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Welcome to the Systematic Investor podcast series.

Jerry Parker, Moritz Siebert, and I, Nealz Kastrop Larson are back with this week's edition of the Systematic Investor series. Jerry Parker, Moritz Siebert and I, Neils Karz Blasner, back with this week's edition of

the Systematic Investor series where we share our experiences, the ups and the downs of what

it's like to be a rules-based investor and, of course, where we also attempt to answer all

of your questions.

Good morning, Jerry.

Good afternoon, Moritz. How are you guys doing this weekend? Great, your questions. Good morning, Jerry. Good afternoon, Mort. How are you guys doing this weekend?

Great, Niels. Good morning. Good afternoon, Jerry. Hello, guys.

Hey, a pretty hectic week, I thought, at least on the political front, we had the G2 or the G20, I guess it's called concluding last week after we recorded.

And of course, there was the usual good intentions.

And that seems to have lifted stocks this week.

On the European side, however, they struggled to agree on a new leadership team.

I think it took them like three days to find some new and surprising names.

I guess one of them most relevant to us was Christine Lagarde as new head of the ECB.

And of course, many of you listening today will know that she has been out saying in the past

that sub-zero interest rates in Europe and Japan are net positives for the global economy,

although she does warn that the side effects of unorthodox central bank policy should be

closely monitored. And what I found what interesting was that at the same time, we also saw that

the head of the Bank for International Settlements, a guy called Augustine Carstens, he took a very

different approach when they released their annual report. He said, we would stress that it is

important to present some room for maneuver

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