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Today we are going to talk about making investment decisions based on the news cycle.

Our guest today is Matt Towery. He is a national columnist and a pollster. Welcome to the show today.

Thank you. Let's jump right in. You talk a lot about using the news to make investment decisions. How do you do that? How do you use the news to make investment decisions?

Well, you know, if you think about it, news really affects all of our investments. And you

could say, well, anyone can watch the news, but by the time you hear it, you couldn't make an

investment decision. It's already decided. And in reality, and I've spent years, not just as a

pollster, I've been involved with numerous

affiliates in the network covering politics. I was Newt, Kingrich's chairman when he's

Speaker of the House and served in a government myself. And I also ran a fairly large company.

So in all of those things, I found one theme in all of them, and that is that people don't really see the

news when it's coming around the corner and neither just Wall Street. So if you have a system

down and you get that system to work for you, which is what we try to do with this book,

and we managed to do very successfully, you can actually get ahead of the news cycles and

begin to invest and see those

actual returns come to you ahead of Wall Street, or at least ahead of the basic conventional

wisdom on Wall Street.

What are some of the things that you need to look for then?

I mean, obviously we don't want to spoil the whole book, but what are some of the things that

someone should look for? What are some of the, you know, small clues that somebody can look for as

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