{"id":5016133,"date":"2026-07-26T01:54:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familystockandinvestments.com\/?page_id=5016133"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:31:15","slug":"5016133-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/familystockandinvestments.com\/?page_id=5016133","title":{"rendered":"Building-Financial-Wealth-1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-3aa221573c132abd564d1ed8c725535a wp-block-paragraph\">BUILDING FINANCIAL WEALTH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-ff63491de2c32cc0cac25d8b621f98d0 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>AS A CASUAL INVESTOR VIEWING THE STOCK MARKET:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I have some concerns about the market in todays world:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">A) Big money and Government insider trading has almost turned the Stock Market into a Ponzi Scheme. Both Government and private industry can make unqualified statements that will have a great effect on our Stock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">B) large Companies with little ethics can hurt a retirement program like a Company 401-K retirement, to better themselves personally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">C) Wondering what a good investment might be in todays world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">D) Government Bonds are not a safe-haven like they once were as Devaluation of the Dollar is turning into a big problem.<br>1) New Business startups have a challenge as the cost of goods have increased with the tariffs and the push to buy everything made in America!<br>2) If manufacturing can&#8217;t benefit from cheaper labor in foreign countries to keep costs down we consumers will be paying a much higher price.<br>3) If cost of goods go up then hourly rate labor should to allow us to purchase made in America Goods.<br>4) Now they are talking about Artificial Intelligence Robots to take jobs away from semi-skilled workers?<br>5) Would we better off investing in &#8220;Physical Assets&#8221; that we can touch and posses in lieu of trusting the stock Market and others with our hard earned money?<br>6) Physical Assets can be Real Estate, Business, Collectables, Gold, Silver, Copper just to reference a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">7) To get an idea of how bad the cost of living has got and our dollar has devaluated making it harder to get by check out <a href=\"https:\/\/familystockandinvestments.com\/?page_id=7249426\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"7249426\"><strong>Cost Of Living by Year<\/strong><\/a> and leave your statistics that will help validate this claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">8) To view Gold, Silver, Copper cost from Year 2000 to current <a href=\"https:\/\/familystockandinvestments.com\/?p=7579426\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"7579426\"><strong>(check this link)<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUILDING FINANCIAL WEALTH AS A CASUAL INVESTOR VIEWING THE STOCK MARKET: I have some concerns about the market in todays world: A) Big money and Government insider trading has almost turned the Stock Market into a Ponzi Scheme. Both Government and private industry can make unqualified statements that will have a great effect on our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5016133","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familystockandinvestments.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5016133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familystockandinvestments.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familystockandinvestments.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familystockandinvestments.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familystockandinvestments.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5016133"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/familystockandinvestments.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5016133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7685394,"href":"https:\/\/familystockandinvestments.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5016133\/revisions\/7685394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familystockandinvestments.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5016133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}