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We've been told from the beginning of this event that a deal is imminent, and there's no deal.

At what point do people just start ignoring what tweets come out of the White House or axios with, you know, them seeming to push the propaganda.

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Hello, everyone, and welcome, a very special welcome to this episode of Finance You.

We have a lot to discuss today, and back with me is Paul Kiker of Kiker Wealth Management.

How are you doing, Paul? I'm doing good, Chris. Having a good time during these very interesting times that we live in. Sure thing. So here's what I'd like to talk about today is going to be, well, we're in the midst of the largest energy shock ever, but you wouldn't know it, Paul, from our markets, from the behavior of oil is very different.

You know, there's this old saying that we used to have back in the day when I was a trader, right?

I did a lot of trading, which was you buy the room rumor sell the news.

Yep.

Okay.

Oil is different.

Oil is selling the rumor.

I think it's going to buy the news.

I actually think when they announced that the straight is finally open, and we'll talk

about that in just a second.

How open is it?

Not very.

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