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Wall Street Unplugged - What's Really Moving These Markets

Ep. 214 Kristin Bentz: Retail Industry Expert Shares Her Top Picks for 2014

Wall Street Unplugged - What's Really Moving These Markets

Frank Curzio

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2013

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Kristin Bentz, Executive Director of PMG Venture Group, President of Talented blonde LLC and retail industry expert, joins S&A Investor Radio. Kristin says most of middle-class America is trading down to brands like Wal-Mart and dollar stores. Find out why she believes this trend will continue for many years. Kristin also talks about her favorite names in the industry, including the top retail stocks to buy right now. Find out which company she is currently shorting... and listen to find out what her favorite stock is... Plus, Frank talks about 3D printing and how to create your first portfolio of stocks...

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S&A Investor Radio looks beyond the regular headlines heard on mainstream financial media

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to bring you unscripted interviews and breaking commentary direct from Wall Street,

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right to you on Main Street.

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How's it going out there? It's Wednesday, December 18th, and I'm friend Curzia,

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hosted the S&A Investor Podcast, why break down the headlines, and tell you what's really moving these markets.

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According to the Federal Reserve, household wealth is at an all-time high.

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Federal Reserve said on Monday, household wealth increased 1.9 trillion to 77.3 trillion in the third quarter.

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It's the highest level,

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such we've been keeping records.

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The 1945, it's a ninth straight quarter of increases.

0:53.1

I know I watched my buddy Aaron Task poke fun at this report in Yahoo finance saying that most of

0:57.6

this stems from rich people getting richer.

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This is household wealth guys.

1:02.6

There are plenty of middle class Americans that own homes.

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The value of that home has certainly gone up since 2010.

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Chances are, very, very good chances are your 401k, which should be in mostly conservative stocks, right? Like S&P 500 is up 25% this year.

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That index up 125% off its March 2009 lows.

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I've been debating this and talking about this.

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For how many weeks now, three or four weeks,

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getting a ton of emails?

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People have ripped me apart. It's not that good. It's really not that good out there.

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I'll be ranting about it. The truth is, he is the numbers. Things aren't that bad.

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