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Hello, Smart Money Tree podcast listeners.

Welcome to this week's show.

My name's Kirk Chisholm.

I'll be your host.

I'm joined once again with my good friend Doug Hey, Doug.

Hey, Doug.

Hey, Kirk, how are you doing this morning?

I'm doing great, a little spicy, little this, a little that. It's a weird day so far. Let's kind of

dive right in. This has been a really interesting week in this past. It's earnings have started.

You start to see a lot more volatility in the market. Volatility, i.e. It's just gone straight up. We're going to kind of dive into some of that. And what we talk about in the show, we certainly centered around a lot of the big developments that are going on in the world, like housing, interest rates, inflation. And a lot of those metrics have started to change. Now, I want to bring up a few topics today. They're really important

and they will help color the direction of the markets going forward. And I'm just going to name

them here and we'll kind of go through them throughout the show. So one thing that actually

happened in the last, I think it was two days, Putin decided that they no longer wanted to honor

the agreement with Ukraine getting the grain out to the rest of the world.

And that is potentially significant. And apparently they attacked a port with about 68,000 pounds or tons of grain.

Now, none of that means anything to me. I don't care. The numbers, whatever, it doesn't matter.

The point is, is this is potentially a significant shift in the markets. And subsequently,

I think green prices went up 5% immediately. I'm not sure where they are now. I'll have to look

them up. But the point is, is you have a factor like that. The Ukraine war started. People were thinking, oh, my God, we're going to have hyperinflation.

The food price are going to go through the roof.

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