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This is Motley Full Answers.

I'm Alison Southwick and I'm joined as always by Robert Brokamp, personal finance expert here at The Molly Fool.

Hello, everybody.

In this week's episode, we're joined by Lee Purvis of AARP to talk about why prescription

drugs are so dang high and what's being done about it and what you can do about it.

All that and more on this week's episode of Molly Full Answers. So, bro, what's up? Well, Alison, a few episodes ago,

we highlighted how this has been an extraordinarily good year to be an investor in U.S. stocks.

From January to April, the S.S.P. 500 returned over 18%. It was the best four-month start

to the year since

1987, and then came May. So, as of this taping, May 30th, the SEP 500 is down 5.5% this month.

So when stocks do well for the year, but then they start to slide in that fifth month, we often

hear one of the most well-worn adages in Wall Street, which is

selling May and stay away? There you go. You picked that one out. Excellent. So the basic premise

is that the stock market does not do quite as well from May to October. And it turns out there's

actually some proof of this. So here's some numbers from LPL Financial that

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