That'll Happen the Day the Cubbies Win the World Series
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The Motley Fool
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2016
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
You say the Chicago Cubs may finally win the World Series after a 108-year drought? Well, crazier things have happened! Especially in the world of finance. Motley Fool analyst Jim Royal joins us to talk about a few economic events that pundits and experts said would never happen…but did! Womp womp!
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| 0:00.0 | This week's episode of Motley Full Answers is brought to you by Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans. |
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| 0:19.7 | This is Motley Full Answers. |
| 0:21.3 | I'm Alison Southwick and I'm joined as always by Robert Brokamp, personal finance expert here at the Motley Fool. |
| 0:26.5 | Hello, Robert Brokamp. |
| 0:27.6 | Hello, Allison Southwick. |
| 0:29.1 | And I also have a studio, Jim Royal. |
| 0:33.5 | He's an analyst here at the Motley Fool and you do not have to sound as goofy as Brogust did. |
| 0:37.7 | Fantastic. I'm able to achieve that. He's a doctor. He doesn't have to do that. |
| 0:42.8 | All right, Jim is here to help us tackle our topic today, and that is, the world of finance and |
| 0:49.0 | economics is full of people saying that certain events would never happen. Sure, that'll happen the day the |
| 0:55.0 | Cubbies win the World Series. So, today we're going to talk about a few that'll never |
| 0:59.2 | happens that actually happened in the world of finance. We'll also answer your question |
| 1:03.5 | about how much you should invest in one stock. All that and more on this week's episode of |
| 1:08.0 | Molly Full Answers. It's time for Answers Answers. And this |
| 1:13.1 | week's question comes from John in Queens. Jim, feel free to chime in. Sure. Okay. Allison |
| 1:19.3 | and Bro, love the show. Seriously, I'm that guy hitting refresh on his iTunes at 701 every |
| 1:24.4 | Tuesday morning. Thanks, John. Thank you. I I recently come across an investing platform, motif.com, that allows you to pick up to 30 |
| 1:33.3 | individual stocks and essentially build your own custom mutual fund. |
| 1:37.3 | My question is about how the individual stocks should be weighted. |
| 1:41.3 | You can either weight each stock the same. |
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