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It's the Motley Fool Money Radio Show. I'm Chris Ellin joining me in studio this week for

Million Dollar Portfolio, Jason Moser and Matt Arger Singer and for Motley Fool Deep Value,

Ron Gross. Could you see he was always gentleman? It is our 2015 hearing review.

We have so much to get to and of course we're going to give you an inside look at the stocks on our radar.

But let's start at the top gentlemen, the business story of 2015,

Ron Gross, when we look back on this year, what's going to stand out to you?

Global mergers and acquisitions reached an all-time high of around 4.3 trillion in 2015,

beating the record set in 2007, cheap debt, investor pressure to get things done in a relatively weak economy

has caused companies to consolidate, to try to grow through acquisition and its reach an all-time high.

I'm not surprised that there's a lot of M&A. I guess I'm just surprised that you go back a year and it really seemed like

if there was going to be a lot of M&A, it was going to be an oil and gas.

We haven't seen that materialized. We saw the largest one is in pharmaceuticals,

the Pfizer acquisition of Allerget for 160 billion and then we saw a big one in beer.

We saw a big one.

Wait a minute, just a review of drugs in beer.

Drugs in beer. The largest technology acquisition in history happened this year,

Dell's 67 billion take over of EMC. So we saw some big ones,

but as you said, not in the field that we would have guessed.

Jason, most of what gets your vote for business story of the year?

I think this is probably one that will slip into the radar for many,

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