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Welcome or welcome back to this week's edition of the Systematic Investor series with

Rob Kauer, more than I, Neil's Castleblassen, where each week we take the pulse of the global

market through the lens of a rules-based investor.

For long-term listeners, our conversations are intended to keep you focused

and inspired to continue your trend-following journey. And if you are new to the show,

our hope is that today's episode will trigger some curiosity to check out the back catalog

of all of the past episodes that you may have missed. Rob Moritz, great to be back with you this

week. How are you doing? How

things where you are? Hey guys. Haney, I'll say Rob. Doing fine. How are you? Yeah, doing pretty

well in England here, nice and sunny. The slowly, gradually getting back to normal, hopefully.

Yes, no, absolutely. Speaking about normal, I'm going to do something a little bit different,

though, this week in terms of my kind of a little bit of a market wrap, not because I didn't find anything interesting this week, but, you know, I couldn't help this morning.

So every week I do like a little write-up for my clients and kind of potential clients.

And when I was sitting doing it this morning,

there's just this song that kept spinning in my head this morning. And that's this Marvin Gaye song,

you know, what's going on. And, you know, when I wrote it, it wasn't meant to be any kind of

political statement because to me at least, it kind of something you can apply not just to what's going

on in America at the moment but also what we see in the kind of geopolitical stage around the world

and also what's going on in the financial markets but what was really interesting to me

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