Welcome back to the early retirement podcast. I thought I would start it off light and in light of the

politics and things going on. Here's who I voted for. No, I'm just kidding. I'm not going to go through

that today. Today is me going through how you can plan knowing about whatever, whoever's in office,

whatever changes occur, whatever tax brackets get adjusted, any what if scenario, that's what

today's all about.

I want to give you some stats that are going to not just give you confidence, but might

make you think a little differently about your retirement.

And my hope is that truly you don't worry about a bunch of stuff after this episode.

So yes, I am a financial advisor and my job is to advise.

I view part of that role as telling you stuff not to worry about.

So when your neighbor, coworker brings something up, you'll go, it sounds interesting,

but I don't know if that applies to me.

So with that being said, let's hop right into the episode.

Now, I, of course, love this stuff.

I don't care if you like Trump, if you like Harris, if you're upset about the episode. Now, I, of course, love this stuff. I don't care if you like Trump, if you like Harris,

if you're upset about the results. I know this episode's coming a few weeks after, but the

principle is the same. I want you to know the position that you're in, regardless of who's in

office, and how that impacts your potential retirement, investing horizon, you name it.

So on YouTube, you can, of course, see what I'm going to bring up on my screen right now.

If you're listening on the podcast app, totally cool.

I'm going to explain it for you.

So this is saying from 1948 to 2023, what is the growth of $10,000 in the SMP 500? Why am I bringing that up as my first

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