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March 29, 2006. Welcome everybody to the Women and Money podcast, and everybody is smart enough to listen, especially today because Fitz is with us. So I'm going to get right to it.

Hey, Fitz. How are you? I'm doing great. Thanks as always for having me. All right. So can we just talk?

I need to talk to somebody because I'm just like so frustrated. I can't even tell you.

Yeah. So let me tell you why. And I'm sure everybody listening and they're probably feeling the same way. The fundamentals of the stocks that are on

the stock exchange, meaning their earnings, how they're doing, their profitability, have been solid.

So the fundamentals behind this entire market were so strong until somebody decided,

let's change that, and they went after Iran, and now we have oil.

And now we're watching oil go up and up and up.

And sometimes it comes back down.

And when it comes back down, that's when we see the markets go up.

Is that correct?

That's absolutely correct.

And it's correct because of all the leverage between the oil and everything

else in the market, Susie. All right. So here we are. Oil is at its like high since July of

2022. Yeah. Everything now seems to be simply dependent on one thing and one thing only, and that is oil, in my opinion.

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