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 a Labor Day weekend Dividend Cafe.

I am very happy to be sitting here in our Newport Beach office studio and getting ready for a longer weekend.

And I wanted to give you guys here on the podcast and video a little different twist of Dividing Cafe.

Now, I actually do believe there's a very important market lesson coming, and I think

there's market history, and I hope that you'll get the lesson out of it that I intend.

But I want to do it in a little different way than I normally do.

And I just will put a disclaimer out there in advance that if you just hate football, or particularly

if you hate my beloved USC Trojans, you may not enjoy listening to this week.

But, you know, it has been 13 weeks of summer, June, July, August, 13 dividend cafes.

Of the, I think it was 47 D.C. today's.

I wrote 42 of them or something like that.

So over the summer, there's been a lot of writing.

There always is.

We don't take like a week off or anything.

But it's been an intense summer.

There's been changes in Fed policy. There's been market

volatility. There's been debate about inflation and recession and a lot of things. We've covered

it extensively. I feel good about the material we put out there in the perspective commentary.

I certainly feel good about the way we're executing on these things within our client portfolios.

So taking a little bit of a different journey this week is meant to be kind of fun, but perhaps

it's just fun for me as the creator and not so much fun for you as the listener,

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