Kirk Spano from Margin' Of Safety Investing.

Always great to have you on the podcast.

Thanks for joining us again.

How are you doing, Rina?

It's always great to be here.

It's always great to have you, especially as we all try

and synthesize and summarize and contextualize what we could be doing better, what we're thinking

about heading into 2025. How are you thinking about the markets and your investing year thus far?

Well, as you know, I had a pretty good year. I was one of the most bullish analysts

not only at Seekin Alpha, but across Wall Street in the whole country. And the market and

Bitcoin both hit my targets, both just a little bit north of where I thought they'd be.

I thought that the stock market would hit 5720 this year based on earnings exceeding

expectations that would be in the 6,000s, maybe in the first quarter of 2025.

We're a little bit ahead of that.

We're already there.

Bitcoin, I don't even remember what it was at the start of the year,

but I said it's on its way to 100,000.

I got laughed at.

Same way I got laughed at when it was 55,000,

and I said it would go back under 20 and that's where you buy it.

That's what happened.

So we bought a lot of it.

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