Financial Focus – October 21st, 2026
In this week’s Financial Focus, Nate Kreinbrink and Andy Fergurson discuss year-end tax planning strategies, including new charitable giving deductions and ways to make retirement contributions more tax-efficient. They also explain how understanding the difference between ordinary income and capital gains can help investors reduce their tax burden and keep more of what they earn.
Who’s Buying Our Debt?
Here’s an interesting question that doesn’t come up all that much. When the government borrows money, who are they borrowing from? This week’s chart provides a clue. It shows the share of U.S. government debt owned by foreign investors, going back...
Getting Picky
For most of this year, the stock market hadn’t been very choosy. Money flowed into pretty much just about everything. Companies with shaky balance sheets did just as well as the steady ones—sometimes even better. But that has changed over the past couple of...
Open Enrollment
Medicare Open Enrollment started this month. James Nelson is here to break down the rising cost of Medicare premiums and highlight one of the most common mistakes people make during the open enrollment period.