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MarketFoolery
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🗓️ 31 December 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The first episode of MarketFoolery was January 5, 2011. What if you’d bought and held the stocks discussed that day? Chris Hill wraps up the year with a few thoughts on investing in both the stock market and your personal wellbeing.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, December 31st. Welcome to Market Fullery. I'm Chris Hill. Happy New Year's Eve. I hope you're doing all right. I have a few thoughts to round out 2020, including as Bill Parker referenced on yesterday's show, |
| 0:15.5 | What Happened to Tuesday's episode. |
| 0:17.7 | I have a few people to thank, but I want to start by talking about two stocks, |
| 0:21.5 | Facebook and General Motors. Why those two you may ask? |
| 0:27.2 | Because next week will be Market Fulry's 10th anniversary. This show turns 10 and the first two companies we talked about on the first |
| 0:35.9 | episode of this podcast January 5th 2011 were General Motors and Facebook. |
| 0:42.8 | Now in the case of GM, they had just announced some really good sales numbers and we talked |
| 0:47.1 | about whether that would translate into a good boost for the stock. |
| 0:52.3 | Facebook was still a private company and the latest valuation put their |
| 0:56.3 | market cap at $50 billion and we talked about whether the social network was really |
| 1:02.3 | worth $50 billion. |
| 1:06.0 | And you hear from time to time, well if you bought this stock at this point in time, then |
| 1:09.7 | today you'd have, you know, and I just thought, thought well what if someone actually did that? What if |
| 1:15.9 | someone listened to the first episode of market foolery took $3,000 and |
| 1:20.0 | decided to split it three ways. |
| 1:23.0 | Put one-third into an S&P 500 Index Fund, |
| 1:26.0 | one-third into General Motors, |
| 1:29.0 | one-third into Facebook. |
| 1:31.0 | How is that person doing after 10 years? |
| 1:35.0 | Now Facebook was still private so they would have to wait another year and a half for the IPO, |
| 1:39.0 | but in this scenario they just wait for that and on day one they say great I'm I'm in on Facebook |
| 1:47.6 | Since January 5th 2011 here are the numbers |
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