Episodes

Advisors on This Week’s Show Kyle Tetting Art Rothschild Steve Giles (with Max Hoelzl and Joel Dresang engineered byJason Scuglik) Week in Review (Nov. 17-21, 2025) Significant Economic Indicators & Reports Monday The Commerce Department reported a 0.2% rise in construction spending in August, in its first release of economic data since the six-week federal government shutdown, which ended Nov. 12. Spending on housing construction accounted for 43% of the total and rose 0.8% from July. Tota...

Advisors on This Week’s Show Kyle Tetting Dave Sandstrom Tom Pappenfus (with Max Hoelzl and Joel Dresang engineered by Jason Scuglik) Week in Review (Nov. 10-14, 2025) Significant Economic Indicators & Reports Monday No major announcements Tuesday No major announcements Wednesday No major announcements Thursday October updates on the Consumer Price Index, the broadest measure of inflation, were not available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics because of the federal government shutdown. ...

Advisors on This Week’s Show Kyle Tetting Adam Baley (with Max Hoelzl and Joel Dresang, engineered by Jason Scuglik) Week in Review (Nov. 3-7, 2025) Significant Economic Indicators & Reports Monday The manufacturing sector contracted in October for the eighth month in a row and the 34thrd time in 36 months, according to the Institute for Supply Management. The trade group’s index, based on surveys of industry purchasing managers, showed continued concerns about the uncertainty and unpredict...

Advisors on This Week’s Show Kyle Tetting Art Rothschild Steve Giles (with Max Hoelzl, Joel Dresang, engineered by Jason Scuglik) Week in Review (Oct. 27-31, 2025) Significant Economic Indicators & Reports Monday An indicator of demand for manufactured products, the Commerce Department’s report on durable goods orders, was unavailable because of the federal government shutdown. Tuesday Housing prices continued slowing in August, according to the S&P Cotality Case-Shiller national home pric...

Advisors on This Week’s Show Kyle Tetting Adam Baley Mike Hoelzl (with Max Hoelzl and Joel Dresang, engineered by Jason Scuglik) Week in Review (Oct. 20-24, 2025) Significant Economic Indicators & Reports Monday The Conference Board said its September index of leading economic indicators was not available because of the government shutdown. The indicator from the business research group relies mostly on government data to show trends in the U.S. economy. Tuesday No major releases Wednesday ...

Advisors on This Week’s Show Kyle Tetting Tom Pappenfus (with Max Hoelzl, Joel Dresang, engineered byJason Scuglik) Week in Review (Oct. 13-17, 2025) Significant Economic Indicators & Reports Monday No major announcements Tuesday No major announcements Wednesday The Federal Reserve Board said U.S. economic activity changed little since its previous Beige Book. The latest report — a collection of unofficial anecdotes gathered in each of the central bank’s 12 districts — showed weak consumer...

Advisors on This Week’s Show Kyle Tetting Art Rothschild Dave Sandstrom (with Max Hoelzl, and Joel Dresang, engineered by Jason Scuglik) Week in Review (October 6-10, 2025) Significant Economic Indicators & Reports Monday No major announcements Tuesday The scheduled release of August data on the U.S. trade deficit did not occur because of the federal government shutdown. The deficit detracts from U.S. economic output, as measured by the gross domestic product. Consumers showed more cautio...

Advisors on This Week’s Show Kyle Tetting Mike Hoelzl John Sandstrom (with Jason Scuglik, Joel Dresang ) Week in Review (Sept. 29-Oct. 3, 2025) Significant Economic Indicators & Reports Monday Demand for housing rose in August, according to the pending home sales index from the National Association of Realtors. The index, based on the number of houses sold in 2001, increased to 74.7, up 4% from July and 3.8% ahead of where it stood in August 2024. The trade group said lower mortgage rates w...

Advisors on This Week’s Show Kyle Tetting Steve Giles Adam Baley (with Max Hoelzl,engineered by Jason Scuglik) Week in Review (Sept. 22-26, 2025) Significant Economic Indicators & Reports Monday No major releases Tuesday No major releases Wednesday The seasonally adjusted annual rate of new home sales soared 20.5% in August. The Commerce Department reported the sales rate was up more than 15% from the year before. At a pace of 800,000 new houses a month, sales were at their highest level ...

Advisors on This Week’s Show Kyle Tetting Adam Baley Dave Sandstrom with Max Hoelzl, Joel Dresang, engineered by Jason Scuglik Week in Review (Sept. 15-19, 2025) Significant Economic Indicators & Reports Monday No major announcements Tuesday In a sign of consumer spending resilience, the Commerce Department reported a 0.6% rise in retail sales in August. Sales fell in only four of 13 categories: Furniture stores, health-and-beauty centers, general merchandisers and miscellaneous retailers. ...

Advisors on this Week’s Show Kyle Tetting Tom Pappenfus Kendall Bauer (with Max Hoelzl and Joel Dresang, engineered by Jason Scuglik) Week in Review (Sept. 8-12, 2025) Significant Economic Indicators & Reports Monday U.S. consumer credit debt outstanding surged in July, rising at a 9.7% annual rate, the most in more than four years. The Federal Reserve reported that the increase in so-called revolving credit outpaced overall consumer credit debt, which rose at a 3.8% annual rate. Non-revolvi...

Advisors on This Week’s Show Kyle Tetting Tom Pappenfus (with Max Hoelzl, Joel Dresang, engineered by Jason Scuglik) Week in Review (Sept. 1-5, 2025) Significant Economic Indicators & Reports Monday Markets and government agencies closed for Labor Day Tuesday The manufacturing sector contracted in August for the sixth month in a row and the 32nd time in 34 months. The Institute for Supply Management reported that the rate of decline slowed slightly from July with key components in its inde...

Advisors on This Week’s Show Kyle Tetting Mike Hoelzl John Sandstrom (with Max Hoelzl, Joel Dresang, engineered by Jason Scuglik) Week in Review (Aug. 25-29, 2025) Significant Economic Indicators & Reports Monday The annual rate of new home sales fell 0.6% in July and was more than 8% below its year-ago pace, the Commerce Department reported. The sales pace was below the pre-pandemic level for the seventh month in a row, and the supply of new houses on the market remained above the pre-pand...

Advisors on This Week’s Show Kyle Tetting Adam Baley John Sandstrom (with Max Hoelzl, engineered by Jason Scuglik) Week in Review (Aug. 18-22, 2025) Significant Economic Indicators & Reports Monday No major announcements Tuesday The Commerce Department reported mixed news on the annual rate of building permits and housing starts for July. New construction increased 5.2% from the June pace and was nearly 13% ahead of the year before, despite conventional mortgage rates hovering above 6.5% a...

Advisors on This Week’s Show Kyle Tetting Steve Giles Kendall Bauer (with Max Hoelzl, engineered by Jason Scuglik) Week in Review (Aug. 11-15, 2025) Significant Economic Indicators & Reports Monday No major announcements Tuesday The pace of broad inflation stayed above long-range Federal Reserve targets in July. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said its Consumer Price Index rose 2.7% from July 2027. The rate was unchanged from June and continued to outpace the Fed’s aim of 2%. It was down fr...

Advisors on This Week’s Show Kyle Tetting Dave Sandstrom John Sandstrom (with Max Hoelzl and Joel Dresang, engineered by Jason Scuglik) Week in Review (Aug. 4-8, 2025) Significant Economic Indicators & Reports Monday A deep drop in demand for commercial aircraft and parts sank factory orders in June. The Commerce Department reported that total orders declined 4.8% from May, the second setback in three months. Compared to the year before, orders were up 3.8%. Excluding volatile orders for tr...

Advisors on This Week’s Show Art Rothschild Tom Pappenfus (with Max Hoelzl, Joel Dresang, engineered by Jason Scuglik) Week in Review (July 28-Aug. 1, 2025) Significant Economic Indicators & Reports Monday No major reports or releases Tuesday The year-to-year change in residential prices continued to slow in May, dipping below the overall inflation rate. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index rose 2.3% from the year before, compared to a 2.7% gain in April. That compared t...

Advisors on This Week’s Show Adam Baley Dave Sandstrom (with Max Hoelzl and Joel Dresang, engineered by Jason Scuglik) Week in Review (July 21-25, 2025) Significant economic indicators & reports Monday The Conference Board said its index of leading economic indicators slipped 0.3% in June. The gauge from the business research group fell 2.8% in the first half of 2025, declining from a drop of 1.3% in the second half of 2024. The report said even the stock market rally couldn’t offset weaker ...

Advisors on This Week’s Show Kyle Tetting Art Rothschild Steve Giles (with Max Hoelzl, engineered by Jason Scuglik) Week in Review (July 14-18, 2025) Significant economic indicators & reports Monday No major releases Tuesday The broadest measure of inflation rose at a 2.7% annual rate in June, up the second month in a row after hitting a four-year low in April. But the rate also was less than one-third of where it peaked three years ago. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the Con...

Advisors on This Week’s Show Kyle Tetting Adam Baley Kendall Bauer (with Jason Scuglik and Joel Dresang) Week in Review (July 7-11, 2025) Significant Indicators & Reports Monday No major releases Tuesday U.S. consumer spending slowed in May with credit card debt decreasing for the fourth time in seven months. The Federal Reserve Board reported revolving consumer credit debt outstanding sank by an annual rate of 3.2% in May. Since peaking in October, the measure was down 3.8%. Consumer spen...

Advisors on This Week’s Show Kyle Tetting Art Rothschild Dave Sandstrom (with Max Hoelzl, Joel Dresang, engineered by Jason Scuglik) Country biased investing For mostly good reasons, especially in the U.S., investors tend to put money more in domestic-based concerns. In a special Independence Day Money Talk Podcast, Kyle Tetting, Art Rothschild and Dave Sandstrom talk about the historical practice and performance of home country bias. They also explore why it may be making sense to diversif...

Advisors on This Week’s Show Kyle Tetting Art Rothschild Dave Sandstrom (with Max Hoelzl, Joel Dresang, engineered by Jason Scuglik) Week in Review (June 23-27, 2025) Significant Economic Indicators & Reports Monday The National Association of Realtors said existing home sales rose in May while remaining near the slowest in decades. The seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.03 million houses sold was 0.8% ahead of April’s pace. It was 0.7% lower than the year before and below the 4.06 millio...

Advisors on this week’s podcast Kyle Tetting Steve Giles John Sandstrom (with Max Hoelzl, Joel Dresang, engineered by Blake Miller) Week in Review (June 16-20, 2025) Significant Indicators & Reports Monday No major reports Tuesday The Commerce Department said retail sales fell 0.9% in May after dropping 0.1% in April. The back-to-back setbacks in consumer spending followed buying sprees amid anticipation of higher prices from escalated tariffs. By category, sales declined in seven of 13 re...

Advisors on This Week’s Show Kyle Tetting Mike Hoelzl Kendall Bauer (with Max Hoelzl, Joel Dresang, engineered by Blake Miller) Week in Review (June 9-13, 2025) Significant Economic Indicators & Reports Monday No major reports Tuesday No major reports Wednesday The broadest measure of inflation rose slightly to 2.4% in May, still within striking distance of the long-range Federal Reserve target. The Consumer Price Index was up from 2.3% in May, which was the lowest rate in more than five ...