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Hi, everyone.

Welcome back to another episode of Ready for Retirement.

I'm your host, James Knoll.

And I want to set some context for today's episode, because depending on when you're actually listening to this, these facts will certainly be

different. But as of this recording, the NASDAQ is down 20% from its all-time highs. The S&P 500 is down

about 12% from its all-time highs. The E-Fi, so an international index, is down about 13% from

its all-time highs. And as of this recording, inflation is the highest it's been in several, several years.

As of this recording, Russia is invading Ukraine, which is causing a lot of unrest globally

in questions of what's going to happen next.

So as of this recording, there is a tremendous amount of uncertainty happening around the world, which as

investors gives us a lot of concern as well. So in today's episode, what we're going to talk about

is we're going to talk about four steps to navigate down markets. As an investor, how should we

be reacting here? What are the things that we should be doing as we look to get through these

types of experiences? And whether you're listening to this right when the episode comes out,

so some of these things are a little bit more timely, or whether you're listening to this a

year or two down the road, a lot of these principles are going to be timeless, meaning whether

it's because of Russia invading Ukraine, whether it's because of inflation,

or whether it's because of some other crisis that is happening in the future, these principles

are going to be timeless. So I don't want you to think that if you're listening to this and the

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