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Welcome to the Systematic Investor podcast series.

Welcome and welcome back to this week's edition of the systematic investor series with Rob

Carver and I, Neil's Castor Larsen, where each week we take the pulse of the global market

through the lens of a rules-based investor.

If you're new to the show, let me start by saying welcome with the hope that today's episode

will trigger your curiosity and hunger for learning enough to check out the back catalog

and listen to some or maybe all of the past episodes that you may have missed.

Like my conversation with Mark last week, where we discussed the recent decline in commodity

prices, the initially perceived hawkish comments from the Federal Reserve,

and the difference between trading narratives versus trading price action. And I invite you to

check it out if you have not already done so. Rob, always great to be back with you. How are things in the UK at the moment now that we're

heading into the holiday season? Not quite as good as they could have been because there was a

possibility that last Monday we would have had a release of COVID restrictions, but that was

postponed for a month. So now we're looking at mid-July for that. But on a personal note,

I've had my second vaccine. So I'm now fully inoculated against everything. And when the things do start opening up, so for example, sporting events, like, say the euros, to go to that, if you've got your second vaccine, then you're kind of just waved through it and sort of VIP EQ. So I'm looking forward to that once those sorts of things start happening.

Yeah, I did see your tweet about the vaccine.

And I said in gist, of course, a little bit that, you know,

do you get the 10th one for free?

Because I'm sure you're going to have all these boosters.

And then I was thinking maybe also you need to be a little bit wary of

if after you've been there a few times getting your jabs and they wave you into a specific lounge where you can relax like in a bed or something

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