Welcome to the Dividend Cafe weekly market commentary focused on dividends in your portfolio and

dividends in your understanding of economic life. Well, hello and welcome to another weekly

dividend cafe podcast and video. I am really excited to be recording from our New York studio, and I emphasize

New York because the divinity cafe today is going to be about the first ever New York salt

conference. And so I want to recap for you a number of the takeaways that I had from this extraordinary event this

week that was here in New York City. For those who aren't familiar with the Salt Conference,

I'll try to do this very quickly. I kind of give a little longer historical deal in the written

dividend cafe. Salt was a alternative investment conference that was started by my friend Anthony Scaramucci

back post-financial crisis in the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis

as his sort of contribution to what was just the dying economy in Las Vegas. The corporate conventions

had gone away altogether. There was a sort of infamous or famous or whatever you want to call

it moment where President Obama said, now is not the time to be going to Las Vegas. And you took

it already really hammered city and it kind of

hammered it more. And so Anthony decided his part would be to bring a lot of hedge funders and

money managers and folks, you know, from New York. He was in that business still is to this day

with his hedge fund firm and create a conference.

And over the years, it grew substantially.

I've attended almost every year, I think, but one year out in Las Vegas.

And it became, you know, a major event president, former president's Clinton and Bush spoke

before he was president.

Joe Biden spoke.

But I mean, really significant like evening entertainment, some really big, you know, groups would come.

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