Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. It's Monday, December 15th. And we are here trying to help you make

better financial decisions, sometimes just less bad ones. And if you've got something going on in your

life, I know there's only a couple weeks left in the year. You get subsumed by the

holidays. I get that. But if you need some assistance, you just want to get in the queue, maybe even

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And Mark, let me have you come on to the microphone, please, because as we record, which is on Monday, December 8th, it is the first day I am back from my two weeks in India.

Did you miss me, Mark?

Very much so, but I will say, welcome back to the great city of New York.

How was it?

Do I need to book my tickets now?

It was incredible.

It was so incredible.

It's like an assault of the senses.

Like, I mean, just what you see and what you feel and what you hear.

It's a very noisy country, especially in the cities. It's insane. The traffic, just the amount of beeping of horns, the trucks have huge block letters on the back of the trucks that say honk, please. There's so much honking, I cannot even tell you. It's crazy. Makes New York City seem like Disneyland, right? Oh, yeah. It's nothing. It's nothing. In fact, I got back to the city and I was like,

oh, it's nice and quiet here. That's great. It's so it was incredible. The people were beautiful,

amazing, welcoming, friendly. This is an economy, by the way, that grew by an annualized 8.2% in the last quarter.

And it's still a country, however, where you were told repeated times by anybody who talks to you, do not drink the tap water.

So it is a very odd combination of a wildly on-fire economy where there are still some pretty significant problems. That said,

it was amazing. And when I saw the Taj Mahal, yes, I cried. I cried for the when I first saw it.

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