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Inflation is a reality we can’t ignore, but we don’t have to let it derail our financial goals. If you’ve read these missives for a while, you know I always come back to the same principles: intentionality, awareness, and long-term thinking. While inflation makes things more expensive, it’s our plan and the implementation of that

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Here we are, again, in the midst of market turbulence… As a reminder, the average annual peak-to-trough decline in the S&P 500 is nearly 15%. This means that every year the market drops at some point (from a high point to a low point within the year) by an average of 15% – some years

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If you spend a little time on Mindful Money, you might get the sense that I recommend against hiring a financial advisor. And, while it is true in many cases, such as: It isn’t always true. The financial press covers the daily gyrations of economies, markets, and individual investments in a way that makes the

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I talk a lot about the idea that stock prices follow earnings. This is what that looks like over 30 years: At the same time, whenever the stock market is bouncing around near all-time highs (as it is today), I start to get questions about the market getting “too high.” So… are today’s stock prices

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Jeremy Dyer of The Freedom Point Podcast interviews Jonathan DeYoe, author of Mindful Money

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In August 1978, the 2-year vs. 10-year treasuries set the prior record of yield curve inversion – 624 days. Since that time, every inversion has ended in recession. Yield curve inversion has been, since that time, the single best predictor of a recession I know of. It has always been a certainty that it would

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