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 a special Thanksgiving edition, a Dividend Cafe.

I am David Bonson.

I am blessed to be the managing partner, happened to have been

the founder at the Bonson Group. And each week, we go into the dividend cafe to talk about some

macroeconomic lesson, some investment principle, kind of analysis and commentary

on things related to the economy and financial markets.

And it is actually one of the great blessings of my life,

not only to run this business and to manage money

and provide wealth advisory services to clients for a living,

but to do the dividend cafe.

I absolutely love, at this point, I can't imagine

this career without the writing and recording and delivering of this content that has become

such a vital part, not only of our business, but of my life. And I've said many times, it isn't just the writing. It's the reading that feeds so much

of the writing. It's the learning. It's this great what Friedrich Hayek called moral adventure

that I'm in a constant state of intellectual discovery and of inquiry because I've chosen to try to be a thought leader

and to be a content creator. And I can't do that if I'm not constantly reading, researching,

and analyzing. And so I'm very grateful for this Dividing Cafe. And today, the Dividing Cafe is going to be

a little bit different because I'm just going to express some things I'm grateful for in honor of

the Thanksgiving season. So we've done this every year for a while now, where the Wednesday

going into Thanksgiving, we're going to just do these Thanksgiving reflections.

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