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

Hello and welcome to this week's Dividend Cafe. I appreciate you who are listening via podcast and watching via video.

And for those of you who have read Dividendcafe.com this week,

you may know or about to know that I kind of called an audible this morning

in terms of what it was that I wanted to do accomplish with Divida Cafe this week.

I had pretty big aspirations for this week's commentary, a whole kind of multi-topic,

really pretty broad, comprehensive treatment on a whole lot of different issues. And there's two reasons

why I sort of went a different direction, and I will be doing that next week instead. The first is

because I'm kind of under the weather, and it's not COVID, but I've been pretty pretty sick and so that kind of takes away

some of the mental and physical ability to do what I wanted to do but then the

second is that I do think it's really appropriate with two really significant

anniversaries this week.

One of which I think most everyone sort of knows about,

and the other is one I'm going to remind everyone about and kind of bring the two together.

And I believe that out of that will have a really useful investor application,

and hopefully you'll feel like you got your money's worth out of this

week's dividend cafe.

Since the subscription price is free, I feel pretty confident that you will feel that way.

When I say the first anniversary of most people know about, I alluded to March 11th in the D.C.

today the other day.

And that was a reference to that evening.

March 11th was a Thursday this year, but it was a Wednesday last year.

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