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We came into this year in the market expecting a recession. Everyone was underway,

there's a B500, everyone was underway, credit, and as we went through week by week and the

recession never happened, everyone had to catch up. Hello and welcome to the Baron Street

Wise Podcast. I'm Jack Howe and the voice you just heard, that's Torsten Slok. He's the chief

economist at Apollo Global Management and he says, forget about hard landing for the economy,

maybe forget about a soft landing. There might be no landing and that's mixed news for the stock

market. We'll hear from Torsten and from Anastasia Amoroso, the chief investment strategist at I

Capital, about what investors should expect next. And we'll say a few words about why if you're not

getting at least 4% on your cash right now, you can do better.

Listening in is our audio producer Jackson. Hi Jackson.

Did that always come from you just now? Yeah, I sneezed. It sounded like

said a pretty animated. I wasn't sure if you had Tom and Jerry playing in the background.

You got me. What do you want to start with cash yields or some big moving stocks?

I'll take big moving stocks. Let's play with my big mover sound effects.

I mean that's a mover, it's a moving truck so it's not a real fast mover but okay,

let's start there and we'll replace it if we find something better.

Let's start with Bed Bath and Beyond. I'm sure you've seen that one this past week.

You say Bed Bath and Beyond and I think the 2006 film called Click. Have you seen it?

It's with Adam Sandler. You say 2006 like you're recalling it from memory.

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