Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. It's Tuesday, November 14th, day of an inflation report.

I know you're excited. I am excited too. But we know inflation is going in the right direction. That's the good news. Maybe not every single component is going down in the quickest possible way, but the big stuff is and even in this report, which is going to show that energy prices were high during the month, that's going to get reversed in the subsequent month.

Meanwhile, in your real life, maybe we can actually make some proactive changes that you can control,

unlike all of these different financial and economic reports.

Maybe, just maybe, you need us to lay eyes on your game plan, the changes that you are thinking

about, the big transitions that you're contemplating, all of that is in our wheelhouse.

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Let's talk to Mark, who's on the line from West Virginia.

Thank you very much for having me on.

I was concerned about how to best take advantage of taxes and savings and just you know holding on to

assets in retirement. What's the concern you just don't want to pay taxes you're

bummed out you have to pay them you You have a lot of pre-tax retirement money. What's going on?

I've got traditional accounts for the IRAs, but it's only where my wife and I are both retired military. We did 27 years in the

service we each get a pension. Oh so you're still in a high tax bracket. Yeah, it's about 16,000 months we get after taxes for that.

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