Thanks for

joining us today. I'm Julie Morgan host of Wall Street Breakfast,

Seeking Alpha's Daily flagship podcast.

This is our weekly show all about the catalyst for the upcoming week.

I'm joined by Kim Khan.

He's the senior executive editor at Seeking Alpha

and the host of our new afternoon show,

Wall Street Lunch.

Kim, so next week, it's kind of a slow week, but I mean there is

consumer sentiment. Well it is definitely a slow week and I think the market deserves

a breather after all it's had with earnings on top of a Fed's decision,

on top of Treasury funding, on top of payroll's report. It's nice to take a break and kind of reassess.

That said, yeah, there is the Michigan consumer sentiment numbers coming out on Friday.

And there's a lot of debate about how much these numbers mean to the market now,

because everybody seems to know how to gain the system.

These are basically just questions of people asking how are things in your day-to-day life,

how you see the economy, how do you view your expectations for inflation, a whole lots of things that people can decide to

answer truthfully or not. And if you think about now, the main people answering these things

have all grown up on online surveys.

So I mean, if anybody's taking a buzzfeed quiz and they wanted to be Luke Skywalker instead of

Han Solo, they'll know what to say online.

And the same thing kind of applies for these things in a more political kind of agenda where people say, okay, I don't like the current administration.

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