Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast.

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Hello, Smart Money Tree podcast listeners.

Welcome to this week show.

My name's Kirk Chisholm and I will be your host.

So this week, I'm joined with Jeff Beerman.

How are you doing today, Jeff?

I'm doing well today, Kirk, but the market doesn't seem to be agreeing with the way I'm feeling and smiling.

Well, for those of you who are listening, it's the first trading day of 2023 and did not start the year that well.

So that's what Jeff is referring to.

But Jeff, I really wanted to get you on the show.

I think this is a great time to get some

perspective on the markets. 2020 just ended and we're starting the new year right. So can you tell

us a little bit about your background, kind of what you've done up to this point and what you're doing now?

I'm old school. I'm getting more grayer as the year goes on, not just from being a professor,

but watching the markets. Yeah, I'm a professor of finance

at Loyola University of Chicago. I teach at the undergrad, the MBA, and the executive MBA level.

I'm also an adjunct professor at DePaul University here in Chicago, so I kind of have to

split time between the two universities and other things afoot. You can see a little in the corner

of Theotrade. I'm the chief market technician at Theotrade, which is an online resource for helping

professional and retail traders make sense of the market, which is a chore in of itself day in and day out.

And I also have my own site called TheQuant guy.com where I produce daily videos and a special

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