The Economy, “Free” credit reports, and Improving Your 401k

Money Guy Show

Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors

Education, Investing, Business

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2007

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The White House lowers ’08 economic forecast (click here for more information) October foreclosure filings up 94% over last year (click here for more information) I did not want you to think that I was only pulling out the bad news… I did want to give you a little ray of hope with this article: Q3 economic growth fastest in four years, revision shows (click here for more information) ** "Free" credit reports ** Many of you have probably figured this out. It appears that the credit reporting companies have figured out how to squeeze a ton of profit out of consumers for something that is suppose to be "Free". For more information, visit the show notes at http://www.moneyguy.com/2007/12/the-economy-free-credit-reports-and-improving-your-401k Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Brian Preston, the money guy, restoring order to your financial chaos, retirement,
0:07.6	investing, taxing.
0:09.4	You've got financial questions.
0:11.0	He's got financial answers.
0:13.0	It's Brian Preston, the money guy.
0:15.8	Well, I hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving holiday.
0:19.2	This is your host of the Money Guys Show.
0:20.9	I'm Brian Preston, joining you, and I think, what is it now?
0:25.1	Two weeks after Thanksgiving, we can have, I mean, time flies when you're having fun.
0:29.2	We went to actually Orlando for Thanksgiving and had a great time down in Disney World,
0:34.8	but glad to be back here recording another episode of the Money Guys Show, where we're
0:39.4	here to restore order to your financial chaos.
0:41.6	Now, what we're going to be talking about today, we got quite a bit of information
0:44.6	to cover.
0:45.6	We're going to be first talk about what's going on with the economy out there, because
0:49.5	the market has been all over the place.
0:52.1	It's not uncommon in the last few weeks to see us lose 200 points in a day, and then
0:56.2	we'll make back 300 in a day, and it can be something that can make you chew on your
1:00.9	fingernails and wonder what in the world is going on out there in this crazy marketplace.
1:05.4	So, I'm going to talk to you a little bit about that.
1:07.9	I also want to talk to you about credit reports.
1:11.3	We all know that there was legislation that was passed back in 2003 that does require,
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