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The Yield Curve's Alarming Twist - Is a Recession Looming?

The Yield Curve’s Alarming Twist – Is a Recession Looming?

Economists use a range of metrics and data to determine the overall health of the economy. Some data sets, like Treasury bond yields, even have an uncanny ability to predict a recession. While stock market performance, inflation data, and interest rates can all be use...

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Federal Reserve Pauses Interest Rate Hikes – For Now

Federal Reserve Pauses Interest Rate Hikes – For Now

When the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met on June 14th, 2023, they made a move that has proven to be somewhat unusual in the post-COVID-19 era – they decided not to...

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Dispelling The Myths About Annuities and The Crash Proof Retirement® System

Dispelling The Myths About Annuities and The Crash Proof Retirement System

The National Association for Fixed Annuities designated June as National Annuity Awareness Month in 2010 as part of their goal to educate consumers about the value of annuities as a retirement planning vehicle. We have been utilizing annuities that we call Crash Proof® investment accounts to make up...

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Crash Proof Retirement to Screen The Baby Boomer Dilemma

Crash Proof Retirement to Screen “The Baby Boomer Dilemma”

Crash Proof Retirement has been hosting educational events for retirees around the country for years. The ultimate goal of these events has always been to educate consumers about the dangers of securities-based investments and show retirees that there is a safer way t...

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Congress Averts a Debt Ceiling Crisis But Your Retirement Future Remains Uncertain

Congress Averts a Debt Ceiling Crisis But Your Retirement Future Remains Uncertain

After months of negotiations, Congress finally came to an agreement that will raise the United States borrowing limit and fully fund the government through January 2025. Although markets reacted positively when President Joe Biden signed the final agreement on June 3,...

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Can You Count on Social Security When You Retire

Can You Count on Social Security When You Retire?

Two recent reports released jointly by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and several other government agencies have revealed shocking news for the nation’s retirees: The Social Security Tr...

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High Inflation Has Seniors Facing “Unretirement”

High Inflation Has Seniors Facing “Unretirement”

As inflation has soared during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, a growing subset of retirees have been forced to return to work. Data from an April 2022 report by job website Indeed showed that 3.2% of workers who were retired t...

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fed raises interest rates

The Impact of the Federal Reserve’s Most Recent Rate Hike

The Federal Reserve’s string of interest rate hikes continued on March 22, 2023, when they raised their benchmark interest rate another 25 basis points to a target rate between 4.75% and 5%. This increase marks the ninth rate hike since March 2022. While these interes...

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The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank: Is This a Repeat of 2008?

In the largest bank failure since Washington Mutual in 2008, regulators forced Silicon Valley Bank (SVB)  to close on Monday, March 10, 2023. This collapse sent waves throughout the financial industry and left investors wondering if this could be the start of a more w...

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How Does the Crash Proof Retirement System Work?

Ever since Phil Cannella developed the Crash Proof Retirement System in response to the 2001 stock market crash, he has had his fair share of detractors. Those who make a living by selling risky, securities-based investments have a hard time believing that consumers c...

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