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Insights into financial markets from Withum Wealth.

COVID’s Impact on Healthcare Trends
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COVID’s Impact on Healthcare Trends
Over the last year, healthcare has been at the forefront of everyone’s minds. How could it not be, when we are living through a global pandemic?
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WWM’s Best TV Binges of 2020
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WWM’s Best TV Binges of 2020
For those of you who plan to stay indoors this winter, we wanted to share some of our team’s favorite TV shows for you to binge, if you haven’t seen them yet!
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Anti-Hacking Company Hacked – And No, This Isn’t An Onion Headline
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Anti-Hacking Company Hacked – And No, This Isn’t An Onion Headline
Ghost Protocol, the fourth movie in the popular Mission impossible series, involves hacking, password decoding, cryptocracy and network hijacking action for thriller and SciFi fans.
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C.O.L.A. – Not Zero, But Not Bubbling Over
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C.O.L.A. – Not Zero, But Not Bubbling Over
Like bubbles rising to the top of a newly uncorked bottle of champagne the cost of living adjustment (COLA) for 2021 retirement benefits will climb by 1.3%, according to the Social Security Administration. However, this is below the average COLA of 1.5% for Social Security benefits over the last decade so think of it more like a warm can of soda. It is important to note that this average includes years in which there was no COLA increase and another that was limited to just 0.3%. In contrast, the 2000’s decade had a higher average cost of living adjustment of 2.7%, despite also having no COLA increase in 2009.
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Taking a Page from a Catalog
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Taking a Page from a Catalog
IKEA has decided to discontinue their annual printed catalog. For the first time in over 70 years, IKEA will not be printing out their catalogue which, believe it or not, was the most printed book in the world at one point.
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2020’s Word of the Year
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2020’s Word of the Year
So, its official! It shouldn’t be much of a surprise, but the Merriam-Webster word of the year for 2020 is…. “Pandemic”.
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Just Do It!
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Just Do It!
As winter is creeping in, I wanted to share a book recommendation – Shoe Dog by Phil Knight.
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How to Create a Tax-Efficient Retirement Income Plan
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How to Create a Tax-Efficient Retirement Income Plan
After spending most of your adult time working, you have decided to retire. Congratulations! Retirement is an exciting time but is accompanied by the termination of one steady benefit—a regular paycheck. Your living expenses were covered by that fixed and constant income, but now you are on your own.
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