Welcome to the Dividing Cafe weekly market commentary focused on dividends in your portfolio and dividends in your understanding of economic life.

Well, hello and welcome to the Dividendin Cafe. It has been a very interesting week in markets.

We're going to talk about a really short-term story with a

little bit more medium-term story and then expand it into a very, very long-term story. And so

there's a little bit of something for everybody this week. It's very, very rare that I care

at all to talk about in the Dividing Cafe

is something that happened in markets on a given day or even really a given week.

Sometimes I might anecdotally mention some drama in markets on the week we just had,

but it's generally not really all that relevant to what we're doing and the way

we manage money for our clients at the Bonson Group.

And it's not generally relevant to the types of things I want to teach in the Dividend

Cafe in terms of sharing our perspective on how investment markets ought to be managed and thought about.

And we just generally have a much longer than one day or five-day perspective.

That hasn't changed this week, but there's a kind of opportunity to mention something as well as

then dive into a few other stories.

So I'm going to go all over the map of this week here.

And I will say what I like to say quite often.

For those of you listening to the podcast or watching the video,

this week's written dividend cafe has how many?

One, it's just two, I believe. Yeah, two charts, but I think it will be impossible.

Impossible for me to capture what I want to say without you viewing those charts.

So hopefully you'll have a chance to jump in at dividend cafe.com as well.

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