“You’re Not Going To Hear This on the News”
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4.5 • 839 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | brought to you by the every dollar app start budgeting for free today jade we often talk about |
| 0:07.9 | around here how the only thing you hear on the news about the markets is bad news that's right |
| 0:12.5 | they never report good news so let me give you the good news okay stock market was up the |
| 0:18.9 | s and p in 2023 26 percent the stock market was up in the stock market was up, the S&P, in 2023, 26%. |
| 0:23.1 | The stock market was up in 2024, 25%. |
| 0:27.8 | The stock market was up in 2025, 16%. |
| 0:34.0 | That's a total of 67% in three years. |
| 0:37.9 | That means three years ago, if you had $100,000 in your 401k in a basic growth stock mutual fund, |
| 0:44.9 | if you've added nothing to it, you now have almost doubled it at 170. |
| 0:50.1 | That's right. |
| 0:52.2 | That's not on the news. |
| 0:54.0 | No, and that's a lot of money. |
| 0:56.0 | That you missed. |
| 0:57.2 | Because you were watching the news, worrying about government shutdowns and tariffs and artificial intelligence bubbles, whatever that is, and whatever else that is that you believe that you're going to watch bad news |
| 1:12.5 | for every day. So, meanwhile, I'm just the tortoise. I just keep investing every week, every day, |
| 1:23.2 | every month, I just put a little more in, a little more in, and all these years, 65 years old, I've been doing that over and over and over. |
| 1:33.3 | Not worrying about what the news said. |
| 1:36.9 | We've outlived the Internet. |
| 1:38.6 | We've outlived Sirius XM radio. |
| 1:40.6 | We've outlived Bill Donahue and Sally Jesse Raphael. |
| 1:48.2 | That's a blast from the past. Wow. I'm trying to think of weird stuff from the past. |
| 1:52.8 | And here we are. And you know, you just keep investing and you just keep living and you keep |
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