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A major thank you to Natalie Imperatorily of Manhattan College

for just wonderful perspective on Rome as we go to a funeral this weekend. We heard from the

president leaving the White House to go to Rome, but a lot of discussion about this world that we're living in turned

upside down.

One of the features that we're looking at is not so much the finance, economics, investment,

but the behavior that's out there.

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