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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (January 11–12)

Nerd's Eye View

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" - this week's edition kicks off with the news that the "Social Security Fairness Act" was signed into law this week, eliminating the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) provisions, which previously reduced the Social Security benefits (..)

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3rd Quarter Economic And Market Outlook: Understanding Risks And Opportunities In The Web Of Inflation, Interest Rates, Valuations, And More

Nerd's Eye View

The expectations for the future economic outlook also appear in the valuations of equities, which tend to reflect how markets anticipate that corporate earnings will grow in the future. And even though U.S.

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Thursday links: the laws of physics

Abnormal Returns

axios.com) Global government bond yields are at 15-year highs. finance.yahoo.com) Markets Valuations don't matter in the short term. Rates Mortgage rates are at levels not seen since 2001. theirrelevantinvestor.com) Forecasting is hard, the GMO edition. ft.com) Companies Verily is setting the stage for a spinoff from Alphabet ($GOOGL).

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America’s Enormous Math Mistake’s Mistake

The Big Picture

@TBPInvictus here; Let’s cut to the chase : A popular video on YouTube claims the poor are much less poor than the official statistics suggest because those statistics ignore government welfare programs like Food Stamps and Aid to Dependant Children and lots of other safety net programs. It is untrue. ” Was this ignorance?

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Animal Spirits: Do Valuations Matter?

A Wealth of Common Sense

Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by YCharts: Submit your email here to receive 20% off a YCharts subscription for new clients On today’s show, we discuss: Even when the stock market goes up it still goes down On the ‘course’ to a new normal Dalio says the $73t great wealth transfer isn’t just from boomers to (..)

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MiB: Eva Shang, CEO, Legalist

The Big Picture

She leads the company’s 35-person team of engineers, attorneys, and analysts, and is a member of the firm’s valuation and investment committees. They also fund two other strategies, Debtor-in-Possession financing, and government accounts receivables financing.

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10 Monday AM Reads

The Big Picture

Venture-capital investments are plunging, along with valuations of prepublic companies. Can you imagine if POTUS was going to quash the biggest US IPO of all time — not with a tweet, but with the full force of the Federal Government? The Justice Department just can’t stop filing antitrust suits against Google.