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discussed in this podcast. Welcome to Animal Spirits with Michael and Ben.

Well, that was an interesting weekend.

I mean, you never know how history is gonna judge things now because people would look back differently but if somebody told you

let's say January 1st that come October I mean 30 days before the election

that the president to the United States was going to be in the

hospital from getting sick by a global pandemic. What would you have done with your

investments? That's a good question.

Junior gold miners.

Yeah, gold square.

Three times leverage.

Markets up 1.5% today.

Yes, I got some stats on this from previous that might help, but I think this weekend and that Friday,

Saturday, these are going to be the times people revert back to that mid-March period where we had Tom Hanks and his wife get it and then the

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