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

Well, thank you, Erica, and thank you, Scott. Thank you, Brian and Glenn handling our production from across country.

I actually am in the same spot in the conference room here in New York City that I was two weeks ago. And I've done plenty of things over

the last couple weeks in our new studio, but we're working on some things in the studio today.

So we decided to record me again here in the conference room. I don't think it makes a difference to you all.

We're going to keep today nice and short.

We do have a few topics.

We want to hit up on.

Some of you have sent in some questions.

We're going to be sure to address and definitely send questions live in the middle of the call to questions at the Bonson Group.com, and Erica, we'll get those

over to Scott in real time. And speaking of getting things over to Scott in real time, I'm

going to hand things over to you to drive today, Scott. Well, David, thanks so much. Great to be

with you as always. And as we tend to start these calls off with your broader views on the market. And I think

for today, the markets are still kind of digesting what we heard on Friday from Fed chair Jerome Powell

at the annual Jackson Hall meeting. So I'll just start with your broader reaction to that and also

the market reaction,

because we know that there was a lot of interest in what Powell had to say, but a lot of what

he said was expected and perhaps already priced into markets. What do you think?

Well, I certainly agree with the latter portion, but the whole entire topic is one of great

interest to me, and I wanted to be of great

interest to the clients at the Bonson Group, because I think it is such an incredibly misunderstood

and underestimated, underappreciated story for investors, which is the larger topic of

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