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Hey everyone, it's Stacy Vanick Smith in for Mary L. Segara. If you happen to

have some cash left over after you've paid all of your monthly expenses you

might want to think about how you can use that money, maybe use it for

some long-term goals, maybe invest it. Of course the whole term investing can make people

feel overwhelmed and intimidated.

And if you are feeling those feelings,

and PRS Chris Arnold and Life Kit listener Lindsay Got it

say you are not alone.

I don't even know where to investments. That's probably it, right?

Those rare moments, if you even look at your retirement accounts, if you even have a retirement account,

you see the tangala graphs and ticker symbols of funds that somehow I guess you ended up with.

International FID Diversified AF cap. World, small cap.

But I promise that you too, once you know a few basic principles,

you're going to get this.

What?

I mean, really get it.

I need to learn this stuff better. That's okay a lot of people do we're

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