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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

It's the Motley Fool Money Radio Show. I'm Chris L. and joining me in studio this week

from Motley Fool's Supernova, Matt Argusinger from Motley Fool Income Investor.

James Early and for Million Dollar Portfolio, Ron Gross. Good to see you, Jens.

We have got earnings, Paloza. We've got LinkedIn founder Reed Hoffman with some thoughts on the financial services industry.

And as always, we'll give you an inside look at the stocks on our radar.

But we begin with market volatility. This week, the VIX, the index that measures volatility in the stock market,

was more than double the average and Ron just think of the newspapers across America

that were running the classic photo of a stock trader with his head in his hands.

Are you feeling that way? I think we should all turn off the CNBC and back away.

The average investor should never utter the term VIX. It's not important. We need to focus on companies, not volatility.

Having said that, we can talk in terms of what's been going on.

So the S&P down 6% from its high, the Russell 2000, the small cap sector, getting hit harder, down 10% from its high.

S&P is still up for the year. Small caps are down.

So things are moving around really quickly. There's a lot of stuff going on in the world.

Geopolitical tensions, the Bola crisis, pockets of weakness in Germany and Europe.

There's a lot going on. What is the average investor supposed to do about that?

I think you have to largely ignore it and focus on companies and invest in companies

and think less in terms of stocks and stock markets.

It's been impacting us quite a bit here. I'll be honest. My deep value service.

We hadn't made a purchase of a stock since March. Could not find anything to buy.

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