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Welcome back to the breakdown.

It is Saturday, February 15th.

And today, like every Saturday, we are just doing a quick recap of the week with all of the

breakdown episodes for your long runs, for your errands, whatever it may be, all the episodes

from earlier this week in one spot.

And today, I think that the only way to really summarize

this week is getting used to the idea that we may actually be back in a bull market.

We spent most of this week over 10,000. In fact, right until about I started recording this

when we happened to be down 4.5% from yesterday and dipped under 10K for the first time in a week.

But that's neither here nor there.

I think that even regardless of that, most folks feel that there is something different going on.

The price seems to show it.

The volume of activity seems to show it.

The energy on social seems to show it.

The news around financing seem to show it.

That's really the story right now is

getting used to the idea of being back in something approximating a bull market, asking why that

might be. So this week, a lot of the episodes you'll see come down to that question of what's

driving this new shift in energy and attention, and seeing or asking what

we should be thinking about for how we move forward, right? What we want to be different,

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