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There are financial opportunities in Latin America, silver and more and today we are going to share them with you! We also talk holiday shopping trends and the struggles of retailers in our current economy. We also dive into "confuse-opoly" industries like furniture, mattresses, and healthcare where pricing is intentionally opaque, share personal experiences with overpriced goods, and discuss how margins, supply, and consumer behavior shape retail dynamics. Today we discuss...

Buying a new house and becoming newly attentive to pricing, noting how Black Friday sales have expanded so much that they no longer feel special.
How holiday traditions and retail behavior have shifted, with Christmas decorations and sales appearing earlier each year.
How perpetual discounts dilute the meaning of sales and reflect retailers' struggles in a weakening, K-shaped economy.
Constant "sale" pricing makes it impossible for consumers to know real value, especially in industries like furniture.
We share anecdotes about mattress shopping and how identical products are given different names across stores to prevent direct price comparisons.
Market charts prompt discussion on growth vs. value investing, highlighting value's long-term underperformance and its historical cyclicality.
We compare current market dynamics to the late 1990s tech bubble, noting similarities in speculation and skepticism toward value investing.
Latin America's unusually low valuations and strong relative performance this year are examined as a potential opportunity.
Emerging markets often struggle with consistency due to currency issues, political instability, and uneven economic development.
We emphasize the importance of evaluating assets in relative terms—stocks vs. dollars, gold vs. currencies, and region vs. region.
How relative performance charts reveal where capital is flowing, using gold, silver, and mining stocks as examples of cycle progression.
Copper miners' potential breakout is highlighted as a key signal for commodity sector strength.
Markets ultimately reflect where limited investor capital is being allocated at any given moment.

Today's Panelists:

Kirk Chisholm | Innovative Wealth
Barbara Friedberg | Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance
Phil Weiss | Apprise Wealth Management

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast. Stock market, wealth, personal finance, value stocks, invest in your life. Hello, Smart Money Tree Podcasts, listeners, welcome to this week show. My name is Kirk Chisholm. I'll be your host. And today I'm joined with my good friend, Phil Weiss. Hey, Phil. Hey, Kirk. Happy to be here on this Monday after Thanksgiving.
0:21.6	How are you?
0:22.6	I'm doing great. Got a little turkey coma, but otherwise, great. It was a good Thanksgiving. Took a little time off. It was relaxing. Didn't work for a few days. It was great. It was great. No one else was anyway, so it didn't matter. Everyone was spending their hard-earned money.
0:37.3	They were definitely doing that.
0:38.6	It's funny you say that I was in New Jersey over the weekend.
0:42.1	We went up on Thursday. And on Friday, everybody's rather what they're going to do.
0:47.8	And everybody was going shopping except for one of my sons. And I was with him.
0:53.3	So the two of us decided to go for a hike instead
0:55.9	to go shopping. So to me that was a lot better. Good for you, man. Good for you. I just bought
1:00.8	a house. I need all the sales I can get. You know, what's funny is I don't spend money. I don't
1:08.1	need stuff. That's just not me. I'm not a stuff guy. There are certain
1:12.9	things that I enjoy. I enjoy experiences. I don't enjoy stuff. I don't need a fancy car, fancy
1:19.0	anything. Experiences love good experiences, right? I'll spend money on experiences, but not stuff.
1:25.4	So I don't buy a lot of stuff. I don't have my finger on the
1:28.7	pulse of things because I just don't care about brands or any of that stuff. I'm with you. However,
1:34.2	because I moved, I've got to buy a lot of stuff now to fill the new house, which is also stuff.
1:40.6	And so I'm very attuned to prices. Anyway, so we're going out and looking for furniture.
1:46.3	We started a few weeks ago. And it was Black Friday a few weeks ago. Like, it started November 1st.
1:51.8	It was crazy. And I've been fascinated by the concept. So, like, when we were younger, it was
1:57.0	Black Friday, and it was like a big deal. Like, oh, like, let's wait until midnight and on Thanksgiving and then we'll go rush the stores for the five TVs that are on sale and we'll fight each other for those TVs. It's just crazy. I was never into that other than the humor of the fact that people do that. You know, obviously for a lot of people, that was like a big deal. And for a lot of people, that was like a family event.
2:17.8	You go get drunk and go to the store, get in line, and getting fights. It was just, it was hilarious. But that was like a thing. But it always started midnight on Thanksgiving, like before the next day, before Black Friday. It was never before that. And stores have just gotten greedier and
2:35.7	greedier and greedy. You know, every year it gets pushed back more and more and more. You couldn't even
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