Kyla Scanlon

So their people don't actually buy as much as like Americans do.

Americans love buying stuff.

And so they would be a different partner to other countries just because they've had such a tough time stirring domestic consumption.

But from a sector perspective with AI and energy, they're far ahead.

Yeah.

I don't know if I think of it as like optimism or I'm going to be very annoying.

I don't know if I think of it as optimism or pessimism as much as realism.

Like this is just what we're, this is like cards that we've been dealt right now.

And a lot of it is really unfortunate, the actions that the administration has taken.

But when you look at people like leaders like Jerome Powell, you know, there's a lot of hope in people like that who are standing up for

something like as important as monetary policy stability and i've been traveling the past year and a half with my book and i wrote a piece on this a few months ago but essentially the whole purpose of the piece was like there's a lot of people doing really amazing stuff all over the country and so i think if anybody ever gets like bummed out or super sad like just go out into it sounds silly but like go out into your local community and like it's you know

There's people who are really making a big difference with how all of this works and how all of this operates outside of the more macro scale.

So I think there is stuff to be optimistic about and really hopeful.

And that is all you really can do.

But you do have to kind of be like, all right, this is how it is to a certain extent.

Who do you think reader from and Rick reader?

I don't know.

I mean, Rick is, if you look at the production markets, Rick is on the rise.

I actually really like Rick's analysis and I think he's a, it'd be interesting to have somebody so market centric in Fed chair position.

So, um, yeah, I kinda, I would root for him.