January 27, 2024

This week on “Money Talks,” Chief Investment Officer Troy Harmon, CFA, CVA, is joined by Erik Kramschuster, CPA/PFS, a Tax Senior Manager with Henssler CPAs & Advisers, and Associate Clay Norman, CFP®, to cover the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Survey, the Leading Economic Indicators index, and fourth quarter 2023 GDP. Erik provides some tax tips for self-employed individuals, touching on self-employment tax and the available deductions those who work for themselves can take. The financial expert Clay rounds out the show answering a listener’s question on how he can start saving for retirement now that he has landed his first full-time job.

Timestamps and Chapters

00:00 Market Roundup: Jan. 22 – Jan. 26, 2024
23:35 Case Study: Tax Tips for the Self-Employed
34:48 Q&A Time: How to Start Saving for Retirement

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