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 another Dividend Cafe, a podcast and video. It's kind of fun to see more people watching the videos. I don't know what is

causing that. I just know what is not causing it, which is anything to do with my face. I have a few

things we're going to talk about today, as opposed to kind of sticking on to kind of one topic.

I think that what I'm going to delve into this week in a

lot of ways does flow out of what we talked about last week regarding that discussion of

where we are right now in equity markets with growth, with value, how we came about being, becoming dividend growth investors, why we think dividend growth

investing is a remedy to the dilemmas that are embedded in both what people call the growth

side and the value side. So, you know, I really enjoyed that discussion. I got a lot of great

feedback from the little two-parter we did on that.

And this week I kind of want to elaborate on that in a different, in a more specific venue,

which is the venue or the objective of income oriented investors, those who are needing

to generate cash flow from their portfolio and what the current

world looks like to those people.

And then there's some things that kind of flow out of it right now in the present environment

I'm going to talk about.

So I'm going to do my best to let this podcast kind of track where I went with this week's

Dividend Cafe, which I have printed here. And I, as always encourage you to read

it. And I always say the same reasons, which is because there's charts at dividendcafe.com

that I believe are really useful. And a couple of the charts that I'm going to go into this week

are are particularly, I think, significant. That's why I would love for you to to go look at

that but the the first chart by the way um I could walk through right now what it what it means

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