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Money Matters With Wes Moss

Money Matters With Wes Moss

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Since its debut in 1992, Money Matters was created to deliver objective and timely financial advice on WSB, Atlanta's legendary, award-winning news/talk radio station. Now, in addition to airing weekly on WSB, Money Matters is available as a podcast, tailor-made for both modern retirees and those still in the planning stages. Hosted since 2009 by Wes Moss — CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, best-selling author, Forbes contributor, and managing partner at Capital Investment Advisors in Atlanta — and backed by the Retire Sooner Team, the Money Matters podcast aims to continue the show's legacy of demystifying retirement finances. From dissecting the latest financial news to offering personalized answers to listener questions, the goal of Money Matters is to keep you informed and empowered. Our focus? Providing clear, actionable advice without the financial jargon to help 1 million families retire sooner and happier. Join us in this exciting new chapter, and let's journey toward a financially secure and joyful retirement together.Copyright 2024 Economia Finanza personale
Episodi
  • Beyond the Headlines: Stock Market Highs, Mortgage Rates, and Retirement Income

    Beyond the Headlines: Stock Market Highs, Mortgage Rates, and Retirement Income
    Oct 13 2026
    Market updates make headlines, mortgage costs help influence household budgets, and AI may be changing the customer service experience. On this episode of the Money Matters Podcast, Wes Moss and Jeff Lloyd sort through the noise to explore how these topics connect to personal finance and retirement planning. · Explore why some businesses keep people at the center of customer service while others hand more of the conversation to artificial intelligence. · Examine customer traffic and sales figures, weigh the trade-offs of choosing people over automation, and consider Wes’s related perspective on AI’s broader role in the workplace. · Peek beneath the stock market highs discussed in the episode to see why some companies and sectors don’t seem to be sharing the spotlight. · Follow the connections among oil prices, inflation expectations, interest rates, and the Federal Reserve’s outlook. · Unpack the tariff debate with research exploring how consumer goods prices might have changed without them. · Face the math behind higher mortgage payments, tighter housing budgets, and the hurdles younger generations may encounter on the road to homeownership. · Inspect the appeal of unusually high investment yields as Wes’s “yield ladder” puts income potential alongside risk and the possibility of loss. · Compare how utilities, small-cap stocks, and financials may respond differently as interest rates change and market leadership shifts. · Weigh how higher government bond yields may help influence investment decisions, and explore Wes’s related discussion of stock dividends, bond interest, and retirement investing. · Explore how Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) may fit into retirement healthcare planning, with potential tax benefits subject to eligibility, contribution limits, and qualified medical expense requirements. Listen and subscribe to the Money Matters Podcast for a lively look at the financial headlines behind everyday money questions and for educational conversations about markets, personal finance, and retirement planning.
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    35 min
  • Market History, Interest Rates, Bonds, and Long-Term Investing

    Market History, Interest Rates, Bonds, and Long-Term Investing
    Oct 6 2026
    Unpredictable markets may make even experienced investors question what matters most. In this Money Matters Podcast episode, Wes Moss and Connor Miller seek to put market volatility, interest rates, stock market history, bonds, inflation, and diversified investing into perspective. · Reconsider what the "market average" means by exploring how University of Chicago researchers in the 1960s helped establish a widely used measure of the long-term performance of the overall U.S. stock market, and how that history may influence how investors assess portfolio performance. 00:00:09 · Examine how higher interest rates may affect mortgage payments, 401(k) accounts, consumer borrowing, business activity, and the wider U.S. economy. 00:00:26 · Recognize how investment-account high-water marks may affect investor behavior, expectations, and reactions during periods of stock market volatility. 00:01:16 · Trace the development of stock market benchmarks, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500, and consider why they may remain associated with long-term market performance. 00:05:05 · Explore educational aspects of broad market participation as a contrast to a narrower set of individual stocks. 00:07:27 · Assess what approximately a century of U.S. stock market returns might illustrate about long-term investing and financial planning. 00:09:13 · Examine how the more than $50 trillion U.S. fixed-income market may have responded to shifting interest rates, and why bond yields, bond prices, and diversification may matter to investors. 00:11:45 · Consider how investment returns may vary from year to year, and examine the historical difference between short-term market results and longer-term return patterns. 00:12:55 · Connect inflation, economic growth, government debt, and interest rates to the forces that may influence market conditions, household budgets, and purchasing power. 00:14:22 · Assess why higher bond yields may have increased interest in fixed income, and how bonds may be associated with income potential and diversification within certain balanced-portfolio approaches. 00:21:08 · Compare how longer holding periods have historically influenced the frequency of positive returns among stocks, bonds, and balanced portfolios, while recognizing that past performance does not guarantee future results. 00:26:06 · Understand the relationship between bond prices, yields, and duration, and consider why higher starting yields may be associated with income potential and a degree of resilience during some periods of price volatility. 00:29:41 Market conditions, interest rates, and investment returns can change quickly, but a thoughtful framework may help you evaluate the information behind the headlines. Listen and subscribe to the Money Matters Podcast for conversations with Wes Moss and Connor Miller on investing, retirement planning, bonds, inflation, and long-term financial decision-making.
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    35 min
  • Is 5% the New Normal? Interest Rates, Retiree Spending, and the Yield Ladder

    Is 5% the New Normal? Interest Rates, Retiree Spending, and the Yield Ladder
    Sep 29 2026
    Fall is here, but interest rates aren't falling. On this episode of the Money Matters Podcast, Wes Moss and Jeff Lloyd look at why the 10-year Treasury yield climbed above 5% and what higher rates may mean for investors, savers, and retirees. · Analyze the jump in the 10-year Treasury yield and why stocks don't always like a strong economy. · Explore the latest manufacturing PMI and GDPNow data, and how market expectations for Federal Reserve policy have shifted since the start of 2026. · Track CPI and PCE inflation, and why the Fed may be watching one measure more closely than the other. · Consider how the competition for capital between stocks and bonds may influence markets when yields reach new levels. · Examine why bond yields are near their highest point in about 20 years and how mortgage rates back above 7% may affect the housing market. · Unpack how the Treasury, major banks, and the Federal Reserve work together to expand the money supply, and how pandemic-era stimulus contributed to inflation. · Discover research from Jean Chatzky's new book, The Forever Paycheck, suggesting many retirees may underspend in retirement. · Learn why income may feel easier for retirees to spend than assets, and how the growth plus incomeequation may factor into total return. · Climb the Yield Ladder to see the range of dividend, interest, and distribution income available in today's market. · Review how the S&P 500 has historically performed in the 12 months following midterm elections, remembering that past performance does not guarantee future results. From rising rates and inflation to retiree spending and income investing, Wes and Jeff unpack what a shifting market may mean for your portfolio. Listen and subscribe to the Money Matters Podcast for more educational conversations about the economy, investing, and retirement.
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    36 min
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