GDP & Economic Reports; Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme & Ethical Business Practice

CEO Chris Boyd, CFP®, and IAR Jeff Perry, JD, talk about the recent GDP report, employment numbers, consumer spending, and housing data to then give an outlook on what it means for the economy and recession anticipations. They consider the Fed trying to slow the economy and ask, in an event of a recession, how stocks will be affected by these considerations.

Marketing Director Cathi Ingersoll and Lead Financial Planner Scott Birmingham, CFP®, join the show to talk about the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme: what a Ponzi scheme is and how he pulled off the largest one in history. This leads to a discussion on ethical business practices: what current investors should watch out for and how doing your own due diligence can go a long way.