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 edition of the Dividendon Cafe podcast and video.

This time recording here for my little spot at LAX getting ready to

jump on a plane. So I will be traveling to New York, the rest of today, and then we'll be done

for the week because tomorrow is good Friday. And so the Dividendon Cafe is coming to you on

Thursday this week in one of these very rare Friday market holidays. We'll have the long

weekend and then be back to normal next week. The topic this week at Dividing Cafe is solely

focused around the events of this week that probably for regular people watching regular news,

they may not have had to be exposed to it, but for folks that are somewhat gluttons for punishment that watch

financial news all week, this was the story.

It really began kind of last weekend and picked up, stayed constant throughout the

week. And it was a story of this private, what they're calling a hedge fund, but it wasn't even

a hedge fund. It was a private investment firm of a family office that sort of blew up late last

week. And to give you kind of the nutshell of the story,

I'm gonna apply this to you.

I'm gonna apply this to our clients.

I'm gonna apply this to other investors,

but I'm gonna use the story of what happened

to this particular private investment firm

to kind of draw a broader investment lesson for all of us.

And really, if you don't mind,

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