Your Morning IQ Retirement Brief 11/26/21
The smart way to build retirement wealth is with a smarter financial bucketing plan to segment and sequester your capital into clear and distinct financial buckets, each with its own specific task and time deadline. Each dollar should have a job to do, and be good at doing it. Traditionally, bonds were the tool of choice for protecting a portfolio from market loss while providing competitive income. That is no longer the case. Steve will tell you about a new solution that you won't want to miss. Then, health insurance and Medicare expert Shelley Grandidge joins us for the Q & A. MASTERING MONEY is on the air!!
Your Morning IQ Retirement Brief 11/24/21
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! We hope you and yours are having a great and wonderful day....you won't want to miss our opening segment today, after which, we get HEAVY into investments! While China manufactures most of the world’s smartphones and computers, it IMPORTS almost all the semiconductors needed to provide the logic and memory that run the gadgets. Last year,China paid $260 billion dollars importing chips—60% more than it spent on oil. If you thought the tech boom was over and microchips were a passing fad, think again! The market is booming and will continue to boom. And now China has a goal to dominate 50% to 80% of the world's markets for artificial intelligence, microchip technology, robotics, special alloy steel, and aluminum by 2025--even if they have to steal the technology to achieve it! Today, hear a report from the Wall Street Journal on how the theft is happening. Then Steve reviews investment opportunities for China's 2025 project. MASTERING MONEY IS ON THE AIR!!
Your Morning IQ Retirement Brief 11/26/21
The simple material we call Silicon has literally revolutionized human civilization to this point. Testifying to its greatness is more than 70 years’ worth of steady progress in electronic computing: from the first primitive desktop calculators to that pocket-size supercomputer we call a smartphone. If you formulate silicon just right, and shape it into a transistor, it can be both a conductor and an insulator, depending on the charge you run through it. If it wasn’t for this unique property, the entire digital revolution…everything from TikTok to Covid vaccines-- would be impossible. Silicon is plentiful. It makes up 28 percent of the earth's crust. But silicon is showing its age when it comes to technological advancements. Some say the reliable doubling of the computational power of microchips every two years, known as Moore’s Law, is dead. Today, we'll examine the materials being developed to keep Moore's alive and the capabilities may shock you. Then Medicare and health insurance expert Shelley Grandidge joins us. A fascinating show for you, so don't miss it...MASTERING MONEY is on the air!!!!
Your Morning IQ Retirement Brief 11/23/21
We all know the difference between a mutual fund, a pension, and a savings account . You don’t spend too much time thinking about what a savings account IS, but rather, what it DOES for you. The same with a pension. A pension has one purpose: to pay you an income you can never outlive. Easy stuff. Mutual funds have typically one main purpose: to help you try to grow your money, but with more risk than a bank account or a pension. So, what is an annuity? Well, it can combine all of these features in one instrument. Today, we'll break down the basics of annuities to help make them simple and easy to understand. A fact filled show you don't want to miss, MASTERING MONEY is on the air!!!