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od. Oh, that was a fresh one. That was good.

Shall we start with the good news? Does anybody want the optimistic take on today? I got it. If you were to pick one person that you would trust to tell you what is going to happen with the stock market in the United States in the long term, who would it be? No fair saying me. No, no, because you know where I get my information. I get my information from the person I'm going to talk about. Yeah, the answer is Warren Buffett.

Warren Buffett is still investing substantially in United States stocks. Just bought a bunch of Apple, bought some other big investments. Yes, Coca-Cola, Bank of America, some other stuff. And here's what you need to know. If Warren Buffett is still investing big in America, he hasn't been wrong yet. Was it something like 70 years of investing? And for 70 years he's been saying the same thing: don't bet against America. And then he puts all of his money in America, and it works pretty much every time.

So if Warren Buffett thinks the economy is at least strong enough for him to invest in America, well, maybe you should too. That's pretty good news. No, I'm not telling you you should invest. That would be investment advice, which I don't give. I don't give. But it's worth noting that the person who can give such advice is investing in America.

Well, here's a little quiz for you to see how many of you get this right. Rasmussen had a poll in which they were asking about the popularity of Attorney General Garland. And I want to see if you could guess what percentage of likely voters think that Attorney General Garland is doing a better job than most previous attorney generals. Anybody want to take a guess? Well, how are you doing this? What? How c

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ould it be that all of you are so close to the exact right answer? It's 26%. How do you do that? How do you do that? Wow, okay. Look out for the fake Laura Ingraham quotes. Are you seeing them all over the internet? So it's something taken out of context. So what Laura Ingraham did say on, I guess, a podcast, somebody else's, that we'd have to wait and see if voters are tired of the drama of Trum…

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