In the Age of Coronavirus, Treat Your 401(k) Like Your Face — Don't Touch It!
Brown Ambition
iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Market turmoil continues in light of the coronavirus outbreak and you guys are asking the same questions as the rest of us — should I start selling or trading investments in my portfolio? Do I need to rush to refinance my mortgage? Will my 401(k) bounce back?
We'll talk you through our thought process during times of market uncertainty, but remember — it's always best to consult a financial planner for personalized advice.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hey, hey, we're black, we're black, we're brown ambition. |
| 0:24.7 | Hey, hey, hey, man, so I don't have corona, do you? |
| 0:27.6 | You know, TBD, it feels like at any moment there's just like this cloud of tension. |
| 0:32.6 | I feel like for the past three shows, we've been talking about coronavirus, and each week week it's just like the anxiety is a little bit |
| 0:38.3 | higher people at my office are getting more anxious about it i live in the part of new york where it's like |
| 0:44.3 | ground zero where that guy has been spreading it like he got around okay the busy lawyer the very busy |
| 0:50.9 | lawyer with lots of friends um someone at my doctor's office contracted it, so I got an |
| 0:55.7 | email from them. No. Yes, honey. And I was just about to go to my gynecologist. And I was like, |
| 1:00.8 | let me not go to that appointment. And I still, so I've been commuting to work a few days a week. |
| 1:06.6 | And I genuinely go nuts staying at home all day. I don't like working from home. So I've been, |
| 1:12.2 | you know, going in three days a week and you can feel the tension on the subway. I take three |
| 1:17.7 | trains, one commuter train and then a couple of subways to get to my office. And slowly but surely |
| 1:24.0 | fewer people are on the trains. And it's quiet. There's like this, there's just like this tension in the air. |
| 1:29.9 | And if you're sitting next to someone who coughs or clears their throat, you can see people, like, give them the side eye. |
| 1:36.4 | You can. |
| 1:37.5 | And it's just, and you feel like it just, and no one's, it's like no one's barely breathing because they're afraid to breathe the air. |
| 1:45.1 | It's quite, quite interesting as like a social experiment. |
| 1:48.9 | It is. |
| 1:50.1 | And, you know, Tiffany, you work at home, but for those who have to commute, it has reached a point where, so, for example, my company finally sent out a notice to employees. |
| 2:00.7 | You know, we're not closing down |
| 2:01.7 | any offices, but it's hard for us to say you can't work from home. Of course, we can all work |
| 2:08.2 | from home. You know, our jobs, it's writers and editors. You can do that from a computer. |
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