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The Clark Howard Podcast

05.26.26 Ask An Advisor With Wes Moss

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Forced To Retire Early? The Shocking Data Everyone Needs To Know & Market Warning for Investors Why do most Americans retire years earlier than they planned? In this episode, Wes Moss breaks down a startling trend from recent 2026 retirement studies. While most workers plan to clock out around age 65 or 66, the data shows the average actual retirement age is 61 or 62. Wes explores the three major reasons behind this gap – and shares the exact planning strategy you need to protect your financial future. Also, Wes dives into recent market volatility. While the market managed a shockingly fast 12-day recovery, Wes issues a crucial warning: this speed is the exception, not the rule. Learn the historical reality of market corrections so you don't get lulled into a false sense of security. Plus, Mallory shares your #AskWes questions and Wes gives his take. All this and more on the May 26, 2026, Ask an Advisor episode of the Clark Howard podcast. Submit your questions: WesMoss.com/ask We hope you enjoy our weekly Ask An Advisor episodes.  Let us know what you think in the comments! Learn more about Wes:  BOOKS BY WES MOSS   Wes Moss, CFP®  Wes Moss - Clark.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the Clark Howard Show. This is today's edition of Askin Advisor here with West Moss.

0:35.8

You've done this before, Mallory?

0:37.8

I've been on here before with you.

0:39.8

Krista DiBias out on vacation and Mallory Boggs filling in.

0:45.8

And Krista's somewhere fabulous, of course.

0:49.3

With an amazing deal.

0:50.5

The best deals.

0:52.0

So you're going to be asking questions.

0:53.9

Yes. Okay. Very excited about that. But before we get into that, you're going to be asking questions. Yes. Very excited about that.

0:55.6

But before we get into that, you're going to be talking about a couple things. I know later in

0:59.0

the show, you're talking about why this recent market correction is very abnormal, which I think will be

1:05.4

interested. Well, the recovery, right? We've had two recoveries that are abnormal over the last two years. And I want to go back and do a little market history about that so that we can remind listeners not to get too complacent that recoveries happen within days. That's not usually how it works. But before we do that, I wanted to talk about a kind it's kind of a larger fundamental question. I think that

1:28.8

we're all asking ourselves. And that is, when do we plan to retire? What age? What's the age?

1:35.7

Over the past couple weeks, I just started talking about my new book, The Retire Sooner Method.

1:42.9

And when I'm doing these talks, I do these Slydo questions,

1:46.7

which are, if you've never been in a presentation with Slydo, you can, everyone in the audience

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