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Hello, Smart Money Tree Podcasts,

Listeners, welcome to this week's show.

My name is Kirk Chisholm and I'll be your host.

So today I'm also joined with my good friend Phil Weiss.

Hey, Phil.

Hey, Kirk, thanks for having me here today.

Thanks for coming on. Well, Phil's one of our new panelists and Doug is off on vacation,

sunning himself in sunny Minnesota today. So we wish you all the best, Doug, but I think we're good.

We're happy we're not living in Minnesota. So Phil's

joining me this week. We're just going to kind of dive right in. So Phil, what's going on in the

world? What do you want to talk about? You're our new kind of guest host here. So where do you

want to start the conversation? Let's just start talking a little bit about what's going on in the market. I think that's a good place to start.

Let's do it.

So, you know, the markets have been puzzling to most people.

Phil and I talked to a lot of institutional investors, a lot of, you know, as we say in Boston,

wicked smart people in the finance world.

And, you know, most of those people, especially the ones without that accent I just gave, are really

timid about the market's direction.

I wouldn't call them confused.

I think everyone always has a really strong sense of where things are going.

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