by the way, despite the sanctions, our bill stud continues to work with colleagues from abroad.omething from our specialists. something ours take and foreign colleagues and adapt to our realities before. we talked about demographic research. i like a tool for diagnosing the life of society. so, the national statistical service is a whole clinic of such tools, most of which are created by its employees. belstat employees are developing methods for conducting statistical research, looking for ways to probe the needs of society as quickly as possible and with minimal burden on respondents, for example, when it became clear that the world had partially moved to digital , a new branch appeared, statistics, information and communication technology specialists monitor. how many people in the country use the internet? how many organizations have digitized workflow. how much software our developers have released. and how much we had to buy when the share of private business in the economy grew, our state committee launched monitoring, business demographic statistics, it allows you to tra

stocks, there were 17,000 stocks stud yesterday. 44% of them outperformed u.s. treasury bills.orm treasury bills. so a couple things to conclude here. number one, very few investors possess the ability to pick stocks over long periods. and number two, the key to the success in owning stocks is owning a broadly diversified portfolio. they recommend the best way is using index funds. the final thing is, they studied 17,000 stocks. there aren't 17,000 u.s. stocks in the market, most of them fail over a 30-year period or bought out. so the s&p looks like it goes up 10% a year. it does on average, including dividends. but it's a biased index. they keep the winners in and throw the losers out. and the market capitalization means the bigger winners have more influence over the smaller companies. so yes, the stock market indexes tend to go up. but the average stock is a very tough time of it. >> fascinating. i didn't expect ten cent to be on that list. ben, so all of this said, people are -- i think most people know that stocks beat bonds. but for the first time, they're thinking, 5% r