What's going on?

Why are Americans broke in 2022?

It's Brian Preston, the money guy, restoring order to your financial chaos with retirement,

investing, taxes.

You've got financial questions, he's got financial answers.

It's Brian Preston, the money guy.

Yeah, Brian, I'm excited about this because there's some unique things going on right now.

This is a unique time.

I think maybe not more than ever, but more than recently, things are feeling kind of interesting.

There's a lot of sort of macroeconomic factors happening that perhaps are making folks feel,

or maybe not even feel actually making folks not have a very strong army of dollar bills

right now.

Well, this is one of those topics.

I mean, we've done this type of content in the past and previously I spent a lot of time,

and we'll talk about this today too, some discipline type issues.

But there really are macro things that are also impacting a lot of people's financial

decisions.

We wanted to kind of jump into what's going on in the economy, but also talk about what

you can do because there's a lot of this stuff you don't control, but there are things

you can actually do to navigate these unique times well.

Let's talk about some sobering stats, some stuff that I think for financial mutants,

this should kind of hitch in the face.

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