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Welcome to the Real estate guys weekly radio program. I'm your weekly host, Robert Helms, and it's great to have you tuning in, especially in such a crazy week that we've had. Lots happening in the financial markets. We've been able to say that about the last few weeks and, in fact, months. But boy, what a crazy week. With me in the studio co-host financial strategist Russell Gray. Hey Robert. What do you think

about this last week? Well, this is the weekly show and you're the weekly host and we've had a

weekly economy. Yes, we have and you're the weak partner. I'm sorry, weekly partner. It's been

pretty tough out there and especially for those of you who are in the stock market, our strong condolences go out to you.

Man, it's been brutal. I saw a headline the other day that over $2 trillion has been lost just in

retirement accounts. You know, I remember when that was a lot of money. Yeah, $2 trillion. Now,

here's what's interesting about it. You know, you had people a few weeks ago talking about how the $700 billion bailout, you know, was such a big number. And then when it

didn't pass, the stock market went down a lot more than that. So it's like, wait a minute, we've

already lost $1.2 trillion. And you wouldn't even spend $700 billion. Now, there's lots of issues surrounding that, which we'll talk about, I'm sure, today.

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