The Nation's Unsustainable Fiscal Path
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Hosts Justin Klein & Luke Guerrero, CFA | Wealth Managers and Investment Advisors
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The national debt crisis is no longer a political problem—it’s an investment bomb that will drive up your interest rates and throttle private sector growth.
Today's Stocks & Topics: Centrus Energy Corp. (LEU), Market Wrap, Jones Soda Co. (JSDA), Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY), Stocks on Sale, “The Nation's Unsustainable Fiscal Path”, State Street Industrial Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLI), China's Energy Supply, Teck Resources Limited (TECK), Prediction Markets.
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| 0:00.0 | On radio, on YouTube, streaming live on invest talk.com, and for our podcast subscribers, this is |
| 0:12.1 | InvestTalk, independent thinking, shared success. |
| 0:17.8 | Invest talk is made possible by KPP Financial, a registered investment advisor firm, serving clients throughout the United States. |
| 0:27.2 | Here is KPP Financial portfolio manager, Luke Guerrero. |
| 0:33.5 | Good afternoon, fellow investors, and welcome back to InvestTalk. |
| 0:39.5 | I'm your host, Lou Guerrero, and today's Tuesday, December 16th, 2025. |
| 0:46.7 | Wow. |
| 0:48.5 | We are halfway through the month of December and well on our way towards the end of the fourth quarter of |
| 0:57.2 | 2025. Christmas is a mere nine days away. The new year, just 15 days away, 16 days away. So before you know it, it will be 2026. |
| 1:16.8 | Now, we'd investock hope that in 2025, we played at least a small role in helping to make you a better and more informed investor. |
| 1:27.3 | And our mission, it does not change |
| 1:29.7 | just because the calendar does. We will continue to bring you a mixture of educational items, |
| 1:37.2 | actionable material, warnings. And most importantly, in 2026, we pledge to continue to answer your finance and investment questions. |
| 1:51.0 | But because the holiday's around the corner, just a quick heads up and an invitation, this |
| 1:56.5 | year we're doing something brand new, the first ever invest talk holiday special. |
| 2:03.8 | When does that drop, you might ask? |
| 2:05.4 | Well, that comes to all of you on December 18th this coming Thursday exclusively on our |
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| 2:13.3 | It's going to be a lot of fun. |
| 2:14.7 | It's an end of year episode where we look back at the biggest market themes of 2025, highlight a few lessons we're carrying into 2026, and talk all about |
| 2:24.5 | the caller question of the year, plus a couple surprises you won't get in our regular show. |
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