Stay Informed and Empowered in Today’s Shifting Economy. Get ready to navigate today’s retirement landscape with clarity and confidence. In this episode of the Money Matters Podcast, Wes Moss and Connor Miller unpack timely economic developments and explore how they may shape your financial decision-making. • Understand the latest Federal Reserve decisions, including two rare dissenting votes. • Break down recent GDP data to examine what may be contributing to—or obscuring—economic growth. • Track shifts in consumer sentiment and housing trends to see how affordability and inventory constraints could be affecting real estate dynamics. • Analyze the current interest rate and inflation environment, and consider potential implications for borrowing and investing. • Spot patterns in manufacturing, employment, and corporate earnings that may influence broader market behavior. • Examine the growing role of artificial intelligence—from market momentum to its potential reshaping of the job market and career resilience. • Explore how multi-asset income strategies are being used to support income needs and respond to market concentration and inflation risk. • Apply the CHIME framework—Consumer sentiment, Housing, Interest rates, Manufacturing, and Employment—to help interpret today’s economic signals with a structured lens. Stay engaged with insights that aim to inform, not predict. Listen and subscribe to the Money Matters Podcast to stay educated, aware, and confident in your long-term financial planning.