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Good Tuesday morning. Welcome to Tech Check. I'm Carl Kinteneer with Deerbosa and John Fort.

Today, our tech stocks cheap and still not worth buying. Ahead of the Fed, the investor debate over

valuations at these prices. One example might be Chegg and the difficulty of catching

a falling knife was down 70 percent, a pandemic darling, now down another 40 cratering after

poor guidance. The CEO is going to join us this hour. And then new this morning some

bearish comments from a few investing titans, Ray Dalio warns that even though tech valuations

have come in, still not a good time to get long equities, while Paul Tudor Jones said this this morning on Squawk.

You can't think of a worse macro environment than where we are right now.

Clearly still some market anxiety at these levels.

And John, we continue to turn to analogs that we have in the recent past, like the dot-com

bust where the NASDAG had a similar fall to this one, but then continued to tumble in the

next couple of years.

Yeah, you know, right here, I was asking Lo Tony yesterday,

whether this was a historic opportunity not to buy anything.

And so many of the CEOs that I'm talking to,

both on the sort of large, large cap side and smaller startup companies,

they've got a siege mentality,

but some feel like they're inside

the walls being laid siege too. Some feel like they're outside the walls. And it's a question

of resources and business health. Do they have enough resources to tough out a perhaps extended

difficult time when it might be difficult to raise funding, sure, from the public markets,

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