What Really Caused the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
Rampant speculation, a divided Federal Reserve, big companies making big bets, and geopolitical instability. Sound familiar? That’s exactly the environment that led to the biggest stock market crash in history nearly a century ago, and many of those ingredients are prevalent at the end of 2025. Andrew Ross Sorkin, the best-selling author, New York Times writer and CNBC Anchor, joins The Express to talk about what really caused the Great Crash of 1929, the key players behind it, and the eerie similarities to what’s happening today in the stock market and the economy. Plus, blowout earnings from the biggest tech companies like Amazon and Alphabet are keeping the bulls running into the best six months of the year.
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Playing Offense and Defense in Q4
A potential tariff truce between the U.S. and China has stocks hitting new highs around the world despite the ongoing government shutdown and a slowing labor market. The Fed may try to stem the slowdown when it meets this week on interest rates with all signs pointing towards another small cut. Shannon Sacoccia of Neuberger Berman drops in with her playbook on how to play offense and defense in the fourth quarter, and what to expect in 2026. Plus, shares of Beyond Meat are getting grilled after soaring on the meme stock express last week. Is this just a silly stock move or yet another sign of frothiness across the market?
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The Truth About Our Financial Futures
Investors continue to climb over walls of worry and keep buying, even amid the latest concerns about regional bank credit risk, the prospect of even higher tariffs, and the third week of the government shutdown. Why Jamie Dimon says we should be on ‘cockroach’ alert, and Gold’s unstoppable rise. Plus, Ric Edelman drops in with the real truths about our financial futures and shatters some classic myths about diversification, retirement, and the cost of college.
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How Not To Invest
Volatility is back just in time for the October scaries as new tariff threats rattle investors just as the markets reached new record highs. Is this a re-do of the April selloff, or the beginning of the bursting of a bubble in risky assets? Barry Ritholtz the original Blog-Father, and author of “How Not to Invest”, drops in with his perspective and the key lessons he’s learned about how ‘not’ to invest, especially in times like these. Plus, what the debasement trade is teaching us, and how the bankruptcy of an auto parts conglomerate might be the tip of a terrifying iceberg underlying the capital markets today.
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Chef Tom Colicchio on Innovation and Inspiration in and out of the Kitchen
For nearly forty years, Chef Tom Colicchio has been one of the most dynamic innovators in the culinary world through his restaurant empire, “Top Chef”, his hit television series and his best-selling cookbooks. The eight-time James Beard Award winner shares his secret sauce to innovation in a live interview and cooking demonstration at the Future Proof Wealth Festival, as part of “Recipe for Innovation, Live”, from InvescoQQQ, in partnership with Investopedia and Food and Wine.https://www.invesco.com/qqq-etf/en/recipe-for-innovation.htmlhttps://www.invesco.com/qqq-etf/en/home.html
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