Episodes

Dupree Financial Group Podcast Show Notes The Tom Dupree Show Episode · October 17, 2026 Is the AI Build-Out Overbuilt? What This Week’s Tech Stock Rotation Means for Your Retirement Income The Tom Dupree Show | Dupree Financial Group | dupreefinancial.com | 859-233-0400 The Tech Stock Rotation: Why the Market Suddenly Remembered Everything Else This week’s tech stock rotation caught a lot of investors off guard. After months of artificial intelligence names carrying the market, mone...

Dupree Financial Group Podcast Show Notes The Tom Dupree Show Episode · October 3, 2026 Is Nike’s Dividend Safe? Rising Bond Yields, $6 Diesel, and What Retirees Should Watch Now The Tom Dupree Show | Dupree Financial Group | dupreefinancial.com | 859-233-0400 Rising Bond Yields and the Diesel Shock: Market Commentary for Retirees Rising bond yields, $6 diesel, a jobs report that came in better than feared, and a Nike dividend promise that may have backed the company into a corner. T...

Dupree Financial Group Podcast Show Notes The Tom Dupree Show Episode · September 19, 2026 The Fed Raised Rates: What Rising Interest Rates, Oil Prices and Market Volatility Mean for Retirement Income The Tom Dupree Show | Dupree Financial Group | dupreefinancial.com | 859-233-0400 Episode Description: Fed Rate Hike, Oil Prices and Your Retirement Income The Federal Reserve just raised interest rates by 25 basis points, oil and diesel prices are still climbing, and the stock market has b...

Dupree Financial Group Podcast Show Notes The Tom Dupree Show Episode · 9-12-26 Retirement Income Investing During Market Volatility: The Sequence-of-Returns Risk Every Retiree Should Understand The Tom Dupree Show | Dupree Financial Group | dupreefinancial.com | 859-233-0400 Episode Description This week’s Financial Hour opened with what one Wall Street strategist called the most complicated stretch of his career: one of the best monthly jobs reports in years, oil prices pushing bac...

Dupree Financial Group Podcast Show Notes & Blog The Tom Dupree Show The Financial Hour · Episode Show Notes When Should You Take Social Security? A Retirement Income Guide The Tom Dupree Show | Dupree Financial Group | dupreefinancial.com | 859-233-0400 Episode Description If you’re trying to decide when to start Social Security, here’s the short answer Tom Dupree and Mike Johnson give on this episode of The Financial Hour: there is no single right age. The right age for you depends...

Dupree Financial Group Podcast Show Notes & Blog The Tom Dupree Show Episode · 8-29-26 AI Chips, a Sneaker Stock Shock, and the Fed’s Inflation Reckoning: What Retirees Should Watch This Week The Tom Dupree Show | Dupree Financial Group | dupreefinancial.com | 859-233-0400 Episode Description This week’s Financial Hour covers a lot of ground — and nearly all of it matters if you’re managing retirement income right now. Tom Dupree, Mike Johnson, and Michael Dawahare start with Nvidia ...

&&& Dupree Financial Group Podcast Show Notes The Tom Dupree Show Episode · August 22, 2026 Why Is the 30-Year Treasury Yield the Highest Since 2007 — And What Does It Mean for Your Retirement Income? by Tom Dupree | Dupree Financial Group | dupreefinancial.com | 859-233-0400 Episode Description On August 17 and 18, 2026, the yield on the 30-year U.S. Treasury bond climbed above 5.3% — its highest level since 2007, back when the iPhone hadn’t even shipped yet and the word “subprime”...

Should Retirees Worry About the $500 Billion AI Data Center Financing Boom? By Tom Dupree, Founder, Dupree Financial Group — with Mike Johnson, James Dupree, and Michael Dawahare, as discussed on The Financial Hour, August 15, 2026. Wall Street wants to finance roughly $500 billion of AI data center construction by turning computer chips into asset-backed securities — the same financing tool that has funded mortgages, auto loans, and credit card debt for decades. On this week’s Financial Hour, ...

Dupree Financial Group Blog & Podcast The Tom Dupree Show The Financial Hour · Hour 2 · August 8, 2026 Is the AI Rally a Bubble? What Retirees Should Watch For The Tom Dupree Show | Dupree Financial Group | dupreefinancial.com | 859-233-0400 By Tom Dupree, Founder, Dupree Financial Group III Ii I iiI. Is this AI Rally Built to Last? Turn on any market report lately, and you’ll hear the same story: a handful of AI-linked names are doing most of the heavy lifting. On this week’s Financia...

Dupree Financial Group Blog · The Tom Dupree Show From This Week’s Episode Retirement Investing · August 1, 2026 Is Your Retirement Portfolio Too Concentrated? A 25-year-old hedge fund manager lost roughly $35 billion in a matter of days this week. Here’s what his leverage and the market’s concentration in seven stocks have to do with your retirement account. By Tom Dupree, Founder, Dupree Financial Group | dupreefinancial.com | 859-233-0400 This week, a 25-year-old former OpenAI researc...

Dupree Financial Group Podcast Show Notes The Tom Dupree Show Episode · July 25, 2026 Oil Spikes, Stocks Shrug: What the Market Is Really Telling You The Tom Dupree Show| Dupree Financial Group | dupreefinancial.com |859-233-0400 By Tom Dupree, Founder, Dupree Financial Group Episode Description This week gave retirement investors a real-time lesson in how markets actually work. Renewed conflict near the Strait of Hormuz sent crude oil sharply higher — the kind of headline that can make...

What Does This Week’s Market Volatility Mean for Your Retirement Portfolio? By Tom Dupree, Founder, Dupree Financial Group Inflation cooled. The big banks beat expectations. And somehow, it was still a wild week in the market. If you’ve been watching your account balance bounce around and wondering whether any of it has anything to do with the actual value of what you own, here’s the short answer: usually not. Most of what moved the market this week wasn’t new information about businesses — it...

Is the Federal Reserve’s New Shake-Up Good or Bad for Your Retirement Income? By Tom Dupree, Founder, Dupree Financial Group Short answer: it’s genuinely both, and which one matters more depends on whether your retirement income is built to keep pace with rising costs. New Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh has launched a formal, five-part review of how the Fed operates — covering everything from how it talks to markets, to how it collects the inflation data that moves interest rates, to whethe...

Bull Markets, Investor Hubris, and the Hidden Risks of Annuities Are you feeling smarter about your investments after years of strong market returns? In this episode of The Financial Hour of The Tom Dupree Show, Tom Dupree and Mike Johnson explore a critical truth that even legendary investors like Benjamin Graham learned the hard way: bull markets can create dangerous overconfidence. For those thinking about retirement or already in retirement in Kentucky, this discussion reveals why understan...

THE TOM DUPREE SHOW | PODCAST SHOW NOTES How Do Insurance Companies Make Money? Lessons for Retirement Investors The Tom Dupree Show | Dupree Financial Group | dupreefinancial.com | 859-233-0400 Episode Description Tom Dupree, Mike Johnson, and Michael Dawahare open with a Charlie Munger parable about the difference between memorized information and true understanding, then apply that lens to the week’s market headlines. They cover how SpaceX’s move into the cellphone business is reshaping ...

That is the trap. And it is compounded right now by something called recency bias — the tendency to assume that what has been happening will keep happening. Markets have gone up for a long time. New IPOs are capturing attention. There is enthusiasm in the air. And enthusiasm breeds complacency. People assume the funds that have been performing well will keep performing well, without checking whether the companies inside them still deserve their valuations. & Should You Sell When the Market Dro...

The Hidden Investment Risks Pre-Retirees and Retirees Don’t See Coming: Kentucky Retirement Planning Insights Are you approaching retirement and concerned about protecting your life savings from market volatility? In this comprehensive episode of the Tom Dupree Show, Kentucky retirement planning advisors Tom Dupree and Mike Johnson explore the multidimensional nature of investment risk and why personalized investment management is essential for pre-retirees aged 50-65. Unlike mass-market approa...

THE TOM DUPREE SHOW | PODCAST SHOW NOTES When to Hold, When to Sell: Staying Invested Through Market Volatility The Tom Dupree Show | Dupree Financial Group | dupreefinancial.com | 859-233-0400 Episode Description When markets get choppy, the instinct to move to the sidelines can feel overwhelming — but acting on that instinct often costs investors far more than the volatility itself. In this episode, Tom Dupree and Lead Advisor Mike Johnson walk through the discipline behind staying investe...

The Nike Cautionary Tale: What Happens When Leadership Loses Touch With Its Customers The Tom Dupree Show | Dupree Financial Group | dupreefinancial.com | 859-233-0400 Nike spent decades building one of the most recognized brands on the planet — the Swoosh, the Air Jordan, high-heat basketball shoes that consumers lined up for, and a presence in every major sporting goods retailer in the world. Then, in 2020, the company handed its future to a CEO who believed physical retail was a dying model...

Buying a Stock Is Easy. Knowing When to Sell Is Everything. The Tom Dupree Show | Dupree Financial Group | dupreefinancial.com | 859-233-0400 A sound sell discipline is one of the most overlooked parts of retirement investing — every investor knows how to buy a stock, but the moment that determines real wealth, or real loss, is the moment you decide to sell. In this episode of The Tom Dupree Show, Tom Dupree, Lead Advisor Mike Johnson, and in-house analyst James Dupree lay out the sell discipl...

The Tom Dupree Show | Podcast Show Notes Buying a Stock Is Easy. Knowing When to Sell Is Everything. The Tom Dupree Show | Dupree Financial Group | dupreefinancial.com | 859-233-0400 Episode Description Every investor knows how to buy a stock. But the moment that determines real wealth — or real loss — is the moment you decide to sell. In this episode of The Tom Dupree Show, Tom Dupree, Lead Advisor Mike Johnson, and in-house analyst James Dupree lay out the sell discipline that has guided D...

The Tom Dupree Show | Podcast Show Notes The Nike Cautionary Tale: What Happens When Leadership Loses Touch With Its Customers The Tom Dupree Show | Dupree Financial Group | dupreefinancial.com | 859-233-0400 Episode Description Nike spent decades building one of the most recognized brands on the planet — the Swoosh, the Air Jordan, high-heat basketball shoes that consumers lined up for, and a presence in every major sporting goods retailer in the world. Then, in 2020, the company handed its...

Where Did My Returns Go? The Cost of Mutual Funds and Annuities The Tom Dupree Show | Dupree Financial Group | dupreefinancial.com | 859-233-0400 Episode Description Time Stamps 00:00 Keep Truckin Intro 01:31 Show Opens Fees 03:22 Mutual Fund Basics 05:46 Share Classes Loads 07:14 Portfolio Fee Transparency 10:05 Tax Drag Distributions 14:01 Constraints Versus Drift 16:29 Managed Accounts Example 21:16 Break Segment Promo 22:05 Inflation Market Pinch 26:09 Mutual Fund Fee Reality 26:38 Annui...

The AI Build-Out Is Real — And It’s Reshaping How We Invest for Retirement THE TOM DUPREE SHOW | PODCAST SHOW NOTES The AI Build-Out Is Real — And It’s Reshaping How We Invest for Retirement The Tom Dupree Show | Dupree Financial Group | dupreefinancial.com | 859-233-0400 | Air Date: June 6, 2026 Episode Description Something significant is happening in the markets, and it goes well beyond the daily headlines. On this episode of The Tom Dupree Show, host Tom Dupree sits down with in-house analy...