{"id":8147,"date":"2022-02-25T19:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T19:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clients.firstfinancialsecurity.com\/FFSBB\/?p=8147"},"modified":"2022-02-25T19:04:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T19:04:50","slug":"financial-friday-round-up-february-21-february-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clients.firstfinancialsecurity.com\/FFSBB\/2022\/02\/25\/financial-friday-round-up-february-21-february-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Friday Round-Up \u2014 February 21 \u2013 February 25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">Welcome to the latest Financial Friday Round-Up, our weekly column filled with the best things for you to read, watch or listen to regarding finance around the web. Below you will find articles on annuity payments, Black entrepreneurship, understanding a trillion, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiplinger.com\/retirement\/annuities\/604254\/annuity-payments-dont-make-your-retirement-they-make-it-better\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Annuity Payments Don\u2019t Make Your Retirement: They Make it Better&nbsp;<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">People tend to have a lot of questions surrounding annuities. How do they work? How are they taxed? Where to they play into a retirement plan? <em>Kiplinger <\/em>answers all these questions and more in this article about the benefits of annuity payments in retirement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/carolinecastrillon\/2022\/02\/20\/how-to-leave-your-corporate-job-to-start-a-business\/?sh=4b4e57357a70\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How To Leave Your Corporate Job to Start a Business<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">According to Google, \u201chow to start a business\u201d beat \u201chow to get a job\u201d in quantity of searches in 2021. A record number of business applications submitted supports this trend. Check out this piece from <em>Forbes <\/em>for the answer to the country\u2019s hottest question: how do I start a business?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/02\/22\/1082390433\/how-to-understand-a-trillion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How to understand a trillion<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">The economy is measured in enormous numbers, often too big for the human brain to fully comprehend. With all these billions and trillions to make sense of, <em>NPR\u2019s Planet Money<\/em> took it upon themselves to bring numbers a better degree of understanding. 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