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 this week's Dividend Cafe podcast and video. It's kind of a different little thing we're doing this week.

Believe it or not, I've actually already started working on on next week's Dividendon Cafe because I want to do a really singular, single topic, deep dive into this subject of bubbles, the subject of kind of manias and speculative excesses and take place in the market.

And so I'm going to go back to the way I've been writing Divida Cafe next week of just kind of

a single topic that I dive into a little.

And this week I did the opposite where it's a bit more old school.

I'm jumping all over a little.

And that's all I'm going to do

with you right now on the podcast a little is just kind of take you around some of the topics that

I covered in Dividend Cafe. I was able to get caught up on some research reading the last

couple of days. And it sort of inspired me on a number of different topics. But all of the themes and all

the things that are right now most prevalent in my mind are generally what end up working on. and sort of inspired me on a number of different topics, but all of the themes and all the

things that are right now most prevalent in my mind are generally what end up working their way

to my keyboard. And this week is no exception. I think there are a couple comments and

commentaries that are due around the sort of state of the market that we're in.

This week, you know, the Dow was continuing to make new highs, having some big up days,

even on days where the NASDAQ was having big down days,

that bifurcation between a number of different categories of market investing has been

continuing.

And then you did get a really big sell-off in the NASDAQ on Thursday.

And the Dow had actually been up most of the day.

It ended up dropping itself, I think, 150 points.

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