Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast.

Stock market, wealth, personal finance, value stocks, invest in your life.

Hello, Smart Money Tree Podcast listeners. Welcome to this week's show.

My name is Kirk Chisholm. I'll be your host.

And today I'm joining with my good friend Doug Hey Renn.

Hey Doug.

Happy Monday, Kirk.

Happy Monday. All right, well, let's just

dive right in. It is a happy Monday for me. I love this time of year. My kids are going to

Halloween tomorrow, and they're all dressed up. They're at the age of, they're just starting

to be teenagers, so the costumes they come up with are starting to be pretty humorous. And I have two boys. So you can imagine the polarity that ensues with costumes at that age.

Anyway, I won't get into what they are because there's a family show. So we got some things I want to

talk about. Now, I first want to start talking about markets, which of course is why you're listening

to the show. I tried to do this last week and I forgot, but I wanted to touch on market

performance. Now, we don't talk about this in the show that much because that's not really the

point of the show, but I did want to use it for context. And I was looking every week I get a summary

of last week and then year to date. So last week, everything was horrible pretty much, unless you're

in the dollar or utilities or

natural gas or Bitcoin Ethereum. Pretty much everything else did horribly. Now, that's all well and good,

and that's any given week. It goes up, it goes down. But I did want to point out the year-to-date numbers

because I don't think a lot of people really truly understand what's going on.

Now, one of the things that I'd like to point out here is that a lot of people look at the S&P,

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