I recently answered some questions about investing in a low return environment and the answers appeared in a Wall Street Journal article on April 17 titled Five Questions Every Retiree Should Ask Now About Planning Their Finances.
2021 IRA Deadline TODAY!
IRA Deadline TODAY!
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IRA Deadline TODAY! ***
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Thanks to the Good Friday holiday, we were given a three day reprieve on filing our 2021 tax returns and making IRA contributions. If you have been putting it off until the last minute, well, here we are!
Your contribution simply needs to be postmarked today (don’t forget to designate it towards 2021).
Q1 2022 Market Review
2022 got off to a rough start in Q1 as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine rattled governments and financial markets alike. Supply chains that were already in stretched to their limits by the Covid pandemic have been further strained by sanctions enacted by many western countries as a protest to the Russian aggression. Commodity prices and interest rates were up however, indicitive of the inflationary pressures being felt worldwide and maybe most clearly indicated by the price of oil which is now over $100 per barrel.