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1) Back to Basics This week, I want to get back to basics with our podcast, and that means telling you all about the mission of this show, and how I've designed it to help investors successfully navigate a choppy market. In today's first podcast segment, I take a look at what's happened in stocks over the past two years, and what the landscape looks like right now. Then we delve into the fixed income market, and examine the relatively low interest rates we have here in the U.S., especially compared to Europe and Japan. We also look at other market segments, e.g. real estate, hard assets such as gold, and even cash. Plus, find out why this market is a classic case of "tough sailing."  2) ETFs as Investment Vehicles In keep with this week's theme of getting back to basics, our second segment is all about my preferred investment vehicles, exchange-traded funds, or ETFs. Whether you want to invest in stocks, bonds, real estate, precious metals, currencies, specific sectors or specific countries, there's an E