Welcome to the Dividend Cafe weekly market commentary focused on dividends in your portfolio and dividends in your understanding of economic life.

Well, hello, welcome to another dividend cafe. It is very nice to be here in the Newport Beach office studio.

I will be heading out to New York City tomorrow

night and I'll be out in New York for a couple weeks before returning for a few weeks back in

California. But nevertheless, the comforts of recording in the studio are better for me, but I think

you like it better too in terms of the audio and video quality of

things. And so there's been a lot of jumping around here lately. But what there hasn't been a

lot of jumping around with is my focus in terms of what we're writing about at Dividy Cafe,

what I want to talk to you about here today on this

podcast and video. It is funny. I was rereading what I wrote this morning at Dividendan Cafe,

and there's a part of me that thinks it is a very complicated subject, and maybe I bit off

a lot in terms of what you are going to want to chew.

But then I think there's a part of me that does feel that potentially I was able to communicate

with some clarity around some topics that often are not very clear.

And we'll see how I do here for you right now.

The issue that kind of inspired the Dividendon Cafe was a comment that I read that did not get a lot of financial press.

I did not find the comment in financial media.

But nevertheless, I consider it to be a really inspiring quote in terms of

inspiring me in how I'm thinking about these things and where my inspiration for Divida Cafe

subjects came from.

From the head of the Bank of Japan, essentially think of it like the Jerome Powell of Japan.

And he made the comment that right now,

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