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We're talking real money.

Another week, another dollar, or another dollar to talk about, or many dollars to talk about.

But we're here to talk about money, that's for sure.

And this is the Q&A edition of Talking Real Money that pops up pretty much every Friday,

as long as we've got questions that come in to us at TalkingRealMoney.com on that contact form.

And there's a cool little button there on the left hand side down at the bottom,

where you can record your questions

using your computer microphone or the microphone on the bottom of your phone, too. You can even

do it that way. But without the phone call, usually sounds better than the crappy cell phone

calls because they're so badly compressed. So we love taking calls, questions that way.

You can also type your questions if you want, but the voiced ones, they end up in the Friday podcast.

So thank you for being there.

Thanks for listening.

And let's get started with today's very first fascinating question.

Hello, Don.

I've got a question for you.

Everyone talks about stocks and their performance during the 1930s Depression.

But how did U.S. government and corporate bonds hold up during the Depression?

Actually, that is a really good question because it goes right to the heart of our

philosophy, our investing philosophy, which is you own bonds primarily to act as a longer term

hedge against the ravages of particularly bad markets. And the Great Depression was about as

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