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- 0:54Speaker 2: On Retire Right Radio, Let's go live to the studio
- 0:58Speaker 2: with host Dale Cooper and John Verdet from Fourth Avenue
- 1:00Speaker 2: Financial and very fleuch It.
- 1:02Speaker 3: Good morning to you.
- 1:03Speaker 4: You're listening to w c HS the Voice of Charles
- 1:06Speaker 4: and this is retire Right Radio on this Monday morning,
- 1:08Speaker 4: John fordet is joining us in the studio this morning.
- 1:11Speaker 3: How you doing this morning, John?
- 1:12Speaker 4: Pretty good?
- 1:12Speaker 3: Skated right on end.
- 1:13Speaker 4: Yeah, just about skated in. I'd be careful if you're
- 1:15Speaker 4: headed out out there. It's a little touch and go
- 1:18Speaker 4: on the on the roads right now. It's uh, it's
- 1:20Speaker 4: wet and the snow. At least the last time I look,
- 1:22Speaker 4: the flakes were starting to come down a little bit bigger.
- 1:24Speaker 4: It looks a little snowy, and it's a little slippery
- 1:27Speaker 4: on the roads. You gotta be careful, Yeah, especially.
- 1:28Speaker 3: If they're untreated.
- 1:29Speaker 4: Uh.
- 1:30Speaker 5: There there were a few spots that were a little
- 1:32Speaker 5: treacherous coming in. But after you get off the hills,
- 1:35Speaker 5: you're you're good.
- 1:36Speaker 4: The highway should be fine, and we all should know
- 1:38Speaker 4: how to drive in light snow, so it should be
- 1:40Speaker 4: that big of a deal. But just be aware of
- 1:42Speaker 4: that that there is some snow sticking and visibility. At
- 1:45Speaker 4: least when I came to work it's I don't think
- 1:46Speaker 4: it's as bad right now, but just before eight o'clock,
- 1:49Speaker 4: visibility was actually very bad on the highways where the
- 1:51Speaker 4: snow was coming down. So you might have more problems
- 1:54Speaker 4: with visibility than anything else. Just be aware as you're
- 1:56Speaker 4: driving around today. But congratulations, you made it to Monday.
- 1:58Speaker 4: We came through the weekend days closer to Christmas, just
- 2:02Speaker 4: right around the corner, literally just right around the corner now.
- 2:04Speaker 4: And when am I ever not ready?
- 2:06Speaker 3: Seventeen days?
- 2:07Speaker 6: Yeah?
- 2:07Speaker 4: I know, man, I don't know. Every year I seem
- 2:09Speaker 4: to get behind the same eight ball. But we are.
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- 2:33Speaker 4: can find it in any place. So we always start
- 2:36Speaker 4: off the show by discussing what happened the week before.
- 2:39Speaker 4: I don't even remember last week, to be honest with you,
- 2:41Speaker 4: but we're still here.
- 2:42Speaker 5: We're of the same.
- 2:42Speaker 3: We went up again.
- 2:43Speaker 4: Yeah, there we go what do you know.
- 2:45Speaker 5: Yeah, the markets were up around half a percent or
- 2:49Speaker 5: so across the board. Text docts rebounded a little bit
- 2:52Speaker 5: from their underperformance in the last several weeks, so it was,
- 2:58Speaker 5: you know, a pretty good typical week. Now you're starting
- 3:01Speaker 5: to see articles around will there be a Santa Claus
- 3:03Speaker 5: Rally this year? Which is typically the last five trading
- 3:06Speaker 5: days of the year plus the first two in January.
- 3:11Speaker 5: That's that's typically what people consider the Santa Claus Rally,
- 3:15Speaker 5: and so people are looking forward to that talking about
- 3:19Speaker 5: that when you read the read the papers or articles,
- 3:24Speaker 5: and basically at the end of the year there is
- 3:28Speaker 5: a trend at seventy some percent of the time the
- 3:30Speaker 5: market is actually up over that period. You know, is
- 3:34Speaker 5: there a reason for that? I mean, there are some
- 3:37Speaker 5: last year in moves that people make that could make
- 3:40Speaker 5: those those changes happen, you know, but it's not something
- 3:44Speaker 5: that happens every year, so you can't really bang on it.
- 3:47Speaker 5: But a lot of folks think that the way we've
- 3:50Speaker 5: had the been trading this year, that it might be
- 3:52Speaker 5: in the cards.
- 3:53Speaker 4: And we tend to bend as a society here in
- 3:57Speaker 4: America anyway, we tend to bend towards this end of
- 4:01Speaker 4: year revelation thing, like we want there to be truth
- 4:03Speaker 4: to there being a like something at the end of
- 4:06Speaker 4: the year whatever, although it's just a calendar turning over,
- 4:08Speaker 4: you know, we always want to put some meaning to
- 4:11Speaker 4: the end of the year. So we look for these
- 4:13Speaker 4: pattern recognition in the end of the year things to
- 4:15Speaker 4: see if we get anything that comes up there. But
- 4:17Speaker 4: like you said, I mean, it may may remain over there,
- 4:18Speaker 4: and there.
- 4:19Speaker 5: Are statistically, you know, the market is statistically up. You know,
- 4:24Speaker 5: statistically it's not a huge percentage, but it's it's over
- 4:28Speaker 5: those days. It's a it's a little over a one
- 4:30Speaker 5: percent historically, which doesn't sound like much, but you know
- 4:35Speaker 5: when you talk about over a short period of time,
- 4:37Speaker 5: that's you know, statistically, I guess important.
- 4:40Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely true.
- 4:41Speaker 4: Once again, if you have any questions this morning, it
- 4:43Speaker 4: give us all three zero four three four five fifty
- 4:45Speaker 4: eight fifty eight three zero four three four five fifty
- 4:46Speaker 4: eight fifty eight. As far as again the market as
- 4:51Speaker 4: a whole goes, are we back. I think I was
- 4:52Speaker 4: reading last week towards the end of the week that
- 4:54Speaker 4: we might be back moving more towards it's certain territory.
- 4:57Speaker 4: As far as another rate cut, that is that the
- 4:58Speaker 4: meeting coming up here.
- 5:00Speaker 5: Yes, Winds, I think we'll know Wednesday a decision is
- 5:03Speaker 5: going to be So the expectation is another quarter point cut.
- 5:07Speaker 5: I think there's been some rumblings from some of the
- 5:09Speaker 5: FED governors that they're reluctant, but I think the consensus
- 5:14Speaker 5: is that the cut will go through.
- 5:15Speaker 4: We'll go through the crazy thing at least from not
- 5:19Speaker 4: what you have cautioned, because you've always been very realistic
- 5:21Speaker 4: about how this works. But those cuts when it comes
- 5:24Speaker 4: to like people are waiting for overall interest rates to
- 5:27Speaker 4: go down because they think, oh, my mortgage rates. You know,
- 5:30Speaker 4: finally I'll be able to jump all over the mortgage rate.
- 5:31Speaker 4: And finally didn't really happen that way. I mean, you
- 5:33Speaker 4: might say a little bit of movement, but not a ton.
- 5:35Speaker 5: It hasn't brought their longer term rates down much mortgage rates,
- 5:39Speaker 5: things of that nature. The FED controls the short.
- 5:42Speaker 3: End of the of the.
- 5:44Speaker 5: Interest rate curves, so your short term rates, which those
- 5:47Speaker 5: are things your saving trades, your money markets, you know,
- 5:51Speaker 5: short term CDs, things like that will be impacted. Lines
- 5:55Speaker 5: of credits sometimes for businesses that are priced, that float
- 6:00Speaker 5: could be affected, which could be a good thing. But
- 6:03Speaker 5: longer term things, you know, financing things for fifteen years,
- 6:06Speaker 5: thirty years, they're not impacted or haven't been impacted this
- 6:11Speaker 5: time as much. And the reason for that is we
- 6:13Speaker 5: had a very flat yield curve. Not to get too
- 6:17Speaker 5: far into the weeds, but the long term rates and
- 6:20Speaker 5: the short term rates there wasn't much difference between the two.
- 6:25Speaker 5: And so what we're having now is the Fed is
- 6:27Speaker 5: lowering the short term rate. The long term rates really
- 6:33Speaker 5: aren't moving, but that is putting that natural curve back
- 6:36Speaker 5: in the yield you know, the yield curve. In other words,
- 6:40Speaker 5: if you invest your money long term, you would expect
- 6:43Speaker 5: to get a little higher rate of return on your
- 6:45Speaker 5: money because you're tying it up longer. Well, the last
- 6:47Speaker 5: several years, we haven't had that. The short term rates
- 6:50Speaker 5: and the long term rates were very, very similar. As
- 6:53Speaker 5: a matter of fact, there were periods of time where
- 6:55Speaker 5: it was inverted, where you got paid less to lock
- 6:57Speaker 5: your money up for longer periods, right, and that you
- 7:01Speaker 5: know that happens, but it doesn't. That's not a normal
- 7:06Speaker 5: you know, a normal slope. And we're getting back to that,
- 7:09Speaker 5: so the FED lowering and the longer rates staying where
- 7:14Speaker 5: they are really is is putting the yield curve back
- 7:18Speaker 5: into normal territory.
- 7:19Speaker 4: And it's interesting thing about that because the other other
- 7:21Speaker 4: way it could have gone would be for the for
- 7:22Speaker 4: the long term rates to go up to establish that
- 7:25Speaker 4: same yield. And so in some ways that may have
- 7:27Speaker 4: been good for investors on the interest on that end,
- 7:30Speaker 4: but for consumers on the interest on the other end,
- 7:31Speaker 4: that wouldn't have been great.
- 7:32Speaker 5: Right, And you know, there are still people that think
- 7:35Speaker 5: that inflation is not fully been vanquished, and that's keeping
- 7:41Speaker 5: those longer rates up too, because that's why rates are higher.
- 7:45Speaker 5: If you think about inflation. When people invest in a
- 7:47Speaker 5: particularly a government bond, they're not worried about whether the
- 7:52Speaker 5: bond will default so much. It's I'm tying my money
- 7:55Speaker 5: up for ten years in this bond. What will the
- 7:59Speaker 5: dollar be worth ten years from now because of inflation?
- 8:02Speaker 5: Am I getting paid enough in that bond over that
- 8:05Speaker 5: period of time to account for that? So if there
- 8:09Speaker 5: are if folks have inflation expectations, they're going to demand
- 8:14Speaker 5: higher rates on those to lock their money up longer
- 8:16Speaker 5: term because the inflation will eat away their return. And
- 8:21Speaker 5: so that's why typically in an environment where inflation really
- 8:26Speaker 5: has existed for you know, all of our lifetimes, generally,
- 8:33Speaker 5: you know you've had that sloping yield curve because of that.
- 8:36Speaker 4: I know that we've talked about this one hundred times
- 8:38Speaker 4: or show before, but it seems like not a week
- 8:40Speaker 4: goes by that I don't hear something about the inflation
- 8:43Speaker 4: of things. And I think one of the things that
- 8:45Speaker 4: makes it difficult maybe on consumer can sentiment to get
- 8:48Speaker 4: by is simply what we talk about time again is
- 8:50Speaker 4: that inflation is always going to be around. In a
- 8:52Speaker 4: healthy economy, we target around two percent, so we know
- 8:55Speaker 4: that prices are basically always want to go up. That's
- 8:58Speaker 4: the way things are. They're not going to go down,
- 9:00Speaker 4: and they're not going to fall, and they're not going
- 9:03Speaker 4: to recapture what they were six years ago or four
- 9:06Speaker 4: years ago or anything else. And unfortunately we don't want
- 9:09Speaker 4: that to happen. As much as it might sound nice
- 9:11Speaker 4: in a fantasy'd be like, oh, I'd love to go
- 9:13Speaker 4: back to play and paying in two ninety nine a
- 9:15Speaker 4: pounds for meat, which is you know, for beef, which
- 9:17Speaker 4: was just what it was two or three years ago.
- 9:19Speaker 4: You know, now it's like six hours about. You would
- 9:20Speaker 4: love to be able to do that, but it's probably
- 9:22Speaker 4: not going to happen. I mean, some commodities you can
- 9:24Speaker 4: see a bending of the prices a little bit, but
- 9:25Speaker 4: generally speaking, we can't give that money back now because
- 9:29Speaker 4: that would be deflation.
- 9:31Speaker 5: That's right, and inflation is not in a specific product
- 9:35Speaker 5: so to speak, you know, because certain products move up
- 9:38Speaker 5: and down all the time, but the overall direction.
- 9:42Speaker 3: Of prices, yeah, you know.
- 9:45Speaker 5: Be careful what you wish for if you want all
- 9:47Speaker 5: of those to come down, because that would really spell
- 9:53Speaker 5: more troubled and actually more inflation, which is kind of counterintuitive.
- 10:00Speaker 4: My reading on this is a couple of several weeks
- 10:02Speaker 4: old now, but if I remember the timing on this,
- 10:04Speaker 4: I'm a huge coffee drinker, so you know I was
- 10:06Speaker 4: a few months ago. Coffee prices have caused such a
- 10:10Speaker 4: blip on my And I don't mean like I go
- 10:12Speaker 4: to the coffee storing at coffee all the time, although
- 10:14Speaker 4: I do that, but just like my at home coffee
- 10:16Speaker 4: and we just do drip coffee through the thing. We
- 10:18Speaker 4: don't do anything overly special unless we fund a really
- 10:20Speaker 4: good deal for it, but I was tracking like some
- 10:23Speaker 4: of the prices and things like that and what the
- 10:24Speaker 4: expectation and stuff like that was. And it was kind
- 10:27Speaker 4: of interesting because we're, if I remember the timing on
- 10:29Speaker 4: this right as we're sort of in this weird period
- 10:31Speaker 4: where coffee prices were spiked because of issues with crops.
- 10:34Speaker 4: First of all, there was a terrible problems with crops
- 10:38Speaker 4: of coffee. The terraff thing hadn't even hit yet, So
- 10:41Speaker 4: the terraff thing actually did start to roll out and
- 10:43Speaker 4: affect coffee prices around the same time that we started
- 10:48Speaker 4: to see the coffee importers and stuff start to see
- 10:50Speaker 4: a little loosening of the bad crops and things along
- 10:52Speaker 4: those lines. But one rolled right into the other. So
- 10:55Speaker 4: then when the tariffs now have been sort of pushed
- 10:58Speaker 4: back on coffee, we're never going to set the price
- 11:00Speaker 4: decreased there because there had been different things that were
- 11:03Speaker 4: informing the price. And it wasn't just tariffs to start with.
- 11:06Speaker 4: In fact, it wasn't at all. I had to do
- 11:07Speaker 4: with a bad crop. Then it was teriffs, and now
- 11:09Speaker 4: the tarffs are gone, but the tarts were baked in
- 11:11Speaker 4: for so long that we're still paying for those. Now,
- 11:14Speaker 4: it's crazy how that works. It's not a straight line
- 11:16Speaker 4: at all.
- 11:17Speaker 3: No.
- 11:17Speaker 5: No, Like you say, you get some price fluctuations and commodities,
- 11:21Speaker 5: and you know, over time you would expect certain things
- 11:24Speaker 5: because of efficiencies, to go down in price. Commodities not
- 11:30Speaker 5: so much, right yeah, right, since, but you know, manifacting
- 11:33Speaker 5: goods like computers, washers, refrigerators, things like that, you know,
- 11:37Speaker 5: you would expect those to become more efficiently produced over time,
- 11:41Speaker 5: which they have. You know, they're they're more expensive in dollars,
- 11:45Speaker 5: but they're less expensive than they used to be in
- 11:47Speaker 5: our labor that we have to you know, spend at
- 11:50Speaker 5: our jobs earning the money to buy those things in
- 11:54Speaker 5: labor hours. They're they're much cheaper than they used to be,
- 11:57Speaker 5: but the dollar value has has risen. And and that's
- 12:01Speaker 5: you know, that's how things almost need to be to
- 12:05Speaker 5: support just the way things are financed in the world
- 12:10Speaker 5: and the investments that are made. You know, with without
- 12:14Speaker 5: with the deflationary environment that that goes too fast, where
- 12:18Speaker 5: it's the actual dollar of of those items going down.
- 12:22Speaker 5: It's hard to pay back uh loans, it's hard to
- 12:26Speaker 5: you know, it's hard to finance new factories. And new
- 12:29Speaker 5: UH new new innovations.
- 12:31Speaker 3: UH. If if you have a an.
- 12:34Speaker 5: Environment where the cost of those the price of those
- 12:36Speaker 5: goods continues to fall, you know who's going to invest
- 12:40Speaker 5: in that equipment and who's going to invest in in
- 12:43Speaker 5: taking a chance to build out a production facility or factory.
- 12:49Speaker 5: That's a tough environment, and that's that's essentially what happened
- 12:53Speaker 5: in the Great Depression.
- 12:54Speaker 4: We're going to be transitioning to talk a little bit
- 12:56Speaker 4: about some of the potential UH financial planning topics that
- 13:00Speaker 4: you can tackle at different stages of your life. If
- 13:01Speaker 4: you have any questions along those lines, just in general
- 13:04Speaker 4: about how you can be steered in the right direction,
- 13:06Speaker 4: you're welcome to give us a call. We'll take a
- 13:07Speaker 4: break here in just a moment, and we'll come back
- 13:08Speaker 4: with your phone calls. Somebody gives us a call three
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- 13:15Speaker 4: few of those recently. Threes are four non three five
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- 13:22Speaker 4: get through to talk to Joen bre Debt from Fourth
- 13:23Speaker 4: Avenue Financial. It is, it's really incredible when you just
- 13:27Speaker 4: when you observe these things and over the long term time,
- 13:31Speaker 4: when major things happen behind that, like when we start
- 13:35Speaker 4: seeing things like does it matter that much to the
- 13:37Speaker 4: consumer rent of the market, to like clients of yours
- 13:40Speaker 4: when you see like consolidation of industries. You know, we're
- 13:42Speaker 4: starting to see media being consolidated hugely. Now you know
- 13:46Speaker 4: Netflix now bought HBO. That whole thing is going to
- 13:48Speaker 4: be going to be into one package, you know, I mean,
- 13:54Speaker 4: obstensibly it doesn't make much of a sense. Who's turning
- 13:56Speaker 4: out stranger things?
- 13:57Speaker 6: You know?
- 13:57Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I mean that that doesn't necessarily
- 14:00Speaker 4: mean a lot, But there is something to be said
- 14:02Speaker 4: for what does that do to the market. Is it
- 14:05Speaker 4: make it top heavy? You know, you start putting a
- 14:07Speaker 4: lot of marbles in three or four baskets instead of
- 14:09Speaker 4: fifty baskets, And what is that going to do to us?
- 14:12Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 14:13Speaker 5: You know, generally larger companies can produce more efficiently because
- 14:18Speaker 5: they have you know, greater spread and greater control over
- 14:22Speaker 5: the whole process. But competition also is valuable and makes
- 14:28Speaker 5: companies better, makes them you know, you have to be competitive,
- 14:31Speaker 5: so you have to put out the better product at
- 14:33Speaker 5: the right price. And so healthy competition is really what
- 14:36Speaker 5: drives things forward. It's just somewhat of a balancing act.
- 14:40Speaker 5: I mean, the nature of things is to get bigger,
- 14:43Speaker 5: to try to become more efficient. I mean, that's what
- 14:45Speaker 5: a business is trying to do. How do we deliver
- 14:48Speaker 5: the goods to the to the consumer profitably, but at
- 14:53Speaker 5: the most competitive and the best price possible or highest quality.
- 14:56Speaker 5: I mean, that's what you try to do. If you're
- 14:58Speaker 5: a business, You're not trying to put a lousy product out.
- 15:02Speaker 5: You know, competition says otherwise, and so you want competition.
- 15:06Speaker 5: So you know, I don't know enough about the media
- 15:09Speaker 5: industry to know if this makes it top heavy or not.
- 15:13Speaker 5: I will say that some streamlining might might make it
- 15:17Speaker 5: less confusing where to where to you know, get certain
- 15:22Speaker 5: programs and things. You know, in our day you had
- 15:27Speaker 5: you know, a few channels and everybody watched the same thing.
- 15:30Speaker 5: And you know, it's nice to have variety. But the
- 15:33Speaker 5: way it is now, you know, you've got to pay
- 15:35Speaker 5: fifteen different streaming services.
- 15:37Speaker 3: It'd be nice to pay too.
- 15:39Speaker 4: This is this is this is always the thing with technology.
- 15:42Speaker 4: And I know that I've mentioned on the show before,
- 15:43Speaker 4: and I'm sure there's like a word for it in
- 15:45Speaker 4: economic theory, but there's there's a point when a service
- 15:48Speaker 4: is that it's maximum use to the consumer and they
- 15:51Speaker 4: get a good value out of it, right, And that's
- 15:53Speaker 4: not the point. That's not the endpoint, unfortunately. The endpoint
- 15:56Speaker 4: is when they take that product that people are hooked
- 15:58Speaker 4: to and then they find ways to maximize the monetization
- 16:01Speaker 4: of it. Sometimes in the max maxim and mixing out
- 16:04Speaker 4: to the money that you can make from it, sometimes
- 16:06Speaker 4: you get efficiency. Sometimes you lose some of what made
- 16:09Speaker 4: it so good. And it seems like that's what happens
- 16:11Speaker 4: to us a lot, is that that we lose some
- 16:13Speaker 4: some in that in that sort of narrative that takes place, right, and.
- 16:17Speaker 5: Then in a competitive market, what happens in that condition
- 16:21Speaker 5: is it opens opportunity for another business to come and
- 16:24Speaker 5: solve that problem.
- 16:25Speaker 4: Again, makes a lot of sense. Let's do this. We're
- 16:27Speaker 4: going to talk a lot about planning in the different
- 16:29Speaker 4: stages of your life. We have this broken down into
- 16:31Speaker 4: different things and we'll kind of pick through here for
- 16:33Speaker 4: John to give out some stage advice, but it doesn't.
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- 20:23Speaker 4: so right here at three zero four, three four five
- 20:25Speaker 4: fifty eight fifty eight three four five fifty fifty. We
- 20:27Speaker 4: did want to talk about investing financial planning for different
- 20:31Speaker 4: stages in life, and we talk about a lot of
- 20:33Speaker 4: different a lot of different things on here. And we've
- 20:35Speaker 4: talked about like the sort of the youth move or
- 20:37Speaker 4: not the youth movement. But when you're younger and you're
- 20:40Speaker 4: wanting to invest, there's certain strategies that you can you
- 20:43Speaker 4: can deploy from that I wanted. I want to get
- 20:45Speaker 4: to like our a little later in life. But when
- 20:47Speaker 4: we start talking about folks that are in their twenties
- 20:49Speaker 4: and thirties, what to you is the one or two
- 20:52Speaker 4: top things that they need to be aware of that.
- 20:54Speaker 5: They're best practices in all through life. There are different
- 20:57Speaker 5: stages that people tend to go through and different topics
- 21:01Speaker 5: that are important to them. You know, I certainly see
- 21:04Speaker 5: that working with folks. But you know, when you're young,
- 21:07Speaker 5: you're forming your house, you're making this big decisions and
- 21:11Speaker 5: a lot of it involves taking on debt and so.
- 21:14Speaker 3: Being very.
- 21:18Speaker 5: Knowledgeable about Okay, does this make sense to take this
- 21:22Speaker 5: debt on? Is this something that how will it affect
- 21:24Speaker 5: me in the future? Because the foundation you lay as
- 21:28Speaker 5: you start out, you know, when you know the name
- 21:31Speaker 5: of the show is retire, right, So typically we're talking about,
- 21:34Speaker 5: you know, issues of folks that are you know, nearing retirement.
- 21:38Speaker 5: But if you get your twenties right, you know, it's
- 21:41Speaker 5: so easy to retire right. And it's it's those big decisions.
- 21:45Speaker 5: You know, what kind of career are you going to
- 21:47Speaker 5: go into and what are the benefits going to be
- 21:51Speaker 5: to that? How do I have a retirement plan? Am
- 21:55Speaker 5: I controlling my consumer debt? You know, buying too much
- 21:58Speaker 5: of a house? You know a lot of people like
- 22:00Speaker 5: you say, can afford a house, but is it the
- 22:02Speaker 5: house you should afford? You know, making sure that you
- 22:06Speaker 5: set a foundation up so that you have the ability
- 22:10Speaker 5: as you get into your thirties and more into the
- 22:12Speaker 5: meat of your career that you're not burdened paying off
- 22:17Speaker 5: too many things so that you can now make progress
- 22:20Speaker 5: on the investment front. And that's the big thing when
- 22:23Speaker 5: you start out. Just just don't overextend yourself, you know,
- 22:26Speaker 5: be very prudent with those decisions and thoughtful about taking
- 22:31Speaker 5: on those debts that that can strap you down and
- 22:36Speaker 5: you know put you you know, it might say, well
- 22:38Speaker 5: that's only a five year loan, yes, but with the
- 22:41Speaker 5: way compound interest works, it might it might take away
- 22:44Speaker 5: ten or fifteen years of productive asset growth.
- 22:48Speaker 4: A little hardened. And you talk about this on the
- 22:50Speaker 4: program a lot and talking about for young folks. Well,
- 22:53Speaker 4: for one thing, you've seen where the medium age of
- 22:56Speaker 4: a home buyer has skyrocketed in the last couple decades.
- 22:59Speaker 4: I mean, it used to be in what the early thirties,
- 23:01Speaker 4: I think, late twenties, early thirties, and now it's in
- 23:03Speaker 4: the early fifties.
- 23:06Speaker 3: It's ridiculous.
- 23:07Speaker 4: It's it's been decades, shifted about, like two or three
- 23:09Speaker 4: decades as far as the medium homeowner goes. I mean,
- 23:12Speaker 4: it's incredible, but I am I am kind of heartened
- 23:16Speaker 4: to see. I kind of stumbled on this calculus by
- 23:18Speaker 4: myself in the in the like the late nineties, in
- 23:21Speaker 4: the early two thousands, where when I worked to get
- 23:23Speaker 4: out of debt, I did it better when I didn't
- 23:25Speaker 4: own a home. I was renting, and I didn't have
- 23:26Speaker 4: all of those other pressures on me at the time.
- 23:29Speaker 4: And I see now that there's more and more articles
- 23:32Speaker 4: being written, more takes being that you know, maybe home
- 23:36Speaker 4: ownership isn't the first thing that you need to look into,
- 23:38Speaker 4: like the moment that you get become independent or whatever
- 23:40Speaker 4: it is. When I was growing up that was always
- 23:42Speaker 4: the thing that everybody said, Well, you got to get
- 23:43Speaker 4: your house because that's the number one investment you're ever
- 23:45Speaker 4: going to make.
- 23:45Speaker 5: Well, you have to also remember at our age, our
- 23:49Speaker 5: parents were buying homes in the huge inflation area seventies,
- 23:53Speaker 5: when you know, you wanted to get your name on
- 23:55Speaker 5: a deed because the prices were rising so fast and
- 23:59Speaker 5: they that that you took on was getting smaller and
- 24:02Speaker 5: smaller because of the devaluation of the dollar. So that
- 24:05Speaker 5: was an era that that's why we got that advice
- 24:08Speaker 5: because it made a whole lot of sense in that
- 24:11Speaker 5: time period. But times change, and you know, is it
- 24:16Speaker 5: good to buy a house, Yes, but only if you're settled.
- 24:19Speaker 5: You know, if you're buying a house and then you're
- 24:22Speaker 5: twenty four years old, twenty five years old and your
- 24:25Speaker 5: job changes and you you know, moved to wherever, that
- 24:30Speaker 5: might not have been a good decision. So, you know,
- 24:34Speaker 5: home ownership is a is a great thing, but home
- 24:36Speaker 5: ownership is not an investment. It really is an investment.
- 24:41Speaker 3: It is a.
- 24:43Speaker 5: You know, it can be an important thing financially, but
- 24:46Speaker 5: it's not a productive asset that you need to retire on, right,
- 24:51Speaker 5: you know. It Essentially, what owning a home does is
- 24:54Speaker 5: that locks in your shelter costs to a degree where
- 24:59Speaker 5: rent continues to escalate. If you buy a home, you've
- 25:02Speaker 5: locked in so within if inflation happens, you're somewhat shielded
- 25:06Speaker 5: from that in that shelter.
- 25:10Speaker 4: Box, which you know, like for me, that's exactly what
- 25:13Speaker 4: I experience right now, which is great to some degree
- 25:15Speaker 4: because my mortgage payment is so low. I mean, I'm
- 25:17Speaker 4: ten years away from paying it off now and my
- 25:19Speaker 4: mortgage payment is incredibly low compared to today's environment. What
- 25:22Speaker 4: that also does is it locks me to a point
- 25:24Speaker 4: where I have to be super confident with any move
- 25:26Speaker 4: that I want to make because I can't reap I
- 25:28Speaker 4: can't replicate this environment, you know, I can't get this
- 25:31Speaker 4: low of a payment again. So sure, it's very difficult
- 25:33Speaker 4: for me to look to get out of that because
- 25:35Speaker 4: it's just so low.
- 25:36Speaker 5: You know, it's hard to get out of that right
- 25:38Speaker 5: and and certainly over the last several years where now
- 25:42Speaker 5: we've had several years where people got three percent mortgages.
- 25:46Speaker 5: You know, it's tough to lock away and say hey,
- 25:48Speaker 5: I'm going to do a six and a half.
- 25:49Speaker 4: Now it's exactly me, right, Yeah, I'm under four percent
- 25:52Speaker 4: and have ten years left on it. Man, I'm you know,
- 25:54Speaker 4: I don't have a whole lot of places I can
- 25:56Speaker 4: go to for to make sense.
- 25:57Speaker 5: So I think I think that also is as made
- 26:00Speaker 5: the market in the real estate, you know, environment the
- 26:03Speaker 5: way it is, there's less movement because of that.
- 26:06Speaker 4: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Once you whatever
- 26:09Speaker 4: you do in your in your early earlier days, in
- 26:11Speaker 4: your early twenties and thirties, and you're trying to kind
- 26:14Speaker 4: of find your way. Not everybody gets established by their
- 26:16Speaker 4: mid thirties, but if you're on that path where you
- 26:19Speaker 4: start at least if you're making if your earning potential
- 26:22Speaker 4: has gone up by your mid mid thirties, while you're
- 26:24Speaker 4: in your thirties and getting into your forties to your fifties,
- 26:27Speaker 4: that's when you really need to start socking away your
- 26:29Speaker 4: money and to allow that work, that money to do
- 26:32Speaker 4: some work for you, because that's going to be some
- 26:34Speaker 4: real earning potential that you have in right.
- 26:36Speaker 5: I mean generally, as you get into your thirties, you're
- 26:38Speaker 5: starting to have children, things of that nature. Your expenses
- 26:41Speaker 5: are certainly not lower no during that, but you still
- 26:46Speaker 5: need to you know, focus on living below your means,
- 26:51Speaker 5: so you're creating some level of savings. Now usually at
- 26:54Speaker 5: that era you probably can't max everything out because you
- 26:57Speaker 5: have those expenses, but hopefully you're you're still making productive investments.
- 27:03Speaker 5: You know, if you're working with an employer, make sure
- 27:06Speaker 5: you participate enough to get the free match, you know,
- 27:09Speaker 5: things of that nature. And then typically after you know,
- 27:14Speaker 5: over time your wages rise into your fifties, they tend
- 27:17Speaker 5: to peak and then once you get to there, you realize, hey,
- 27:22Speaker 5: the expenses of the children are getting to be in
- 27:25Speaker 5: the rear view mirror. You know, that's where you know
- 27:28Speaker 5: a lot of folks then buckle down and say, okay,
- 27:32Speaker 5: I need to max these plans out. I need to
- 27:34Speaker 5: fully fund these things because retirement is a lot closer
- 27:38Speaker 5: than it used to be. And so that transition is
- 27:41Speaker 5: is you know, typically how the investment and saving cycle works,
- 27:47Speaker 5: but there are you know, certainly cases that are much
- 27:51Speaker 5: different than that.
- 27:52Speaker 3: But that's that's the typical cycle.
- 27:54Speaker 4: It's just fascinating as you start working away through these
- 27:56Speaker 4: and you really have to have you know the perspective
- 27:59Speaker 4: of distance to the horizon. I mean, you should start
- 28:03Speaker 4: being aware of health care needs and things along those lines.
- 28:06Speaker 4: You shouldn't wait until you're five years from retirement. You
- 28:08Speaker 4: really need to start looking at those things. What your
- 28:11Speaker 4: potential health care needs in retirement's going to be. I mean,
- 28:14Speaker 4: once you enter into that phase of your life, into
- 28:16Speaker 4: the fifties or whatever it might be, you really need
- 28:18Speaker 4: to start looking at that, seeing what it is that
- 28:19Speaker 4: you're going to need.
- 28:20Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, even things like long term care. I
- 28:23Speaker 5: mean that's a big issue and a big expense. You know,
- 28:27Speaker 5: if you wait until you're seventy to think about that,
- 28:31Speaker 5: it's too late to take advantage of some of those options.
- 28:36Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, and that's hugely x men. We've talked
- 28:38Speaker 4: about it on the show before. You've had folks come
- 28:40Speaker 4: in to help talk about that. Years ago, we used
- 28:43Speaker 4: to do programs about what to happen when you need
- 28:46Speaker 4: long term care and things like that, and it is
- 28:48Speaker 4: I mean, frankly, if you don't have it planned for
- 28:51Speaker 4: you to get any help at all, you have to
- 28:53Speaker 4: basically make yourself destitute. I mean, there's ways to get
- 28:56Speaker 4: around it to try to keep it from being so impactful,
- 28:59Speaker 4: but even that work for somebody who might be in
- 29:01Speaker 4: their sixties or seventies or something like that. And plus
- 29:03Speaker 4: you have to look back period and everything else. You
- 29:06Speaker 4: need to get that stuff resolved and taken care of
- 29:08Speaker 4: before the moment comes or I mean the situation that
- 29:10Speaker 4: you can find yourself is not great.
- 29:12Speaker 5: Right, And things like estate planning. People hear the word
- 29:16Speaker 5: of state planning a lot of times you think, oh,
- 29:18Speaker 5: that's for death planning. Yeah, that's for older people. Well, no,
- 29:22Speaker 5: what you know, if you're thirty years old and have
- 29:24Speaker 5: two kids, you know you have to think about the unthinkable,
- 29:29Speaker 5: you know, the things that are unpleasant to think about
- 29:32Speaker 5: what happens if this happens. You know, you want to
- 29:35Speaker 5: have a plan in place to make you know, the
- 29:38Speaker 5: the unfortunate things that can happen, you know, easier to
- 29:43Speaker 5: navigate for your family. Yeah, and it's it's just those
- 29:46Speaker 5: are foundational things and I think that's that's the thing
- 29:50Speaker 5: that working with someone like me can can help with.
- 29:55Speaker 5: It's like, hey, have you thought about this? This is
- 29:57Speaker 5: important at this stage of life. You know, things that
- 30:01Speaker 5: not necessarily novel, but there are things that are easy
- 30:03Speaker 5: to leave off the checklist of things to do because
- 30:06Speaker 5: it's it's.
- 30:07Speaker 4: Oh, that's not that doesn't mean me I'm assuming and
- 30:12Speaker 4: I don't know this for sure to be true. But
- 30:14Speaker 4: another real benefit of having a financial advisors at a
- 30:18Speaker 4: planner that you that you can go off of is
- 30:21Speaker 4: some people like when you start transitions to start talking
- 30:24Speaker 4: about past midlife transitions or things long. Some people don't
- 30:27Speaker 4: like calling themselves certain things.
- 30:29Speaker 5: You know.
- 30:29Speaker 4: So I mean, and I don't mean this to be funny,
- 30:32Speaker 4: but I've known people in my life that are like grandparents,
- 30:36Speaker 4: for example, and they don't like me and called grandparents.
- 30:39Speaker 4: It's like, you have grandkids, you're a you know, I mean,
- 30:42Speaker 4: I don't know what else you want me to call you,
- 30:44Speaker 4: you know, it's like and it's not I say that
- 30:46Speaker 4: sort of be funny. But at the same time, if
- 30:48Speaker 4: people have like mental blocks are like well I'm not
- 30:51Speaker 4: getting that close to retirement, I'm only fifty two years old,
- 30:54Speaker 4: or you know, whatever it might be, it helps to
- 30:56Speaker 4: get past some of those barriers by talking to someone
- 30:57Speaker 4: who's a professional in this and this, in these things.
- 31:00Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you can still live young, but you gotta
- 31:03Speaker 5: got it's.
- 31:04Speaker 4: A great point. You gotta you gotta plan like you're old,
- 31:06Speaker 4: but you can live as young as you want, right.
- 31:08Speaker 4: But I think there's a lot of there's a little
- 31:10Speaker 4: bit of truth of that, because I see some pushback
- 31:12Speaker 4: when people like they think that if they're they're being uh,
- 31:16Speaker 4: if they're being concentious of their retirement, that they're somehow
- 31:19Speaker 4: pushing themselves to be an older And it's like, that's
- 31:21Speaker 4: not the way it works. You know, you can't make
- 31:23Speaker 4: yourself get older just because you're paying attention to it.
- 31:25Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not uh, you know, you don't want to
- 31:28Speaker 5: you know, put your head in the sand. I mean,
- 31:31Speaker 5: you want to be aware of these things. That's called
- 31:32Speaker 5: being an adult, right, right, But you can still have fun.
- 31:37Speaker 4: And as far as uh as you know, obviously, when
- 31:40Speaker 4: when you do get to that area where you're kind
- 31:42Speaker 4: of your midlife and the kids might be in the
- 31:44Speaker 4: back in the rear view mirror, that's really when some
- 31:47Speaker 4: people might take their foot off the pedal a little bit.
- 31:49Speaker 4: And if you planned right, maybe you could do that.
- 31:50Speaker 4: Maybe you can vacation a little bit more and at
- 31:52Speaker 4: the same time still fund your retirement. But also maybe
- 31:55Speaker 4: if you fell behind a little bit because you were
- 31:56Speaker 4: putting your kids through school, because you're doing all these things,
- 31:59Speaker 4: that might be the time to double down now you know, yeah,
- 32:01Speaker 4: you can do it.
- 32:01Speaker 5: That's the time to catch up. And that's why the uh,
- 32:05Speaker 5: the IRS has the ketchup provisions in the in the
- 32:09Speaker 5: retirement Code. After your fifty you know, your limits go
- 32:12Speaker 5: up on your on your makes sense right kind of
- 32:14Speaker 5: savings and your your iras things of that nature. You
- 32:18Speaker 5: can save more. The government allows you to save more,
- 32:21Speaker 5: so you so you can catch up. Because it's just
- 32:23Speaker 5: the life cycle. I mean, that's you know, you need
- 32:27Speaker 5: to be saving from the start of your career something
- 32:31Speaker 5: and and building those habits. But you know at some
- 32:34Speaker 5: point in your career you're going to have peak earnings
- 32:36Speaker 5: and less expensive expenses and that's that's where you can
- 32:40Speaker 5: do that catch up.
- 32:41Speaker 4: Yeah, that's uh. And it makes a lot of sense.
- 32:44Speaker 4: I mean when you think about how all those pieces
- 32:45Speaker 4: fit together as a whole, that really does make a
- 32:47Speaker 4: lot of sense. And that and that's one of the
- 32:49Speaker 4: things that dovetails nicely into the last stage of our
- 32:51Speaker 4: conversation there is there are things you can do once
- 32:53Speaker 4: you reach certain ages, and there's certain bitchmarks and you're
- 32:56Speaker 4: preparing for your retirement, take advantage of all of those
- 32:59Speaker 4: because suddenly there's keys to a different kingdom that open
- 33:02Speaker 4: up to you.
- 33:02Speaker 2: Now.
- 33:03Speaker 5: Now, the problem is when you get to that stage
- 33:06Speaker 5: where you have the lower expenses and are able to save,
- 33:09Speaker 5: You're only able to do that if you put the
- 33:12Speaker 5: right foundation in when you're in your twenties and thirties,
- 33:15Speaker 5: because if you're digging out of a hole, you might
- 33:17Speaker 5: have money to dig out of the hole that you
- 33:21Speaker 5: created when you were younger, but you're not building productive
- 33:24Speaker 5: assets going forward until you get those things cleared up.
- 33:27Speaker 5: So you know, it is a lifelong process. And the
- 33:31Speaker 5: more you can, you know, stay true to that process
- 33:36Speaker 5: and plan, the easier it is all along the way,
- 33:40Speaker 5: every step of the way, and every transition of life.
- 33:42Speaker 4: Well, I think over time that the years we've done
- 33:44Speaker 4: this program here on retire I write Radio with John
- 33:46Speaker 4: or Debt, we find that whatever the long will have
- 33:50Speaker 4: been towards the topics that we talk about and John's
- 33:53Speaker 4: analysis of them pretty much always play out to fruition.
- 33:55Speaker 4: You know, during the darker times during COVID and when
- 33:59Speaker 4: things didn't look great, give it Tom, give it toime,
- 34:02Speaker 4: you know, give it time. When you start zooming out
- 34:05Speaker 4: a little bit more things look okay, you know. That's
- 34:08Speaker 4: the way that it always works. There's strategies you deploy
- 34:11Speaker 4: within and of course it's not easy. That's the reason
- 34:13Speaker 4: you need someone like John Ordebt to help you navigate
- 34:15Speaker 4: through it. But navigate through it you can do. Three
- 34:17Speaker 4: zero four seven four six seven nine seven seven is
- 34:19Speaker 4: John's number three zero four seven four six seven nine
- 34:22Speaker 4: seven seven for Fourth Avenue Financial located one seven in
- 34:25Speaker 4: Court Street right here in downtown Charleston. Again three zero
- 34:27Speaker 4: four seven four six seven nine seven seven. On line,
- 34:30Speaker 4: it's fourth Avenue Financial dot com. Fourth Avenue Financial dot com.
- 34:33Speaker 4: You can you can loot up the web page. You
- 34:35Speaker 4: can also do that same search on Facebook and find
- 34:38Speaker 4: it on Facebook as well. Very easy to get a
- 34:40Speaker 4: hold of Giant. You can contact him. Your initial consultation
- 34:43Speaker 4: is without commitment or cost, so you can just give
- 34:46Speaker 4: John a call and see how he can help me out.
- 34:48Speaker 3: Yep, but well you covered all the bases.
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