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Hi, and welcome to the Longview.

I'm Christine Ben's Director of Personal Finance for Morningstar.

On this week's episode, we'll feature some of our favorite clips from interviews we've done with

financial planners, advisors, and retirement researchers over the past year. In next week's

episode, we'll include some of our favorite excerpts from our interviews with portfolio managers.

The past year brought a lot of new investors into the market, many of them enticed by

stock steady upward march, as well as free trading.

Psychologist and author Daniel Crosby argued that the meme stock phenomenon had an unlikely

root cause, loneliness.

Loneliness was an epidemic across the world even before the pandemic and the accompanying

lockdowns kicked off.

Interestingly, years ago, Great Britain actually appointed a minister of loneliness.

Japan has done the same because these two countries have seen that the social impact of social

isolation has been profound. In fact, 50% of Americans who were surveyed before COVID kicked off

said that they were very lonely themselves. Now, a lot of times we don't think of loneliness as a huge problem. It seems kind of like a

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