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my game good morning fens of things how you guys  doing today we are so glad to see you here and it  

is the day before July 4th a long weekend a short  Market day not a whole lot of information going on  

in world besides a a employment report this Friday  but it will be a good day we’ve got several things  

that we’re going to talk about today Ron’s going  to lead us off with a few things that he’s been  

doing some research on and that I will finish us  up with some uh some additional research I’ve been  

doing and it was actually from you guys you all  had asked a bunch of questions about renewable  

energy and some of the renewable energy plays  that are out there so I did a little research  

for you and and held my nose on some of these to  be able to give you some ideas on them so Ron how  

you doing my friend good all right let’s kick this  thing off kick this pig all right let me know when  

you see it almost there there we go so I remember  this when it came out four years ago this is very  

interesting it’s surprising that it took all this  time to find out about this but Irene triplet it  

died in 202 20 she was the oldest recipient of  getting Civil War money because her father who  

was 83 when they had her in 1930 was a civil  war event so those Civil War benefits passed  

on her $733 a month for her entire life now think  about it if you were getting $73 a month back in  

1870 1880 you were living pretty good living  yeah that’s a really good living not so much  

have been able to buy Beach property back then  yeah good God I couldn’t that’s like less than  

a trip to the grocery store even on a slow day  for me I don’t know what you’re eating my man  

but that might be half a meal we depending on what  you’re getting there no kidding good Lord anyway  

I remember this when it came out four years ago  when I saw it again I had to go through it because  

you’ll never see something like this again this  is just crazy all so next one color TV existed  

in the 1950s the technology had been developed in  the 40s but very few people owned it and it was  

so expensive a TV set back in 1954 color one was  ,000 over $1,000 today and the funny thing is I  

think the average house was like $6,000 or $7,000  at that time wow and don’t forget if you remember  

the old screens were a 10 10 in diameter circle  tube yeah and those first ones were just like a  

ghostly Shadow and everything else so I love the  old pictures where people are sitting around a TV  

that 10 inches in diameter for a tube and you got  eight people looking around in complete amaz wow  

can you imagine them today the 4K TVs and the  oleds look look like 3D at night it’s crazy oh  

imagine you know somebody from back then seeing a  70inch TV that you know the people on the screen  

are bigger than the people in the room yeah I  un imag even 30 years ago was unimaginable to  

have a TV that you hang on your wall so it’s  interesting okay so let’s keep going so some  

interesting things about performance during the  summer months in the market June has historically  

been a month where Industries tend to decline we  were up 3.6% last month m so typically June is  

not a great month the S&P in the Dow Industrial  has finished a negative territory 15 out of the  

last 39 months or 38 and a half% of the time which  basically doesn’t give you any real indicator okay  

great been more positive than negative but is it  so strong for conviction no and then here’s the  

other interesting one between October 30th and  18 and April 30th the so-called winter months  

the Dow has been up only 1 8% yeah meaning that  the summer months for the Dow are typically good  

and if you see what’s happened to the Dow in  the last three months it’s basically been flat  

yeah it I mean interestingly enough it had a lot  of days during the month of June that it was on  

several days it was the only thing up and it was  up significantly during that time oh yeah oh Apple  

had a killer month last month remember in the  last podcast a two-day move was 400 billion in in  

market cap ridiculous and Boeing stopped shooting  themselves in the foot every day so that helped  

immensely y okay so some of the benchmarks so June  historically has been a relatively flat month July  

historically is the best month of the year for  the S&P but rather ironically last year July  

started the 10% pullback through October 27th so  it should be interesting to see based on our move  

in the first half of the year if June continues  to be the best month of the year or is it going  

to be you know the the beginning of the slide  because of the presidential election year and the  

time frame from July to on October is typically  not a great time frame in presidential election  

years and then August there is one statistic that  in our favor and that is 69% of the time during  

the summer Olympic the market goes up goes up yep  okay we’ll know in the next two weeks right there  

we go August has been a relatively weak month  historically only averaging up about 3% now so  

that’s typically the performance of the indices  now what are typically the best performing sectors  

technology for crying out loud if the Market’s  going up technolog is leading the way as it pretty  

much has over the last 30 years utilities  typically dis the whole thing with AI and  

the data centers the utilities typically do well  during the summer I guess that’s a given people  

need more electricity for their AC especially  where you and I live energy has done well that  

also makes sense people are traveling during the  Summers but this is interesting real estate real  

estate right now is struggling I don’t know if  you’ve seen some charts of the home builders and  

whatever but they had a huge rise at the end of  last year into this year they’re back down to 52  

week load yeah wow so I don’t know what’s going  on there but I saw yesterday a 30-year fix rate  

hit 7.13% yeah so who’s putting their house up  for sale to go get a new mortgage not happening  

in healthcare has also drawn strong performance  when interest rates are rising and we all know  

that interest rates are only going to be going in  One Direction chair pal was out on Monday being  

interviewed saying hire for longer how many times  have we said that but here’s the other interesting  

thing that he did State not that I was surprised  he said look their target obviously as we all  

know is to get down to 2% inflation but he said he  doesn’t expect that to happen in 2024 or in 20125  

that mean higher for longer yes he keeps saying so  with higher for longer we could count on you know  

struggling with housing Banking and credit lines  being seized up a little bit we’ll see so anyway  

just some interesting facts and I will state  that my AI co-pilot actually helped me create  

that those in that information awesome see I mean  you’re I’m in the 21st century now I’m getting rid  

of the hammer and chisel will do all my right  you know and I mean you were talking about it’s  

interesting because remember we were talking about  the the healthc care stuff you had done a piece on  

that probably in February if you all go back Ron  did a great piece on that talking about how really  

the back half of the Year typically healthc care  does better now the interesting thing though is  

from May till now it has sucked it up back during  that time period so if it’s gonna start doing  

something it’s got to start doing something soon  otherwise it’ll be one of those off years when  

it comes to that with Healthcare it’s and also  healthc care is a political football topic too  

you know when they want to talk about insurance  and everything else all the lobbyists get their  

claws into the the politicians and I am sure  you know that as you we approach the election  

that depending on where we are with with our  candidate that definitely healthc care is going  

to be a topic just as a again a political football  being passed around yeah and you were you had that  

piece in there about real estate yes I think real  estate in general is a mess right now but even  

from a re standpoint typically that’s a sleeve of  our portfolios and it’s not a detractor I will say  

over the last 365 days but it certainly hasn’t  been an Adder either it’s just Mark time and  

we’ve collected dividend and that’s been about it  yeah from that perspective and even the healthare  

started out on fire in January and February and  it’s completely pulled back so yeah I think the  

second half of the year will be good for health  care we just have to kind of get some kind of a  

healthy pullback here in the mark to make those  things look more tracked for a run into the end  

of the year absolutely like I said I think from  that perspective I think that was a really good  

look at the market and thank God for AI it makes  our lives a whole lot easier when it comes to that  

but I I think it’s an interesting time period I I  still hear people in the news constantly oh we’ll  

probably have three rate Cuts before year end you  people are smoking something it isn’t going to  

happen actually I’m glad you brought that up again  because that’s a segue from what I talked about  

before with J pal talking about we’re not going  to we’re not going to get we’re it’s going to take  

you know another year and a half right my point is  that they were talking oh it’ll definitely happen  

in September no no they got to wait till after  the election it’ll definitely happen in November  

or December it doesn’t matter when they think  it’s going to happen they’re already telling you  

they’re on track for inflation but going to be  at least another 12 to I’m sorry 18 plus months  

before they get down there my my whole point  is right now you know anything that’s more than  

50% in the FED Futures rate they’re looking as a  cut so they’re looking at two this year and three  

next year forget about we already dad nauseum last  year we were having fun with it about they thought  

there was going to be six or seven this year but  my point is that we’ll be lucky if we get one and  

if we do I think it’ll happen after the election  but it dated dependent it’s not gonna have and  

not only that but a quarter of a point pullback  means nothing yeah that’s not going to turn head  

no speculators will hop all over that but it’s  not going to have a major effect on the market  

or in lending at all yeah no and it’s going  to take a a long while to pull stuff back the  

only thing that’s going to happen is the the  short-term rates are immediately going to go  

down fast because they’re already massively we’re  still in an inverted yield curve at this point so  

no matter what happens it’s going to take it’s it  all it’s going to do is pull back that short end  

of the market and people that have been living on  hey 5% money markets or five and a quarter percent  

treasuries in the short run of the market those  are going to pull back fast and you’re not going  

to have those anymore and but the longer term  rates are probably going to stay up there that the  

mortgage rates and things like that aren’t going  to come back as fast that’s all right hey look my  

conservative clients and my pre-retirees and my  retirees are loving those one to six month rates  

and just them over as they mature and conservative  it’s risk-free and they could sleep at night a lot  

of my a lot of my money market clients that we  we’ve been talking about this and I said that’s  

going to evaporate fast so we need to start doing  short-term Bond ladders basically from now and  

just keep rolling that stuff over that’ll preserve  it as long as we possibly can at Point all right  

what else you got Co let’s let’s finish up here  and say folks thank you for joining us on the show  

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