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Soaring inflation is top of mind for a lot of people. It is easy to see and measure lack of labour, surging home prices, and product shortages, but these are just the noticeable symptoms of the disease – not the cause of it. To understand how we get out of the current inflationary environment it’s important to examine what triggered it.

Inflation has central banks between a rock and a hard place: increase rates just enough to moderate inflation – or tip us into a recession. The answer will be revealed at some point, but in the meantime, opportunity lies in the weeds.

Critical Illness insurance and Disability insurance may sound similar, but each fill different roles within a holistic financial plan. Statistically speaking, most of us will be directly or indirectly affected by critical illness or disability at some point in our life, so it’s important to understand where they overlap and where they diverge.