Reality Radio for a really great future. We're talking real money.

Well, hello again and welcome to the show. It's called talking real money because it's about your money and we talk about it.

And it's really important. We also talk about the real aspects of money,

like real investing as opposed to the stuff that passes as investing that's like speculating

and gambling and playing with money. We're talking serious stuff here. I'm Don McDonald. That's

Tom Cock. You're out there listening. We're glad you are.

You can call us anytime at 855-935-935-8-5-935-8255. Now, some of you know U.S. stocks had another

tremendous year in 2019. I think the standard in Pores 500 was up a shade under 30.

And we've had a tremendous decade of growth with U.S. stocks, right?

I mean, it's been pretty much year after year other than the year before last of gains since the 2008 crisis.

But what you might not know is, some of you will remember this, going back to the late 1980s, the Japanese market.

The Niki was going up and up and up.

And you may remember the Japanese were buying things in the United States like golf courses.

And the Japanese style of management was being used, you know, all, it was all about Japan then, right?

We were done.

We were done.

It was over.

U.S. was done.

Yeah.

And so you took your money and you said, you know, I'm going to put a bunch of it in

Japan because it looks like the future.

Well, it's the best place.

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