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While the economy slowly improves, the unemployment rate is coming down, incomes are rising and sales are increasing, there is still great concern about the future. However, as Rex Nutting writes in this MarketWatch article, optimism may be on the rise.

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Stronger job growth along with a pickup in consumer and business spending have many economists projecting third-quarter growth to clock in between 3% and 4%. Forecasting firm Macroeconomic Advisers predicts 3.6% annual growth from July through September. If that materializes, the economy will have grown at a pace of at least 3.5% for four of the past five quarters. That hasn’t happened since the late 1990s.

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Market Review for Q2.  The report looks at how the markets fared during Q2 events, such as the record highs hit by the S&P and turbulence in Ukraine.
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In this Morningstar video, financial planner, Michael Kitces, offers some guidance on how to be prudent and flexible with your retirement spending. His advice, create a withdrawal policy statement to help you stay on target.
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The WSJ reviews a book by Gordon Murray, an experienced investment banker who is diagnosed with a terminal brain cancer.
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