There’s a lot of gray area when we try to classify companies, especially when they are as tangled as the medical industry. As companies try to incorporate different products, services, and therapies into their pipelines, the traditional distinctions make less sense. There are some key points in mind that investors use to identify all the different types of companies.

Social Security increases with inflation, which protects a lot of retired folks from the effects of inflation on their later years. Living an additional 20-30 years without an increase in income would be devastating when food and gas are increasing faster than they have in a long time. There are drawbacks, however, to the increase of benefits that retirees should know about, especially when incorporating this information into their retirement and financial plans.

Financial plans, when we take them up here at Emergent Financial Services, is a matter of testing a person’s financial life in simulation for the same reason: so that when they live their life, they can do so without worry and without failing to save or plan enough.

I decided to commit to the title of this blog, despite that it may or may not imply that I’m recommending putting money into rice. With inflation concerns entering the public and private consciousness as well as affecting other commodity areas such as lumber, it may not seem totally unlikely that someone would recommend a commodity as an investment.