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Jeff to Graph joins us, Now, is that a Martin guitar behind it?
Right?
Yeah?
You know it looks looks like almost like on the edge of a deep deep maybe double. Yeah, you know, it's very clapped it in. Jeff to Graph joins us, Now, in the equity market, what are you learning from Neil Dada? How do how do you take Dutta economics the great optimist now very cautious. How do you fold that into a market belief?
Jeff to Graph, Well, it's a great question, Tom. You know, I think it's important that we distinguished and David hit on this before. Are the difference between economics and an economic call and a market call. And while they're not one hundred percent independent by any means, they're certainly not brother or sister. We'd say they're probably second cousins.
And so, you know, a.
Lot of the data that we see a lot of the trajectory that we see in that data is reflected in the market, and then the question becomes, Okay, well, at what point does that become fully priced? And is the market's starting to look ahead from those things? So right now I would say that that's you know, Neil and I are more on the same page than not in terms of the market's message, the economic message. I do think that there's a tactical call here that we have to be cognizant of.
But you know, overall, from a trend perspective, those those two things are aligned.
Me.
My head's spinning. I had Margaret Franklin to the CFA Institute on and then I got the IMF headlines and I got Tom morelk a Bloomberg saying it's a paradigmatic shift in our equity market thinking, Jeff, is it thinking as usual or is it a paradigmatic shift? And how we have approach stocks?
Well, that's a great question. So what you're really asking is this is this time different? And I think what we can conclude is that from a sentiment standpoint, all those things that the IMF is talking about.
I mean, the.
Question that David asked was a great question, and I would just simplify that and say, does the IMF make you money? Because that's really what I'm trying to do here, right from a look, I'm a speculator, There's no doubt about that. So I'm not trying to call GDP. I'm trying to look at where the S and P is likely to be in the next one, three, six months. And so when I look at sentiment, this is really
a reflection what the IMF is doing. It's really a reflection of the policy uncertainty which is spiked, a reflection of some of the correlations that we're seeing which are spiking, a reflection of just the general sentiment environment that's out there. So I would put those forecasts in that bucket. And I think the important part of that is what do those forecasts do well? They get people thinking differently, and
that includes policy makers. That gets them thinking about, hey, how can we avert this, how can we soften this blow? What can we do to minimize this? And so that's where I think you want to be thinking a little bit differently. Here is what the reaction function is. When everybody starts to pile up on one side of the boat, they're still fishing on the other side, and that's what we're looking for.
Jeff, how do you look at this kind of moment to moment market, And that's what it seems to have been here over these last few weeks. And we talked at the top of the show just about this perhaps distracting conversation about the position the Fed chair is in right now and what the president's saying, but we know that that is making its way into how the market is moving. How do you kind of focus in a
more laser like way on the technicals amidst all of that. So, yes, it's a distraction, but how do you see through the fog of that and sort of chart a path forward?
A great question, and we say this all the time. It's in our disclaimer. This is a probability not a prediction business. And so what we're really trying to do is find where the mismatches are in probability and prediction. And I think one of those that really out to me. You know, you can look at the poly market as an example of you know, quote unquote, will Trump removed your own Powell in twenty twenty five, there's right now about a twenty one percent chance of that given the
poly market. Now obviously you've got players here. This isn't a perfectly well distributed probability distribution. But if you think about that twenty one percent, the way I want you to think about it is that's about the equivalent of you having a sixteen at a blackjack table and the dealer having a ten.
That's not a great place to be.
In other words, I'd much rather it be in the dealer's hand, which says I'd much rather be in Powell's position that I'm not going to get fired and I'm still.
Going to be there. And that's the way that we think about that.
A lot of America. Jeff toographed with this folks, a renaissances should say renaissance Macro here with futures up fifty five. We welcome all of you on your commute across the nation. Got some good equity chat coming up here. Is Brian Belski size Brian Belski still scheduled with us as well. Brian Belski's he's leaving the beach in Florida down there early.
We're you know, to gra We're not you know, we're not on a beach like Belski Jeff, that's all great and well, but a huge body of our listeners don't want to speculate. They got a retirement account. How should someone in conservative money, cautious money, actual assumption money, how should that person move in this paradigmatic shift.
Well, look, I think we run allocation models. We've run one for about five years now, and we look at it on a dynamic basis. It's kind of an optimization problem. But I think the best way to explain that from you know, kind of a general standpoint is in being in an athletic stance, right you want to be able to move forward, sideways, backwards, whatever the case may be.
And right now our allocations are about thirty five percent stocks, twenty five percent treasuries, and about thirty percent cash, with the remainder in some commodities. And that's really a reflection of the trends that we see, the deterioration in the data that we're seeing, and what we think is likely to happen going forward. And part of that, given the uncertainty, is that large commitment to cash. Now, we try to solve for sharp races. We try to solve for risk
adjusted returns, not just absolute returns. And so that's one of the reasons why this is a little bit more balanced of an approach. But we certainly have seen our allocations to equities come down here, really been cut in half in about the last i'd say three months, at least, probably two and a half to three months.
David, I didn't realize this on a weekly chart apples down thirty three that was a maximum drawing. I had no idea was that much agony out there?
Jeff?
Where are you on the topic of American exceptionalism? A lot of folks pouring one out for American exceptionalism. Given all of this, how are you looking at it? How much longevity does it have?
As you see in look, I think it comes down to where is capital treated best? And right now you know clearly there's some question as to how capital is going to be treated here in the US. But I think when we take a step back, take a deep breath, kind of get through the summer, see what's going on. Hopefully this is I don't want to say resolve. At least there's a little bit more clarity in this fog of war here. I think people are going to look back and say, look, where where do we have the
highest return on invested capital. Where can we really OutKick our coverage, if you will, given the risk And I think that that's going to take a long time to shift that away from the US. And so I think there's a sentiment environment here that's certainly percolating.
It's having an impact.
I mean, you really are getting into situations with rise and treasuries, with the FED likely to cut rates at the next meeting, and the decline inequities and the decline and dollar. I mean, that's taking you back into the Smithsonian stuff of nineteen seventy one. So you know, it's a pretty unusual environment. But I do think that when the dust settles, people are going to look around and say, hey, where's my money going to return the best for its risk profile?
And I think that's still going to be the US.
Are we in a bear market?
We are?
You're trying to take tea up bellski here?
Yeah, I am. I just you know, I thought i'd get a longer answer from Jeff. I just went down on flames there discuss.
I could elaborate. Are we in a circuit?
A bear market is not about being down twenty percent? It's not some magical number. It really is about the combination of the increase in volatility, the decrease in returns, and what that's happening on a trend basis, and those are all sloping downwards now. So in our book, that is the definition of a bear market, and that really kicked in about a month ago. So it's not this
is not a new phenomenon. This has been something that's in play, and I do think that that's important as we think about it from a longer term perspective, The question is is has sentiment outdone itself in the very near term to get a really nice rally, And that's where we are. We think we can rally back to at least fifty five hundred, probably close to fifty seven hundred, and then the question will be how did we get there. Did we get there with momentum? Did we get there
with a change in the attitude? If we didn't, then that's a rally to sell.
Always good to ask the follow up, Tom, that was great, Always good to ask the follow up question.
I.
See de Graf. What you don't understand is when girls in the press conference of the White House, he's like looking for the third follow up question. Those days are gone.
You know, you might have missed this, Jeff. But but Tom noted that during the hockey game last night gold hit thirty five hundred he got a push alert or something like that. When you're watching, What do we take away from that, Jeff gold hitting that. Let we've seen this amazing trajectory that gold has had over the last few months or thirty percent this year, what do you make of that? I guess that's my dumb question.
I'm gonna ask him, Well, I don't think it's dumb at all.
I think, you know, I think that's a reasonable response to sanctions that have been in place for a long time, kind of the weaponization of the dollar the US financial system. I mean, look, if we were on the other side of this trade, if we weren't, you know, US citizens or the US government, I'd be thinking about the same thing too, Right, How can I make sure that I'm not just totally dependent on US dollars and treasury? So that does make some sense to me, no doubt about it.
That trend has been in place for a while though, I mean, our trend models have been bullish on gold for at least eighteen months.
It's probably longer than that.
I think what's interesting about gold right here is when we start looking at some of our rolling alpha models and some of the things that we look at historically, we are getting into rarefied air, so we don't yet quite have it from a sentiment standpoint on the ETF inflows. But the one thing that we will watch when it comes to extremes in trend, which we're getting very close to, if not there for gold, is the sentiment environment so robust that it says to us there's a buyer's frenzy
and we want to take a step aside. I suspect that that's we're within days of weeks of that, so I actually think that that's a pretty good spot to start to let some of this go again within the context of an uptrend. So it's more of a tactical call, but I think it is getting kind of into that frenzy zone.
Two shortened answers. I'm sorry, Jeff to grab Is MAG seven broken? Is Meg seven broken?
I think you have to strip it out.
But for the most part, the trends for MAG seven are bearish, and we haven't seen anything from a momentum standpoint, and really not even from a sentiment standpoint, Yet for those individual names to say that the trend has exhausted itself, I would say for semiconductors for the first time, this was about three weeks ago, maybe two weeks ago. Now our seller's frenzy started to fire in semiconductors. Obviously the
weakness in Nvidia helped that. That's a stark contrast to where we were nine months ago, which was a buyer's frenzy. We were warning clients at the trend exactly like gold. The trend was too frothy. And I think one of the important parts of this from an overall sentiment standpoint is that you've got this now repudiation of the sky blue narrative.
That was AI.
So people are now going from protecting themselves in semis to actually trying to profit on the downside. That's a really important psychological change, and that tends to be a bull of psychological change.
Jef to Grath, thank you so much, run Us on some macro research. He's a really really great griefing there.
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Joining us now. Someone who's enjoyed that humility. Brian Belski, Chief Investment Strategies at Beamo Capital Markets. Brian, how are you framing out your inherent optimism on equities given this time we are living?
You know, thanks for having us. It's tough to be bullish now, but always we always say, you know, pride brings disgrace and humility generates wisdom. And you just brought some humility my way. Because the very first stock that I analyzed at William o'nial in company for William O'Neil was three a m. He'd literally walk me over to the to the file and cabinet made me pull out the file and read it. So it is Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing. This is listen.
I isn't that cool? Yeah?
So I've been thinking a lot about this, and obviously, and you know, the binary reactions of investors have never been greater number one.
Number two.
I think this has a lot to do with how we react to bullet points and emotions and things like that, and I'm going to make a parallel, and it's probably not going to be very popular. So I think this is very parallel in terms of how we're reacting to what's going on in the stock market to COVID. Now, clearly COVID was a fright. It was a once in
every four generation event in terms of a pandemic. But the emotions in COVID are similar to in the fear of COVID, are similar to our personal feelings with respect to what's happening politically. Then the other thing is many of my compatriots, colleagues, and competitors are not staying in their lane. They've become now amateur psychologists that are diagnosed think personality disorders, where they should actually be focusing more on what's happening in the economy in terms of the earnings.
Here's what we here's what we know. We don't know exactly how long this is going to last. We've already positioned, we meaning consensus that this is going to take years and years and years and years to unfold. So I believe that the majority of portfolios strategists, economists are already positioned for the worst case scenario. What we believe in our standing in terms of the investment Strategy group at BEMO is this could all be over in a matter
of days. We're not trying to be Pollyanna or flippant. We believe in the inherent strength of the US economy, the US stock market, and we still believe that we have the best assets in the world, and we're going to take negativity to add to those assets.
Bronze it, David, get a question in here before the market open. I'm going to come back because folks, this is my third rail right now. That Belski address David Gerr with a question.
Probably got about a minute to market opens. But yet, so I know that you've revised your your year end target. Are are you doing that simply because of historical trends where you think things are going or could go? Just in the minute we have here, explain why you decided to make that revision down.
Well, again, with much humility, we have to be much more realistic, especially given the draw down that we've had, David, and I think to have a thirty five to forty percent move from here to get to sixty seven hundred and be very difficult. Can we get a twenty to twenty five percent, absolutely, and that is based on historical standards.
Who us some vima capital markets Brian Belski, Brian, you know I'm on your side on this. We've had a number of guests this morning. Go back to Cooney in theory of nineteen, I think forty nine or forty seven, and use a dreaded word paradigm. When I see that word, Brian Belski, I circle it with fear. Why is this not a paradigmatic shift in the markets.
I don't think it's a pair. I think the market actually is acting like it's a paradynamic shift. And oh, by the way, I have a very good fortune of being in Europe last week, Tommy and talking to those great investors that have had wonderful returns if they've been investing in European stocks. And to be clear, europe investors that have not really liked US stocks wholeheartedly and objectively
since the year two thousand. They've been reluctant buyers of US stocks the last ten years, and so they're taking victory laps with respect to what's happening now. But I think we need to think more objectively about this Tom, I think what's happening is more of a reversion to the mean. If I go back to my Mary Lynch days,
I think we're reverting to the mean. I think, again, to go back to what I said in the beginning, we're making binary decisions in terms of we're not going to go all this way, in terms of going back to this massive paradigm shift that people are thinking position for. I think this is simply being positioned to a shift to the mean because we went too far the other side, Brian.
We had Jeff DeGraf on right before you. So speaking of binary, let me set this up one two. Tom asked him, are we in a bear market? And he didn't waste more than half a second in saying, yes, how about you. What's your read on where we are? Would you use the same the same name.
Just from Michigan. So he has the Midwest sensibilities. So I don't know yet. So here's what I would say, and here's what we actually wrote in a published research report. It doesn't matter if we're in a bear market. And again we all like to put labels on. Let's go back to what we said in the report. Doesn't matter if we're down ten percent, fifty percent, or twenty five percent. Again, we don't like it when people lose money. I think
it's terrible. The market was a little bit frothy heading into the beginning.
Of the year.
We know that, however, why doesn't matter because when the market bottoms, and we do think we're in a bottoming process, we don't go straight down or strained up. It's a process typically in historical new when we have these types of exacerbated moves to the downside. Twelve months out, we're not up an average of twenty nine point four percent. So give me a twenty percent rally still gets us to that sixty one hundred target by by hopefully closer to your end. Even if we don't get there, I
think we'll get closer death than most people think. So again I think that we'd love to put labels on things by the way too, and I know Jeff would probably agree to this. I've known Jeff for a long time. Is that how many people how many people sold at the peak?
Huh?
How many people sold the peak? So a lot of this is peak to peak the trough type analysis, And again that's more academic than anything.
Brian Belski thank you so much, greatly appreciate. Let's do it again and just appreciate those comments.
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This is exceptionally well timed Alesia Cassia Herrero out of Hong Kong when the Texas chief economists for the Pacific Room, if you will joins us right now. Alicia, I'm a little upset this morning, and I'm playing off with Greg Ip, who I think was really terse and to the point with the Wall Street Journal. The news that we saw in the last four or five days was Japan had quote unquote negotiations with a White House, except they weren't negotiations.
And then two days later, China has come out and said anybody that has negotiations that harm China that will not be accepted. To me, there's a misunderstanding of teriff war dynamics, trade war dynamics in the Pacific rim discuss that how fragile are the negotiations right now?
Well, I think the Trump administration probably thought this would be easier. So what was the strategy. I threatened to the point of actually imposing times on everybody, so that they then realized how dangerous these game is, and they did couple from China, but this came quite late. Excuse me in the game why because many of these nations already depends massively on Chinese. Japan is one of the least dependent, and still so for Japan, for South Korea.
The US is a larger export market, but the problem is from the import site. So if you are Vietnam, which is an extreme case, you just can't export without China. You just can't do what the US is asking you to do. You can't impose targets on Chinese inputs, on Chinese intermediate goods without which you cannot export to the US. So, in a way, the US is requesting something that is not feasible for a lot of Asian countries, I would
say Southeast Asia. That's why it is not going to work in the way the Trump administration expects it to work.
David, you know, I'm curious.
We've seen the Chinese currency week, and we've seen the Beijing government allow that to happen over these last many weeks. How do you see that playing out going forward? As kind of look at the way in which China is I won't say weathering, but but navigating the stale might here with the US government.
Okay, so China has a few tools to I wouldnt say withstand but mitigate the shock. The shock is huge, Let's face it. This won't be said in China, but it is a huge shock. It is even more so if the US ultimately imposed the styles on countries through which Chinese going to the US, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia. One
way to go about this is what China has already done. Actually, China's response post COVID, response to its own weaknesses in twenty twenty to twenty twenty three all the way to September twenty twenty four was to weaken the currents to allow the weakening. They didn't need to weaken themselves because the market was already on a weekening cycle because the economy was really not doing well, so capitol was leaving China, and also US rates were very high, and therefore the
interre differential was attracting capital. So they are now doing the same thing. But very carefully because they know the US is watching, which wasn't the case before. I think they could do much more if needed, and that will create a competitive evaluation in Asia.
Alicia, thank you so much for joining us. She's within Texas and the Pacific Room. Chief Economs for Airpech Alicia Percy her Railroad.
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Now from Australia in the Peterson Institute or mckivin. Are they gonna work, doctor mckivin, I mean, just simple? The President makes it sounds it's all easy, so simple. Are we actually going to bring in revenue from tariffs?
Great to be here? I guess the question is will they work? Depends on what the objective is. If the objective is to slow down economic growth, yes they'll achieve that. If the objective is to bring in revenue, yes they will bring in some revenue. But by our estimates and other estimates. The revenue is nowhere near as great as advocates of tariffs might suggests. Very narrow tax base, so you have to have a very high tax to get any revenue.
Do you indicate or see that there's anyone within the Trump orbit that can explain what you just said to the president. Is there anyone that can explain this to Donald Trump?
Well, I haven't seen any explanation that makes sense. I think the calculation that might have been done is how many imports are there in the US at the moment, three trillion, muliplied by a tariff of ten percent. How much revenue do you get? What you get three hundred billion a year for ten years, three trillions. So that's a simple calculation. What it ignores is that people will
stop buying imports because they've become more expensive. People will shift their consumption bundles, Inflation will go up, the economy will slow, and you'll lose revenue from your corporate taxes and from your household income taxes. So when you nettle that out, you get a lot more offset than you expect. And I haven't seen the calculations of offset being produced by anyone in the administration.
I was having some fun a moment ago talking about stochastic models, and you're famous for one with Jeff Sachs. Tom mentioned them just a moment ago. Can you just talk in plain terms about how you conducted your analysis and sort of what variables are there in sort of coming to some conclusion about the effect this is going to have.
Yeah, What we've tried to and that's a good question. What we've tried to do is bring both the financial parts of the world economy, to links between countries through asset markets, exchange rate bond markets, together with production networks.
So we're modeling the real economy, how resources flow within the US economy and between the US and China and other and so we try and map the physical economy and the financial economy and their interaction into a very very large, complex system which is based partly on historical relationships and partly on observed events such as German unification, such as NAFTA, such as events where we saw something occur and we see whether our modeling framework can replicate
what have happened within a reasonable degree of confidence, and then we use that framework to project scenarios for central banks, for corporations for governments, simple questions as well as complex questions like the Taroff war.
We were talking about the IMFs revised forecast this morning and something we heard from our chief economists from Tom as well is this being a kind of paradigm shift. And I wonder sort of how you are thinking about what this portends, what's changing about the global economy visa VI what the Trump administration has announced in terms of trade policy.
Well, seeing this transformation going on for decades, we've seen the center of global economic activity moving from Europe and the US to Asia, and so what's been announced as a vast acceleration but still moving in that direction where the balance of economic power is shifting away from the advanced economies as we know them today. So this is actually a very large economic adjustment. It accelerates something that's
already happening. I guess one of the interesting things is the geopolitical adjustment hasn't caught up with the economic adjustment we've been seeing, and so the US is very overweighted in the international institutions like the IMF and World Bank and UN. I think that doesn't really bother the Trump administration at all. In fact, they're trying to move that away from the current arrangements as well. But this is a very major event in world history.
I would say doctor mckifvin, thank you so much. Mckivin there at the Peterson Institute in Washington, writing with Adam Posen, Chad Bone and others. Just can't say enough about their output in the recent weeks.
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In the year, there are few people I want to talk to more than Margaret Franklin. Her institution changed my life. Joining us not from Charlotte'sville, Virginia, but I believe in Washington day, driving steadfastly the charn of Financial Analysts Institute, the CFA Institute. Margaret Franklin joins us right now. Margaret, the institution of one hundred and seventy thousand people, the rite of passage that it is. Are you beyond COVID?
Well, Tom, I am thrilled to say we are beyond COVID and in fact, we're two hundred thousand members and COVID gave us the opportunity to really evaluate and I would say improve the CFA program so that candidates and charterholders are as ready as ever for what lies ahead. And it's of course interesting times for investors.
It was hugely difficult, like at one point India was shut down. I can't remember the details, but literally for the level one, level two, level three exams, nations couldn't take the test. Is it smooth going now? And particularly the test taking on the Pacific rim It is.
Smooth going And you're right. It was completely disjointed and inordinately disruptive for candidates we went. When COVID hit, we were doing paper based tests and we're now, of course completely computer based and so it is seamless, and we have more reach than we ever have before, so in more markets and making it more accessible for candidates to take their exams close to home.
Margaret David wants to get in here, but I have to ask, are you kidding me? A computer based CFA exam? There's something about the pain in your hand?
You can still ring out, Tom. I'm sure it would allow you.
I have on my desk my Hewlett Packard twelve C with my Margaret Franklin YELLOWCFA dot.
What has been the what is it?
Ben? Margaret like going from handwritten agony over to computer exams.
The people like it, Yeah, they do, and of course you won't be surprised though, Tom, they still feel the same amount of agony because the quality, the rigor, and of course the content are the tough part.
So I think it's just a tough new new medium, new medium.
David, Ethics is not the same computer taking market.
I see you have these specialized pathways now private wealth, private markets, and the traditional portfolio management path. I'm still waiting for the pedantic amateur radio host path, which I'll continue to wait for here. But explain how that works and sort of what that leads to. Is it all leading to the same thing, all to the same designation, Yeah, so it does.
It's all CFA. It's Margaret Franklin, Tom g comm a CFA. But we were able to when we did that audit and we used the COVID period to assess the program, we were able to keep the entire core of the program and then offer pathways in level three for half of it to really align better with candidates desires in really the core areas that are of interests, private markets,
private wealth, and then of course traditional portfolio management. And you know, that coincided with a number of changes we made to the program, including allowing college students to begin twenty three months away from graduation so they could be really prepared for the market. And in addition, we added
practical skills modules. We did an assessment with employers and they were very keen to share that they valued the rigor the quality and the knowledge, but they wanted candidates to be much more job ready, and so we added our practical skills modules and I think that that has been very well received as well as you know, the learn the way we know that learners learn is changing. So we've set candidates up for success with a great learning ecosystem and great ways for them to learn.
The curricula is better. It's much more formalized now, folks. It used to be a three foot pile of books that you'd try to get through. The accounting book alone, John Dee Accounting would kill you. So the curriculum is better, Margaret Franklin, But is it the kids? Are they coming out as smart? Equally or is it actually on a quantitative basis more rigorous now, Well, I.
Think Tom, if you and I went back to go write it, we would find it pretty difficult because, as you know, the course is very very comprehensive, and so there are things that when we wrote just weren't part of the curricula. But the curricula of course keeps up with what the employers are looking for because we have always on assessment through a practice analysis. So I'd say
it remains very challenging. You know, about one in seven who started will complete it, and the assess and validation of the candidate's knowledge, skills and ability is a critical component and that's what differentiates it from so many programs and why it remains as valued today as it did sixty years ago.
One final question off Michael Mobison was here and his contribution to the you know, Abby, Joseph Cohen, everybody that supported the program here over the years, the great George VanDerHeyden years ago at Fidelity. Margaret wearing God's Name is CFA Level four on derivatives and the Greek letters. Bruno de Pierre emails in from Bloomberg Derivatives and says Margaret, when do we get level four derivative Greek letters strategy.
Well, everybody who's writing and everybody who's air Charter knows that we will. I can confirm we will not be doing a level four And Tom I will say, you mentioned Frank Fobosi earlier before we came on the line, so you've got you've got all the legends there counted.
Well we do, Margaret Franklin, thank you so much. And again the level three pass rate Catherine Doherty writing in Bloomberg today for thirty nine percent, and David, what you heard there? One in seven and started it's through and it's.
What is the what is the former surveillance intern pass rate?
You keep tabs on that. It's pretty huge.
Actually, it sounds like, you know, we're humbled by that, Margaret frank And out of showsvill Virginia a moment. There an annual review of the Charter financial Analyst designation.
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It costs nine to ninety nine a month.
The company said it's going to help you save some money on ride bookings, food deliveries.
So here's the thing.
The FTC is saying that canceling the subscription is too difficult, so it's filing a law suit now. So they promote it, right, they do all these push notifications while while you're using the app. But to cancel it, here's what you have to do. You have to go through about seven different
screens that will require at least twelve different actions. And they say it's so tough that there's even these tutorials that have been sparked online getting so many things, so many views, and then some consumers are even saying they're getting charts for it without even signing up for it.
So that's the problem. It's Uber one. I do not have that service, but.
I see I'm getting the push alert right now.
You see I don't have its simple, They have done push it out to you, I know, but to cancel it.
They're saying it's a little bit too tough.
Uber says, you know, it's it's clear and simple, you can cancel it.
But this is part of a lot of It's like you get an email and you try to unsubscribe, and so many places are wonderful about it, you know, Okay, goodbye, and then some places you can just tell they just do not want you to go.
Yeah, like the streaming some of the streaming ones are pretty easy. You just kind of click a button and you can unsubscribe. But yeah, it's Uber one.
What do you most?
Okay, I thought we were done talking about this, but apparently not.
We're talking about.
Egg prices again, not as high as they once were, but they're still high of course, stir and and so I'm out of stock. But the Financial Times is saying the makers of those plant based eggs they're kind of trying to take advantage. So they're expanding production, launching these fancy marketing campaigns. We're talking about, like I think they're called Mungman based liquids.
Here, please please plant based egg and I've broken bread with you many a time time I've never seen your order of vegetable based eggs.
I've seen you order of vegetable once.
Beyond me and.
Now you have eate just it's a maker of just egg, just egg, just egg. So that's the one that there are sales of like five times higher than you know over last year.
These ideas people you know, fancy people from Cornell. I don't know.
The people are looking for alternatives, so they have to for the money sumer demand for it.
So yeah, yeah, just beyond me gone away?
No, still around?
No, But that's the thing, like, is this gonna go away because it's not as popular, like the beyond Me going to go down?
Eggs still out of stock? Is it just a demand thing?
Still?
The bird flow was still so yeah, I was surprised.
I wrote this weekend I couldn't get eggs.
It was easter. That's triple them up.
That's true.
Use potatoes.
You can use other substitutes like apple, sauce, mashed bananas, yogurt. Che see and is seed morning here?
Still?
Is that how you say?
Yes?
Next?
Okay, this is actually an interesting look.
So the Washington Pos had this into the changing economics of college football affecting the NFL Draft because players have the option they can make more money by staying in college with the NIL deals, the transfer portal, things like that. So they're putting off entering into the draft.
So they gave this example.
So there's a after five years at Georgia quarterback Carson Beck. He' said in December he's going to answer the draft. But then in January he came back and he said, you know what, I'm going to stay in college. He will earn an NIL package at Miami estimated to be at least three million dollars a million for college kid, so
not too bad. And for him it made sense because he had an injury, Like, his performance wasn't as well as the previous year, so it kind of made sense for him to stay in college a little bit longer. But they spoke with agents like and they're saying, it's it's it's a different world.
You know, we protect the children of the innocent here, but you are living this. Lisa Matteo, you have a very gifted child. Yes, basically your young child's age. It's professional sports, isn't it.
Yes, But for my child to make three million, that's like kind of scary.
Well, if she takes. She makes eight hundred thousand. Lisa, we'll cash that check.
We hope you're still here.
Yes, Lisa, thank you so much for the name. Image like this offspring, we should say that's doing better than good in the sport of her choice.
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