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To join Allworth's Money Matters, call now at 83399 Worth. That's 83399 W-O-R-T-H. Welcome to All Worth's Money Matters. I'm Scott Hanson. I'm Pat McLean. Glad you are here with us this weekend. We've got a great program lined up. Of course, both myself and my co-host here. We're financial advisors. Practicing advisors. We've been at this for a long time and come here on the weekends

to be your financial advisors on the air and help you make wise choices with your finances.

And we did a, we embarked on a study a few years ago on really part of it was what's it

take to have a happy retirement.

Yeah, we call it the future framework.

Yeah, but in part of this, when we did this, we, in doing some of our research,

we found that that confidence, one's confidence with their finances is not so much correlated to the amount

of money they have, but whether or not they have a plan in place. That they're confident with

the money they have. Yeah. So a spending plan, a financial plan, an investment plan, those that have

the right kind of plan in place

have confidence with their finances. So part of our objective in reason we've been doing this

program for years to help our listeners have confidence with their finances. And it is a

bizarre time right now. It is a strange, strange, strange world.

Because the economy is most certainly down.

But the stock market is hit. If someone would have said what's here's what's going to

happen to the stock market do you think the market would hit new high you know but scott so i

i think a lot about this in fact i had this conversation with my neighbor who actually owns

a software company that

services small businesses. And 35% of the businesses that they served last year are either closed

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