📰 On this week's episode of Minds Over Money, I go over 3 headlines from last week that directly impact the economy as well as potentially impacting your own investment portfolio. [17:17] And this week’s financial planning topic is Maintain Your Focus: How to Handle Short-Term Volatility.

📊 [0:49] The first headline, “Diverging Jobs Data Raise Questions About Labor Market Health”, is an article that explores how the two different labor surveys in the U.S. are telling different stories regarding the health of the labor market.

👃 [5:34] The second headline, “High Tech Smell Sensors Aim to Sniff Out Disease, Explosives, and Even Moods”, discusses how startups are using advances in olfactory sensors and artificial intelligence in numerous applications from healthcare to airport security.

🧞 [10:41] Our final headline, “Beware Wishful Thinking About Inflation and Recession” is a deep dive into the Fed’s monetary tightening and a reality check surrounding the likelihood of the Fed achieving a soft landing

Hope you enjoy it!