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today and join us as we navigate the financial world together.

Cheers. For centuries financial markets have been the clearest reflection of mankind's collective emotion.

As those human emotions have swung reflection of mankind's collective emotion.

As those human emotions have swung from greed to fear and back again,

stock, bond, commodity and real estate prices have reflected those swings,

gyrating back and forth soaring and then crashing as our

inability to be rational actors drives the process in both directions.

And while artificial intelligence may one day, perhaps soon, change that dynamic, for the time

being it's still we humans with all our emotional frailties who dictate the direction of

financial markets.

For eight years markets have been surprisingly calm, moving higher in as orderly a fashion

as we could ever hope for.

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