Happy New Year! Welcome to Diamond Hands' inaugural episode we look at the basics of long term investing. Goldie explains compound growth, as well as a few reasons why investing is key to your financial future, and might be simpler than you think.

We'll be back on Jan 12th with "Episode 2: How Does the Market Even Work?".

Peace!

Relevant Links:

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-average-annual-return-sp-500.asp (Historical Return for the SandP500) (Note, does not account for inflation)

https://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation/AnnualInflation.asp (Historical Rate of Inflation) (USA)

https://www.getsmarteraboutmoney.ca/calculators/compound-interest-calculator/ (Compound Interest Calculator), give it a try, see how much of an impact compound interest can make!

Many thanks to the following:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LOUtALSDqw (Moon Theme - DuckTales- L'Orchestre de Jeux Vidéo)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0584425/ (A Fishful of Dollars - Futurama - Matt Groening, Comedy Central, Fox)

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