Entering 2025 Financials, Mid and Small Cap issues set to lead the way.

The San Francisco Fed research suggests the job market continues to be a source of inflation. October was 2.8% stripping out food & energy.

Here’s how much you can contribute to retirement accounts in 2025.

Spot gold rose 0.5% to an all-time high of $2,789.73 NASDAQ Composite rose 0.8% to 18,712, a new record closing high Tuesday

As the year comes to a close, here are a few strategies that will help you set yourself up for investment success in 2025 and beyond. Akin Investments, Solutions for a Complex World The end of the calendar year is a good time to review your finances and ensure that you’re on track to meet your goals. A few year-end steps – like completing your retirement plan contributions or distributions and making charitable donations or gifts – can help prepare you for success in the comi

Social Security Administration to release the 2025 COLA Thursday October 10, 2024

19.72% Gain for the Standard and Poors 500 index for 2024 A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

Computer, Printers, School Supplies. Clothing Shoes and Certain bed and bath items. Akin Investments "Back to School Tax Holiday!" Akin Investments reminds parents and grandparents to take advange of the up comming "Back to School" tax holidays. In Mississippi: The 2024 Sales Tax Holiday takes place between 12:01 A.M. Friday, July 12, 2024 and 12:00 Midnight Sunday , July 14, 2024. South Carolina Department of Revenue (SCDOR) reminds shoppers that computers, clothes, sc

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powells Jackson Hole Speech landed in our Wheelhouse! "We are navigating by the stars under cloudy skies" Powell Says: “We are navigating by the stars under cloudy skies,”. Powell went on to say Fed policymakers would “proceed carefully as we decide whether to tighten further.” “It is the Fed’s job to bring inflation down to our 2% goal, and we will do so,” Powell said. “We have tightened policy significantly over the past year. Although infla

Akin Investments has relocated to Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston, South Carolina As announced June 26, 2023 Akin Investments has moved to Charleston, South Carolina. CHECK OUT OUR NEW DOWNTOWN CHARLESTON LOCATION 174 Meeting Street Akin Investments now in Charleston, South Carolina! COME SEE OUR NEW CHARLESTON LOCATION 174 Meeting Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 300-76 Charleston, South Carolina 29401 843-822-4789 844-RIA-AKIN 174 Meeting Street, Suite 300-76 844-RIA-A

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"History Doesn't Repeat It's Self But It Often Rhymes" Mark Twain Moral hazard is a situation where an economic actor has an incentive to increase its exposure to risk because it does not bear the full costs of that risk. Or, put another way, it is when a party takes an excessive risk in bad faith, knowing another party is economically responsible for the outcome Looking back over time from the days of Mark Twain, The Reconstruction Era to the time of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ga

Akin discusses "force majeure" describes those uncontrollable events (such as war, labor stoppages, or extreme weather) that are not

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Stephen Akin Earlier this year I wrote about some of the details & potential hazards associated with margin accounts. Many of these issues can go unnoticed, Let's take a look! To recap my January15, 2021 post When to Sell One of the more difficult decisions investors may make is deciding when to sell. Each investor has their own objectives.Some simply buy and hold. Others are active and use technical analysis for shorter term moves in the financial markets. Many family and s