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“a mild recession”

The Reformed Broker

Put this phrase in your vocabulary for the second half of the year because you are going to be hearing it everywhere: “a mild recession.” This is where the puck is going. All of Wall Street’s chief strategists and chief economists are going to be pivoting to this case if they haven’t already. The “soft landing” idea is going to fade away.

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The Risk of Deflation is now Greater than the Risk of Prolonged High Inflation

Pragmatic Capitalism

The most recent headline CPI came in at 9.1% so it might seem odd to think that the risk of disinflation and deflation is rising. But while the CPI is [ … ].

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#FA Success Ep 289: Coming Together As A Partnership To Serve Your Collective Community, With Kamila Elliott

Nerd's Eye View

Welcome back to the 289th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Kamila Elliott. Kamila is the CEO and Founder of Collective Wealth Partners, an independent RIA based in Atlanta, Georgia, that oversees nearly $25 million in assets under management for almost 175 client households. What's unique about Kamila, though, is how she and her partners built an independent advisory firm, comprised entirely of Black CFP professionals, dedicated to supporting the

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Podcast links: all things inflation

Abnormal Returns

The biz How Athletic Greens rode podcasting to sales success. (nytimes.com) Spotify ($SPOT) is buying Heardle. (hollywoodreporter.com) Business Tyler Cowen talks with Matthew Ball author of "The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything." (conversationswithtyler.com) Tim Ferriss talks with Duolingo CEO and co-founder Luis von Ahn. (tim.blog) Patrick O'Shaughnessy talks with Ben Clymer about the business of Rolex.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Responsibility Theater

The Reformed Broker

Welcome to the latest episode of The Compound & Friends. This week, Michael Batnick, Alex Kantrowitz, and Downtown Josh Brown discuss earnings season, big tech, the outlook for crypto, Elon vs Twitter, and much more! You can listen to the whole thing below, or find it wherever you like to listen to your favorite pods! Listen here: Apple podcasts Spotify podcasts Google podcasts Everywhere else!

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Kitces & Carl Ep 90: Standing Out On Social Media By Finding The ‘Minimum Viable Audience’

Nerd's Eye View

In recent years, many financial advisors have turned to social media as a marketing tool to connect with prospective clients. Its ease of use and potential to reach large audiences have made it a very attractive channel to generate potential leads. But as a highly competitive venue with an excess of information, personal finance personalities, trends, and products, social media is rife with individuals all vying for everyone’s attention.

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Personal finance links: two things to do

Abnormal Returns

Podcasts Daniel Crosby talks with Nick Maggiulli about his book "Just Keep Buying." (standarddeviationspod.com) Peter Lazaroff talks with Brian Feroldi author of "Why Does The Stock Market Go Up?: Everything You Should Have Been Taught About Investing In School, But Weren’t." (peterlazaroff.com) Estate planning Why you need an estate plan. (thomaskopelman.com) Where you hold assets affects your ability to do bequests.

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Clips From Today’s Closing Bell

The Reformed Broker

The stickiest thing is going to be fighting the wage-price spiral, says Ritholtz’s Josh Brown from CNBC. The post Clips From Today’s Closing Bell appeared first on The Reformed Broker.

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The 16 Best Business Ideas For Women

Clever Girl Finance

Let's talk about the best business ideas for women! It’s so important for our world to have women in business. After all, we’re half the population—that’s billions of women with unique ideas, skillsets, and visions for the future. Female business owners employ nearly 9 million people and generate 1.7 trillion dollars in sales per year. They help keep the economy running while improving their own lives and innovating new ways to make the world better.

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Avoiding Lease Accounting Pitfalls in 2025: Lessons Learned from Spreadsheet Errors

Speaker: Abdi Ali, Sr. Lease Accounting Consultant

Join this insightful webinar with industry expert Abdi Ali, who will discuss the challenges that can arise from managing lease accounting with spreadsheets! He will share real-world examples of errors, compliance issues, and risks that may be present within your spreadsheets. Learn how these tools, while useful, can sometimes lead to inefficiencies that affect your time, resources, and peace of mind.

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Why Tax-Loss Harvesting During Down Markets Isn’t Always A Good Idea

Nerd's Eye View

During market downturns, tax-loss harvesting is often considered a ‘silver lining’ to an otherwise undesirable situation. In theory, the strategy allows investors to convert their capital losses into a tax deduction while staying invested so they can benefit when markets recover – ostensibly a win-win for the investor and, consequently, a popular strategy for advisors who are often eager to find ways to provide extra value to their clients in volatile markets.

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Wednesday links: the recession consensus

Abnormal Returns

Markets The Euro is trading at parity with the U.S. dollar. (nytimes.com) How much of an economic downturn is priced in already? (tker.co) Commodities Why long commodities are not a long-term strategic investment. (wapo.st) Don't kid yourself about gold. (allstarcharts.com) Finance The CFA Institute is facing pushback in this year's proxy vote. (institutionalinvestor.com) More signs that gambling and trading are converging.

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Clips From Today’s Halftime Report

The Reformed Broker

Final Trades: Occidental, Qualcomm, JPMorgan & more from CNBC. The post Clips From Today’s Halftime Report appeared first on The Reformed Broker.

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Multiple Streams of Income: Long-Term Strategies for Wealth

Good Financial Cents

If you read many stories about entrepreneurship, you’ve probably noticed that most entrepreneurs have multiple streams of income. Mostly by design, business owners go to great lengths to make sure they have money coming in from all directions – or, as some might say, “making sure their eggs aren’t all in one basket.”. Entrepreneurship isn’t easy, and income streams dry up all the time.

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Back to Basics with Reconciliations

Join us in this webinar, where we share best practices on how to think about the reconciliation work each month, when best to do reconciliations, how they should be prepared, and some common pitfalls to avoid. Learning Objectives: This course objective is to understand how to properly prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations and its impact on the financial statements.

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3 Aspects Of Identity Covering And How It Impacts Advisors’ Happiness At Work

Nerd's Eye View

Financial advisors are often responsible for working with a wide range of individuals, both among their client base and coworkers, who each have their own personality, beliefs, and style of communication. While it can be rewarding to build a large breadth of relationships, it can also be challenging to appeal to and feel accepted by so many different people all at once.

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Tuesday links: a better position

Abnormal Returns

Markets S&P 500 companies paid out a record amount of dividends in Q2 2022. (wsj.com) Stock-bond correlation worked against the 60/40 portfolio this year. (caia.org) Every major asset class yields more than it did at the beginning of 2022. (compoundadvisors.com) Crypto Bitcoin is no stock market hedge. (blogs.cfainstitute.org) Multicoin Capital is now investing out of its third fund.

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Eight Years of Your Richest Life

Your Richest Life

Eight years ago this month, I took a leap of faith and started Your Richest Life. It’s been an exciting and challenging journey, and I’m so grateful for all I’ve learned along the way. The past year has been yet another difficult one, with steep inflation , high interest rates and market volatility. But within these challenges are some opportunities, and I have been navigating these situations with my clients along the way.

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Everything Must Fall

The Irrelevant Investor

Some stocks hold up well during corrections, but bear markets eventually take down everything. And that’s about where we are today. As of this morning, only nine stocks* representing $1 trillion of market cap are within 5% of their 52-week high. 145 stocks representing $9 trillion in market cap are within 5% of their 52-week low. Bear markets experience indiscriminate selling, but there’s an order to it.

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2024 Lending Outlook: Innovations and Evolutions in the Financial Sector

As we step into 2024, the lending landscape evolves rapidly with technology, regulations, and market dynamics driving change. For banks and financial institutions to stay competitive and meet the evolving needs of their customers, these drivers must be understood and engaged with. Lenders can anticipate significant transformation fueled by technological advancements, regulatory shifts, and changing consumer behaviors.

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Using Volume to Help Identify Market Regimes

Andrew Thrasher

One of the charts I sent to Thrasher Analytics subscribers on Sunday looked at the large increase in stocks that were trading below average volume on Friday. Since the end of last year, this has been a bearish development for Continue reading Using Volume to Help Identify Market Regimes → The post Using Volume to Help Identify Market Regimes first appeared on.

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Second Edition of Pragmatic Capitalism Now Available!

Pragmatic Capitalism

It’s been 8 years since I first published my book Pragmatic Capitalism and I finally got around to updating the book with a Second Edition. It had become very hard [ … ].

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Longform links: fitting the pieces back together

Abnormal Returns

Books An excerpt from “American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry” by Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz. (washingtonpost.com) An interview with David Wengrow, co-author of "The Dawn of Everything." (wired.com) An excerpt from "Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It" by M. Nolan Gray. (fastcompany.com) Health Researchers are looking more at the relationship between circadian rhythms and health.

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Clips From Today’s Halftime Report

The Reformed Broker

Final Trades: NXP Semi, Compass, Shake Shack from CNBC. The post Clips From Today’s Halftime Report appeared first on The Reformed Broker.

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Pricing for Profit: How to Set, Negotiate, and Succeed

Speaker: Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader

In today’s competitive market, pricing is more than just a number — it’s the cornerstone of profitability. The right pricing strategy ensures that you capture the true value of your offering, paving the way for sustainable growth and long-term success. Join Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader, in this exclusive session where he will explore how a well-crafted pricing approach balances customer perception with business objectives, creating a powerful tool for securing both competitive advantage a

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LIMRA Finds Employers Look to Modify Employee Benefits Offerings

NAIFA Advisor Today

A new survey by NAIFA’s industry partner LIMRA and EY found that about 75% of employers believe they will need to modify their employee benefits packages within the next five years to attract and retain top talent. Among the top benefits employers believe workers will be most interested in are: life insurance, paid family and medical leave, short-term disability, long-term disability, and physical wellness programs.

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What Do Financial Adviser Designations Mean? What are the Letters after a Name?

Carson Wealth

By Craig Lemoine, Director of Consumer Investment Research . We speak a secret language in financial planning. So much of our world is filled with abbreviations surrounding insurance and investment products, processes, education and accomplishments. . I could say “Tammy, a CLU and ChFC ® , reviewed a DIA against a SPIA with a COLA to maximize his client’s Monte Carlo success rate.

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Growth Stocks vs Value stocks – Which one is Better to Invest?

Trade Brains

Comparing Growth Stocks vs Value stocks: While investing in the stock market, one can choose multiple approaches to pick stocks as there are many types of stocks with different characteristics in the market. However, two popular types of stocks and approaches that investors prefer are growth investing and value investing. Both these growth stocks and value stocks are considered very important while building your stock portfolio.

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Midyear Outlook 2022 | Navigating Turbulence | July 12, 2022

James Hendries

Markets rarely give us clear skies, and there are always threats to watch for on the horizon, but the right preparation, context, and support can help us navigate anything that may lie ahead. So far, this year hasn’t seen a full-blown crisis like 2008–2009 or 2020, but the ride has been very bumpy. We may not be flying into a storm, but there’s been plenty of turbulence the first part of 2022.

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Banking on Loyalty: Holistic Financial Advice for Unparalleled Business Growth

Speaker: Joe Buhrmann, MBA, CFP®, CLU®, ChFC® Senior Financial Planning Practice Management Consultant eMoney Advisor

During an era of evolving consumer preferences, the banking sector is undergoing a profound shift. As customers continue to broaden their perspectives, banking professionals must support their customers' financial wellness by providing holistic financial advice that aligns with individual goals and circumstances. Without adapting, financial institutions will find that loyalty may crumble amid uncertainty.

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Top posts from 2022’s second quarter

Investment Writing

Check out my top posts from the second quarter! They’re a mix of practical tips on grammar (#1 & #2), marketing (#3), investment commentary (#4), and blogging (#5). My posts that attracted the most views during 2022’s second quarter: My five favorite reference books for writers —These books would be great additions to your library. “In order to” versus “to” —The results of my research into whether it’s ever necessary to write “in order to” instead of “to” surprised me. 10-minute

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Nationwide Market Insights Podcast: Are we in a recession now?

Nationwide Financial

Are we in a recession now? (18 min). As we enter the second half of the year, several economic indicators are disappointing. And we’re likely to see a second consecutive quarter with a decline in GDP. Nationwide’s Chief Economist David Berson and Senior Economist Ben Ayers provide their perspectives on the current health of our overall economy.

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10 Best Blue Chip Companies in India that You Should Know!

Trade Brains

List of Best Blue Chip Companies in India: If you start counting the numbers, you’ll find that the stocks can be categorized into many groups. Based on market capitalization, they can be defined as small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. Based on the stock characteristics, there are categorized as growth stocks, value stocks, and dividends (income) stocks.