Adam Van Wie: Fee-Only Planning Done Right

July 18, 2023
51 min
Adam Van Wie: Fee-Only Planning Done Right
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IN THIS EPISODE, THE ANNUITY MAN AND ADAM VAN WIE DISCUSS:
- Expectations versus reality
- The future of work
- Millionaire next door
- Inflation is customizable

KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- Right now, there’s a bit of a disconnect between the market and people’s expectations. This happens more often than you think, as people tend not to think outside their current situation. The market is looking ahead, and it's telling us that things are looking better on the horizon.
- The COVID response changed how people work and think about work, and I think you see it reflected in the younger people's attitudes. On the horizon, we could see the power shifting back towards the employers.
- The media depicts people with high net worth and clumps them together as the “evil rich.” In reality, most wealthy people earned that wealth through working hard, saving, scrimping, and being wise about their money.
- Inflation is customizable, meaning it affects everyone differently. Inflation always hits the low end of society the most. If you’re categorically one of the “evil rich,” you can afford not to worry about inflation.

"You have to have a plan; you have to stay the course. Don't be reactive, don't try and time the market. You will end up hurting your own results, and you won't get anything positive out of it. Don't be that guy. " — Adam Van Wie.

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Adam Van we of Van we Financial Adam

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welcome to fun with annuities

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thanks Dan I really appreciate it and

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thank you for having me back absolutely

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um Adam is based in North Florida I do

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have a home in North Florida as you know

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I do also live a little bit in Las Vegas

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which our main office is now located

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um so North Florida is if you haven't

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been there it's it's not South Florida

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let's put it like that that's the reason

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we all live in North Florida it's it's a

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very nice place Adam let's Jump Right In

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um let's talk about the stock market uh

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tell me what's going on in the markets

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at the time of this taping and let's

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talk about just 2023 as a broad base and

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looking into 2024 what are you seeing

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both good and bad right now yeah great

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topic I it's been such an unusual year

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after a very unusual year last year so

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uh the the I guess that if you had to

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sum up this year it'd be it's been great

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uh surprisingly great uh the the

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nasdaq's up almost 30 percent the s p is

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is up uh I don't know 15 or so and the

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the overall feeling in the market is

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like what recession

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um but you turned on any news Channel

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all you'll hear about is the the

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impending doom the recession is coming

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yeah I don't know if the recession's

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coming or not but the stock market is

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acting like we are headed into a uh a a

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really good time and uh but if you look

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at the economy it certainly doesn't feel

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that way so I think there's a bit of a

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disconnect right now between the market

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and what people's expectations are but

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that happens more often than you would

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think you last year everything felt

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probably a lot better than it does now

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and the market did nothing but go down

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so the the the the the market always

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looks ahead people can't always think

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outside of the current different

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situation that they're in and that's

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that's pretty normal to feel that way

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but the Market's looking ahead and

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telling us at this point that things are

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looking better on the horizon which

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thank goodness after last year is all I

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can say well it's been interesting

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because typically it's contrarian seesaw

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effect when the FED raises rates Etc and

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it seems like the stock market has just

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ignored that totally uh what what

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chairman I call him boogpal if you're an

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Orioles fan you know what that is what

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boot pal is doing and the Dutch boy

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haircut yelling what they're doing I

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don't I mean it's been great for people

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that want higher interest rates but from

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the stock market standpoint it has been

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interesting to see is do you think

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that's pent-up demand and liquidity from

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the coveted years

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I I do think there's some of that a lot

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of what we're seeing right now all ties

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back to the covid really the response to

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the covid pandemic uh We've we're in

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such an unprecedented time and I I

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normally hate when people say that but

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this truly is we've never done what we

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did during the covet pandemic yeah shut

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down the economy we've never never

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injected that much liquidity and and new

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money into the economy at one time so uh

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so a lot of this is just a I call it the

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Boomer the coveted Boomerang effect it's

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we're seeing all these unusual economic

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situations because of actions that took

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place a few years ago and yes I think

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that all of what you're seeing today is

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part of that response to the to the

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covid uh the covid response

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let's just hope that they don't feel

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they the government they don't feel they

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can do it again I think there would be

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so much blowback on this country from

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what we've now know about the truth

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um it's it would be interesting yet when

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I travel across the country I'll go to

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San Francisco and half the people

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walking down the street outside are

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wearing masks I'm going I don't know

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what's going on here maybe they're not

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reading the same thing I'm reading but

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apparently not but it's but it's

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interesting

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um

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so from the standpoint of you know

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there's been a lot of things that even

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the experts have looked at and said well

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this should happen if this happens uh

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Bitcoin and and crypto in general has

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been one that's a head scratcher just

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because I really think that the support

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of that sector is very very thin and

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held very very uh and within a few hands

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in my opinion what's your take on crypto

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because a lot of people still ask me

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about that and they still everybody

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wants the the next Tesla or the next

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apple and they want to get rich quick

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what do you tell your clients about

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crypto right here all 7 000 of them ish

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yeah crypto uh I tend to agree with you

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it's a very very thinly held asset I do

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think that there are a handful of people

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that probably control the bulk of it

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it's uh I don't look at it as a viable

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investment for my clients today I do

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think it has a future I I think that

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there are a lot of things about crypto I

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really like but I don't put money into

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things that can generally lose a huge

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percentage of their value in 24 hours or

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less and and that to me that's what

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crypto is today now in the future that

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might be different but what also I I

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can't make a real case for crypto

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increasing in value what's driving it

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except for demand which was somewhat

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artificially uh created during the covet

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pandemic with all these people staying

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home and trying to get rich quick and

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nothing else to do sure throw some money

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at crypto and see if you win the lottery

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but is it a viable investment today not

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to me but I do I love the blockchain

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technology correct and I do think that

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there is a viable future for crypto just

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not on the investment side today would

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it surprise you if the um this going

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down a little bit of a conspiracy rabbit

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hole but not much would it surprise you

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if the government or governments

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eventually controlled that crypto space

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or at least wiped out most of the crypto

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because they created a US coin or you

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know Biden coin trunk coin whatever

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whoever's not my point is

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I see the the government's plural liking

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the crypto blockchain space because

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if you if that was in place you

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literally could text people real time

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April 15th would go away you you could

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steer

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um policy via that way

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I don't want you to put on the tinfoil

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hat because you're most you're one of

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the most rational people I know what is

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your take on that and have you thought

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through kind of where this is all headed

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Maybe

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I I do think about it and a lot of it is

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driven by my clients because they're

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asking me the same question right all

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the time we get it so much and and my

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thinking is that yes the government

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would definitely be interested in

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something like that and also I'm not

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sure that they could pull it off due to

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uh just a whole variety of reasons the

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constitutionality of it the uh the

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Constitution what are you talking about

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I know I know crazy crazy

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a few hundred years ago but no big deal

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there

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um I just don't know I they might try it

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but I do think it might get shot down in

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the legal system it's it's just doesn't

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it seems like such overreach that I

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would I feel like at some point there

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would be groups of people with with a

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lot of power who would oppose it and be

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able to uh stop such a such a clear

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overreach of government in that case but

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gosh from a government standpoint if

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you're looking at how do I control my

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voting base yeah what better way to do

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it than to control their money it's a

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it's an absolute no-brainer if I'm a

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politician and the only thing that

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gives me pause a little bit is if you'd

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have told me they could have shut down

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the government printed money and created

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an environment where people don't want

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to work sure I just said I don't believe

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that I mean that's that's crazy but I

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was having a conversation with a friend

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last night and he's like I think we've

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lost

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you know some of the younger people you

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know right right right out of high

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school or right into college out of

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college they just really don't want to

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work I don't know about you but I I try

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to hire people all the time and we

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cannot find people that want to work

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five days a week we just can't they they

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literally will go come into an interview

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and say yeah I'm I would love to work

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for your company but I'd like for it to

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be flexible I'm not sure I want to work

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Fridays I'm like you just need to start

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your own company player I mean that's

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but we're seeing that and I think that's

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a

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um that's a result of coven with that

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being said I do think this country is

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different from other countries is when

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we have a horrific thing happen like

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that covid we get better do you see

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businesses

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getting better I.E streamlining

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Etc based upon what happened

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I do and and to some degree I think it

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has been part of the reason the Market's

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improved I I think that businesses are

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very especially small businesses are

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very good at adapting to whatever

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situation is thrown at them and I I

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think that the covid response really

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changed the way people work and think

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about work and I definitely think you're

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seeing it reflected in the in the

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younger people's attitudes but the the

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fact is they have had a lot of options

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you can you could go and work three uh

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1099 contractor jobs uh sort of side

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hustles and make a decent living at

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least enough people to buy and so yeah

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they say that but they really do have

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that option now I think that's changing

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I think the power structure is Shifting

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back towards the employer uh as the

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further we get away from covid that's a

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good point for the last three years

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they've kind of they're kind of right

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they kind of have had that ability to do

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that

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um now is that the way the world is

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gonna gonna go in the future is it

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always going to be like that I I'm not

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exactly sure but I do see the power

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structure shifting back to companies and

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and hopefully young people are young

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people are known for being able to adapt

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so hopefully they can adapt and and come

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back to the more I guess traditional way

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of thinking about work

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I think businesses became and are

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continuing to become more efficient with

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how they do business and um the only

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thing that concerns me I'd love to hear

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your comment on this sector was just the

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commercial real estate space

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um I know in Las Vegas

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um there's a lot of beautiful buildings

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that are that are business Commercial

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that are that are empty and and it

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doesn't look like anyone's moving in

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right are you buying any REITs in that

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space are you staying away I'm staying

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away right now I don't love that space

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But I do think it's it's probably a

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shift I did see an article the other day

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that there was a uh a chain of stores

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that went out of business and an

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e-commerce company came in and bought up

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all the locations just to use them as uh

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as facilities for their for their for

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shipping out of their for their

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e-commerce business sure and I think we

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may see more things like that start to

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happen things that have been traditional

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storefronts might change into uh offices

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or or

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um or places that a point of sale or

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shipping or I don't uh distribution

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um businesses so I think there's a lot

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of reshuffling that's going to happen

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um over the next five to ten years in

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the commercial space I don't think that

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you're I don't think that you're going

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to see the the country just go back to

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what it was I think it's going to change

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substantially yeah maybe some of those

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old uh commercial buildings get turned

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into condos because the rate that

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they're putting up condos around the

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country is is just astronomical at least

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here in Florida and I and some in some

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of my travels it looks like other places

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as well so I think uh I think you will

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see that I completely change from what

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it was and I would not be a huge

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investor in the commercial Reit industry

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or in a commercial building right now

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although there are Pockets like here in

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in Jacksonville Beach where I am the

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retail side of things doesn't seem to

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have been affected at all if anything

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we're seeing a ton of restaurants open

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and a ton of new businesses come to the

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area so it may be somewhat location

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dependent too which in real estate is

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usually the case are you concerned at

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all about just housing in general from

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the standpoint of

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the black rocks of the world or whoever

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those people are buying up large

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tranches of you know single-family homes

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and controlling that space

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where do you think that's headed because

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it doesn't look like interest rate

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raises have dampened

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demand a lot no it really hasn't

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surprisingly if that's the same question

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last year I would have said yeah I'm

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really worried about it exactly but

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today not really I feel like the that

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the black rocks of the world who got in

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a year or two ago and are are leasing

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out they're still using the properties

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as single-family homes that they're just

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for lease instead of for purchase and so

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I don't think it really dampens the

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overall supply of available units for

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rental or purchase now it may drive

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prices up on new purchases a bit but the

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market is so much bigger than even what

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BlackRock can can do so they might

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control one town by buying a huge amount

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of properties in that area but the the

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U.S market is just way too large for

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BlackRock to really even have a minor

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effect on so that specific issue doesn't

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worry me that much and also if if uh if

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prices come down they won't control that

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either and they're going to be the ones

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left holding the bag and have to sell

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those properties at a discount so the

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the fact is they're going to get caught

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up in market dynamics whether they like

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it or not and they can't control it no

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matter how big BlackRock is if now if

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they were just doing that and and not

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doing anything else with all their

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trillions of dollars then sure that

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would worry me but it's just such a

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small part of their business I don't I

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don't spend a lot of time worrying about

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that

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um

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supply chain you know my wife and I

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commented on this a lot where we see the

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lack of availability of things that used

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to be easy to get in the United States

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we're very spoiled as a country uh

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pre-covered we were used to getting

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anything not having to wait Etc

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are you seeing the same things and if so

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why is this still happening and why

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hasn't it been fixed from a supply chain

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standpoint

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yeah it's interesting because I I do see

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a bit of that it's on some really random

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stuff though I know it's not it's not as

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widespread as it used to be clearly a

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lot of that has been solved but it does

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still exist and yeah every once in a

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while I'll run into it and just kind of

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scratch my head how can they still be

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having this issue uh but if you look at

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the statistics on a national basis the

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um the purchasing uh survey that comes

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out monthly

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pretty much everything has been fixed in

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the data now we're still seeing it pop

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up here and there on certain items but

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if you look at the National Data it's

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gotten so much better than where it was

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a year ago and two years ago when

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everything was just so wonky that you

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you couldn't get any inputs for

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manufacturing you couldn't and that

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meant you couldn't get any Goods on the

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on the downstream side either so uh I

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think that those issues will slowly go

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away over the next couple of years but

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yeah it's still happening and I think

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it's still like I said it's sort of the

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covet effect of there's just some parts

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of China that were later to open than

16:56
others and maybe the factory was located

16:58
there or there's a whole host of reasons

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shipping could have been the issue

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although the shipping issues if you look

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at the data have shipping prices have

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come down to pre-covered levels

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um I'm talking about containers coming

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over from Asia and so those types of uh

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those types of hurdles are much less

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than they used to be but that doesn't

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mean not a single company couldn't get

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caught up in it or have issues with that

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so I think that's what we're seeing now

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very much on a spot basis rather than as

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a a entire the entire world has been

17:31
affected by this covet shutdown and and

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we can't get anything right

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been wefinancial.com we are going to

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have all that those links Etc uh one of

18:05
the things I wanted to talk to you about

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is a is you know China in general you

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know because I'm I'm kind of tired of

18:12
the whole China thing that

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you know we're we're afraid of China

18:16
what's gonna you know are they going to

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overtake us what's your take on them

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because to me they're not they're not a

18:21
threat

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no not to us but if I were Taiwan I

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might be a little bit worried I I think

18:28
that China is uh China right now as an

18:31
investment which is how I tend to look

18:33
at everything is not a place that we're

18:35
putting money

18:36
um they've made a lot of missteps

18:38
recently I I think that historically

18:41
they've been really really good at doing

18:43
all the right things at all the right

18:45
times but lately I feel like they're

18:46
sort of out of step with with the global

18:49
politics I'll put it that way they they

18:52
haven't been doing the things that I

18:54
think that they should do to stay on top

18:57
or or trying to get to that top position

18:59
I I think they really really slipped

19:02
lately and and outside of uh Taiwan they

19:05
worry me a lot less than what they used

19:07
to

19:08
you know the Taiwan thing's an

19:10
interesting one because that could be

19:11
the game changers like that's the Ace of

19:13
Spades that they're getting ready to

19:15
play and call our Bluff yeah but we'll

19:19
see what happens with that

19:21
um but as a you know just as a as a

19:23
threat I don't see that I mean yes

19:25
they're huge and they have a zillion

19:27
people and yeah I get it but from a

19:30
technology standpoint Innovation

19:32
standpoint creativity standpoint I just

19:34
this country I'm a homer here a little

19:37
bit but I I have full faith in what

19:40
we're doing let's pivot a little bit uh

19:42
internationally obviously

19:44
um the war continues uh Russia keeps

19:47
playing around and that doesn't seem to

19:49
affect the markets but I'm always

19:52
thinking we're one dirty bomb away from

19:54
chaos yeah what are you telling your

19:57
clients right here

19:59
uh with the Russia situation uh speaking

20:01
of countries that have really shown to

20:03
be not what we thought they were I mean

20:05
Russia can't even handle an invasion of

20:07
a small neighbor are they really a

20:09
threat to us outside the nuclear Arena

20:11
obviously right but wow their their army

20:16
looks inept their their leadership looks

20:18
weak it's just from one thing to another

20:20
just not what we thought they were at

20:22
all uh but yes as far as a dirty bomb

20:25
goes or a new I mean that is the the

20:28
real concern there but uh honestly what

20:31
there's nothing that we can do to change

20:33
whatever is going to happen there so for

20:36
now we have to go with the information

20:37
that they have and and even Putin's uh

20:41
crazy mind hasn't seemed to go to that

20:44
that area yet at least so I think we

20:48
have to um I think we have to assume

20:50
that that is he wants to get this done

20:52
but not in that way and and hopefully

20:54
that will continue but really I mean

20:57
that is The X Factor nothing thing we

20:59
can do to control it the only thing that

21:02
we can do is continue to invest in a in

21:04
a balanced portfolio that has right

21:06
that's at risk assets and I don't think

21:08
we're going to adjust our portfolios

21:11
based on a land war in Asia just not not

21:14
our that's not really in our purview

21:16
right now

21:18
Russia has been taking off a lot of

21:20
investment lists in in indices haven't

21:23
they I mean there's a lot of flow that's

21:25
not going in right yeah we're still

21:27
getting a whenever we log into our um

21:30
our TD Ameritrade website there's still

21:33
a thing that pops up that says that

21:34
Russian Securities are very limited if

21:36
you can trade them at all so uh so yeah

21:39
it's been it's not really an investable

21:41
country right now

21:44
nor would I want to for that it's going

21:46
to be interesting to see just how Putin

21:49
survives this politically and actually I

21:53
guess physically I mean I do think

21:55
there's internal threats with them um

21:57
but there's always Wars man there's

21:59
always stuff that's happening

22:01
and obviously we're going into

22:04
election season do you think the

22:06
election regardless of who wins either

22:07
way I know both of us are not really

22:09
political you know we're we're

22:12
conservative monetarily that doesn't you

22:15
know that that's a broad spectrum I

22:17
always tell people I'm conservative when

22:19
it comes to money because you know

22:21
that's what we do for sure

22:23
um forget politics in fact turn off turn

22:25
off the cable please

22:28
um

22:29
do you think the election of the same

22:32
people

22:33
is going to looks like it is going to

22:36
affect positive positive or negatively

22:39
the markets I mean first of all I do

22:42
want to say that there's a lot of time

22:43
between now and the election and

22:45
hopefully things can change because uh

22:48
they're just recycling the same people

22:50
over and over yeah we do better I'm see

22:52
I mean literally as a country if I'm I'm

22:54
looking inside I'm going that's all you

22:56
got right this is the the best options

22:59
really come on

23:01
I do there are some people running that

23:04
I think are a lot better candidates but

23:06
the the establishment

23:08
and the media they just won't let it

23:11
happen it's so frustrating as a as a

23:14
someone who really hates politics I hate

23:16
all of it it makes it disgusted and I

23:19
don't watch the cable news and uh yeah

23:22
so I but I do think there's better

23:24
there's better ideas out there they just

23:26
aren't allowed to come to the surface

23:28
and and um so I think the the one good

23:32
thing out of that is that you kind of

23:33
know what you're getting either whatever

23:35
happens you kind of know what you're

23:37
getting and they both yeah it's one side

23:40
has has seen a little bit of a dip in

23:42
the market but it's starting to bounce

23:43
back and the other side was really good

23:46
until covet so

23:48
um so economy wise I don't think that

23:51
either one is going to be a complete

23:53
disaster there's obviously one side that

23:55
I think has a little bit better track

23:57
record but I don't think it's I don't

23:59
think it's going to make that much of a

24:01
difference honestly the common theme in

24:03
the culprit in my opinion is the media

24:05
both sides

24:06
and if you're out there as a listener or

24:08
a viewer and you're defending one side

24:09
of the media you're the problem okay

24:11
that's right

24:12
um You are the you are the problem if

24:14
the media is is in the way of

24:17
unbelievable success and growth of this

24:19
country because they have agendas and it

24:22
literally

24:23
drives me crazy to the point where I I

24:26
about three months ago I used to watch

24:28
it just because clients talked about it

24:30
I if if you want to call me and schedule

24:32
call with me and talk politics

24:34
good luck man because I'm not watching

24:37
any of it period it doesn't matter I'm

24:41
I'm looking more at the monetary side

24:43
and I'm gauging what's happening based

24:46
on that and based with on conversations

24:47
with people like Adam great story a

24:50
recent podcast I just did with a guy

24:52
named Larry kotlikov which is a um he's

24:55
a renowned economics professor from

24:58
Boston University and for people that

25:00
are political wonks he ran for president

25:01
a while back just based on economics

25:08
hopefully it would work of course they

25:10
shot him down because it's so pragmatic

25:12
and he's not on he's not politically

25:14
correct but boy it would be nice to have

25:18
a business a true business person not an

25:20
inheritance baby in there that or or

25:23
lifetime politician that really has run

25:26
businesses

25:27
I only think there's a couple there's a

25:29
handful in in the races now that have

25:31
actually run a business and met a

25:33
payroll am I right yeah definitely

25:35
they're out there and I've been

25:37
listening to some of their I don't like

25:39
politics but I am I am because of my job

25:42
I have to stand up but I do like hearing

25:45
good ideas so I have been listening to

25:48
some of the people that have thrown

25:49
their hat in the ring that aren't as

25:50
popular and don't have a chance and

25:53
don't have a chance but man they really

25:54
have some great ideas Unfortunately they

25:57
just won't ever get there and part of

25:59
the problem is this country has adopted

26:01
a sports team mentality but for Quality

26:04
so well if you find that you are rooting

26:09
for your team regardless of how bad the

26:12
person is or their ideas are you're

26:14
doing it wrong that is not how we should

26:17
be thinking about politics we should be

26:19
voting for people with the best new

26:21
ideas and the best leadership ideas not

26:24
because they wear the right lapel pin or

26:28
uh or have the letter by their name it

26:31
just doesn't make any sense and it just

26:34
really frustrates me into no way and

26:36
here's the two reasons it's not going to

26:38
change the first reason is always tell

26:39
people think of the dumbest person

26:40
you've ever met at a cocktail party of

26:42
when you stop talking to them you felt

26:43
like you lost IQ that person votes and

26:46
they vote nullifies you the other thing

26:48
that is a scary one is sixty percent of

26:52
the of adults in in the United States

26:53
have less than 400 on their checking

26:55
account that's right so they're going to

26:57
vote differently about monetary policy

27:00
their voting survival

27:02
that's they're voting them and you can't

27:05
really blame them but sixty percent

27:07
moves the needle and the politicians

27:09
certainly know that I always have to

27:11
remind my clients I'm sure you do yours

27:13
as well whether you think you're the

27:15
evil rich you are

27:16
you you are the evil rich politically so

27:19
you know live your life maximize do the

27:23
best you can but you're not going to be

27:24
able to move the needle because you're

27:25
being out voted and that's doing that's

27:28
that's going to increase over time

27:31
in my opinion

27:33
um do you agree I do unfortunately

27:36
that's yeah even someone who I mean you

27:39
could be looking at a couple of retired

27:41
teachers who have either a pension or a

27:43
401k that they funded their entire lives

27:45
and they have a moderate amount of money

27:47
they'll probably have a nice retirement

27:50
they're never going to be rich but guess

27:52
what they're rich that according to

27:54
politicians they are the evil rich and

27:57
how can you say that about a couple that

28:00
has worked their entire lives and did

28:02
everything right and probably made a lot

28:04
of sacrifices to get there and then

28:06
they're the bad guys I mean how what is

28:09
wrong with this country and why are we

28:11
viewing things that way it just doesn't

28:13
make any sense it is sad if peop there's

28:15
a book that Adam Adam and I both are

28:17
familiar with is from way back called

28:18
Millionaire Next Door A Millionaire Next

28:21
Door describes what Adam just talked

28:23
about which is people that scrimped and

28:25
saved and did without 20 years later

28:27
they look up and they have a

28:28
seven-figure portfolio yet they still

28:30
are couponing at at the local grocery

28:33
store which I get I understand those

28:36
scars of scarcity but but I always tell

28:39
people if you don't think you're rich

28:40
you are and I give them that you know

28:42
six out of ten people I just say hey

28:43
you're driving down the road whatever

28:44
road that is six of those cars around

28:46
you of the ten cars you see have 400

28:49
your checking account drive slow and

28:51
drive in the right lane please because

28:53
that's the reason for the legit

28:55
litigious nature of this of this country

28:57
question

28:59
um what are the potential

29:01
hiccups speed bumps pitfalls that you

29:04
see

29:05
that might happen but you hope don't

29:07
going forward

29:09
well I think we addressed some of them

29:11
we've got the issues in Asia China and

29:14
uh and Russia and so those are those are

29:17
the big ones right now in my mind

29:19
um the other ones would be a a sudden

29:22
turnaround in the inflation data that

29:24
would be a bad one right now the

29:25
inflation data is heading lower as it

29:28
should after after a disastrous last

29:30
year where we saw above nine percent

29:32
inflation and that's what the government

29:34
admits to so you know it was even don't

29:36
you think they're cooking the books and

29:38
as soon as they can

29:39
politically feel like they can lower

29:42
rates they will

29:44
hmm that's a good question I don't know

29:47
what Powell's gonna do they've been

29:49
signaling they're going to go even

29:50
higher which I think is a mistake at

29:52
this point totally it's a total mistake

29:54
even though it makes me very very

29:56
successful in my hand

29:59
um you know we we're going 100 miles an

30:01
hour but sure I can't see it I I don't

30:03
see the justification I don't see it

30:06
either I don't think they've given it

30:07
enough time for the rate hikes to work

30:09
their way through the system it takes a

30:10
long time as we know for things to for

30:14
the financial world to have a reaction

30:16
to things that have happened so think

30:18
about covid we didn't see inflation top

30:21
out yeah nine percent until last summer

30:24
that's 2022 covet happened in 2020 so we

30:27
were pumping money into the system for

30:29
over a year and a half two years before

30:31
we really saw the repercussions now they

30:34
expect to lower rates over the course of

30:36
what eight nine months and then

30:38
determine whether or not it's worked on

30:40
the ninth month no you have to give it

30:42
an equal at least an equal amount a time

30:45
for that it took for the inflation to

30:46
pop up for it to go away so it just

30:50
doesn't make any sense for them to

30:51
expect an immediate read on how their

30:54
actions have affected the economy when

30:56
that isn't what happened on the other

30:58
side

31:00
pivot again because that's how my brain

31:03
works Adam you know

31:04
um these ESG funds in that what they're

31:07
called the environmental I read an

31:09
article last night that when I read it I

31:12
I literally put my phone down and just

31:14
just let out the biggest groan because

31:17
what it was saying was

31:19
there's one lady that literally decides

31:23
who's who's acceptable

31:25
I forgot who she works with it could be

31:27
one of the big firms I don't know but

31:29
she had put

31:30
Exxon in front of Tesla yeah and I'm

31:34
thinking of my and and I'm not at listen

31:37
muscus is is a is a freak he's an alien

31:40
he's smart I could carry either way okay

31:42
but he had a good point how are they in

31:44
front of him and he's not putting out

31:46
any carbon emissions and it comes down

31:48
to political but I also saw the money

31:51
raised in these funds was like upwards

31:54
to 30 trillion or some crazy amount

31:58
tell me your take on this and how is it

32:02
affecting markets and decisions that you

32:05
have to make even though you might not

32:07
agree with it absolutely so

32:10
first of all the politicism

32:13
politicization like if I could talk is

32:16
of everything is just so far beyond what

32:19
I ever thought it would be and this is

32:21
this issue is about as politicized as it

32:25
could be explain to people what it is I

32:28
mean I just threw out ESG as an acronym

32:29
I'm sure that's the right one but yeah

32:31
it stands for E stands for environmental

32:33
yep social and governance and what the

32:36
what it is is basically a ranking score

32:38
for for companies that want to be

32:41
considered uh politically correct

32:44
whatever uh environmentally friendly

32:48
um uh promoting what's the Genesis of

32:50
this it's not it's not been around a

32:52
long time Adam where did it come from

32:53
was it a black rock thing nothing

32:55
against BlackRock I have not I love

32:57
their building in Manhattan walk by it

32:58
all the time

33:00
yeah I I think it it all came out of uh

33:04
it it actually came from demand in the

33:07
marketplace and so people want to invest

33:10
especially younger people these days

33:12
they want to invest in ways that they

33:15
think are going to save the planet and

33:18
so that's that's where it came out of

33:20
the idea came out of something that was

33:22
probably good like most things and then

33:25
it got Twisted into this what it is

33:27
today which is a political ranking of

33:30
companies that uh that do the most for

33:34
politicians to consider them

33:36
environmentally and socially responsible

33:38
and so that's where we are today and the

33:41
problem is now

33:43
also look at this you you can own spy it

33:47
owns the it owns every five all of the

33:49
500 companies in the S P 500 or that's

33:52
the that's the ETF right it's an ETF

33:55
yeah or you can use the ESG ETF that

33:57
takes the at the S P 500 cuts out a

34:01
handful of companies that they don't

34:02
consider environmentally and socially

34:04
acceptable and they'll charge you maybe

34:08
60 more basis points to own the exact

34:11
same thing without a hundred other

34:13
companies and guess who makes more money

34:15
the ETF companies so who who do you

34:19
think the ETF companies aren't lobbying

34:21
to try and get this included in

34:23
everyone's 401k and Pension Plan why

34:26
because they make 60 more biffs every

34:28
time you own the ESG fund versus the the

34:30
S P 500 fund yeah

34:39
is an internal thing that us and the

34:42
business talk about people like bibs

34:44
what the heck is a bib yeah here's

34:46
here's the interesting part about that

34:48
is once again just kind of being the the

34:51
street person that I am grew up toward

34:53
North Carolina and and you know here we

34:55
are

34:57
um

34:57
if some per if it if it

35:01
monetarily benefits a company to be on

35:03
that list I'm going to tell you right

35:05
now people getting paid off I don't care

35:07
how what anyone says there's nothing

35:10
honorable going on on the background if

35:12
I know that I'm going to get extra

35:14
trillions or billions or hundreds of

35:16
billions in my coffers if my company

35:19
makes it on that list and there's a

35:21
handful of people that make that

35:23
decision

35:24
the handful of people making that

35:26
decision have are doing well and I think

35:29
that's the problem with it I don't I'm

35:31
like you conceptually got it understand

35:34
it there's an argument for it I

35:36
understand it but it's being bastardized

35:39
and I actually think it's it's

35:40
disrupting

35:42
normal flow within the business the

35:45
media doesn't cover it like the cnbc's

35:47
and the fox business because those

35:49
people buy ads right no doubt about it

35:52
uh yeah and getting on that list is is

35:54
very very important and you can I can

35:57
assure you that there's nobody who's

35:59
making the decision about who gets on

36:01
that list that isn't rich I wonder why

36:04
what's up bonds for a second bonds have

36:06
gotten the crap slapped out of them and

36:09
I love when people go well I've got Safe

36:10
Money and bonds tell me like two years

36:12
ago I'm like listen player

36:15
bonds are volatile there's more bonds

36:17
and they're all stocks and let me tell

36:19
you something be careful with closed in

36:20
bond funds and all that stuff you know

36:22
they used to do that in a previous life

36:24
and Adam does that every single day

36:27
Adam weigh in on bonds and what you're

36:29
telling your clients right here man I

36:31
love bonds today I really do it makes my

36:34
job so much easier when I can put a a

36:38
handful of their uh a portion of their

36:41
Investment Portfolio in something that's

36:43
going to yield you know four to six

36:45
percent and has an almost guaranteed

36:49
principal return at the end of the

36:51
period so I'm buying individual bonds

36:53
I'm buying treasuries I'm buying CDs

36:55
right now and we're putting a good

36:56
amount of money and all of those and

36:58
getting a nice return now the

37:00
opportunity cost of that is that that

37:02
money wasn't in QQQ or the NASDAQ

37:05
ETF or or something else this year and

37:08
so it didn't make 30 so far but that's

37:11
not what we were shooting for with that

37:13
part of the portfolio we're shooting for

37:15
a safe guaranteed return and bond prices

37:17
are down and yields are up to me that's

37:20
a buying opportunity I I really like

37:22
bonds I think like you that the

37:24
government is itching to bring rates

37:26
back down absolutely as they can and

37:28
when that happens bond prices will rise

37:30
and so if you own it you're getting a

37:32
great yield and the price is going to go

37:33
up seems like a no-brainer yeah the

37:36
correlation I make with bonds and the

37:37
and blue palette and the Dutch boy

37:39
haircut yelling love her haircut by the

37:42
way

37:43
um is that

37:44
think about if you had a mortgage

37:48
a lot of people don't there to listen

37:49
but they just assume that you do and you

37:51
just raise the interest rate and you

37:53
just keep raising the interest rate

37:54
eventually that don't make sense because

37:56
you got to service the debt and you're

37:58
going to lower it it's that correlation

37:59
is that simple with what the fed's doing

38:02
with 30 plus trillion however you want

38:04
to count it in debt every time they

38:07
raise that interest rate

38:09
that payment gets a little more chunky

38:11
and that's the reason I think that all

38:14
of these this data can be cooked

38:16
politically and presented through the

38:19
media politically to justify the

38:22
lowering of the rates that's the reason

38:24
I think as soon as they feel like they

38:26
have cover to do that

38:28
they will it'll probably be after the

38:30
election which makes me mad but you know

38:33
it is what it is do you agree with that

38:35
I do I do I completely agree it's the

38:38
same reason they can't tell you that

38:40
what the actual inflation numbers are

38:41
because every time inflation goes up

38:43
they have to raise Social Security by

38:46
the equivalent amount and so it benefits

38:48
them to lie to you on the low side so

38:51
they don't have to raise Social Security

38:52
as much as inflation is it really is or

38:55
in some of the calculations they don't

38:57
include gas or food okay great that's

38:59
fantastic yeah that that doesn't play

39:01
into anybody's inflation I always tell

39:04
my clients first of all inflation is

39:06
customizable meaning it affects everyone

39:09
differently secondly if you're well off

39:12
and the evil rich please stop bitching

39:15
about that because you're going to be

39:17
fine it's a moment in time for you it

39:19
always hits the low end of society the

39:21
worst those six out of ten driving

39:23
around with 400 in a checking account

39:25
inflation is a four letter word trust me

39:28
on that one but for the rest of us that

39:30
are fortunate most of the people that

39:31
are listening to this podcast

39:33
yeah you've scrimped and saved and done

39:35
with that and you're here for a reason

39:36
monetarily and financially but you can

39:40
buy the eggs you'll be good you can

39:41
afford the eggs you can afford the gas

39:43
you know my I tell a story about my wife

39:46
calling me from the grocery store and

39:47
saying can you believe the price of eggs

39:48
is a few a little bit a little a few

39:51
months back and I'm like buy every egg

39:52
buy every carton buy them all we're good

39:55
you know don't worry about it okay it's

39:58
for the person that has five kids and

40:00
and they're not making it that's those

40:02
are the people that I'm I'm truly

40:04
concerned about another question that

40:06
popped in my head was

40:08
we we know of all the mistakes that

40:11
investors make you know panicking not

40:13
you know it's not staying of course all

40:15
that stuff what are some new mistakes

40:17
that are that are making you scratch

40:19
your head that you're that you're

40:20
hearing what are the new ones that

40:22
people are saying I mean the new ones

40:25
are just the old ones that they

40:26
repackaged yeah

40:30
the worst one that I've seen lately is

40:32
that people who were so excited to get a

40:35
five percent return on a treasury bill

40:37
are now calling me and regretting buying

40:40
the t-bell because they could have put

40:42
it in the the market and made 15 oh God

40:45
oh my God it's so frustrating you that's

40:49
why you have a balanced portfolio you're

40:52
happy with the five percent on that

40:54
portion and you're happy with the 15 on

40:57
the other portion and you're never gonna

41:00
get it exactly right you can't time the

41:02
market

41:03
and so it's just the same old same it's

41:05
the same old same old it's amazing it's

41:07
amazing that people

41:09
um you know we're back to where we were

41:11
from the standpoint of the country

41:12
having more credit card debt than we've

41:14
ever had you know all of those I'm never

41:17
gonna let that happen to me again to

41:19
those like 2008 really okay

41:22
um that's the reason that I love Adam's

41:24
approach uh van wefinancial.com again

41:26
I'll have it don't have to write it down

41:28
I'll have all this contact information I

41:30
encourage you to talk to him no

41:31
obligation no cost he'll talk to you

41:33
Adam with that being said can you

41:36
explain your approach

41:39
that you feel separates you from other

41:43
fee only

41:44
planners and explain that as well

41:47
sure uh first of all I I think that if

41:50
you are going to hire a financial

41:51
planner please find a fiduciary please

41:53
find someone that's fee only I am not

41:56
the only one I think I'm the best one

41:57
but that's that's personal yeah you know

41:59
I got to call your wife and see if she

42:01
concurs but I'm not sure can you call

42:03
someone else who likes me more exactly

42:05
all right but I think that I think that

42:08
with us you do get a very Personal Touch

42:10
we meet with all our clients uh up to

42:13
four or five times a year we send out

42:15
reminders four times a year and that

42:17
could be virtual that could be face to

42:18
face it's their call correct yeah

42:20
there's we have clients all over the

42:21
country

42:22
um and so it's not it's not limited to

42:24
northeast Florida although the bulk of

42:26
our clients are here sure uh but we're

42:29
very personal we know all of our clients

42:31
really well we know their situations we

42:33
do a a financial plan for all of them

42:36
most of them anyway some people just

42:38
want uh just want us to manage their

42:40
money that's fine but a lot of people

42:41
what they what they do want is a little

42:44
bit more than just someone to manage

42:46
your money they want to take a look at

42:48
their entire Financial picture figure

42:50
out how to how to make sure that they

42:52
never run out of money in retirement

42:54
figure out how to what the best cost

42:57
effective uh ways are to distribute

43:00
their money in retirement

43:01
um we consider taxes we consider it is

43:04
consider estate planning we consider

43:05
insurance we really look at the whole

43:08
picture there is I think that that is if

43:11
someone just wants to talk about their

43:13
investment strategy with you and doesn't

43:14
want to talk about your whole financial

43:15
picture you're probably in the wrong

43:17
place explain fee only versus fee based

43:21
sure feebased is just a term that uh

43:24
that people who sell things use to try

43:27
and look like they're fee only honestly

43:29
they're double they're double dipping in

43:31
this exactly so they'll have a portion

43:33
of what they do that's fee only but then

43:35
the other portion is commission based

43:37
and so fee based is just a kind of a

43:40
slick way of trying to sound like what

43:41
we are which is fee only which means we

43:43
don't sell anything we don't make any

43:45
commissions we only are we make money

43:48
based on the the port managing or

43:50
portfolio it's a percentage of the total

43:52
assets sure the reason that that I think

43:54
that that is better is that when you

43:56
have more money we make more money so

43:58
our incentive is to grow your assets you

44:01
get wealthier we get wealthier it works

44:03
out for everybody now I'm not saying

44:05
that commissioned people are bad that is

44:07
not thank you because that's me but I

44:09
understand but but seriously I tell

44:12
people all the time for your non-annuity

44:14
portfolio you need a fee only planner

44:16
period you know you can't have all your

44:18
money and annuities I won't let you and

44:20
a lot of people don't need them so but

44:23
that's the reason that I have you on so

44:25
people have because in essence I've

44:27
vetted Adam you know I've known Adam for

44:30
a long long time every single person

44:32
I've referred to him comes back with

44:34
glowing

44:36
um comments and they love working with

44:39
him so I would encourage you to to check

44:41
him out if you can kind of tell from

44:43
just the way people talk and their

44:45
demeanor I would encourage you if you're

44:46
listening to the podcast is to go with

44:48
my fun go on my fun with annuities

44:50
YouTube channel check him out you know

44:52
he's kind of a kind of a Dashing Young

44:54
man

44:55
um you know I can say that because I'm

44:56
I'm old

44:58
um we got a few minutes but I I wanted

45:00
to get your input on artificial

45:04
intelligence

45:06
the AI thing is the acronym that I think

45:09
is going to dominate the next couple

45:11
years

45:13
how is it going to affect

45:16
the market if at all and if it's so how

45:19
tell me tell me your take on all this it

45:22
already has uh honestly we in the last

45:24
couple weeks we've seen AI related

45:27
businesses and just Tech in general just

45:30
take off I mean it has been incredible

45:32
that this entire Market rally over the

45:35
last month has more or less been

45:36
dedicated or been driven by AI

45:39
um it's such I really think it's an

45:41
untapped uh sort of resource that we're

45:44
just now getting a handle on now it's

45:47
also really scary because some of the

45:49
things you can do with it are just it is

45:51
it is nuts it is yeah so it scares me a

45:54
bit but at the same time the the

45:56
potential of what it can do is is pretty

45:58
amazing I think that uh I think that if

46:01
you don't have a portion of your

46:03
portfolio dedicated to Tech or AI

46:06
related things that it's probably a

46:07
mistake I think that everyone should

46:10
have a little bit in there because

46:11
that's where all the Innovation is

46:13
coming from right now and I've said this

46:15
for a long time people always ask me

46:17
Adam is the is the tech is Tech

46:19
overbought is it is it is that trade

46:22
done and and I say no I don't think it

46:24
is even though it's seen you know 20 30

46:27
returns many times over the last 10

46:29
years I think it still has room to run

46:31
because that's what's driving the whole

46:33
economy forward right now is innovation

46:36
in the tech space and and man I think

46:38
this this new technology is just we're

46:40
at the Forefront of AI not not in the

46:42
middle or at the end you know we've

46:44
talked about if you said what's the top

46:46
three new innovation sectors that you're

46:49
probably following it's it I don't know

46:50
the order but it's artificial

46:52
intelligence number one or two

46:55
blockchain would be number one or two is

46:57
there a third one that I'm missing and

46:58
not thinking about

47:00
uh I mean those are those are clearly

47:02
the two biggest but I think there's a

47:04
lot of sort of ancillary Industries

47:07
related to those

47:09
um I I guess you could make an argument

47:10
for like the battery uh the battery

47:13
space man that's a good point yeah I'm

47:16
like Adam you know if if you know on the

47:19
side we should start the company to

47:21
develop the battery I don't have I don't

47:23
have the background on that I'm hoping

47:24
you do

47:25
um but that one is the killer app so

47:28
literally those three

47:30
I think looking into those three that's

47:34
where it's going to happen my opinion of

47:35
course I'm probably wrong but those are

47:38
the obvious ones in my in my opinion

47:40
yeah I I agree I I think that no matter

47:43
what you're doing you've got to power it

47:44
so you've got the batteries the AI is

47:46
sort of the well yeah yeah it's uh so I

47:50
I think those three areas and and

47:51
honestly you can own all of those by

47:53
owning certain Tech funds it's not uh

47:56
it's it's not like it's difficult to do

47:58
in fact if you if you can imagine it

48:00
there's probably an ETF that exists for

48:02
it already today uh that's how that and

48:05
if not there will be yeah and that's why

48:08
you need to talk to Adam don't do the

48:10
research call Adam for God's sakes I

48:12
mean that's what he does every single

48:13
day he's thinking like that I ask him

48:15
that question not knowing the battery

48:17
answer but when he said it I think the

48:19
entire country listening to this podcast

48:21
went oh yeah and that's the OEM moment

48:25
of why you don't need to be doing it

48:27
yourself you Masters of the Universe out

48:29
there either

48:30
and you need to hire a good team around

48:34
you to take care of your financial

48:38
stuff

48:39
and because you know one of the things I

48:41
always tell people Adam you probably do

48:43
too chapter two of your life your

48:45
part-time job is your money and your

48:47
state in your family in addition to your

48:50
health and getting things lined up and

48:52
that's what I love about what Adam does

48:53
he gets all that lined up and so that

48:56
when you meet with him

48:58
um whether virtually or in person he's

49:01
going to provide those detailed answers

49:03
I thought of an interesting marketing

49:05
plan for you Adam because we you know

49:07
one I live part-time here Adam lives

49:09
here and there's the Mayo Clinic and the

49:11
Mayo Clinic is I think here Jacksonville

49:13
Minneapolis and Arizona okay people fly

49:18
in all the time to the Mayo Clinic I

49:20
mean to get into the Mayo Clinic is

49:22
impossible there's a waiting list

49:24
think about this why wouldn't you just

49:27
fly in to Jacksonville go to

49:28
Jacksonville Beach hang out

49:31
and go see Adam once a year why wouldn't

49:33
that be part of your retirement and just

49:36
people flying in like the Mayo because

49:38
people fly into the Mayo because they

49:40
know they're going to get honest advice

49:42
and top-notch service and the best

49:45
that's Adam seriously and I and I'm so

49:49
happy and proud to have him on Adam we

49:51
gotta we gotta tie it up here because we

49:54
both you got to get to watching the

49:56
screens and doing your thing

49:58
um but what we do as you know at the end

50:00
of um the podcast on fun with annuities

50:03
is we do a mic drop moment of which I'm

50:05
going to count you down 54321 and you're

50:07
gonna wow us at them there's no pressure

50:09
whatsoever you're going to allow us with

50:11
a short Soliloquy comment that people

50:15
are gonna listen to get in their car get

50:17
on that treadmill and go man that made

50:19
my day so no pressure whatsoever here we

50:21
go Adam Van we in five four three two

50:26
one go I think the best thing that I can

50:29
leave you with right now is just don't

50:32
be that guy that makes all the classic

50:35
mistakes in investing I mean if the last

50:38
year has taught us nothing it's taught

50:39
you that if you sold out last year in

50:42
July or August or October

50:46
look at what's happened to the market

50:47
and no one no one was predicting what

50:49
happened this year in the market and so

50:51
you have to have a plan you have to stay

50:54
the course don't be reactive don't try

50:57
and time the market you will end up

50:58
hurting your own results and you you

51:01
won't get anything positive out of it

51:03
just don't be that guy I I can't stress

51:06
it or now you can't do it you can't

51:09
predict what's going to happen in the

51:10
market don't try just stick with your

51:13
plans set a good plan history tells you

51:15
that it's going to work trust it it will

51:18
happen even when things look really

51:20
really Bleak like last October that

51:22
there's always a the the turnaround is

51:25
coming got it that's Adam then we have

51:28
been we Financial I want to thank all

51:29
the people listen to us on the major

51:31
podcast platforms and the YouTube

51:33
channel fund with annuities I will see

51:35
you next time

51:41
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