Before I get into the main topic of this show, I want to correct an error, which I made in the previous episode here,

which was about the value of fully funding a Roth IRA.

And I want to not only correct the error that I made, but I want to tell you why I made

that error, because it's something that's embarrassing to me, but importantly, it may also help you to learn from my mistake.

I got an email from a listener to point it out two small errors that I had made,

number one, that the maximum contribution for the year 2024 to a Roth IRA is $7,000 not $6,500.

Upon verification, the listener is absolutely correct.

I misstated the 2024 contribution limit as being $6,500 when in reality

it is $7,000. In addition, the listener says that you can do futures on a Roth IRA that he sells puts and does futures on

tasty trade evidently in his Roth that a platform called tasty trade so I

assume that I was in error on saying that you can't do futures.

So this is an important, these are both important corrections.

And the reason for my error has to do with my use of AI in preparing my show notes. Let me explain. When I do a

show, most of the show is written in my head before I sit down and make notes. So I have most of the content, most of the ideas.

Basically the basic theme of what I want to do and to create is there in my head

before I ever open my mouth or even make any notes.

I think about my topics constantly and sometimes they're the product of a couple of hours of thinking,

sometimes they're the product of years of thinking before I finally

decide you know what I'm going to go ahead and do it. So the show of Max Out a Roth IRA is something

that's based upon years and years of thinking of simply this should be the fundamental step. Now I learned early in the

Annals of Radical Personal Finance that in order to keep myself from rambling it's

really good for me to sit down and plop out a few notes that I'm going to work from because I don't want to go off on

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