Are You On A Fixed Income? You’re In BIG Trouble. Here’s Why.

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Those on fixed incomes will have a difficult time. More difficult than it already is. We are seeing how much influence the low interest rates have had and yet the benefits don’t seem to be hitting the majority of people. A small group of individuals have seen their wealth expand to a great degree and we are now at the largest wealth gap in history, with no chance to reverse course. What’s really going on here?

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FIXED INCOME – POSITIVES:

• • GOVERNMENT WILL LIKELY BOOST SOCIAL ASSISTANCE OF ALL KINDS
  • TAX REBATES FOR THOSE HIT BY UNEMPLOYMENT AND THOSE IN NEED

FIXED INCOME – NEGATIVES:

• • PRICES OF EVERYTHING GOING UP RAPIDLY
  • INFLATION RATE GOVERNMENT USES TO DETERMINE C.O.L.A. IS NOT ACCURATE

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Yellen Clarifies Inflation Remark, Sees No Need for Fed to Hike – Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-04/yellen-says-spending-jump-could-mean-higher-interest-rates

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US Economic Recovery & Unemployment Data Show Some Are Being Left Behind

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-covid-race-and-recovery/

archive

Clorox Plans Price Hike for Glad Products, and More May Follow – Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-30/clorox-plans-price-hike-for-glad-products-and-more-may-follow

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Kimberly-Clark Announces Price Increases for North American Consumer Products Business | Kimberly-Clark Corporation

https://investor.kimberly-clark.com/news-releases/news-release-details/kimberly-clark-announces-price-increases-north-american-1

These Two Popular Peanut Butters Are About to Skyrocket in Price | Eat This Not That

These Two Popular Peanut Butters Are About to Skyrocket in Price

The price of both Jif and Skippy peanut butter is going up thanks to shipping costs and delays, the cost of peanuts, and the Suez Canal block.

Hormel Foods Reports First Quarter Results And Provides Full Year Guidance | Hormel Foods

https://investor.hormelfoods.com/news-events/press-releases/news-details/2021/Hormel-Foods-Reports-First-Quarter-Results-And-Provides-Full-Year-Guidance/default.aspx

Procter & Gamble Will Raise Prices in September – WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/articles/procter-gamble-will-raise-prices-in-september-11618916498

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Hershey’s Is Planning To Raise Prices On Its Holiday Candy

https://www.delish.com/food-news/a35448954/hersheys-holiday-candy-prices-2021/

General Mills eyes net price increase as rising costs squeeze margins, but analysts question execution

General Mills eyes net price increase as rising costs squeeze margins, but analysts question execution

With margins under pressure due to rising commodity and transportation costs, General Mills plans to increase prices going forward, but some investment analysts worry the timing will be off with local economies beginning to reopen and increased competitive pressure at the retail level.

Top 10 Occupations Among Low-Wage Workers, 2018

Number of low-wage workers, by select occupations:

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Tax refunds on $10,200 of unemployment benefits start in May: IRS

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Why Sam Zell Bought Gold for the First Time – Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2021-05-04/why-sam-zell-is-buying-gold-for-the-first-time-video

archive

Biden’s Plan to Spend $4.5 Trillion Without Boosting Deficits Depends on Factors Beyond His Control – WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-plans-to-spend-4-5-trillion-without-boosting-deficits-depend-on-factors-beyond-his-control-11619947801

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US trade deficit hits record $74.4 billion in March

US trade deficit hits record $74.4 billion in March

The U.S. trade deficit surged to a record $74.4 billion in March as an improving U.S. economy boosted purchases of imported foreign goods.

United States Balance of Trade | 1950-2021 Data | 2022-2023 Forecast | Calendar

United States Balance of Trade

The United States recorded a trade deficit of 68.90 USD Billion in February of 2024. This page provides the latest reported value for – United States Balance of Trade – plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Canada Balance of Trade | 1971-2021 Data | 2022-2023 Forecast | Calendar | Historical

Canada Balance of Trade

Canada recorded a trade surplus of 1391.60 CAD Million in February of 2024. This page provides the latest reported value for – Canada Balance of Trade – plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

Biden Quietly Preparing for Food Stamp Increase Without Congress – Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-02/biden-quietly-preparing-for-food-stamp-increase-without-congress

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Pandemic-led decline of U.S. cities may be reversing

Pandemic-led decline of U.S. cities may be reversing

New York City added a net 1,900 people in the first two months of 2021 versus a loss of 7,100 in the same two months of 2019

Fixed income, those on pensions, people who rely on income from government, social security. The financial system is always changing. Money comes in and goes out. More investment is certain funds or sectors and then it flows to another. More cash and debt is expected. Cheap money is coming very easily these days.

— APPENDICES —

• The Money GPS: Bitcoin vs Gold: The Great Debate

• The Money GPS: How To Get Rich FAST: Take the Maximum Possible Risk. Collect Profits.

• The Money GPS: How To Invest Making BIGGER Gains and Less Risk! Full Strategy Explained

• The Money GPS: BITCOIN VS. GOLD VS. STOCKS VS. REAL ESTATE

• The Money GPS: Heavy Inflation Commodities Supercycle! How Investors Profit From A Devalued Currency

• The Money GPS: Inflation is Coming, What Can I Do? How To Reduce Your Inflation and Potentially Profit

• The Money GPS: ALERT: The Big Short Michael Burry Gets Visit From SEC! Final Warning Created Panic.

• The Money GPS: This is HOW the Global Economy Can Collapse and How To Prepare

• The Money GPS: Food Shortages, Prices Rising, Commodities Up Sends Chilling Warning About Potential Crisis

• The Money GPS: The Untold Truth About Money. Inside the Failing Financial System Master Plan – Mini Documentary

• The Money GPS: How To Get Out of An Economic Crisis. Action Steps To Excel, Prosper, and Prepare!

• The Money GPS: If You’re Dealing With Unemployment, Wage Cuts, or Crisis THIS Is What You Must Do

• The Money GPS: Who Controls the World? These Organizations, Institutions, and Families Run the Show

• The Money GPS: Rothschild and Rockefeller Team Up With the Vatican! Follow the Money…

• The Money GPS: The Broken Economy Leaving Millions Without A Job! Economic Crisis or Opportunity?

• The Money GPS: BIS Central Banker Admits EPIC Level Crisis Is the Most Likely Result of Global Mass QE

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— The Money GPS: Swaggystocks.com is an interesting look at retail trading. Cut through all the nonsense and simply look at the data (Instagram Feb 21, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Swaggystocks.com shows you exactly what’s going on with the retail traders. Ignore the garbage on the actual boards and just get the data (Instagram Feb 21, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Bitcoin $240,000? (Instagram Feb 17, 2021)

— The Money GPS: TOP 2 TRADES FOR 2021 (Instagram Feb 15, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Commodities for 2021 — Boom or bust? (Instagram Feb 14, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Leave your emotions at the door investing is strictly business (Instagram Feb 13, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Clubhouse. Get in the app because I’m planning on going live daily. (Instagram Feb 13, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Brandon Dawson. One guy to watch out for as an investor to see what he’s doing and compare. (Instagram Feb 12, 2021)

— The Money GPS: REAL Unemployment Rate 10% (Instagram Feb 11, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Zoom out and see what you’re doing objectively (Instagram Feb 7, 2021)

— The Money GPS: SPAC IPO trend getting out of hand (Instagram Feb 6, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Citadel made lots of money from the retail traders (Instagram Feb 5, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Oil, commodities rising. Price will impact consumers. (Instagram Feb 5, 2021)

— The Money GPS: GME and AMC attracted many buyers. Illiquid stocks/micro cap stocks are now trendy. Be careful. (Instagram Feb 4, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Silver rockets higher (Instagram Feb 2, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Silver squeeze next? (Instagram Jan 31, 2021)

— The Money GPS: ETF loses 80% of assets! (Instagram Jan 31, 2021)

— The Money GPS: The Fed will not pop the bubble (Instagram Jan 30, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Wall Street Bets on Reddit is adding millions of people. Retail traders needed to keep the prices going higher. (Instagram Jan 30, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Jim Cramer says don’t go for grand slam. What do you think? (Instagram Jan 29, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Robinhood caps hot stocks like #gme to 1 share! (Instagram Jan 29, 2021) – archive

— The Money GPS: STOCK MARKET TUMBLES as GME soars (Instagram Jan 29, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Find a company you thought was no longer in business, buy some shares, get rich quick. Is that what’s seriously happening right now?! (Instagram Jan 29, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Hedge your bets like @mcuban ? (Instagram Jan 28, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Fed won’t pull the plug right? (Instagram Jan 25, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Delaying the inevitable pain. (Instagram Jan 25, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Money flooding into stocks (Instagram Jan 24, 2021)

— The Money GPS: 2 ears, 1 mouth — use in that ratio. (Instagram Jan 23, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Buy the biggest shorts? (Instagram Jan 23, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Investing legend says bad things are coming because paper printing does not create an economy. (Instagram Jan 22, 2021)

— The Money GPS: The purpose of big tech is to absorb your data. Not to provide a service and later take advantage of you. Look up In Q Tel. (Instagram Jan 21, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Moving south? (Instagram Jan 21, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Bitcoin going higher? (Instagram Jan 20, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Janet Yellen will you go “big”? (Instagram Jan 19, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Time to move? (Instagram Jan 19, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Never stop (Instagram Jan 18, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Invest in yourself first (Instagram Jan 18, 2021)

— The Money GPS: BITCOIN HITS $40,000 (Instagram Jan 7, 2021)

— The Money GPS: To get where you want to be, you have to know where you are now. (Instagram Jan 4, 2021)

— The Money GPS: Aim Higher (Instagram Dec 17, 2020)

— The Money GPS: Never lose money (Instagram Dec 16, 2020)

— The Money GPS: Master one thing before moving on. Know where you are in the cycle. (Instagram Dec 15, 2020)

— The Money GPS: Be a better investor | How to be a better investor. Window shop! (Instagram Dec 12, 2020)

— FOOTNOTES —

The Money GPS on Twitter: “Wake up to the suits and ties. They’re all lying to you. None are your friends. None wish to help you. Wolves in sheep clothing. More distractions than ever before. The magician always makes a spectacle to hide the trick. / Twitter”

Wake up to the suits and ties. They’re all lying to you. None are your friends. None wish to help you. Wolves in sheep clothing. More distractions than ever before. The magician always makes a spectacle to hide the trick.

The Money GPS on Twitter: “BREAKING: “Federal judge overturns national eviction ban”Get ready for more info on this topic. You know that if there are going to be millions more on the street this will be very chaotic, very quickly. #eviction #homeless #COVID19 #debt pic.twitter.com/9uvF2Svdqd / Twitter”

BREAKING: “Federal judge overturns national eviction ban”Get ready for more info on this topic. You know that if there are going to be millions more on the street this will be very chaotic, very quickly. #eviction #homeless #COVID19 #debt pic.twitter.com/9uvF2Svdqd

The Money GPS on Twitter: “CHINA SAYS BITCOIN AN “INVESTMENT ALTERNATIVE”. Consider the possibility of a country or central bank dumping 1% of their U.S. Treasuries to buy Bitcoin. If others followed? Not suggesting will happen. I’m just discussing the implications, if any. #bitcoin #crypto #china #CBDC pic.twitter.com/JVCnwV2vI2 / Twitter”

CHINA SAYS BITCOIN AN “INVESTMENT ALTERNATIVE”. Consider the possibility of a country or central bank dumping 1% of their U.S. Treasuries to buy Bitcoin. If others followed? Not suggesting will happen. I’m just discussing the implications, if any. #bitcoin #crypto #china #CBDC pic.twitter.com/JVCnwV2vI2

The Money GPS on Twitter: “”HIGH RISK” #HOUSING MARKET. So what will be done? Nothing. #Mortgage rates near record lows. “Blind” bidding. Artificially low listing prices purposely used to generate euphoria and overbidding to increase sales commission. This is the biggest #bubble and it’s not just #Toronto pic.twitter.com/vQvu8gGByK / Twitter”

“HIGH RISK” #HOUSING MARKET. So what will be done? Nothing. #Mortgage rates near record lows. “Blind” bidding. Artificially low listing prices purposely used to generate euphoria and overbidding to increase sales commission. This is the biggest #bubble and it’s not just #Toronto pic.twitter.com/vQvu8gGByK

The Money GPS on Twitter: “”Fed Sounds Alarm on Commercial Real Estate, Business Bankruptcy” Nothing to see here folks. Market is doing well. Stimulus is all that matters. The Fed loves us all. Ignore all negative news and hate anyone who highlights that which is clearly a major issue #realestate #bubble pic.twitter.com/IRDsy53G5A / Twitter”

“Fed Sounds Alarm on Commercial Real Estate, Business Bankruptcy” Nothing to see here folks. Market is doing well. Stimulus is all that matters. The Fed loves us all. Ignore all negative news and hate anyone who highlights that which is clearly a major issue #realestate #bubble pic.twitter.com/IRDsy53G5A

The Money GPS on Twitter: “IF THEY WILL FIGHT OVER PLAYSTATION…What would they do for food? #ps5 #PlayStation5 #playstation #ps5fight #walmart pic.twitter.com/hbimVKzeta / Twitter”

IF THEY WILL FIGHT OVER PLAYSTATION…What would they do for food? #ps5 #PlayStation5 #playstation #ps5fight #walmart pic.twitter.com/hbimVKzeta

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• How To Fix the Economy

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How To Fix the Economy – Bailouts

How To Fix the Economy – Food

How To Fix the Economy – Central Bank

How To Fix the Economy – Manufacturing

How To Fix the Economy – Financial Markets

How To Fix the Economy – Media

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Going live on #clubhouse at 11am PST / 2pm EST. Make sure to follow me on there and turn the notification bell on so it will pop up when I start the room. I gave away all the invites I had and will give more away as soon as I get them.

— The Money GPS: Clubhouse. Get in the app because I’m planning on going live daily. (Instagram Feb 13, 2021)

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The Money GPS Financial Education 101 coming soon.100% free eCourse for you to learn from but for those who already know the content, this is perfect to share with others. I’m creating this course for people specifically to get the foundation #money #moneyGPS #financialeducation pic.twitter.com/nzqVVSSorT

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