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On today’s show, we discuss:
- Is this a stock market bubble?
- Stocks up, gold down in Americans’ best investment ratings
- Majority of Americans wrongly believe US is in recession and most blame Biden
- How Lies Spread
- America’s best decade, according to data
- Number of 401(k) millionaires hits new record, Fidelity says
- Bullish investors are piling into stock and bond funds
- “Inflation” doesn’t mean what it used to
- Metro Detroit real estate
- The high-class problem that comes with home equity
- The ‘Home Alone’ house is back on the market after 12 years
- WMT earnings via Quartr
- Economic well-being of US households in 2023
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Recommendations:
- Snack Shack
- Dune 2
- Ask The Compound this week
- Equalizer 1 and 2
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