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The dollar continues falling, now down around 11% from January 2025 levels: This is a big move by currency standards, especially the global reserve currency. When you see a move this big in something as important as the dollar people get nervous. Just look at the headlines: Until they crashed last week, we also saw the price of gold and silver going parabolic. The concern here...


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Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by State Street Investment Management: Click here to learn more about State Street Investment Management The income squeeze: How market concentration is reshaping equity returns Why a small-cap break out is bullish for the broader economy The tailwinds that have lead to a healthy market environment How flows have started to shift ...


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Social Security is the most important retirement plan ever created in the United States. Around 70 million Americans receive Social Security benefits. That number will surely rise in the years ahead as more baby boomers retire. For people who are 65 or older, more than 40% of recipients receive 50% or more of their income from Social Security. Millions of retirees would be impov...


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I came across two new tools for looking at the historical inflation of the various components that make up the average. Jesse Livermore created a tool at Philosophical Economics that allows you to compare 300 different goods and services to the inflation rate over time. For instance, this is the price of eggs versus the personal expenditures price index since 1959: Surprisingly...


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We also discussed questions about rental investments, the benefits of taxable brokerage accounts and the 4% rule. Further Reading: 6 Surprises From 2025 The post Is Diversification Finally Working Again? appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...


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