Hello and Welcome to our July 2023 Financial Planning and Capital Market Update!
If you are too busy to read, feel free to listen as we describe our post and thoughts in friendly podcast audio format as well as Video!
Newbies –
We like to articulate our thoughts and review on a Monthly basis our Financial Planning Tips, Capital Markets thoughts and current events!
Hope you enjoy!
BREAK IN – CLIENTS – Early RMD
July 2023 Video
YouTube
Financial Planning Tip(s)
AI – Artificial Intelligence Update – Great but Not Saving the World
In this timely post (in our humble opinion – IMHO) we revisit the latest rage… AI – Artificial Intelligence – very similar to Dot.com in our opinion… So we try to clarify…
Oh… Here is a GREAT YouTube resource for explaining AI – Christopher Penn a Marketing Expert we have long followed
From the Post:
AI – Artificial Intelligence Today explained
Program assigns a number to all the words in the English Language – other languages too of course.
Cluster of huge computers located somewhere inexpensive scans everything it can get its eyes on, and tags the patterns of the numbers from the words it has scanned…
Not kidding, this is it!
Cyber Reminder –
They are at it again…. Watch out!
Capital Market Comments
Go Powell Go – Rates a 24 Year High – Both Feet On the Brakes!
Careful what we ask for….
Have a Great Day, Talk to You at the End of August !
John A. Kvale CFA, CFP
Founder of J.K. Financial, Inc.
A Dallas Texas based fee only
Financial Planning Total Wealth
Management firm.
August 2023 Audio Video Review – The Brain Tests the Systems- Social Security Statement/Web View Reminder – Four Downgrades Reviewed – Financial Planning and Capital Market Review – By John Kvale CFA, CFP
Hello and Welcome to our August Financial Planning and Capital Market Update!
If you are too busy to read, feel free to listen as we describe our post and thoughts in friendly podcast audio format as well as Video!
BREAK IN: Donald the Brain WILL BE reviewing the Schwab TDA Merger information only one of 32k folks to be asked!
Newbies –
We like to articulate our thoughts and review on a Monthly basis our Financial Planning Tips, Capital Markets thoughts and current events!
Hope you enjoy!
August 2023 Video
YouTube
Financial Planning Tip(s)
Check that Social Security Statement no Matter your age
While a late delivery, we managed to remind all (including ourselves) why we need to review annually our Social Security statement, here in this post…. along with some new features from the SSA (Social Security Administration) in their updated website!
From the post:
Capital Market Comments
Not one, not two, not three …. but FOUR Downgrades with one called by ourselves – Tap Tap on the back
In this first post we commented that Fitch put a shot across the bow of the USA Credit Boat with a mild downgrade from AAA to AA+
Not to be outdone, another of the big three credit agencies, Moody’s chimed in as we discussed here
Then back into the pool goes Fitch with ANOTHER downgrade…. here we discussed Fitch’s second downgrade and mentioned we were surprised the One of the Big Three were silent….
BOOM that night of our above post, the other big three S&P Global Markets came to the party…. as we discussed here along with a timely fun YTD Bankruptcy Graph from our bud at Visual Capitalist
These downgrades among a couple of other items, not surprising, led to an upward push on rates… highlights to the far right…. already headed back to norms!
Have a Great Day, Talk to You at the End of September !
John A. Kvale CFA, CFP
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