US Dollar Is Off to Its Worst Start in 50 Years. Here's Why That Matters for You
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Hosts Justin Klein & Luke Guerrero, CFA | Wealth Managers and Investment Advisors
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🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Inflation fears, rising national debt, and erratic trade policy have resulted in the steepest drop in five decades for the US dollar-- down over 10% in early 2025.
Today's Stocks & Topics: IIPR - Innovative Industrial Properties Inc., Market Wrap, AMH - American Homes 4 Rent Cl A, US Dollar Is Off to Its Worst Start in 50 Years. Here's Why That Matters for You, MUSA - Murphy USA Inc., FLO - Flowers Foods Inc., The Labor Market, Comparing Past Performance, PCT - PureCycle Technologies Inc., STLD - Steel Dynamics Inc., Central Banks & Asset Allocation.
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| 0:00.0 | On radio, on YouTube, streaming live on invest talk.com, and for our podcast subscribers, this is InvestTalk. |
| 0:13.0 | Independent thinking, shared success. Invest talk is made possible by KPP Financial, a registered investment advisor firm, serving clients throughout the United States. |
| 0:27.5 | Here is KPP Financial Chief Executive Officer, Financial Advisor, Justin Klein. |
| 0:35.3 | Good afternoon, fellow investors, and welcome back to Invest Talk. This is our Thursday, |
| 0:42.2 | July 3rd, 2025 edition. Hope everyone is hyped up and ready for the July 4th holiday. Maybe |
| 0:51.1 | some of you are actually listening to this podcast on July 4th. |
| 0:55.4 | Either way, we are here to help you. |
| 0:59.0 | Despite the long weekend, there's always work to be done. |
| 1:04.3 | And we are going to unpack what happened in the market. |
| 1:07.4 | That was a short day. |
| 1:10.1 | And look at the economic data. |
| 1:12.2 | We weren't short on that. |
| 1:13.3 | That's for sure. |
| 1:14.0 | There's a lot of economic data. |
| 1:15.1 | So we'll take a look at what was released today. |
| 1:17.9 | And then we'll dig into the market performance and answer more of your finance and |
| 1:22.8 | investment questions. |
| 1:23.6 | That's what the show is about. |
| 1:26.7 | We can bring topics. We will bring topics to the |
| 1:29.5 | table. We think are important. But we'll be most important are your questions. So don't |
| 1:35.0 | hesitate to reach out to us at 8 to 889 chart. So we're going to run down the show topics in |
| 1:40.7 | just the bits. And like I said, the market performance. And we'll tackle this caller |
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