Before we get going, here's the bit where I remind you that nothing we discussed during the narrative game should be considered as investment advice.

This conversation is for informational and hopefully entertainment purposes only.

So while we hope you find it both informative and

entertaining, please do your own research or speak to a financial advisor before

putting a dime of your money into these crazy markets. And now on with the show. Well, welcome everybody, to another edition of The Narrative Game. of the narrative game. Joining me as always is the only one of us that knows anything about the

narrative and can answer the question instead of asking them. My good friend, Dr. Ben, Ben,

how are you? You know Grant, I'm doing okay, but just okay.

It's a very rainy day, pretty chilly up here in New England.

You know, all the trees have given up their leaves. Only the

only the fungi are happy, right? If you go for a walk, you only see these big patches

of, you know know dark mushrooms and of course we've got the election

coming up next Tuesday I'm not sure when this this this podcast will come out

it out before then that's's for sure. Fantastic.

Oh, please, please, please.

And, you know, markets, which I spend a lot of my time as do you looking at,

they are swinging from pillar to post and in a in just a you know in a way that I I

think we talked about this last time I keep expecting this gulf between real world

and market world to somehow miraculously narrow but it only

gets wider and then look we've we've got we've got COVID and I don't personally I know what in my family does

where we live out in the woods here in Connecticut where we're we're trying to

stay safe and be safe for our neighbors.

But man, you look at what's happening in Europe, you know, Europe's got,

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