and over the years, even as stocks have climbed and cleemed, there have been swoons, i mean, real swoons, that drove people out. and they wanted securities that give you little or no return. then they watched the big gains from the sidelines. we have many reasons to be disenchanted. there's the blight on stocks when they were cut in half from 2007 to 2009 or the facebook ipo or the insider tracing cases and the obvious situations where stocks went down, down, and down some more. and it's clear someone knew something and you didn't. i validate all these feelings right here, right now. but the fact is, stocks remain the only game in town. maybe when the economy gets strong enough interest rates will go back to normal levels and we can own a smattering of stocks and bonds. but it's not occurred yet. and until it does, we need to have our money work for us. we are like the old avis ad here, we have to work harder to make our money fgrow. that's what tonight's show is about, how to make your money grow in a more responsibly way. it's like "get rich carefully." what suffuses this show for year