Two great money minds agree that forecasts aren't worth listening to

Barry Ritholtz of Ritholtz Wealth Management -- one of the nation's leading financial planners -- and Axel Merk of the Merk Funds agree that forecasts tend to be misleading, meaningless, overplayed but mostly wrong. In separate interviews, they talk about why they're not in favor of making predictions, but then cover wide stretches of ground, with Merk discussing the market for equities, gold and more, while Ritholtz discusses the importance of being able to ride out the trouble spots and the twists and drops that happen between now and when some long-term market projection comes true, noting that investors might have entered 2020 expecting low double-digit returns but many didn't get them because they couldn't stand the market's steep decline in February and March. Also on the show, Tom Lydon of ETFTrends.com discusses a dividend-investing strategy that he says can be an income replacement or supplement in a portfolio.