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discussed in this podcast. Welcome to Animal Spirits with Michael and Ben.

For our last episode of the year, we're going to do something of a year in review.

We're going to discuss some of the blog posts that we've written. We're going to talk about some of the

shows that we watched, movies, TV shows, books, etc. With no further

introduction, Ben why don't we kick it off with you some of your top

blog posts for the year. Yeah I looked back at these. Unsurprisingly the majority of

them are from March which is when everyone was looking at this stuff. I think I've mentioned this before. I had

like a million page views on my blog in March, which is an insanely high number for my

blog. It was kind of interesting going back and reading them and one of the top ones I

wrote was called what if you buy stocks too early during a market crash. It's funny

looking at the dates on these this was posted on March 20th which is three days

before stocks bottomed and people get freaked out during a bare market but people were trying to figure out like when is the right time for this it's obviously impossible to know but I basically looked at like back historically if you would have bought a little early what are your returns look like of course it still looks pretty good

even if you bought way before the bottom happened.

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