It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.

And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.

I'm David Gardner.

Thanks for joining me during this most volatile of market weeks.

I've kind of pushed aside my normal agenda this week for Rule Breaker Investing

and let's make the podcast speak to the market a little bit

and what's happening in the world at large.

As I tape this and I'm taping this on the morning of Tuesday, August 25th.

The three previous days, the market had declined about 4% or so each day,

at least my portfolio had,

which I care a little bit more about than the market.

So that's a really bad string of three consecutive 4% losses.

And then, as I taped today, the market's up about 5% bouncing back.

So this is an extremely volatile week and it's probably the most

frequently asked question that I get not just this week but every week, any given

week at a cocktail party, social occasion.

Maybe you get this to people ask, hey, what do you think of the market?

Where is the market headed?

What's the market going to be doing?

Since I don't really have any intelligent answer to that

question what I've learned over the course of time to do is largely to ignore the

question and talk not about what the market's going to be doing because it will be

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