Not a financial pro just advise-
If your job offers a 401 or anything with matching funds - do that. It’s money you won’t miss and what money the company matches is free money.
Start a safety cushion. This should be about 3-6 months of income to fall back on or you van tap into in case of life’s Iittle mishaps. Car repairs, medical, house repairs, family emergency, job loss ect.
CD - cash deposit rates are actually worth investing right now. Over 5% returns and they are guarenteed funds. The more the government jacks up rates, the higher % CDs will be offered. They pay out a flat % over X amount of time. 3 months, 6 months, 12, 18. I wouldn’t go more than 18 months as rates can can change. Most you should be alble to withdrawl the money in case of emergency. They usually pay part interest evey month so you’ll still have the money in case you need to, but the amount you get will be the time invested so you wont get the full 5% for example if you pull out 6 months into a 12 month CD. You’ll only gain 2.5%.
Some of them require higher starting balances than others, but most are pretty easy to get into. Take part of that cushion and make it work for you. Savings accounts offer jack squat. Not very aggressive but better than the stock market casino where even good companies are getting taken for a ride. The market right now is very broken.
If you can, save for some gold, silver, platinum to diversify. The US is going to experience some wild inflation due to it’s continued war mongering and isolation of the world and it’s resources. I don’t think the world is going to forgive us for the whole Palestine / Ukraine thing. Look at the price of gold back in 2000 before 9/11 - $200 / ounce. It’s now around $2,000 an ounce. It’s a known hedge against inflation. I wish I did that earlier. Unless we get really into space mining and reach the Golden Nugget asteroid, they should continue to be a hedge. Learn about SPOT price and PREMIUMS over spot prices. If you have funds backed by physical assets there might be storage fees or maintenance fees associated eith them. Take a look at ONE GOLD and APMEX or JM BULLION.. There are others but these are some of the larger more trusted orgs for example. There are many ways to get access to these commodities.
Shop around for a good financial adviser professional tell them about your current situation and retirement goals. Be careful of higher fees. There are annual fees for these funds and percentage takes when you do withdrawl in retirement. But they can help get in diverse and larger funds and ask about Roth IRA’s. (tax free withdrawls since you already paid taxes on the funds) There are usually minimums associated with certain funds.
Don’t count on or put all your eggs in one basket. You’re going to want to spread RISK so in case a market or sector crash or some other thing happens that royally fucks something up you won’t lose all your assets in one blow.
Bunch of genocidal racist fanatics.
Freedom fries reverse uno card has been played.
Tango 10 tango 10 we got an ambulance convey coming out of that residential block you all just leveled. God damn there’s more red mist than concrete dust. How’d you manage that?
Send in clean up. I swore an oath to protect the constiution of the United States and zeroing war crime victims is helping to keep the homeland safe from land locked improvrished permanently disabled
Genocide Joe feeling the heat in the polls.
This war we started replacing missles, attacks, with “blasts”. Like the hospital attack was a “blast”. Like a gas line blew or an oopsie. Anytime they want to water down what happened it’s just a enigmatic “blast”.
Israeli line for civillian deaths “well that’s war”. The world will remember how casual Israel is about it’s genocide. It rolls off them like water.
Sue that bastard for libel, emotional distress, and violations of 1st amendment rights.
One of the major things left drawing in views. Get rekt
Qfter the King of Jordan DENIES Palestinian refugees along with Egypt’s Sisi. Load of
I hope the people of Jordan toss that King cuck out of his posh mansion and has a block party in
Better start a bidding war for boom boom rations, or scale back the secret wars in the global South. Damn making the $Trillion military pick and choose.
I’m sorry you feel that way.
Isn’t Real is a state lead by and infested with fanatics. So they probably felt emboldened to do fanatical shit like this.
The other side is, CDs (cash deposits) are now worth investing again. I’ve been pulling money out of stocks and into CDs and precious metals. I think we’re going to get hyper inflation as we cut off half the world’s resources and tech demands soar in combination with ripping another hole in our wallet to fund the burn pit of :ukkkraine:
https://www.theatlantic.com/author/veronika-melkozerova/
https://voxeurop.eu/en/guest_author/veronika-melkozerova/
https://muckrack.com/veronika-melkozerova/articles
How I decolonized my Russian mind and retook Kyiv
What a spook
here’s a drop of ass sweat now
I paid for a service and these actors took the check. Sorry if you don’t understand. It’s not your fault.
It’s just all the dead saying “so long and thanks for all the fish”.
As if there wasn’t enough support for fascism in the world already. Digging your own grave Germany.