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Today in the show we're going to do something we don't normally do.

Today is March 6, 2020, and today we're going to talk about current events.

Try to keep the show very much focused on things that aren't necessarily current. My goal is that somebody listening to

radical personal finance in 2020 is just as finds most of the content just as relevant as someone

listening in 2030 and I hope that even

you know 50% of the content is relevant in 21-20 just like it would have been relevant in 1920.

That's my general hope now of course that's hard to achieve, but that's my goal. But today we're going to break that general trend and we're going to talk about some current events.

So I want to give you just some updates and let's just chat with you a little bit about COVID-19, talk to you about some economic prognostication and talk with you about the stock market, which has been quite the up and down ride over the last couple of weeks.

One thing that I do not feel that I do not miss about Perking as a professional financial

advisor is I don't miss fielding phone calls during market

volatility. I'm very happy to be on the sidelines and just care for my own money

and but I do still feel a responsibility to talk to you.

And so I want to try to do that here with some updates.

And then, so we're going to talk about COVID-19,

we're going to talk about economics,

we're going to talk about the stock market,

and then if there's time, we're going to talk about,

just again, your planning so that you can have an

intelligent response to risk. Let's begin with COVID-19. I would prefer to wait a

few more weeks to get more data before having an opinion, but I think that would be just simply kind of

weasley of me kind of chicken to sit back and not share with you some ideas.

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