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Hi, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of Ready for Retirement.

I'm your host, James Cannell.

And it is no secret that investing can be hard.

Investing can be very difficult. And why that is, isn't for the reasons

most people would expect. What we're going to do today is we're going to talk about how can we

distill through all the noise, all the craziness, all of the headlines that we see around investing

and distill it down to some core fundamental truths that we can all apply to our lives,

apply to our portfolios, apply to our plans to become better investors and to create better

lives for ourselves. Now, before we do so, I'm going to start by reading back to you,

or just reading to you, some headlines that I've seen over the past few years. I'd like to

clip some of these just to look back and remind myself at the absurdity of the financial media

and how absolutely terrible they are at their jobs. So what do I mean by that? Here are some

headlines that have been published over the last few years. And this is a tiny sample size of

hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands of headlines that we've seen over the years.

The first one though, this headline says the Dow drops nearly 3,000 points as coronavirus

collapse continues, worst day since 87. A year before that. The Dow plunges 760 points and worst day of

2019 as the trade war intensifies. A few days, few years before that. A 5% pullback could happen

within weeks. Here's how David Bianco of Deutsche Asset Management says you should protect yourself

in August of 2017. Well, I'm reading this because this is

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