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Hello and welcome to the Monday edition of Dividend Cafe. It is a really missed normal

Monday Dividendon Cafe today. Around the horn in all of our normal categories,

I say it's been missed because it seems like there's been some sort of drama that has

forced us to go too high in one category and too low in another for many weeks in a row.

And there isn't really any significant market turmoil or around war turmoil today.

We're just going to cover kind of all the normal things, although there was certainly some

very exciting action in the news cycle this weekend. Before I do get into our Monday Divident

Cafe, allow me please to remind you, if you miss the Friday Dividing

Cafe, a deeper dive into what we believe will soon be confirmed Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh

and what we expect and want to see out of a new Fed Chairman, a little wonkishness in monetary policy on Friday's Dividing Cafe

available where, whether you want the video, the podcast, or the written version, please

check out Friday's Dividin Cafe for every element of the Fed and Kevin Warsh. Let's get into it.

Let me do the news events first just because it was obviously

a pretty major event. Saturday night, I suspect that a lot of people outside of the D.C.

Beltway would not have been paying attention to that White House correspondence dinner.

Now, if President Trump had ended up giving his speech and that whole thing had

happened and anything newsworthy happened in his speech, he obviously was going to be ripping

the press and everything. There may have been either some humor or some, you know, not humor

out of all of that, but the vet ended up not happening. And that became the story because there was assassination attempt, shots fired.

A man has been arrested.

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