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And some Motley Full Money radio show. I'm Chris L. Joining me in studio this week's senior

analyst Matt Argersinger and Ron Gross. Good to see you as always gentlemen.

Hey, we've got the latest headlines from Wall Street. We will dip into the full mail bag.

And as always, we'll give you an inside look at the stocks on our radar.

But we begin once again with a reminder that investing is not for the faint of heart.

This week, the NASDAQ officially entered bear market territory. Down more than 20% for the year.

The Dow Jones industrial average and S&P 500. Just a few percentage points away from that mark.

And on top of everything else, Ron, we're taping this on Friday afternoon.

And the prospect of a government shutdown at midnight is still very real.

As our producer, MacGray would say, woof. This has been, this has been rough.

We've erased every single bit of gains that we got from the Trump tax cuts that took place in

January. Market shot up. It was awfully exciting. Although we kind of were robbing Peter to pay

Paul, I think a bit with those tax plans. But we're back to September 2017 levels here.

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