How to plan and enjoy life after your career
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The daily grind of work can take its toll, especially after decades. What if you had more flexibility and could work part-time from home, while using your expertise to help people? Georgia McManus does just that.
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And why not start early? Want your kid to retire rich? Have the “money conversation” with them now.
After retirement — non-retirement
Retiring is one thing, but what about returning to work? What happens if you try to do this when you’re “on the wrong side of 50”? This age may seem rather young to many people, but it can also prevent you from being considered for many jobs, even if no employer or hiring decision maker would ever admit it.
This week, in his column “The View from Unretirement,” Richard Eisenberg interviews Deborah Gale, who has built her own new career researching retirement and people’s attitudes toward age and work. , and providing related services to answer this question: “How are you going to disentangle yourself from the linear life course?”
Inflation gets even uglier
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The annual increase in the consumer price index in the United States reached a new 40-year high of 8.6% in May, with an increase of 1% for the month. Gasoline prices have now reached a record average price of $5 a gallon, and the Internal Revenue Services are giving taxpayers pause in response.
Rex Nutting digs deep to list the major contributors to the shocking price increase in May.
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Real estate inflation and real estate slowdown
House prices are not falling — yet. But Freddie Mac’s chief economist says this giant sector of the US economy has entered its biggest downturn in more than a decade. Various studies support the notion of a housing downturn, as reported by Aarthi Swaminathan.
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Where will oil – and oil stocks – go from here?
West Texas crude oil is up about 62% for 2022.
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The combination of growing demand, supply disruption, and weak production and investment has led to a remarkable increase in the price of oil this year. And energy stocks may have more wiggle room because they are cheaply priced relative to expected earnings. Trafigura’s Jeremy Weir expects a “parabolic” rise in oil prices, even after this year’s rise. Again, Matthew Tuttle expects a pullback and a buying opportunity for investors.
Hubert: Energy stocks are this year’s best performers, but they are not on the list of the best investment bulletins
The meaning of Target’s latest warning
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Less than three weeks after Target’s warning about rising spending sent its stock plummeting 25% in one day, the retailer outlined its plan to cut bloated inventory, which would squeeze its profit margin. One analyst described the timing of the announcement as “somewhat careless,” while other analysts said Target’s troubles reflected changes in the retail landscape, as Tonya Garcia reports.
Plan early to protect assets from nursing home expenses
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Quentin Fottrell – The Moneyist – shares planning strategies that can help protect family assets that might otherwise have to be depleted before Medicaid coverage for nursing home expenses kicks in.
Partisanship and the Federal Reserve
Here is an opinion piece by Robert Brusca on how partisan political concerns can affect Federal Reserve policy decisions.
More central bank coverage: The Fed will only need to hike rates to as much as 3% to calm inflation, big bank economists say
Good news for the difficult charging of electric vehicles
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Range anxiety is the big problem with electric cars. If you’re going on a long trip, “getting there” may mean keeping your vehicle charged. Two problems described in this Wall Street Journal horror story are “fast chargers” that are excruciatingly slow and chargers that don’t work at all.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has announced a plan (which is already funded) to standardize all electric vehicle charging stations in the United States, as reported by Rachel Koning Beals.
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Why popular ETF ARKK really fell
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The chart above shows the price trajectory of the Ark Innovation ETF since the end of 2019. For this period, the ETF is down 9%. But in 2020 it climbed 153%, before slipping 23% in 2021 and falling another 53% so far this year. Mark Hulbert explains the fund’s wild performance swing – and it’s not as simple as Cathie Wood making the wrong stock picks.
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The Russell 2000 Index looks undervalued – if these companies are excluded from the P/E calculation
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Rest assured, stock investors: U.S. consumers are feeling bad about their money and inflation
How to play defense with ETFs
In this week’s ETF Wrap, Christine Idzelis interviews Gargi Chaudhuri, head of BlackRock’s iShares investment strategy for the Americas, who shares a “defensive turn” strategy for investors worried about the economy.
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Hedge funds diversify their ranks
Steve Gelsi shows how top executives in the hedge fund industry have diversified.
Why has bitcoin held up better than ether?
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The new tightening environment from central banks to fight inflation has helped drag cryptocurrencies down this year, but bitcoin has largely outperformed ether. In this week’s Distributed Ledger column, Frances Yue asks industry insiders to explain why investors prefer bitcoin while predicting a big change for Etherium.
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