Financial advisor, economist talk about what to know during stock market uncertainty
Fluctuating policies in Washington are sending parts of the U.S. economy into a state of uncertainty.
As the winds shift and economic moods change, Channel 2 Consumer Investigative Reporter Justin Gray spoke to everyone, from financial advisors to university economists to get a better idea of what consumers should expect.
They had the same message: things like unemployment and inflation rates are in a strong position, but it's not stopping the stock market drops.
While that may be lowering consumer confidence, and there are big concerns, both of the drops are being caused by the same uncertainty.
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Still, that doesn't mean you should cut and run.
Retired and on a fixed income, Barbara McKeown told Channel 2 Action News that she's been worried about tariffs and the stock market's potential to drop, especially how that could affect her pension.
'I need to buy a new car. I'm nervous about the increase in the prices that it may cost me,' McKeown said. 'It makes a difference because I'm on a budget.'
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Consumers like McKeown don't like the uncertainty during times like this and how they worry it affects them.
Emory University Goizueta School of Business Economist Tom Smith said the stock market doesn't like uncertainty either and that the uncertainty around American tariff policies is what's driving the market drop.
'If you've got a policy that's switching every other day, it's almost impossible to forecast how that's going to impact you, because you don't even know if the policy is going to take effect,' Smith said.
Most people with investments are retirement investors, with 401Ks and IRA accounts.
Financial advisor Wes Moss was just writing to his clients when Channel 2 Action News came to talk to him at his Sandy Springs office.
He told his investors the same thing he told Gray: long-term investors should stay put and stay calm.
'It's hard to ignore daily fluctuations, but the reality is that we're investing for 20, 30, 40 or 50 years and investors just need to keep their eye on the long-term horizon,' Moss said. 'Have a plan, know that retirement is way off into the future. The big t thing is to control what you and I can control.'
Channel 2 Consumer Advisor Clark Howard recommends not rushing into making big purchases over tariff concerns and not making big changes to your investment portfolio.
'The problem is, if we really do go into a significant recession, a lot of us who think our jobs are safe, they're not going to be safe. So I'd rather instead of people making bug purchases, to stall on those and put your money in savings.'
Howard says that there are a couple of positives right now. Mortgage rates are dropping and because of concerns that people might limit travel, travel could end up cheaper this summer.
The one thing that's clear over decades of data is that the stock market recovers.
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In simple words, the executive order stated that if the president, or anyone authorized by the president (say, a member of an initiative explicitly created by that president to reduce government waste and fraud), asked for unclassified data, agencies had to provide it. It is true, as Palantir's response noted, that programs targeting "inefficiency, waste, fraud and abuse" have been non-partisan, and that the executive order includes wording about the legal framework. It is also true that the executive order does not explicitly mention DOGE by name. But the executive order, without naming DOGE, still gives the agency enormous power. DOGE's employees are federal employees. According to an interview then-DOGE figurehead Musk gave Fox News, the government is defrauded when "the computer systems don't talk to each other." 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USASpending listed every federal contract with Palantir dating back to 2008 as follows. The following five departments or agencies all had contracts with Palantir totaling over $100 million: Department of Defense Department of Health and Human Services Department of Homeland Security Department of Justice Department of Treasury Five federal entities had contracts totaling between $10 and $100 million: Department of Veterans Affairs Department of Energy Securities and Exchange Commission Department of Transportation Department of Agriculture Finally, the following five had contracts totaling less than $10 million: Department of Commerce ($4.5 million) Department of State (just under $2 million) General Services Administration ($750,000) Department of Labor ($80,000) Department of the Interior ($5,000) Snopes reached out to all of those departments for comment. We received a response from the Department of Defense directing us to publicly available information on Palantir contracts we had already found. We also received a response from a senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official saying, "Like other law enforcement agencies, ICE employs various forms of technology while respecting civil liberties and privacy interests." The May 30 New York Times story claiming that Palantir had been tapped to consolidate data named the three biggest departments — Defense (DOD), Health and Human Services (HHS) and Homeland Security (DHS), as having Palantir contracts. (It did not specify when those contracts started.) That story also claimed that new contracts with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Social Security Administration (SSA) might be coming soon. Palantir confirmed its work with the IRS in its response — since 2018, it has helped support "the agency's criminal investigative workflows." A June story from the New York Times clarified that the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, all within HHS, use Palantir Foundry for data management. So, no — Palantir does not have a direct contract with DOGE. However, the existence of a direct contract does not change the facts of WIRED's reporting about DOGE employees using Palantir's technology to centralize and connect government data sources. The April 2025 reporting from WIRED and CNN claimed that DOGE was combining Homeland Security databases with information from the Social Security Administration (SSA) and voting records to create "a master database for immigration enforcement." That WIRED story also noted that DOGE leaders at the IRS were attempting to create a system that would allow "privileged users to view all agency data from a central access point" using Foundry. The article stated that the Treasury Department denied having a contract for this work, but that "IRS engineers were invited to another three-day 'training and building session' on the project located at Palantir's Georgetown offices in Washington, DC." Several government IT personnel told WIRED that it would be "easy to connect the IRS's Palantir system with the ICE system at DHS." In total, Palantir software certainly isn't used throughout the federal government, as noted in the company's response to the New York Times story. However, Foundry is reportedly used in the department that maintains databases on health, and if DOGE's work at the IRS is fully implemented, it could also be used to connect tax data and immigration data. As for social security, in June, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two unsigned rulings allowing DOGE to access Social Security data and shield records from a watchdog organization. Whether or not Social Security data has been moved to Foundry is unknown. Palantir's initial response claimed the company never "collects data to unlawfully surveil Americans." The New York Times article never accused Palantir of breaking the law. Social media users replied to the company's statement pointing out that the word "unlawfully" could be doing a lot of heavy lifting, implying that Palantir was collecting data to surveil Americans legally. Based on our research, this claim isn't true, because Palantir isn't the one collecting or storing the data — rather, the U.S. government is doing so. Furthermore, Palantir isn't the one attempting to compile or centralize that data — that's DOGE. Palantir's response described their role as follows: "Our business is to provide our customers with the software capabilities to use their data effectively and in accordance to their legitimate mandates." Assuming this is true, Palantir itself is not building any master database, as social media posts claimed. However, its powerful data tools could easily be used to construct such a database. The company acknowledged as much in its response: As a company that focuses on building privacy and civil liberties protective technologies, as well as one that fosters a culture of open dialogue on controversial topics impacting our business, we consider many types of risks associated with our customer engagements and products in order to help avoid or mitigate concerns. There likely may still be residual risks of misuse for any product or tool, technical or otherwise. But our efforts to discuss, understand, and address such risks are one of the reasons that some of the most critical institutions in the world spanning public, private, and non-profit sectors trust Palantir and our products. 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