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Good afternoon fellow investors and welcome back to Invest Talk.

This is our Wednesday, March 29th, 2023 edition and on the calendar we are moving through

week 13 of the year and guess what, the first quarter concludes on Friday.

And it was a busy one, a lot of interesting news events and a lot of markets, fluctuations,

a very choppy environment and kind of what I had been expecting for the first half of

this year and the first quarter lived up to the bill, we'll see if the second quarter

does the same, but it's a time of economic change, of market change, of geopolitical change.

And we're here, I'm here, I'm Justin Klein, I'm here to answer your finance and investment

questions, which I'm sure you have a lot of with the backdrop that you see.

We all see what's happening, the winds shifting in geopolitics in the economy and that ultimately

affects companies and valuations and interest rates and different asset classes and that's

always been true, but in this hyperpoliticalized environment and really, we have talked about

this before, the fourth turning, things are changing and that doesn't necessarily mean it's

a bad thing.

Let me look at that as a bad thing, I look at it as a good thing that we're kind of cleaning

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