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## Video: Money in the Stock Market or Under Your Mattress?

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## Transcript

Are you better off, with your money in the stock market or under your mattress? Hm, well. Stock Market. You don't get much of a return on your mattress. There's a lot more risk in the stock market, but you know risk comes with reward I guess. If your a prudent perhaps the stock market. If you know how to play it. I think it's better off in the stock market. I think it can be good if you know what you're doing. I think it's a foundation on which this country was built, and I think we need to have confidence that the market is cyclical, and things will be coming back. A long term gain. A mattress doesn't pay much.

I mean under the mattress just doesn't do anything, you can't make any money that way. You taught him well. Under the mattress, because I know nothing about the stock market and it sounds too risky. I would want to know where it is and if it's under my mattress it's not going anywhere. At this point I would say under a mattress just because I need to rely on the money I have right now to be paying for my college. [ UNKNOWN ] Put it in stock market. I don't know. For me, it's a gamble. Some people know the numbers game. I personally am not, not a big fan of the numbers. At least in my generation, a lot of people thought that investing in the stock market is really the key to long- term wealth.

Do you think that's true? Not true? I don't know if it's necessarily the key to long term wealth, but it certainly has helped some people get there.

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