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Today's topic is Annuity Contractual Guarantees Are Not Complicated. I know what you're saying, "Yeah, that's probably true, Stan." Well, then, why is everyone getting complicated sales pitches from agents and advisors about annuities?

Welcome to Shooting It Straight With Stan. I'm your host, Stan The Annuity Man, America's annuity agent, licensed in all 50 states. I am glad that you joined me for a topic that I have coined the phrase. I've coined this phrase, and it's being used across the country, which is a good thing because it's informative. It's easy to remember and explains a lot when it comes to the annuity category.

Today's topic is a good one. Go to the sidelines with contractual guarantees. And you're saying, "What are you talking about, Stan? You're talking about football sidelines, like college football?" No, I'm talking about investment sidelines. At the time of this blog, check the date. There's a little bit of chaos going on.

Today's topic is a great one, and you probably saw it and went, "I'm going to have to listen to this one because I want to see what he's going to say." And the topic is "All Annuities Are..." I'm going to give credit to this topic to a good friend of mine. His name is John Olsen, and he's a treasure to the annuity industry.

Today's topic is a good one and a question that I always get, so let's address that now. Is it a good time to buy an annuity? Now, that's a loaded sales question. Most salespeople are an automatic yes, "Yes, it's a great time to buy an annuity. My annuity, the one I like." But it's bigger than that.

Welcome to Shooting it Straight with Stan. I am your host Stan The Annuity Man, America's annuity agent, licensed in all 50 states. Today's topic is a good one. It's the reason you clicked because you read it and you went what? Ventilator annuity lifetime income.

Today's topic is Reverse Engineer Annuities for Inflation. This is a big one because there are a lot of bad sales pitches out there, especially in the index market, index annuity market, where they have the index annuity that is just for inflation, which is garbage. There's not an annuity company in the world that has that product.

Today's topic is a very, very good one. It is timely and one you need to pay attention to for sure. Income Riders versus DIAs, Deferred Income Annuities, which one is better? Now, if you go to the bad chicken dinner seminar, expensive steak dinner seminar, or shopping locally for annuities, in most cases, you're only going to be shown Income Riders attached to Indexed Annuities.

Today's topic is a really good one, and I want you to listen because I'm talking to most of you out there, and it's called Start Acting Annuity Rich. Now, all of you out there, "Well, Stan, I'm not rich. I'm not rich. I'm just telling you I'm not rich." I'm telling you, you are compared to the vast majority of Americans.

Welcome to Shooting it Straight with Stan. I'm your host Stan The Annuity Man, America's annuity agent licensed in all 50 states. Today's topic is 'Traditional or Reverse MYGA Ladder Strategies', so traditional laddering strategies with MYGAs or reverse MYGA strategies. I'm going to explain both.

Today's topic, Create Your Own Pension. And yes, I'm talking to you, that person out there that doesn't have a pension, or the person that has a pension and wants more money, or all of you out there that already have a pension, and it's called Social Security, the best inflation annuity on the planet.

Today's topic is Don't Be an Annuity Hypocrite. I keep pounding the table all the time about this. I'm growing weary of the stupid people out there that are saying, "I hate all annuities, annuities are all bad, annuities are all expensive, or never look at an annuity." Those types of things.

Today's topic is MYGAs are NOT Callable, and this is very important in the world that we're living in right now with rising interest rates and people wanting to lock them in. What do you do? How do they differ from bonds or CDs or things like that?

Welcome to Shooting it Straight with Stan. I'm your host Stan The Annuity Man, America's Annuity Agent licensed in all 50 states. Today's topic is a hot one. It got your attention, and you want to hope and believe it's true, and the topic is Annuity Income Increases for Inflation. Does that exist, Stan The Annuity Man?

Today's topic is, Do You Need to Be Sold or Told? One of the funny things about the annuity industry is that you'll hear people who think they're smart and the verbal jump ropers. A verbal jump roper is a person that any topic you bring up to them, they're the expert on. They just get in the jumper. They just start jumping in.