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ABCNews.com reporting the stock market recorded stellar year-end returns for 2025 when the market's closed before New Year's.

Performance marked three straight years of double-digit gains.

The S&P finished up the year up 16%.

Jade, we often talk about around here how the only thing you hear on the news about the markets

is bad

news. That's right. They never report good news. So let me give you the good news, okay?

The stock market was up, the S&P, in 2023, 26%. The stock market was up in 2024, 25%. The stock market was up in 2025, 16%.

That's a total of 67% in three years.

That means three years ago, if you had $100,000 in your 401k in a basic growth stock mutual fund, if you've added nothing to it, you now have

almost doubled it at $170.

That's right.

That's not on the news.

No, and that's a lot of money.

That you missed because you were watching the news, worrying about government shutdowns and tariffs and artificial intelligence bubbles,

whatever that is, and whatever else it is that you believe that you're going to watch bad news

for every day. So, meanwhile, I'm just the tortoise. I just keep investing every week, every day, every month.

I just put a little more in, a little more in. And all these years, 65 years old, I've been doing

that over and over and over, not worrying about what the news said.

We've outlived the internet.

We've outlived Sirius XM radio.

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