Welcome to the Stay Wealthy podcast.

I'm your host, Taylor Schulte, and the world is feeling extra heavy at the moment.

In addition to events overseas, I've had a few unfortunate events in my personal life

that have just put me in a bit of a funk these last couple of weeks.

Nothing catastrophic, just typical life stuff, but nonetheless, just been in a bit of a funk these last couple of weeks. Nothing catastrophic, just typical life stuff,

but nonetheless, just been in a bit of a funk these last couple of weeks. So today, I want to

lighten the mood and have a little fun for myself and for anyone else who's feeling some extra

heaviness right now. To do that, I'm sharing nine surprising little known facts about the

economy, the markets, and retirement planning.

Long-time listeners might remember that I published a similar episode a couple of years ago,

which I'll link to in today's show notes if you missed it or you want to listen again.

And there are two stats from that episode that I find myself continuing to revisit and share with people. The first is from

Morgan Housel, author of The Psychology of Money, and he shares that for the last 100 years,

the U.S. stock market has declined at least 10% once every 11 months. In other words, he emphasizes if a so-called market expert appears on the news

predicting an upcoming 10% decline in the stock market, they should really just say,

everything's going to be normal. And this upcoming correction that I'm predicting happens on

average every 11 months. My second favorite stat

from that episode was from the legendary Peter Lynch, manager of Fidelity's Magellan Fund,

which averaged a 29.2% annual return during his 13-year tenure, double that of the S&P 500

during that same time period.

And while that's a crazy fact on its own, in one of Peter's books, he shared that

starting in 1965, if you invested the same dollar amount at the peak of the U.S.

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