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Register at Bloomberg Live.com slash Canadian Finance slash radio. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Odd Lots podcast I'm Joe Weisenthall

and I'm Tracy Allaway. So Tracy it goes without saying and we really don't need to belabor the point at all that from a market's

perspective the last year has been I guess unprecedented.

Yeah, I think that's right.

When you say we don't need to belabor the point,

should I describe what we're talking about

or should we just move on?

I think we, you know, it's just this crisis,

this huge crash, this incredible rally that never seems to end in the middle of a

pandemic and so forth. It's just like there's no obvious historical analogy to what we've just seen that I can think of.

Well, I think what was really interesting about last year was that we basically saw an

entire economic and to some extent financial crisis and a recovery so a sort of

complete economic cycle all squeezed into less than a year.

And if you think, I mean, the trajectory of everything

was quite similar to the 2008 financial crisis.

You had the sharp market sell-off in March,

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