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There will be a straw that breaks the camels back at some point in the future, and we may have temporary deflation, but we know what the response is going to be is to try to do more of the same in the past, which will probably break into a currency crisis and hyperinflation on the other side of that.

That's my biggest concern.

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Hello, everyone. Welcome to this episode of Finance You. I'm your host, Chris Martinson, and today with me, of course, is Paul Kiker of Kiker Wealth Management. Hey, Paul.

Hi, Chris. Good morning. Happy Wednesday to you.

Happy Wednesday. Well, we see the holiday, you know, decorations behind you there, so we know what time of you. Here it is.

Yes.

That's cheery. Let me start with something that's maybe not cheery per se, but I'm starting to get more calls

and experiences with people who are of all levels in the financial space, but I'm talking

really sophisticated, deep run like, you know, big funds, you know, been managing money

for decades kind of guys and gals. And the vibe is, we don't know what's happening anymore.

Like, there's a real level of concern starting to build up, which is like, well, Trump and

Bessette tell me the economy's doing great. The GDP numbers look okay. The stock market's

doing okay,

but people aren't buying it for some reason, and they're concerned. And this isn't just a few people

at the tail edge of the contrarian community where I inhabit, you know, but this is like getting

really center mass and including people at all rungs on this. I'm getting very consistent feedback

now. This doesn't make sense.

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