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How to Increase Your Social Security Check Up to 25%

2023-03-03

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HAVE YOU SUBSCRIBED TO "Before the Bell?" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFmyKJKseEMQp1d14AjvMUw (3/3/23) The entrenchment of higher prices: Airline prices are out of control. How much of it will stick, and what will the Fed to do next; are they behind the curve? The new benchmark for higher prices: How long will it take for inflation to cool? Maximizing your Social Security check means delaying retirement until age 70. The avoidance of...

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Will the Fed Hike 50bp?

2023-03-02

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HAVE YOU SUBSCRIBED TO "Before the Bell?" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFmyKJKseEMQp1d14AjvMUw (3/2/23) Investors should be on alert today following yesterday's program-trading driven markets; breaking through support at the 200-DMA could spur accelerated selling by the bots. When to act? Avoid knee-jerk response, and look for the selling stampede to conclude. Hopes for a Fed pause or pivot are running into reality. The foibles of...

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Where Did the Stimulus Go?

2023-03-01

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HAVE YOU SUBSCRIBED TO "Before the Bell?" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFmyKJKseEMQp1d14AjvMUw (3/1/23) Margins are narrowing between Bull & Bear markets, as the battle between Valuations and Fundamentals continues; why the Fundamentals will eventual win. We're still in a corrective market in which Valuations have not adjusted. A brief History of Housing, and reasonable expectations for home buying; the Math of Home Ownership and...

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“Fixing” Social Security is Political Suicide

2023-02-28

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HAVE YOU SUBSCRIBED TO "Before the Bell?" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFmyKJKseEMQp1d14AjvMUw (2/28/23) Monday's markets closed positive, but barely; consumer confidence is low but improving. The difference between stocks & bonds and yields: Stocks do not pay yields. Analysts still expect current markets to be in a trough, but the Fed is still hiking rates, and previous 4.75bp have yet to hit markets or earnings. Making the case...

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Sellable Rally? (2/27/23): Market Analysis & Commentary from RIA Advisors Chief Investment Strate…

2023-02-27

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Raising Money Smart Kids

2023-02-24

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Here is an encore presentation of the February 23, 2023 Lunch & Learn on Raising Money Smart Kids, with RIA Advisors Director of Financial Planning, Richard Rosso, CFP, with Senior Advisor, Danny Ratliff, CFP. ------- 0:00 - Intro/Disclaimer 1:25 - Grandparents' opportunities for generational influence of grandkids 2:12 - What is a Money Script? 5:33 - Know Yourself 7:44 - Money Avoidance/Money Worship 13:48 - Money Focus 18:54 - Money...

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Tax Tips for 2022 You Can Still Use

2023-02-24

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HAVE YOU SUBSCRIBED TO "Before the Bell?" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFmyKJKseEMQp1d14AjvMUw (2/24/23) It's "Go Texas Day," with boot-buying tips for the uninitiated; The Fed's target rate has risen to north of 5%: Be prepared to "call an audible." The good news about higher interest rates: Better yields on bonds. Tax Tips for 2022 you can still use now: deductible IRA contributions, self-employment Roth; prepare...

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The “No Landing” Scenario is a No-go

2023-02-23

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HAVE YOU SUBSCRIBED TO "Before the Bell?" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFmyKJKseEMQp1d14AjvMUw (2/23/23) Markets are receiving a cluster of support; not all tech companies are alike: NVIDIA vs Intel; it is critical for markets to hold support at current levels; the Fed continuing, aggressive rate hikes have yet to affect markets: Impact on futures vs the lag effect; 475-bp increases have yet ot be felt. Don't ignore Chicago Fed...

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The Problem with Economic Data

2023-02-22

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HAVE YOU SUBSCRIBED TO "Before the Bell?" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFmyKJKseEMQp1d14AjvMUw (2/22/23) The long-awaited market correction has arrived, begging the question of whether markets can firm-up and hold levels here. Look at correction as an opportunity for portfolio rebalancing; St. Louis Fed Pres. James Bullard says interest rates need to exceed 5% to battle inflation; markets have rallied on the notion earnings have...

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Is Sticky Inflation Entrenched in Economy?

2023-02-21

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HAVE YOU SUBSCRIBED TO "Before the Bell?" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFmyKJKseEMQp1d14AjvMUw (2/21/23) Is a recession in the works with the Fed still intent on raising rates? Our word of the day is "Recessionista;" what is the Fed going to break? M2 Money Supply as a % of GDP indicates liquidity still flowing through the economy, but declining. The Roberts' Family Saga: Dead Rabbit. No landing scenario, no recession,...

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Overly Complicated Portfolios & The Scam of the Century

2023-02-17

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HAVE YOU SUBSCRIBED TO "Before the Bell?" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFmyKJKseEMQp1d14AjvMUw (2/15/23) Lance's Rant #1 on making portfolios overly-complicated, and diversification mistakes. Lance's Rant #2 on the true nature of Stock Buybacks and the total scam of Carbon Credits. Poor people don't care about climate change; they can't afford carbon credits anyway; Climate Works' carbon "scrubber" vs trees. [NOTE Today's...

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Should Markets Price-in a Half-point Hike?

2023-02-17

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HAVE YOU SUBSCRIBED TO "Before the Bell?" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFmyKJKseEMQp1d14AjvMUw (2/17/23) Will markets lose the ongoing rally? Inflation remains sticky; job mobility and dynamics; what happened to Goldman's employee coffee service? Measuring economic performance: The Buffett Underwear Indicator; insufficient retirement savings vs the retirement clock: How to play catch-up. Market/economic date preview: Retail sales...

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Buyers Continue to Move Into Markets

2023-02-16

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DESCRIPTION: HAVE YOU SUBSCRIBED TO "Before the Bell?" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFmyKJKseEMQp1d14AjvMUw (2/16/23) Buyers are consistently moving into the markets, and there are two ways this can go: Trade sideways, or price declines. The Citibank Surprise Index indicates optimism may weaken; that anticipated recession is not being picked up in economic data...yet. Markets remain in rising trendline; a corrective process is needed....

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No End to Fed Rate Hikes in Sight

2023-02-15

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HAVE YOU SUBSCRIBED TO "Before the Bell?" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFmyKJKseEMQp1d14AjvMUw (2/15/23) [NOTE Today's show was recorded-live prior to this morning's release of January Retail Sales report showing a hotter-than-expected 3% increase for January.] Big inflation news in January CPI Report, with Shelter increasing 8%; there are no signals that the Fed will be halting its interest rate increase campaign anytime soon....

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Inflation Day (2/14/23): Technical Market Analysis & Commentary from RIA Advisors Chief Investmen…

2023-02-14

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How to Avoid Financial Infidelity (2/11/23)

2023-02-13

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Here is an encore presentation of the February 11, 2023 Candid Coffee on How to Avoid Financial Infidelity with RIA Advisors Director of Financial Planning, Richard Rosso, CFP, with Senior Advisor, Danny Ratliff, CFP: 0:00 -Intro 1:20 - What is Financial Infidelity? 5:58 - Money Wise Kids 7:02 - How to Avoid Financial Infidelity 8:38 - It's Never Too Late 9:13 - Setting Boundaries 15:22 - Practicing Financial Nudity 20:21 - Money Wise...

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What to Do if You Bet Against the Chiefs

2023-02-13

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HAVE YOU SUBSCRIBED TO "Before the Bell?" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFmyKJKseEMQp1d14AjvMUw (2/13/23) Aliens are landing, apparently, and markets are improving, despite what we may thing; the magnet for the market is the 50-DMA. As earnings season begins to wrap, the next CPI Report looms: January Credit Card use is higher; the three measures of inflation. Super Bowl anthems; Investor Convictions on thesis of market recession and...

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What Will Your First Day of Retirement Look Like?

2023-02-10

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HAVE YOU SUBSCRIBED TO "Before the Bell?" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFmyKJKseEMQp1d14AjvMUw (2/10/23) Markets are stuck in the muck; the wage-price spiral Jerome Powell is afraid of; the labor force participation rate is serious; Don't Fight the Fed. Planning for pet expenses; pet insurance; the ugly truth behind cash sweeps: Your Money Market Fund may be cheating you! Your First Day of Retirement: importance of staying busy;...

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Where Will Fed Rate Hikes Be Worst Felt?

2023-02-09

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HAVE YOU SUBSCRIBED TO "Before the Bell?" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFmyKJKseEMQp1d14AjvMUw (2/9/23) Google's AI debut was marred by a fact-checking gaffe, and Alphabet stock plunged 8%; the CNN Fear & Greed Index is overwhelmingly greedy; the conundrum of technical bullishness vs fundamental bearishness; parsing Powell's pontifications vs competing market narratives; the ugly truth behind the January Jobs report: No new...

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Timing the Markets and Getting Back to Even

2023-02-08

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HAVE YOU SUBSCRIBED TO "Before the Bell?" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFmyKJKseEMQp1d14AjvMUw (2/8/23) Whose comments yesterday were more impactful for you: Joe Biden's SOTU address or Jerome Powell's post-Fed clarification speech? Markets loved the latter, and on a weekly basis, the bullish trend continues as economic data becomes "less bad." Fair warning, fellas, that Valentine's Day is approaching; prepare accordingly....

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