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you to make better financial decisions in your life.

We've been talking a lot recently about where workers are needed, but there's one sector

is absolutely being ignored by a huge number of people.

I'm going to tell you where you can potentially make some money in a wage war.

Also, there's time to talk about the current state of the housing market and where it

does look like things are headed now.

There are some marketplace solutions we need to talk about.

So the Federal Reserve has been doing everything it can to rein in the job market.

And still the national unemployment rate is, what is it, 3.6 percent, something like that.

So low, it's crazy right now, very few layoffs happening.

The stats are volatile, but recently the stats showed a slowdown in the number of job openings,

and at the same time, still far more openings than there are people looking for work.

And employers are still granting raises smaller though than they were.

So the Federal Reserve interest rate increases is having some of the impact the Federal Reserve

wants to have.

Think about that.

How would you like to have a job that you feel you're accomplishing your job when you or

I were able to negotiate not as good a raise as we could have before?

Wow.

But their job is to squeeze the inflation out of the economy.

They're most of the way they're now, but the last part is the most difficult because

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