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Now, for most of our investing history, which, by the way, is very brief, really, for the bulk of us, most people didn't invest in the olden days. But back of the old days, we invested primarily for the income our investments could provide. We put money in the bank for interest. We would buy stocks for the dividends.

And now those numbers, the income from our investments is a lot of money.

Yeah, I mean, the first quarter, $3.7 trillion from interest and dividends, that's adjusted, that's the

amount a year adjusted seasonally. That is way up just four years ago. It was only $770 billion.

So that's like, what, five times as much or something, right? It is huge. Amazingly, a large number,

all kinds of things are paying now, right? Bonds are paying you a little bit. Yeah, bonds are paying a lot more. Stocks are paying well. I mean, all that stuff. Oh, wait, no, it's up 700. It's up from $3 trillion to $3.7. It's up by roughly $7007. Okay, I misspoke. But it's still up rather considerably.

Yeah, that's a lot more.

The reason I raise this issue is what I see, the mistake I see people making, especially

with stock dividends.

They have a tendency to think they're getting something for nothing.

They take the money out of the portfolio. I got this dividend payouts from

all these companies and they spend it. In fact, that's what the article's about. Is that supporting

the economy overall? Yeah. And what we forget is if you bought it from during the the

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