In general, tax-exempts (“muni’s”) are not a good fit for IRAs (or other tax-deferred/-free accounts like 401/403(x)). VTEB is generally best in a taxable account.

NY Times opinion piece By David Leonhardt
G.D.P., jobs and other indicators have all risen faster under Democrats for nearly the past century.
ARTICLE

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/909108/000090910821000014/dhil-202123xexx991.htm
Excerpt:
COLUMBUS, OHIO - February 3, 2021 - Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: DHIL), today announced that Diamond Hill Capital Management, its independent active asset manager subsidiary, has entered into a definitive agreement to enable Brandywine Global Investment Management, LLC (“Brandywine Global”), a specialist investment manager and subsidiary of Franklin Resources, Inc. (NYSE: BEN), to acquire the business of Diamond Hill’s high yield-focused High Yield and Corporate Credit Funds. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2021, subject to customary closing conditions, including fund board and fund shareholder approval. Portfolio managers John McClain, CFA, and Bill Zox, CFA, and research associate Jack Parker, CFA, will join Brandywine Global as part of the transaction...

Search inflation here, which entails a lot of (fast) reading, or NAIRU and just go for the next several paragraphs
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-paul-krugman.html?showTranscript=1

Good weekly conversation with Josh Brown and Micheal Batnick:

gosh, maybe this is wrong too!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/opinion/biden-republicans-debt.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/opinion/biden-economy.html
maybe we should not spend and should cut services instead, seriously so
why does someone as gifted as you claim to be present as unserious so often?

+1 msf Good to know, since I use HMEAX to complement MERFX .

Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist was obviously wrong (2016)

"Highland Capital Management LP, once a giant in high-yield debt markets, filed for bankruptcy protection Wednesday as investors and former employees seek more than $200 million from the firm for alleged improprieties."
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If anybody has more up to date information on the fund advisor's bankruptcy status, I would appreciate hearing from you.

The fund advisor is Highland Capital Management Fund Advisors LP. As the WSJ later wrote:

Highland [Capital Management LP] is one of several investment platforms under the same ownership, including Highland Capital Management Fund Advisors LP and NexPoint Advisors LP, which didn’t file for bankruptcy.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/highland-capital-management-lp-co-founder-out-under-deal-with-creditors-11577738959

I have not checked other firms; but the following is a standard footnote for other information at Fidelity, aside from what may be in a prospectus for a particular investment.

Free commission offer applies to online purchases select ETFs in a Fidelity brokerage account. The sale of ETFs is subject to an activity assessment fee (from $0.01 to $0.03 per $1,000 of principal).

The lawyers got sloppy with that marketing material. The actual Fidelity fee schedule reads: "The Additional Assessment ... typically ranges from $0.01 to $0.03 per $1,000 of principal".
This fee is often referred to as the SEC Section 31 fee. More or less, it is a pass through of a fee charged to brokers on sales of securities (stocks, ETFs). The fee charged to brokers is currently $0.0221 (2.21¢) per $1,000, but will be dropping to $0.0051 (0.51¢) per $1,000 on February 25th.
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-8

"the groundhog just saw his shadow which means six more weeks of winter. "
THE groundhog? If we're talking prognosticators, shouldn't we go with the better track record?

It turns out Staten Island Chuck is, on the whole, more reliable than Phil of Punxsutawny, if you look at the past years data:
How Often Are Our Local Groundhogs Right?
Based on 24 predictions since 1992, as measured against data from the National Climate Data Center
[Bar Chart]      Punxsutawney Phil 43%      Staten Island Chuck 65%

https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/data-staten-island-chuck-or-punxsutawny-phil-which-groundhog-is-historically-more-accurate
"Staten Island Chuck claimed that spring is imminent." But there are allegations of fake news: "Chuck's prognostication was suspiciously made in a pre-taped Staten Island Zoo video."
Since this is an investing site and predictions seem to be the subject, one must consider the Super Bowl indicator. Clearly the Chiefs represent the AFC. But what about the Buccaneers? For its first season the team was in the AFC. Does that mean it's a sure bet that the market will fall this year (since there's arguably no team originally from the NFC)?
Not so fast. The accuracy of this indicator goes down as attendance declines. With the pandemic, attendance (excluding cutouts) will be the lowest ever.
https://www.thestreet.com/investing/does-the-super-bowl-indicator-work
Lies, darn lies, and statistics.

GME was DOWN a whopping 60% today BUT MSSMX was UP 2.05%.
So GME could have been part of the cause of yesterday's fractionally DOWN day. If it was though, it would seem likely then that GME was sold yesterday as MSSMX did not have the same price action today on an even steeper GME drop.
That's a WAG at best given the dated port holdings and that alone causing me to NOT take a deep dive under the hood. For me at least, it is what it is on this one.
I did tip off my allocation today so I am strapped in for at least a couple of months while planning to hold LT. Either way, expecting a WILD ride.
Elwood: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.
Jake: Hit it!

Given that he’s assuming the Chairman title and still retains over 10% of the stock, it should not impact the stock one bit. Not one bit.
Actually... something even more impactful... the groundhog just saw his shadow which means six more weeks of winter.

Thank you so much for the kind words. I generally write two articles per month. The one on Seeking Alpha comes about a week into the month and covers fund updates for the previous month using MFO. I write an article for MFO for their monthly newsletter on topics that I have researched over the past month(s).
I developed the methods to analyze trending funds over the past couple of months. It was fun and informative. Nothing as exciting as Gamestop, though. Investing should be boring, in my opinion.
Best Wishes for a Safe and Prosperous 2021!

Hard to say how it will impact the stock:
https://cnn.com/2021/02/02/tech/amazon-earnings-bezos/index.html

Josh Brown explains things entertainingly:

I have not checked other firms; but the following is a standard footnote for other information at Fidelity, aside from what may be in a prospectus for a particular investment.

Free commission offer applies to online purchases select ETFs in a Fidelity brokerage account. The sale of ETFs is subject to an activity assessment fee (from $0.01 to $0.03 per $1,000 of principal).

While some deep value and/or companies with too much debt may be impacted by some form of Reddit inspired trading; unless the bond market place becomes overwhelmed by bond slayers, I'm not concerned about potential impact; with the exception of pockets of disruption in some single issues that are junk or borderline corporate junk. I'm not saying these companies do not exist, they surely do. A Reddit traders big test would be to go after Ford or a similar company with a lot of debt, to discover their power OR not.
Estimated global bond value as of August, 2020 is $128.3 Trillion.
My 2 cents worth.
Catch

This I find harder to believe because the bond market is a large institutional one. It seems like an easy target to blame Reddit. I also suspect "Reddit traders" aren't all really Reddit traders. How easy would it be for any institutional money manager to create a Reddit account and pump and dump any security? Some of the trades during the GameStop runup exceeded 10,000 shares. That's no mom and pop "Reddit trader."