Hello everyone. My name is James Ford and I am the Pragmatic Investor.

Today I had the pleasure of talking to Lawrence Fuller.

He is a contributor on Seeking Alpha and owner of the Portfolio Architect Investing Group.

He has over 25 years of experience managing individual client's

portfolios and he is very knowledgeable when it comes to macroeconomics and fundamental

value investing.

Now, we talked about a lot of things including the recent Fed policy,

the recent Fed hikes, talked about everything in macro.

Lawrence has a bit of a, what might call a contrarum view,

though I strongly agree with some of his points whereby we might actually achieve that soft

landing so he's actually quite bullish. Please go ahead and check out Lawrence's profile on Seeking Alpha, you won't be disappointed.

And if you like the content, you can also check me out on Seeking Alpha, the Pragmatic Investor,

where I also write regularly on macro, crypto commodities and many different stocks.

All right, so we've got quite an interesting week in markets.

Obviously we have that Fed meeting with that 25 raid hike. We've also had a lot of

movement in regional bank stocks with some more bank failures coming in so

definitely a very interesting time. Let's begin by dialing in with a simple

question do you think that was the last rate hike has the fed paused?

I absolutely I think absolutely I mean the I don't think they needed another rate hike but but the

Fed typically does what the market expects in particular this chairman chairman

Powell is very market friendly as we know or has been over the

past five years so if you know I just use the Fed Funds features as a guide for

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