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This is Motley Phil Answers. I'm Alison Southwick and I'm joined as always by Robert Brokamp, personal finance expert here at the Molly Fool.

Hi.

So this week we are welcoming Phil Buchanan into the studio. He heads up the Center for Effective Philanthropy and is the author

of Giving Done Right. He's going to talk to us about how to make your giving dollars

go farther. All that and more on this week's episode of Motley Philancers.

So, bro, what's up?

Well, Alison, I've got three things and then maybe one fun facts. They're kind of two facts.

But anyways, it's fun nonetheless.

Let's start with number one.

Party like it's 1987.

Again!

Well, it's been quite a year for the stock market.

So going through the year, the performance in January was the best January since 1987.

Then came February, as it always does after January, and those are the

best first two months of the year since 1991. Then came March. Put those three together. You get the

first quarter. We had the best first quarter since 1998. Well, now we're done with April, a month

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