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Hello, everyone, and very pleased to be back here with Paul Kiker, Kiker Wealth Management.

Paul, good to see you, and glad to see you've gotten over your cold, more or less.

Good to see you too, Chris. I've got a little bit of a itch left over, but I'm back to

full energy again, which is really nice.

All right. Well, just go ahead and cough whenever you need to. So a lot has happened since last week,

you know, and I don't know if you saw, but I put out a piece recently that basically said,

listen, I don't know exactly what's happening, but I do know

for a fact that central banks have preferred buyer programs at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange,

which is where the highly leveraged derivative products such as futures options, things like that,

are traded. And I just asked the open-ended question, which is like, can anybody give me a

compelling reason or any reason or any legitimate reason why a foreign central bank would get a

preferred buyer discount trading natural gas contracts in the U.S., full-sized agricultural

contracts of any kind, silver, things like that. Equities. Now, we know the Bank of Japan is busy monkeying around in their equity markets,

to the point that in many cases, they are the market, like they own majority positions.

Like the Bank of Japan ought to be sitting on the boards of a lot of Japanese companies

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