It's Wednesday, March 6th.

Welcome to Market Foolery.

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today from Fool.com, Austin Smith, and Eric Bleaker.

Gentlemen, neither rain nor snow, nor sleet nor dark of night nor terrible drivers in the

DC area will will keep us from our appointed podcast. I'm just here to see you

Chris. You know if you're if you look at the headlines coming out of Washington DC the federal government is shut down because of the snowstorm but we don't we don't shut down that's not how we roll

We are somehow more efficient than the government. Somehow, some way.

We're going to sort of step back from the news of the day a little bit and tackle a few big

questions, but we're going to start with something that is very much in the news this week

and that is the Dow hitting a new all-time high.

And Austin I'll just go to you first on this. I suppose it's a matter of perspective.

All the headlines are about, you know,

the Dow hit the new all-time high. Our colleague Morgan Housall on Twitter this morning put it a

different way, which was, you know, another way of looking at this is that the Dow has been flat since October 2007

so Austin taking a or Morgan taking a different view there but when you look at this

market and all of the headlines are about the Dow. What is sort of a headline that

isn't being reported that you think is key for investors?

I think the interesting thing at least in what I'm seeing in my sort of casual research is that there are some really, really smart

minds and hedge funders and really incredible investors who've got just phenomenally a 25-year

track records, guys like Ray Dalio, Howard Marks, basically kind of taking opposite sides

right now.

And it's this market where people, you know, even though we've gone on this great bull run, people

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