Welcome to money for the rest of us. This is a personal finance show on money, how it works, how to invest it, and how to live without worrying about it.

I'm your host David Stein, and this week we have a bonus episode.

For almost 10 years we've been running a premium membership community called

Money for the Rest of Us Plus to help members invest with confidence and manage lasting wealth.

As part of that service, we provide a weekly premium podcast called Plus Episodes where we

answer member questions and once a month share the audio version of our monthly investment conditions and strategy report.

We have almost 500 plus episodes now, and this week on the podcast we wanted to share excerpts from two recent Plus episodes.

First, we discuss what degree the size of an EDF or mutual fund or the size of the fund sponsor matters.

Is that something we should pay attention to when investing?

Next we take a look at the impact of quantitative easing

and quantitative tightening on the amount of money in the system, how

QE impacted inflation, how it impacted home prices and the stock market.

As a review, quantitative easing is when a central bank purchases government bonds and other

assets in the secondary market.

Finally, we will look at something called the inelastic market hypothesis, which seeks to explain why the stock market is so much

more volatile than underlying changes in fundamentals such as realized and expected corporate profits.

I hope you enjoy this preview of what we share each week on Money for the Restless Plus,

our Companion Podcast to the Weekly Free Podcast. You can learn more about Plus membership at money for the rest of us.com.

Let's turn to a member's question. They were wondering to what degree, if any, a fund's total asset size

and the fund family, whether that makes a difference.

He gives the example, assuming two EDFs are well over, let's say, makes the

example, assuming two EDFs are well over, let's say, $75 million, so enough that the EDF is

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