Welcome to the Stay Wealthy podcast and happy new year.

For those that are new to the podcast, I'm your host, Taylor Schulte, and I really appreciate

you tuning in today.

This show has grown a lot in recent months, and I'm really thankful for everybody's support

and engagement.

I have some great things lined up for

2021. It's really going to be a fun year here on the Stay Wealthy podcast. To kick things off for the

new year, I'm digging into three big topics that I know are on everybody's mind right now,

small cap value stocks, Bitcoin, and the Dow crossing 30,000. I'm sharing updates on each and what they

mean for your retirement planning and investment portfolio. For all the links and resources

mentioned today, head over to you stay wealthy.com forward slash 92. If you're a long-time listener of the show, you know that we don't believe in market timing

around here.

We don't believe anyone has a crystal ball and don't believe anyone can accurately and

consistently predict the future.

However, after my four-part series on investing in stocks, which I published last September, I think I might

be changing my mind a little bit. In part three of that series, you might remember me highlighting

that small cap value stocks had been underperforming the S&P 500 for 12 years or so, which I followed

up by saying the following, quote, this is not a recommendation,

but personally, I'd view the current underperformance of value stocks as an opportunity.

They are unloved and beaten down.

There's no cheery consensus flying around.

If I'm trying to identify asset classes with higher expected rates of return

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