Crypto jumps back up, Americans are more illiterate and who is the world's richest man?
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This is Right About Now with Ryan Alford, a Radcast Network production. We are the number one business show on the planet with over 1 million downloads a month. Taking the BS out of business for over six years and over 400 episodes. You ready to start snapping necks and cashing checks? Well, it starts right about now. What's up, guys? Welcome to Right About Now. It's Friday the 13th. Friday, December 13th, 2024. Jason may not be here, but Brianna is. What's up, Brianna? You're much lovelier than, and you look lovely there in your studio at home than Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th, by the way.
Yeah, hopefully. I hope so. Although I am a little tired, so maybe I'm putting on the Jason look.
That's what kids do to you, you know. They send you home. You got to pick them up early. Oh, God. I remember the days. It still happens. My eight-year-old has it every now and then. He's bad. He's the worst kind of sick. He's like me, like men. You know, like one little stuffy, oh, I'm not feeling good, Dad.
He's a big baby.
Suck it up. Suck it up. Then I'm the same way. I'm like, if I don't get, I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that out loud. But when I am sick, which is not that often, I'm definitely a big baby. I think men are worse.
Yep. Yeah. I never have time to be sick. Yeah, exactly. I try not to be.
So we hope everyone is doing well wherever, whenever, however you're listening here on Right About Now. We've got your weekly business news of the week and all kinds of good stuff. I'm going to start with the good news. So I've gotten into the crypto thing. And let me just say this. This is not financial advice. So please go to your financial advisor for risk counsel, risk tolerance, and how much you can afford to lose. So that's not for me to determine. I just want you to have a little fun with me testing the market. Brianna had something to say there. I'm not sure what.
Just laughing. I thought it was funny that you said like how much you're willing to lose.
Yeah. Well, you never know or when how it's all about. Hey, you cannot make any shots you don't take. So there you have it. I have been putting in. A couple thousand dollars every week or two, just taking from other investments, doing it, and like taking, you know, moving over to the crypto. Now that we have a crypto-friendly president coming into office. And I am not the expert. Chris, who is on Escapade in Houston, is more of the, quote, expert in-house. But, you know, you can learn a lot. So I'm on the Kraken app. The names of this stuff doesn't help with some of their legitimacy sometimes. Like, I'm on that Kraken. It starts with a K. So I'll give them some free support. Maybe they should be a sponsor. That would be a good one for Natalie to reach out to.
Get the Kraken in here. Anyway, I'm on there. Very easy to buy and sell. They make it super easy to take your money. Let me tell you. So one click away, your bank account, you know, whatever. You got your wallet going on. And again, much better than college football lately. So I quit bidding on college football probably 10 years ago. So this is not a recent thing. But I will say it's riding the wave. And it's been an interesting week with crypto because I'm riding it. I probably have like 20 coins that I'm in now or different crypto, whatever. There's a lot of terminology again here. So I've been buying them. XRP, that's what you need to get on. Let me go ahead and tell you, that's the one. That one I bought for like 40 cents. It's up to like 250.
So that's helping the old cause a lot. While some of these other coins are dragging a little bit, I'm smacking them across the room going, get your shit together. The old XRP, up. But here's the thing. Monday and Tuesday, this is what happens with crypto. For at least no reason that I understand, we took an old dip, like 20%, like off the top. And they say they do that because the big investors like start, they sell something, they kind of create this swirl and people like the, the smaller buyers, like the people that have, you know, 300, 400, 500, you cup a few hundred dollars, but there's a lot of them. So it's a lot of money. They get nervous. They sell out of everything. As soon as they see it start dropping.
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