. If you have been thinking about taking us up on the free financial plan, this is exactly the kind of clarity it can bring. If you would like to contact us to learn more about our firm, our seminars, and our process - call us at 520.544.4909 or go to our website at www.Greenbergfinancial.com or email us at [email protected] Disclaimer: This show discusses different investment products and strategies. Every product and strategy has some type of inherent risk and we strongly encourage our listeners to properly understand these risks. Past performance is no guarantee of future performance. The information presented on this program is believed to be factual and up-to-date, but we do not guarantee its accuracy and it should not be regarded as a complete analysis of the subjects discussed.  The material covered on this program does not involve the rendering of personalized investment advice, but is for general information purposes only.  A professional advisor should be consulted before implementing any of the options presented.   Greenberg Financial Group is registered as an investment advisor with the SEC and only transacts business in states where it is properly registered, or is excluded or exempted from registration requirements.