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Interest rates really couldn't remain at historic lows forever and now they're showing the first signs of rising growing economy and government spending are starting to have an inflation. What exactly does that mean your finances is Rob West sits down with investing expert Mark Miller today to find out that your calls on anything financial 800-525-7000 800-525-7000 four interest rates on the rise, that's not right here is Rob girlfriend Mark Miller is the executive editor at sound mind investing where they been watching the recent rise in interest rates and it looks like he has something to report that he does Steve champing at the bit as we like to say Margaret to have you back on the program. Thanks Rob good backward while were thrilled to have you and this is a topic. Obviously, that a lot of folks are very interested in, especially if they find themselves in that season of life or the relying on income and of course we knew that interest rates had to rise eventually. So tell us where we are and even how we got here. Sure so we have to go back years ago when the economy really went into the tailspin back in February and March due to COBIT and the lockdown and the Federal Reserve responded to that, the way they really respond to every crisis pay cut their short-term interest rates down near zero. They started buying all kinds of different kinds of bonds to try and keep the lending markets functioning smoothly and generally speaking, anytime the economy is very weak, like it was a year ago. Interest rates can be very low without that causing any kind of inflation risk just isn't that much economic activity going on but when we fast-forward six months or so from there may be several more months out. Certainly into November and the end of the year we had a couple of significant changes. First, we started getting the positive vaccine news in November and once that hit the stage and people really could start to see that maybe we actually were going to get out of this lockdown economy a little quicker than than anticipated. That really changed expectations about higher economic growth coming back sooner and then right on the heels of that, we had the election results where the Democrats were put in a position where they could expand borrowing and spending policies that they had been advocating and the combination of those two things really shifted expectations pretty pretty suddenly pretty sharply to I will say we went from having these this lockdown economy to almost overnight, so to speak.

We have this expectation that maybe by spring or summer things would be opening up. Plus we were going to have all this additional stimulus in the pipeline. While the bond market woke up really quickly and started paying attention and longer-term interest rates started rising very quickly. They had been as low as almost about half a percent. Half of 1% is late August and they hit 1% at year end.

There up over 1.6% today. So in about three months time.

We've moved about three quarters of a percent, which is a really big move in interest rates. Yeah a very significant market you talk about the fact that Gil on one hand, this rise in rates is partly healthy. On the other hand, partly unhealthy explained that for listeners sure.

So on the healthy side you know this this rise in rates is good because it reflects this much more robust economic activity when the economy was really sick a year ago.

That's why we have these really low interest rates, but on the unhealthy side, of course, there are limits to what we say there are limits to how much government can we we know more than they borrow, the more pressure that puts on interest rates because it's like any supply demand dynamic, you increase the supply of all this new debt and the price is going to go down anytime bond prices are going down the yields are going up so that that's really the gist of it and it's not just the absolute levels of interest rates with how quickly they've been moving interesting well a lot more to come. In this mark.

We also want to know how this is can affect the stock market in the bond market that is much more around the corner, listening to moneywise live, your host is Rob West. More Mark Miller. I guess today sound mind investing. Some with us today moneywise live with Ron was born is a moment ago. Mark Miller is with us today.

He's a good friend in the works with all the great people@soundmindinvesting.org now today or talking about well rising interest rates and what did they mean when it comes to you investing your saving your spending that maybe maybe future big tag purchases or maybe your summer vacation chatted a bit about that run Mark a great information here as to the back story on how we got here with interest rates. Why were seeing the move up in the bond market respond accordingly.

I explained the relationship for listeners between higher interest rates.

Though in the stock market specifically sure. So I think it's important first to state outright that rising interest rates aren't necessarily a bad thing for stocks. If there rising for the right reasons and as we just discussed that what were talking about there. If the economy is getting healthier. And if the pace of those rate increases isn't coming too quickly and that can actually be an okay environment for stocks.

There are lots of examples in the past when stocks did just fine even when interest rates were rising but there are some risks we've also seen some cases where rates went up, and eventually Canada torpedoed the stock market. We saw that in 2018 where we had the better part of a couple years of study interest rates that didn't seem like a problem until all of a sudden they were a problem in the stock market, rolled over at the end of 2018. Because of those rate increases one of the things that tends to happen is there's this this kinda cute shorthand that's developed over the last decade or so, called the Tina effect and that's shorthand for there is no alternative in the idea that there is interest rates have been held so hello this idea has developed that there is no alternative to stocks because bonds just aren't yielding anything and what happens is as interest rates creep higher. Now all of a sudden you gradually do start to have an alternative to stocks and someone who maybe a year ago and that 10 year treasury bond was yielding one half of 1% they might've said well it's not worth the time to put my money in the stock market, but now today when that yield is 1.6%, they might start to change their thinking a little bit that we gotta be careful here because like I was just saying we fed this rise in interest rates and yet today the S&P 500 index hit a new all-time high. So the impact on stocks has not been tremendous. To this point. Although we did see kind of a little wobble at the end of February and the stock market when those rate increases were really picking up but that is one thing to be on the lookout for that investors are getting a little bit concerned.

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This isn't so bad but what if this interest rate goes up to 2% around the 2 1/4 2 1/2 at some point that could be a problem for the stock market, you mention the wobble that we saw at the end of February. It started to look like. Perhaps the stocks that were going to see increases perhaps would shift away from some of these highflying tech stocks in a very limited portion of the market over to a more broad-based even some of the sectors that have been out of favor like small And are you seeing any trends that are sticking their yeah that's a great point. Actually it wasn't so much that the whole stock market had trouble but what we really saw was the beginning of a rotation. These big tech stocks that really carried the market through most of last year and frankly have been the driver of stock market performance for the last few years. They really took it on the chin, whereas, as you said these other small Smaller Companies and Particularly Areas of the Market like Energy Stocks Financial Stocks Financials Always Tend to Do Pretty Well When Yields Are Rising Because That's Good for Banks, the Wider Interest Rate Spread Helps Them Because They Can Can Give Us the Low Interest Rates on Our Savings Accounts Because the Fed Is Keeping Their Foot on Those Short-Term Interest Rates and Keeping Those Low but the Rates That We've Been Talking about Here Today Are Rising and They Can Charge Those Higher Rates on Their Loan Product so That Helps Profitability and the Banks so Is Really More of a Rotation in Stocks Out Of Those Big Tech Growth Names and All Of A Sudden We Are Seeing A Lot Of Interest in These Kinda Left for Dead Value and Smaller Companies Will Have a Chance to Get Some Questions and for Mark Miller in Just a Bit. If You're a Retiree. Perhaps You're Counting on the Income Portion of Your Portfolio Wanting to Know How This Rise in Interest Rates Is Going to Affect You. I Know He'd Love to Speak to You Today.

800-525-7000. We Have Some Lines Open Heart. Let's Switch to That Bond. The Portion of the Portfolio and Talk about How This Rise in Interest Rates Will and Will Affect Bond Yeah so Simply Put, Rob. Unfortunately Rising Rates Are Bad News for Anyone Who Already Owns Bonds so We We Alluded to This a Minute Ago, but the Cardinal Rule of Bond Investing Is That When Bond Rates Move in One Direction. Bond Prices Always Move the Opposite Direction. So These Rising Rates Have Been Hurting Existing Bond Owners by Pushing down the Prices of Those Existing Bonds. Now the Flip Side of That of Course Is That These Higher Yields Make Any New Bond Purchases Much More Attractive You're Getting 1.6% on That Treasury Bond Instead of One Half of 1% so It's Kind of a Mixed Bag. If You're Already in Bonds. This Isn't Great, but at the Same Time It Actually Helps Future Returns for Bond Investors to Have These Higher Rates As Long As They're Not Continuing to Just Go up up and Away so That That's Kind of the Big Picture for Bond Investors.

You Have To Be Willing to Wait It out, Though, Because You May Temporarily Seal a Paper Loss in the Value of the Bond Even Though You're Enjoying Those Higher Rates.

Longer-Term, Right Yeah That's Absolutely Right, and As Long As These Rates Continue to Rise Those Current Bond Investors Are Likely to Continue to Feel Some Pain Yeah Very Good. Let's Talk about in Terms of Protection from the Rising Interest Rates You Mention Specifically Build Buying into the Bond Market on the Longer End, Especially If These Are New Investments.

What Other Options Because I Know You Mentioned Some Really Specific Investments That Are Often Not on Folks Radar That Might Be Helpful in This Environment. Yeah, There Are Few Things That Bond Investors Can Do to Protect Themselves, to Know That the Traditional Advice and a Rising Rate Environment Is to Shorten the Maturities of the Bonds That You Own. So, That of Buying Long-Term Bonds You Buy Short-Term Bonds and Those Shorter Maturities Are Going to Move Less As Interest Rates Move and They're Going to Hurt You Less If We Get More More Interest Rate Increases in the Unfortunate Part of That Is You're Getting Those Lower Short-Term Yields on Those Short-Term Bonds. But That's One Thing People Can Do Another Thing Is to Buy Individual Bonds Where You Know Exactly What Your Return Will Be As Long As You Hold That Bond All the Way to Maturity Than There They Specific Types of Bonds You You Mention Rob One Is Called Tips That Treasury Inflation Protected Purities and Those Will Help Protect against Rising Inflation and There's Another Tool That We Wrote an Article about That's Actually up on Our Our Website for Your Listeners to Look at but in This March Newsletter. We Wrote about This New ETF with a Bond Product Called I Eyeball That's Ticker Symbol IV OL and This ETF Is Specifically Designed to Benefit from These Rising Interest Rates, but a Great Performer Lately and That's Really the Opposite of How Most Bonds Respond, Which Makes It Very Unique and That's Why We Wrote about at This Last Month Love It Well.

Lots of Great Ideas There Still Some More to Talk to You Mention Inflation Right after This Break Your like to Come Back and Talk about That. Specifically, This Expansion in the Fed's Balance Sheet, Fancy Way of Saying All This Debt That Were Taking on As a Nation When the Applications of That in the Form of Prices and Even As a Relates to Our Economy and the Market Plus Questions from Listeners All That Right around the Corner. This Is Money Wise Live He's Rob West, I'm Steve Moore, Mark Diller with Us Today Were Talking about.

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800-525-7000 Will Be Right Back Don't the Way This Is Money. Wise Live Back to Moneywise Live, This Is Rob West, Mark Miller, Our Guest Today and There Were Talking, Interest Rates, the Rising Rates. The Implication of That on Your Investment Portfolio Your Bonds or Stocks and All That That Means Were Also Talking about Inflation in Mark You Brought That up. Talk to Us about the Implications Related Specifically to Inflation. In This Environment. Sure, There Are Two Well-Defined Camps Right Now As Far As Inflation Goes, Rob, There's a Group That the Fed Is Kinda Championing This Point of View, and That Is That the Inflation That Were Seeing Right Now Is Transitory. That's Kind of the Buzzword Right Now That Were Seeing Some Inflation but It's Only a Result of Coming from These Really Depressed Economic Levels and That Once We Kinda Work through This Initial Reopening That This Inflation Is Going to Go Away and That's One Point of View, That's Kinda What the Fed Is Saying Is They Think Is Likely and the Implications of That Would Be If That's True, Then There Really Wouldn't Be Any Reason Why Interest Rates Would Continue to Keep Increasing Very Much from the Levels That They're at Right Now There's Another Point of View, Though That Is Saying Look, We Have Not Had Sustained Inflation for Many Years. We Had a Big Inflation Scare Coming Out Of the Great Financial Crisis in 2008 When A Lot Of People Thought We Were Going to See Huge Inflation Because of All of the Central Bank Money Printing and the Debt and so on and so Forth. What We Didn't See Inflation. Following That Episode, and so This Camp Kinda Have To Answer for That in Their Answer Is Well Coming Out Of That Crisis.

We Were Relying Almost Entirely on Central Bank Policy to Try to Stimulate the Economy That the Federal Government Wasn't Really Doing Much to Inject Money Directly into the Economy to Help from That Side of Things, Whereas Today We Have a Very Different Situation Where Were Getting These Checks Cut Directly from the Government. Individuals Were on I Think Are Third-Round of Those Now Were Seeing A Lot Of Direct Stimulus from the Government into the Economy with Unemployed but with Unemployment Benefits, and so on. There's A Lot Of Talk about Potential Big Infrastructure Package Coming down the Line, and so the People Who Are Not Convinced That This Is Transitory, and This Inflation Is Transitory, Ours Are Pointing to the Fact That We Have Everything That We Had Last Time in Place Because the Fed Is Still Got Their Foot on the Accelerator, Doing Everything They Can Do.

But This Time We Also Have These Direct Injections of Money into the Economy by That the Federal Government, and so That Argument Is Saying This May Not Be Just a Transitory Thing. This May Actually Have Some Legs and Last A While.

Now It Is so Important for Me to Follow That up with Were Not Necessarily Talking about like Hyperinflation, like the German Situation after World War I, but We Don't Need to Be Talking about That We Have Not Seen Three and 4% Inflation for Decades. And so Even Just Getting Inflation up into That Three or 4% per Year and Having It Stick There for a Little While. That Would Be a Pretty Big Adjustment for the Economy and for the Financial Markets. As We Just Haven't Had That for Quite A While. Fascinating Marker so Much. Here We Could Talk about That Were Headed to a Brakes with about Needing to Say Goodbye to You As Quickly.

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Whatever Happened a Much Longer Lifespan. It's Kind of a Continual Entity and There There Are Projects That It's Very Reasonable for the Community to Band Together and That Project and Even Think about That As a Project to Benefit over Time an Individual or Family Has To Be Much More Careful with That Line of Reasoning Absolutely Brief Biblical Principles Apply to Everyone. But As You Point out, There's Little Difference There. Mark Really Appreciate You Stopping by Today.

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Thanks Very Much a Lowell, Indiana Jeff, I Can We Help You Sir. Just Recently We Found out Some Medical Conditions That Weren't Have To Either Add on All and so Either I Have Money to Pay for Correctly Pay Cash or Should I Take a Loan or Mortgage on It Because Interest Rates Are Low, and Then Invest That Money and Not Just Make Payments Yeah What Stage of Life for You and Jeff Are You in Your Prime Working Years.

Are You Close to Retirement in Retirement Postretirement. Okay.

All Right.

You Know I like the Idea of You, Especially Being Close to Retirement with Your Wife's Medical Situation. I like the Idea of You Being Debt Free Now If It's Going to Put You in a Real Bind in Terms of Being in a Cash Crunch Certainly Wouldn't Want You to Go to up Your Emergency Fund or Something like That. But If You Got a Healthy Emergency Fund and You've Got Some Surplus There Kind of on the Sideline and Keep in Mind As You Head toward Retirement, You're Going to Get More Conservative in Your Investment Posture, Which Means You Don't Have As Much Upside, Not to Mention the Fact That Where You Know 12+ Years into a Massive Bull Market in and We Know the Economy and Stock Markets Tend to Be Cyclical and so at Some Point This Is Gonna Roll over and You Will Have a Recession at Some Point That Needed to Be This Year or Even Next Year, but We Will and You Want to Have Time on Your Side When You're Investing so That When Those Things Come You Just Ride Them out, but If You Have a Chance Heading into Retirement to Continue to Remain at or near Debt Free. I'd Say You Go for That and Enjoy That Flexibility That Comes with Being Unencumbered. Jeff Does It Make Sense for We Have No Debt.

Now Yeah I Wouldn't Take on That Debt, and Less Is Gonna Put You in a Real Bind in Terms of Cash Available to Have for Flexibility, General Everybody God Bless Go to a Christian and Yes Christian the Minnesota Christian Huckabee Helps You A Lot You Are No Yeah Yeah Many States in the Federal Housing Ministration Kristin Have Needs Based down Payment Assistance Grants so You Would Just One Look in This to That to See If You Qualify, You Could Do Some Quick Research on the Web and If You Do Qualified and That's What It's for. You Could Take Full Advantage of It. Most People Don't. But There Certainly Is a Possibility If You Fit into One of These Categories That You Could Get It in Need Needs Based Assistance Grant with Regard to the PMI You Know I Don't Ever Think You Should Take on a Mortgage without Putting 20% down. Here's the Thing.

When You Get over 20%.

You Got Your Some Equity in the House.

Keep in Mind Just like the Stock Market's Been Going Straight up so As the Housing Market and If We Were to Get into a Recession and Housing Prices Were to Take a Dip. You Certainly Wouldn't Want to Be in a Situation Where You Were Upside down in the Home. This Is Going to Ensure That You Won't Be.

Remember the Long-Term Goal Is to Be Debt-Free Including Our Home. So Why Would We Make a Meaningful Step in That Direction and There's No Reason to Pay PMI If You Don't Have To. It's Not Money or Ever to Get Back Doesn't Do Anything for You It's for the Benefit of the Lender, Not Use. So That's Just an Added Unnecessary Expense.

So, I Would Respectfully Take Their Advice and Pass on It and I Just Continue on the Track You're on, Which Was Saving Diligently to Buy a Home You Can Afford That You Ultimately Want to Own Free and Clear, and We Will Let You Go on That Christian. We Appreciate Your Call Today. Trusted Information Will Be Helpful to You.

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