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Dr. Richard Baker
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Oct 1, 2026 ∙ 3 min
Stock Market Insights: Fed rate hike signals independence under Chairman Kevin Warsh
Dr. Richard Baker, AIF®, is the CEO and executive wealth advisor at Fervent Wealth Management. My college-age son wanted to list his car for sale online last weekend. His taillight had not worked for a while, and we couldn’t figure out how to repair it. He decided to take his car to a local shop to get it repaired because he felt it was important to say in the ad that “everything works as it should.” The Federal Reserve (Fed) showed us last week that they weren’t being influenced by...
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Sep 17, 2026 ∙ 3 min
Stock Market Insights: Mortgage rates are 6.71%, but history shows they’re not really that high
I know this sounds a lot like “walking to school uphill both ways,” but rates have been a lot higher than they are right now.
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Sep 3, 2026 ∙ 3 min
Stock Market Insights: Why Is the U.S. economy so strong despite inflation and debt?
Dr. Richard Baker, AIF®, is the CEO and executive wealth advisor at Fervent Wealth Management. A recent viral video showed someone putting weight on top of a single-filled plastic Coke bottle. It was amazing to watch them keep adding steel plate after steel plate, yet the Coke bottle kept holding up without collapsing, even up to 1,220 pounds. As the video continues, I wondered, “How long can this thing hold up?” Many are asking the same question about the market right now. One of my...
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