Weekly market context without prediction theater.
Money Sense tracks the market week by week through the lens of working financial advisors. Episodes move from S&P and Nasdaq levels to tariffs, AI spending, sector rotation, deficits, interest rates, and retirement planning without pretending any outlook is a certainty.
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Money Sense is a weekly market conversation from the advisors of Kirsten Wealth Management Group. It is practical first. The show follows current market action closely, but it does not treat every rally, sell-off, milestone, or political headline as equally meaningful. Episodes often begin with the week's most visible move: a new S&P 500 high, the Dow crossing 50,000, a rough quarter, a tariff scare, or a geopolitical shock. From there, the discussion turns analytical. Kevin Kirsten, Brad Kirsten, and Dennis Kirsten compare indexes, sectors, dates, drawdowns, and recoveries in a way that sounds like advisors sorting through client concerns in real time. The show has a strong sense of market memory. A current correction is compared with 2022, a quarter's weakness is separated by sector, and a quick rebound is weighed against the time markets spend moving sideways. That focus on time is one of its useful habits. A fast drop and recovery may matter less, the advisors argue, than months of stagnation while earnings and valuations adjust. Politics appears regularly, but mostly as market plumbing. Tariffs, presidential negotiation tactics, midterm elections, tax policy, deficits, Social Security, Medicare, defense spending, and interest rates are discussed for their effect on investors, not as standalone theater. The commentary can be blunt. It is also numbers-heavy. Episodes cite S&P 500 levels, Nasdaq closing highs and lows, quarterly sector performance, GDP assumptions, AI capital spending, and deficit math to keep broad claims grounded. The show is especially attentive to concentration risk. Mega-cap technology, the top names in the S&P, AI spending, energy strength, financial-sector weakness, and low-volatility positioning all come up as parts of a broader diversification conversation. Money Sense is not a hot-tip show. It is skeptical of precise predictions and treats annual market outlooks as high-level reference points rather than road maps. The result is an advisor market program with national-market scope: conversational, current, sometimes political, and consistently aimed at helping investors interpret noise before making portfolio decisions.
Made for: Money Sense is for investors who follow markets, retirement savers, and clients who want advisor-level context for weekly volatility, sector moves, and policy headlines. It works best for listeners comfortable with indexes, rates, deficits, and portfolio allocation language.
What sets it apart: The show pairs conversational advisor banter with specific market levels, sector comparisons, and policy analysis. Its edge is the habit of asking whether a headline actually changes investment behavior, rather than simply reacting to it.
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Diversification, deficit math, and a blunt check on market concentration.
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A practical 2026 market outlook shaped by AI spending, bull-market history, and forecast limits.
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A timely November market update on seasonality, earnings, and sector rotation.
Kevin Kirsten and Dennis Kirsten frame this late-November market discussion around seasonality, a recent rally, and the rotation in sector leadership.
Demetri Kofinas interviews specialists on geopolitics, energy markets, AI, and finance at length.
BBC's daily business show, from toy-industry founders to Anthropic's Pentagon standoff.
The hosts discuss how diversification is protecting portfolios during a recent market downturn, highlighting sectors that are performing well despite tech sell-offs.
Kevin and Dennis Kirsten of Kersten Wealth Management analyze current market trends, noting a rally and sector shifts like healthcare outperforming tech.
Kevin and Brad Kirsten discuss current market volatility in February, historical trends in midterm election years, and the impact of AI and earnings on sectors like the Dow.
This episode discusses market trends, focusing on the historical performance of January and February, the five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 market peak, and insights into market sell-offs and recoveries.
The hosts discuss current market trends, including seasonal weaknesses, recent sell-offs in growth and tech stocks, and potential support levels for the S&P 500.
Two financial advisors discuss the Dow Jones hitting 50,000, its volatility, and a political tangent about Pam Bondi's testimony regarding the Epstein files.
Kevin and Brad Kirsten of Kersten Wealth Management Group analyze LPL Research's 2026 market outlook, emphasizing it as a guide, not a prediction.
Kevin Kirsten and Dennis Kirsten of Kirsten Wealth Management Group examine a 10% S&P 500 rebound from 6,300 on March 30 to about 7,041 after 12 trading days.
This episode discusses the 'Trump taco trade' and how Trump's negotiation tactics from 'Art of the Deal' influence market volatility, comparing last year's severe sell-off to this year's more predictable reactions.
Money Sense hosts Brad Kirsten and Dennis Kirsten review a first quarter in which the S&P 500 fell 3.65% while energy gained 32% and financials led the weaker sectors.
Kevin Kirsten and Brad Kirsten assess how the Iran conflict, oil prices, inflation expectations, and midterm elections are affecting markets, with the S&P 500 described as roughly 7.5 percent below its recent level.
Kevin Kirsten and Brad Kirsten of Kirsten Wealth Management Group assess a nearly 6% S&P 500 decline, a 7.73% NASDAQ peak-to-trough decline, and the possibility that time rather than a sharp sell-off is completing the correction.
Kevin Kirsten says NVIDIA can beat every metric and still fall 6% because markets price expectations, not just results.
Kevin and Brad Kirsten say that since 1950, midterm-year market bottoms were never lower 12 months later, with an average return of nearly 32%, against an average midterm sell-off of nearly 18%.