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Hi, and welcome to The Longview. I'm Christine Ben's Director of Personal Finance and Retirement Planning

for Morning Star. And I'm Jeff Battack, Chief Ratings Officer for Morning Star Research Services.

Our guest on the podcast today is financial journalist and certified financial planner, Robert Powell.

His work appears regularly in Marketwatch.com, USA Today, The Street.com, the Wall Street Journal, and AARP.

Bob also serves as the Director of Retirement Education at Sensible Money and as editor-in-chief

of the Investments in Wealth Institute's Retirement Management Journal. He's also an instructor

in Salem State University's online elder planning specialist

program. In addition, Bob hosts two podcasts himself, the Investments in Wealth Institute's

exceptional advisor podcast and the Callaway Climate Insights podcast. He received his bachelor's degree

from Marquette University and a master's degree from Boston University.

Bob, welcome to the Longview.

Thanks for having me, Christine.

Well, thanks for being here.

So we want to start out by talking about the current environment.

Hot topic in the wake of last year's simultaneous sell-off in the stock and bond markets was

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