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When the future of the market is uncertain, the need for diversification is strongest. Market risk, interest income risk, and inflation risk can all be mitigated by simply diversifying.

There are real risks to investments too that a wise investor must plan for and try to minimize. The three basic types of investment risk are market risk, interest income risk, and inflation risk.

Ukraine is the Kansas of Europe. They’re a huge supplier of wheat and corn. So, when their country is threatened grain prices are impacted.

Starting with Russia and Ukraine, the truth is the U.S. economy, and the overall stock market probably won’t be impacted much by the recent conflict.

With inflation going up at the highest rate since the early 1980s, the Fed is choosing to make it worse.

The 10-year yield jumped to the significant 2% mark in the last few days because of the latest inflation numbers.

Economic analysts have lowered growth expectations for the first quarter of 2022.

Do you know what else happened in 1982? That was the last time we had inflation this high.

I don’t see the 2022 market repeating the 2021 market that looked great the first quarter coming out of the pandemic shutdowns of 2020.

How did a global pandemic wreak havoc on a century’s old system? Let me explain the supply chain mess in layman baseball terms.

Chairman Powell has been saying all year that inflation wasn’t going to be a problem.

We now have October’s inflation numbers, and they weren’t good. In fact, they were much worse than expected.

on November 3, the Federal Reserve announced at the end of its Open Market Committee meeting that it was going to begin hitting the brakes on the pace of the monthly amount of its bond purchases this month (quantitative easing).

In the past week, stocks went up but have been feeling inflation pressure. Inflation continues to be the big topic in the stock market in October.

Since this bull market started at the beginning of 2009, the S&P 500 index, which tracks the 500 largest companies on the stock exchange, has beat analysts’ earnings expectations 47 out of 48 quarters according to the Wall Street Journal.

The last eighteen months have been a crazy ride with the market and economy.