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This is Motley Fool Answers. I'm Alison Southwick, and I'm joined as always by Robert Brokamp,

personal finance expert here at the Motley Fool.

Well, hello, Allison.

In this week's episode, Bro is going to list seven things that you can do in under 15 minutes to be wealthier in 2018 and beyond.

We're also going to talk about the market's performance last year and pull out a crystal wall for you so you can learn what

to expect this year, right? Is that what we're doing?

Yeah. Yes, generally speaking, that sounds good.

All that and more on this week's

episode of Motley Full Answers. Normally, this is the point in the show where I would say

it's time for answers answers. But not anymore. Well, we're changing things up in 2018.

Instead of kicking off the show with listener questions, we're going to talk about breaking

news or something else interesting that we learned this week. Don't worry. We'll still answer

your questions. It's just that we're going to do it once a month in a mailbag episode. Any

objections out there? No? No? Okay. So we don't have a name for this segment. Feel free to send us your ideas because naming things is hard.

Bro, what do you want to talk about this week?

Well, I figured since we just concluded 2017 and we were kicking off 2018, I'll talk a little bit

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