At a time when investors are confronted with market volatility and a variety of challenges fueled by the uncertainty of inflation,

unsettled geopolitical tensions, and economic pressures.

Justin Klein and Steve Peasley, stand ready to take your finance and investment questions and share their

unbiased answers. This is Invest Talk, independent thinking, shared success. Invest Talk is made possible by KPP Financial, a registered

investment advisor firm serving clients throughout the United States.

The clarity for your path forward starts now.

Here is KPP Chief Executive Officer, Financial Advisor Justin Klein.

Good afternoon fellow investors and welcome back to Invest Talk.

This is our Monday, February 5, 2024 edition.

And it is Monday and that means Luke is back with us.

Thanks for jumping on this Monday Luke.

Thanks for having me.

It's good to see that you weren't washed away in some of the flooding that's been happening the past two days.

Not yet, but we still have a lot more rain to come over the next couple of days.

So I know we have listeners all over the country, but here in California, we are seeing an unusual amount of rain.

Usually rain happens here in the winter.

You have little spurts here and there,

but multiple days in a row, fairly rare, right?

Yeah, pretty rare, the LA River, which for those who do not know,

is a dirty Arroyo that they just carved through Los Angeles.

It's not really a river at all, but it helps with flooding. Nearly overflowed yesterday, so it'll be interesting to see what it's like

tonight and into tomorrow well it's doing that it's doing its job it is and and we

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