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Every week Shane Montalban and Tom Egelhoff talk about the markets and money and how what’s happening in the world affects your income and savings.

A listener wanted to know about oil prices and asked if we do more drilling here will the price go down? Tom and Shane weigh in.

Commercial Free Re-Broadcast of Open for Business that aired Saturday June 24, 2017. Tom and co-host Shane Montalban review all the dumb stuff politicians did.

I’m guessing they wouldn’t be using anything as primitive as fossil fuels for propulsion and would have something more advanced than our primitive electricity.

There’s a South African app to tell you how many cows you’ll have to give up as dowry to get the girl of your dreams.

The Stock Market loses over 1,000 points in a week. What does that mean to you? A lot — if you have a 401(k) or pension plan.

Taxes are a lot like airline fares. Chances are the person sitting next to you on any flight paid either more or less for their seat than you did.

Will “the worst of times” make us stronger in the long run? Or will “the best of times,” on the distant horizon, completely change the way business is done?

We already know gold is good – but what’s so great about frankincense and myrrh? “They presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.” We’re all familiar with the story of those three treasures. Gold we know. But what are frankincense, and myrrh? Simply put - they are gum resins made from tree sap. It’s the alluring fragrance that makes them interesting.

With financial markets in disarray and the US suffering from a debt downgrade, investors turned to precious metals for a safe-haven asset. Gold futures soared to an all-time high of $1,718.20 per ounce Monday at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange after rising three percent in morning trading.