450- FROM THE VAULT: The Fed & Inflation (Part 1)

InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

Phil Town & Danielle Town

Business, Investing

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🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Happy 2024 to all InvestED listeners! While our hosts enjoy the holidays, we’re opening a year by going back to January of 2022 for a discussion about interest rates. With word of rate cuts on the horizon, how different are things now from when inflation was still climbing rapidly? Understanding the Federal Reserve's interest rate maneuvers and their correlation with inflation is vitally important for assessing investment opportunities. The intricate dance between interest rates and the economy can impact borrowing, spending, and investment behaviors, so it’s crucial to keep up with the Fed’s moves in order to plan ahead. To stay prepared for any changes in inflation or to the market as a whole, claim your FREE copy of the Rule #1 12-Month Planner: https://bit.ly/31ImPCl Topics Discussed: Inflation The future of the economy & markets Supply & labor bottlenecks Wage increase Substitution Resources Discussed: Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) FRED M1 Chart Shadowstats Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.0	will town and this is Danielle town welcome to the invested podcast where
0:39.8	we're coming to you from Zurich, Switzerland, and south of Atlanta, Georgia.
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1:08.6	Filled with underground bunkers filled with Nazi gold and all sorts of
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1:26.3	rightful owners. That's right. That's right. It's the constant joke in Europe that Switzerland is like the evil money hoarders and I shouldn't even say this stuff publicly because it's just like a little Swiss joke.
1:42.8	Yeah, there goes your Swiss citizenship.
1:44.4	Yeah, exactly.
1:45.8	Yeah.
1:46.8	You don't need your type around here.
1:48.2	That's right.
1:48.8	Well, we are obviously talking about...
1:51.8	They're doing, let me just say they're doing a very good job around Switzerland of complying with the various money laundering requirements worldwide.
2:00.0	Excellent job. I know many people in the banking industry and it is their full-time job to comply with these things.
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2:12.0	kidnapping kind of person that you can't hide your money
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