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Volatility & Inflation Are Up, Markets Are Down — Take These 3 Steps

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This isn’t going well.

Virtually everything is down this year: stocks, bonds, most commodities, Bitcoin … even cash is down due to the worst inflation in decades.

The only thing up — besides inflation, of course — is volatility. The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), a common measure of volatility, is up 113%.

If you’re aggressively long the VIX, congratulations! But if you’re like most investors, you’re feeling the pain right now.

So, what do you do about volatility in 2022?

I have three suggestions…

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