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16 Timeless Truths of Financial Freedom

Success

million as of September 2018. Timing the market—trying to anticipate imminent movements up or down—is a losing proposition, as data from Yahoo Finance illustrates: Let’s assume you invested $10,000 in the S&P 500 for 20 years between January 1, 1998, and December 31, 2017. Don’t try to time the market. annual return.

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Job Growth Slowed in 2017; Implications for the Economy in 2018

Small Business Labs

job growth comes from the Yahoo Finance article Challenge for Trump: Job Growth is Slowing. It's also looking good for 2018.  We also start 2018 with a very low unemployment rate of 4.1%. economic growth in 2018 of around 2.8% range in 2018. We also think 2018 could be a good year for wages.

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