Author: Scott Neal

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Inflation: The Cause and Effect

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If you are the one in your family who fills up at the gas pump or shops at the grocery

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End-of-Year Planning Becomes Urgent

October 1, 2021December 10, 2021 Scott Neal accredited investment, backdoor, Backdoor Roth IRA, Biden 's campaign promise, Congress, contribution, conversion, financial toe, future tax save, high income limitation, implement tax, implement tax save strategy, income limitation, IRA, IRAs, large retirement account, married filing, Means version, Mega-Backdoor Roth IRA, new RMD rule, non-deductible, non-deductible contribution, outright contribution, qualified charitable distribution, retirement, retirement account, retirement account balance, retirement plan, RMD, Roth, Roth contribution, Roth conversion, Roth IRA, Scott Neal, strategy, tax save strategy, taxable income, threshold, traditional IRA

Last month I advised to be on your financial toes and to pay attention to what is happening around you

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Get Ready for Post-COVID Investing

August 1, 2021October 18, 2021 Scott Neal 10% average return, average inflation, capital gain, Crestmont, Crestmont research, curve, demand curve, dividend, dividend yield, E expansion, E ratio drive dividend yield, E., earnings, Ed Easterling, Ed Easterling of Crestmont research, Es, expected return, expected return of stock, financial plan, forecast of the market, horizon, Ibbotson, Ibbotson chart, inflation, let 's explore, let 's make, long run average, long-standing average, magnitude of change, P., personal time horizon, plan horizon, Post-COVID invest, price earnings, run average, Scott Neal, share growth, stable inflation, start point of the P, stock, stock market, supply curve, time horizon, total return, valuation, valuation metric, yield

You’ve probably heard it said that the U.S. stock market average annual total return is about 10%. That’s widely publicized,

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A Look Forward

June 1, 2021September 9, 2021 Scott Neal accommodative federal reserve, accumulated disposable income, actual sell price, big deficit, bond, bond market, buy bond, cash build, charge of long-term rate, curve, data collection tool, deficit, demand curve move, economic detail, economist, economist call wealth effect, face of inflation, Harvard economist estimate, hearty growth, huge pent-up demand, inflation, inflation kick, interest rate, keep interest rate low, long-term rate, low short-term rate, mean high rate, month-over-month, month-over-month growth, movement of supply, negative real return, net of inflation, next major round, next major round of inflation, pent-up, pent-up demand, positive rate of return, rate low, reasonable degree of certainty, rise interest rate, robust increase, Scott Neal, supply curve, unparalleled stimulus, year-over-year, year-over-year comparison, year-over-year number

I don’t suppose that I need to spend a lot of time reminding you that 2020 and Q1 2021 have

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Finance 

Back to Basics

April 1, 2021June 16, 2021 Scott Neal Alka-Seltzer commercial, amount of payoff, asset, balance, balance sheet, balance sheet date, basics, cash, cash flow, categorization of the asset, checkup, coronavirus vaccine, debt, dynamics of a balance sheet, fizz, foolish action, inflow, JTWROS, liability, liquidity of the asset, negative net worth, net worth, old Alka-Seltzer commercial, payoff, payoff date, plop, right of survivorship, rollout of the coronavirus vaccine, Scott Neal, sheet, snapshot of a point, spouse 's asset, tax-deferred, tax-deferred retirement account, Tax-Deferred retirement asset, taxable asset, track of net worth, worth

Remember that old Alka-Seltzer commercial that began, “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is?” I don’t think

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At a Crossroads

February 1, 2021April 14, 2021 Scott Neal $, 1.9, 70% success, absence of trump, agenda of national survival, American prophecy, Biden, Biden 's $1.9 trillion dollar request, Biden administration, boom generation, boomer, Boomer script, brand-new culture war, Care act, Congress raise, COVID-induced, COVID-induced recession, crossroad, culture war, dollar request, generous relief, gray champion, history turn, Joe Biden, Joe Biden 's policy, long-lived life, mark of a true elder statesman, maximum danger, missionary elder, new strain, new strain of the virus, next Gray Champion, overwhelm post-inauguration sentiment, PE, PE ratio, post-inauguration, post-inauguration sentiment, presence of Biden, pro-choice secularist, pro-life evangelical, rally, rd turn, recovery, Saecula, Scott Neal, significant new fiscal stimulus, steady decline of employment, stock, stock market, strong stock market, time of maximum danger, true elder statesman, typical business cycle, unfamiliar challenge, unfamiliar challenge of self-restraint, unraveling-era, unraveling-era skirmish, vaccine, vaccine rollout, virus, Woody Brock, young millennial

While a few people have told me this month that they are afraid of a Biden administration, the overwhelming post-inauguration

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Where Do We Go from Here?

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For the nation, 2020 has been one of the most difficult years in memory. We are grappling with COVID and

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Q & A with Scott Neal

October 1, 2020December 1, 2020 Scott Neal 4.75% real return, â– , C., calculated return, commodity shock, consumer, current market trend, deep loss, deflation, deflation of consumption good, Dr., Dr. C., Dr. M., excess demand growth, expected rate of return, figure chart, front end of large downturn, hot growth stock, IBM, inflation, inflation of financial asset, inflation of the price, inflationary event, investment, large downturn, M., MACD indicator, monetary ease, money print, projected inflation rate, purpose of the investment, real return 's on investment, reference case, reference case of the plan, Scott, Scott Neal, sequence-risk, serious inflation, spend power, stable level of inflation, stock, stock present good value, tech stock, time of a purchase, trend 's reversal, XYZ stock

In recent days, we have heard questions from a variety of people. I usually think that when a few people

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Discover What’s Normal

August 1, 2020October 19, 2020 Scott Neal 2020, 2020s decade, adequate PPE, aspect of generation, catastrophic crisis, champion of new ideal, childhood toy, Chinese word, climactic event of WWII, climactic period, collective wisdom, community purpose, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, crisis, current crisis, development of a simplified workable worldview, established normalcy, family supper, favorite childhood toy, financial column, financial plan, financial plan career, find resolution, found moment, generational think, gray champion, health of patient, healthy paradigm shift, history run, Howe, huge segment, investment, junior spy, late William Strauss, lens of history, life of a junior spy, long-lived life, mask-free, member of a large group, millennial, much-maligned millennial, negative term, Neil Howe, new normal, opportunity, pandemic, periscope, pessimistic worldview, pre-COVID, pre-COVID 19, respected advisor, Saecula, Scott Neal, season of life, simplified workable worldview, social distance, Strauss, strengthen of family, sure feel, worldview

Before getting into the financial column, let me say that you who are watching after and attending to the health

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New Tax Rules and Planning Opportunities Under CARES

May 1, 2020September 4, 2020 Scott Neal 10, 10 year rule, beneficiary, beneficiary designation, calculate interest, contribution, contribution deduction, conversion, Coronavirus aid, deduction, early confusion, economic security act, estimated tax, financial future, financial plan, high earn year, IRA, IRA contribution deadline, medical need of patient, minimum distribution, new law, new tax rule, pandemic, penalty, potential trap, prior limit, re-cast, retirement, retirement account, retirement account distribution, retirement account owner, retirement plan, RMDs, Roth, Scott Neal, secure act, select group of beneficiary, spouse, spouse die, survive spouse, tax filing, taxable social security, traditional retirement account, tread, unique plan opportunity, young beneficiary

Before talking about taxes and money, let me first say thank you to all of you who are meeting the

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