Inflation, Interest Rates, and Investment Volatility - Part 2

It seems like all the talk lately as been inflation, interest rates and investment volatility. Every time you look at the news you see rising inflation numbers, gas prices seem to have actually gone up again and the stock market has been crazy volatile. Add in another interest rate increase by the Federal Reserve and the list of issues gets longer and longer. We didn't have enough time to dig deep into all of these things so, let’s see if we can make some sense of what’s going on and what we can do about it.

 

Listen to part 1: https://doncashpodcast.com/podcast/inflation-interest-rates-and-bond-prices-oh-my/ 

 

Listen for these key points: 

0:53 – Allergies and COVID

2:29 – Used car prices

3:51 – Setting up part 2 of the conversation

5:32 – Last time rates were at 5%

6:19 – Interest rates

7:21 – World events impacting inflation 

8:31 – Imbalances

11:51 – Wages and workers

14:11 – Other price increase examples

15:16 – Hidden tax

17:21 – What can individuals do today?

20:37 – Investment strategies

23:09 – Closing thoughts

 

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