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What is a Fiduciary and What is Their Responsibility to the Investor?

What is a Fiduciary and What is Their Responsibility to the Investor?

There are important distinctions to be considered when looking for your own financial planner. Simply put, advisors who uphold the fiduciary duty are held to a different ethical standard than those who do not. A financial standard of care of sorts. It calls on the advisor to act in a client’s best interest, the same…More

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee’s Ignorance is Over the Moon

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee’s Ignorance is Over the Moon

She spoke to a group of high school students in Houston on the day of the Eclipse and had some amazing information to share with those high school students, she told these students that the moon was round, hey, that’s nice, and that it’s made-up of gases!  NEAL BOORTZ ATLANTA – Nothing is worse than…More

Recapping Georgia’s 2024 Legislative Session

Recapping Georgia’s 2024 Legislative Session

ATLANTA – This week Don Bolia and Laura Norton join the program to talk about the 2024 Georgia General Assembly Session.  We talk about sports betting, tort reform, and the issues that didn’t get across the finish line.   We also talk about the jockeying for position between Republicans for what is sure to be an…More

Navigating the Ins and Outs of Required Minimum Distributions

Navigating the Ins and Outs of Required Minimum Distributions

ATLANTA – Navigating the maze of Required Minimum Distributions just got easier thanks to our latest Retirement Roadmap episode. Evan and Mark Fricks are here to guide you through the recent updates to RMDs, now kicking in at 73 or 75 for those born in 1960 or later. Understand the necessity behind these withdrawals, the…More

Civilizations Have Lifespans, so How Does America Look?

Civilizations Have Lifespans, so How Does America Look?

In those civilizations, those eras probably thought what they had was going to go on forever, but it didn’t. What about us in America? Do we believe that the American experiment, our amazing country, is going to go on forever? It’s been around all our lives. Why isn’t it going to stay around?  ATLANTA –…More

The Media Blames the Gun, not the Trigger Man

The Media Blames the Gun, not the Trigger Man

Nothing gets better until we and the media and the media narrative becomes, “What do we do about these violent teenagers,” instead of, “What do we do about these guns?“ ATLANTA – Another mall shooting recently occurred in Indianapolis and the media predictably is blaming the firearms and not those pulling the triggers. Today, Neal…More

The Baltimore Bridge and Booting Ronna

The Baltimore Bridge and Booting Ronna

ATLANTA – This has been a week of disasters. Chief among them has been the destruction of the Key Bridge in Baltimore Harbor by a disabled cargo container ship. How will this disaster impact the flow of goods into the east coast region and how will this affect the flow of traffic along this I-95…More

The Hypocrisy of MSNBC in on Display with Ronna McDaniel’s Firing

The Hypocrisy of MSNBC in on Display with Ronna McDaniel’s Firing

Well, the folks at NBC have decided it was such a horrible mistake to hire Ronna McDaniel, former Republican National Committee chairman, to be a contributor on their networks. How dare NBC hire somebody who says the 2020 election was stolen? Chuck Todd, Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough Rachel Maddow all outraged so here I’m gonna…More

Retirement Roadmap Radio – The Gift of Preparation

Retirement Roadmap Radio – The Gift of Preparation

Leaving a legacy can mean different things. Of course, a large death benefit is a wonderful gift. Inheriting a brokerage or IRA Roth account can be a great thing. From family heirlooms to family land, inheritance can be a meaningful and pragmatically helpful gift to your loved ones.   We want to introduce another gift idea…More

We’re All Picking Up the Tab for Joe Biden’s Student Loan Deadbeats

We’re All Picking Up the Tab for Joe Biden’s Student Loan Deadbeats

Every once in a while I like to throw out a commentary like this. Frankly, it makes some people mad. But look, we’re all going to pay the tab for Joe Biden pardoning all these student loans. So I thought you might like to hear some of the nonsense that these deadbeat students come up…More

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