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So here's what happens.

We get a pile of emails that are building up

and we just can't get every single person on the show

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David who is 66 years old. He's retired for a couple of years. He's got all of his IRA

investments in stock mutual funds so he could

get continued growth.

And now he writes, that being said, a recent article that you wrote is scary.

You say you're hoping for a recession and the reason I'm

hoping for it is that just because we know it's going to come. So it's almost like

being on the roller coaster, you know the downward move is going to come and

you just want to get it over with. So I kind just want to get it over with.

So I kind of want to get it over with.

The reality is what David says, although you say a recession may only last a year or

two, the consequences can last much much longer.

Teacher's salaries, no raises for eight years, look at the national debt, the annual debt.

That being said, I was more comfortable under the slow growth years of Obama and more feelful under the tax reform of Trump that could create a massive train

wreck.

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