The Retirement Report

The S&P 500 Index is now up over 17% year-to-date.  It’s one of the highest performing major stock market indexes in the US, and around the…

850,000 jobs were added in June, exceeding expectations of 700K.  Still, there are 7.1 million fewer people holding jobs than in February 2020.  The unemployment rate…

Wow, that was quick!  The first half of 2021 is about to be seen in the rear-view mirror. We started the year with a 10 Year…

From the depths of the pandemic until now, the markets have been cruising along melting higher and higher.  The recent all-time high for the S&P 500…

Who would have thought, as the economy continues to gain steam, interest rates would go lower?  As I did not expect a huge spike in rates,…

Fed – Small Hint of Easing, a Yawner! Our Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced last week they will be selling the Individual Corporate Bonds and…

The summer months, years ago, tended to be challenging for the stock market.  Traders and investors would go on vacation, so not much happened….  This was…

Bitcoin!  Trading at a high of 61,758 on April 16th, 2021, took a slight tumble down to 30,0000 last week before recovering a bit!  What’s the…

Inflation For weeks and months, we’ve been discussing Inflation (interest rates) and Tax Increases.  Now that most people are out and about (just look at traffic…