Welcome to the Dividing Cafe, weekly market commentary focused on dividends in your portfolio and dividends in your understanding of economic life.

Hello and welcome to the Friday edition of Dividend Cafe. I'm your host, David Bonson, Managing partner here at the Bonson Group recording live from

our New York City office.

But in just a few moments, when I'm done recording, I'll be running out to jump on a plane

to go to our Nashville office for a few days.

This writing of this week's Dividing Cafe has been quite an experience.

I do normally, I think I've said this to you before, I do normally write the Dividend

Cafe each week in one sitting and it's usually a few hours.

It can be, oh, I doubt I've ever written one less than an hour and a half, but it can be

two, three hours.

But it's a process.

And there are times when it's broken up into other windows of time, not all congruent in which it's written. But for the most part, I really like being able to block everything else out and

just sitting and focusing on it. And I actually did that for a few hours

on Wednesday as I was flying out from California to New York. And I found that I wasn't done,

that this topic is research intensive enough that there's enough that needs to go into this

to do it right, that I ended up not completing it in what was a pretty long

dedicated block on that flight. And then even with a lot of time spent on it, both Thursday morning

and again here this morning, Friday, to pull it across the finish line. But I'm pretty pleased

at the final result in that I think this topic, which is the impact of artificial intelligence on jobs, what we can realistically expect out of the AI moment for its impact on the economy.

And I'm hopeful that the finished product is one that will be useful or at least provocative,

thought provocative for consumers of the Dividing Cafe,

whether that be here in the video or podcast or those reading it.

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