Inflation

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Weekend Reading: Four Threats to the Distribution Phase of Retirement

You may find – like many of the families we meet with – that the distribution phase of retirement is often the most challenging. However, it can be greatly simplified by focusing on a handful of key risks.

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Weekend Reading: 4 Dangerous Assumptions That Could Hurt Your Retirement Plan

Your retirement goals, dreams and financial situation are all unique to you. The journey your neighbor made to and through retirement will not mirror yours, which is why you should be wary of assuming anything when it comes to your personal path.

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Weekend Reading: What to Do About These High Interest Rates

Should you be worried about interest rates? Over the past month, we’ve seen 22-year highs, which might lead you to question how this impacts your financial future.

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Weekend Reading: What Clients Worry About

While there is no crystal ball to reveal what’s on the horizon, taking an objective approach to today’s top retirement woes can help you feel more at ease.

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Weekend Reading: Short-Term Investments to Protect Against Inflation and Market Volatility

Instead of sitting on the sidelines in fear, you may want to consider short-term investment options that can help put your dollars to work.

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Weekend Reading: What is In Your Control?

Understanding what you can confidently keep in your wheelhouse first and foremost begins with recognizing what you have zero control over.

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Weekend Reading: Some Good News

In bearish economic times like these, bullish news is necessary. That’s why The Ramp Report took to Twitter and asked for positive things that are still happening around us, despite the negative stories we see daily.

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Weekend Reading: 14 Charts That Explain America’s Inflation Mess

lthough the price of gas is now going down, you’ve more than likely felt the continuation of soaring inflation in your wallet.

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Weekend Reading: How Much Do Interest Rates Matter to the Stock Market?

While current interest rate levels sit around 2.5 percent, with inflation sticking around, the Fed could continue raising rates to as high as four or five percent. Will this be disastrous for markets?

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Weekend Reading: Your Guide to 'Good News is Bad News' and 'Bad News is Good News'

Recent economic metrics have been contradictory. Consumer confidence is low, but spending is high, gas prices fall, but inflation doesn’t… The list goes on. All this being said, it can be difficult to make sense of up or down, which also might make you question the latest news stories.

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Weekend Reading: 6 Questions About the Market & the Economy

Today’s economic climate continues to move quickly and feel confusing for investors. While we have no crystal ball to tell us what the remainder of 2022 will bring, here, you’ll find blogger Ben Carlson’s best data-based guesses of what might be around the corner.

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Weekend Reading: The Everything-Is-Weird-Economy

The U.S. economy is full of contradictions, and it’s set the stage for the unique landscape we find ourselves in today.