Are you in or near retirement and you're concerned about the current markets and inflation and aren't sure what you should or shouldn't do now in your retirement plan?

Well, I'm about to discuss that in this, the 24th episode of the Retirement Planning Education Podcast.

Welcome to the Retirement Planning Education Podcast, where you can learn all about IRAs and Roth IRAs,

employer retirement plans, taxes, Social Security, Medicare, portfolio withdrawal strategies,

annuities, estate planning, and much more. And now here's your host, Andy Panko.

Welcome, everyone. Thanks as always for listening. We got a timely one today. Today I'm going to be discussing some things you should and shouldn't do if you were a recent retiree or, you know, not even recent, but in retirement or considering retirement soon. And the current state of the world in terms of the financial markets, you know, stock and bond markets,

inflation, what's going on geopolitically elsewhere in the world, you know, has you concerned,

and rightfully so. These are things that are definitely emotionally hard to watch, hard to stomach,

hard to see, and even the best laid plan or most resolute of,

of, you know, abilities to sit and watch things

that are uncomfortable, it's still hard to digest

what's going on in the world.

I'm completely, completely aware and understand

the current events, aren't things to be taken lightly.

So anyway, question commonly

now is, what should I do? It's easy to read lots of doom and gloom things, because they're all

over the place, honestly. Lots of other people's opinions and commentary and talking heads that say,

you should do this, you shouldn't do that. And so what should you actually do or not do?

There are no single, right, universally right answers for you or everyone. The things we're going

to discuss today should lay out some things to consider. So you can decide if they make sense to you,

if they apply to you, and hopefully you can pick some nuggets of wisdom

here. But when it comes to retirement, retirement planning, there is no single or right or best

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