The Fed is suddenly talking aggressively about rate hikes. Can the market handle it? Wall Street’s best and brightest get poor marks for stock picking. How can you do better, or should you even try? And Shaquille O’Neal talks candidly about sending money down to his kids.

If inflation keeps going up, can your retirement income go up with it? If you take Social Security at age 70, how do you bridge the income gap? Are you napping on your 401(k)? If an annuity pops up as a new choice in your 401(k), should you jump on it?

The Fed is trying to tamp down inflation by raising interest rates. From the viewpoint of a person in or nearing retirement, what are the pros and cons of interest rates going up?

Economists routinely tell us that the biggest retirement worry is running out of money. But Forbes says there’s another concern that doesn’t get as much attention … and that’s maintaining the same standard of living.

How hard is it to maintain the income you have in your working years in your retirement years?

There’s an article in the Wall Street Journal that says about 20% of people in their 60s and 70s who have living parents, act as their caregivers. That doesn’t sound like a great retirement. No one wants this responsibility to fall on their kids. What kind of planning can we do to avoid it?

Inflation is at a 40 year high, but are there any signs of relief? CNBC’s Steve Liesman says there are a lot of “ifs”:

If inflation stays up, we lose money in purchasing power

If interest rates go up, we lose money in bonds

If the market goes down, we lose money in stocks

So, if you are in or nearing retirement, what's the best course of action for you to take as you consider distributions from your retirement accounts?

The financial website Go Banking Rates says – when you retire – your “net worth” will become meaningless. It says the only thing that’ll matter then is how much income your net worth can produce. So how do you know if your net worth will produce the amount of income you'll need in retirement?

One of the reasons taxes are so complicated in retirement, is that there are so many different kinds of income and ways that they are taxed. Ryan and Randy discuss these different types of income and how they are (currently) taxed.

Try to remember the very first day on your current job - When you were filling out all the paperwork, how much time did you spend on your 401(k) options?

A securities analyst who was mentioned in USA Today says he spent a grand total of… THIRTEEN seconds!

How do people make these decisions, and where do they go wrong?

U.S. News & World Report says there are “financial advisors” and then there are “retirement financial advisors.”

What’s the difference?