future of finance. I'm here with Ed Dowd, who in the past has worked at BlackRock as a portfolio

manager where he managed $14 billion in a growth equity portfolio for 10 years. Now he's the founding

partner of finance technologies, global macro alternative investment firm, and is the author of

Cause Unknown, the epidemic of sudden deaths in 2021 and 2022. So, Ed, thank you for coming around the show.

My condolences to your family and friends who might have been affected by the fires there

in Maui.

Let's start out there.

Tell me how you're doing.

Tell me how your friends and family are doing.

And any commentary on that.

Yeah, so two things.

Most of Maui's fine. The mainstream media portrayed the whole island

on fire to, you know, push forth their climate change agenda. What happened in Lahaina was tragic,

and that's not to be minimized, but Maui's open for business. A lot of people think that coming to Maui is not an option, but the local economy is

crashed because the governor told tourists to stay away and now people are being laid off.

So we're encouraging tourists to come.

80% of the island is open.

Just the west side that tragically uh where the fires really

engulfed the town but the rest of maui still stands um and is is is open for business um it was

the best way to support go visit maui go visit maui umi. The fire was, after my analysis, it was an epic failure in local government.

There were a lot of things that went wrong all at once.

They did not sound the warning system here, that we have a warning system that we test

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