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Hello, Smart Money Tree Podcasts.

Listeners, welcome to this week's show.

My name's Kirk Chisholm.

I'll be your host.

And today I'm joining with my good friend Barb Freeberg.

Hey, Barb.

Hey, how's everyone doing today?

Good. Well, Barb is a much more attractive version of Doug. So Doug is usually our staple on Fridays. Barb has agreed to join us.

Everyone else has decided to take off for the long weekend, and Barb and I stuck around to make

sure that everyone here is getting what they paid for, which isn't hard to do since it's free.

As we get started here, wanted to kind of dive right in because even though a lot is going

on at the same time, nothing's going on. It is summertime. The markets are slow. The economic

data is slower. And I would say that the market's on the edge of some things, which we'll talk

about. But let me give the mic to Barb here, because Barb doesn't get enough chance to talk.

We had some numbers out this week.

We had the CP number.

We had the employment numbers.

So what are we seen and what should we be thinking about?

Well, first of all, we're going to revolve this all around the man of the hour, who is Jerome Powell.

What he says matters. So first we'll talk about the

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