Hey there, Stackers. Happy Wednesday or happy whenever you hear this.

We're going to turn things over to the Fintern, who's going to play another of our greatest

hits episodes here in a moment. He's holding down the fort back in the basement.

But O.G. and Doug and I are at this wonderful place called, it's a very exclusive hotel.

It's called the Hampton Inn. Not sure if you've heard of it,

but they have a wonderful, wonderful free breakfast, which you don't get that at every hotel,

do you? Hey, I didn't want to brag about my breakfast or the fact that we're on this 40 city tour

where stackadbenjamins.com slash stack, you can come see us like we're seeing people in

Dallas uh well last night as you hear this we're in austin tonight peeps come see us in austin or

Houston tomorrow and then over the weekend san diego and uh also san francisco and those are in reverse

orders san francisco then san diego but i wanted to talk about what's going on in the Ukraine because obviously the heart-wrenching stories coming out of the Ukraine right now are horrible. And, you know, it isn't the main thing we should be thinking about. But you're obviously also seeing your money move around, a lot more than it has before.

As I record this, the Dow was down huge today.

We're seeing big moves in crypto.

Russia has made some moves to their central bank.

You're seeing their currency falling.

The thing that I wanted to say, though, is that we're going to have commentary on all that coming up next Monday. And then obviously on Wednesday and as we get more information. But I'll give you the two-second discussion, which is hold. There is nothing that you should be doing. Remember, great investors do not react. They have a

response, but the response is based on an investment policy statement, not based on fear. And if your

money is in the right place for the time frame and you started with the end of mind,

you're doing a great job. One other thing I want to do,

you know, normally at this point in the show, we have a shout out to our armed forces. And if

there's ever a time that that shout out was more important than ever, it is right now because

people putting themselves in harm's way to protect us. That's a big job these days. And so on behalf of the

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