Why You Should Care About the Stock Market

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Misery index was about five point eight, and then it rose to staggering 15 point three in april of last year during the pandemic. And it's now levelled off at about eight point three. But let's just get those steaming checks, can we? Can we get the steaming checks and hopefully spend em on local businesses. Or you could invest them, like in the stock market. In the long run, the stock market has shown greater increases in value than almost any other asset that you might y one investment. It is true that if you save money when you are young, and the stockmarket does well, you will have a lot more money when you're old

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