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Travis Hoium

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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
The Reality of Investing in 2026

You guys have touched on a little bit of that and where we could see some impacts.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
The Reality of Investing in 2026

But gasoline is something that people are buying on a day-to-day basis.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
The Reality of Investing in 2026

And like Lou said, it's an inelastic demand.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
The Reality of Investing in 2026

If I need to go to work, I need to go to work, whether gas is $2 a gallon or $4 a gallon.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
The Reality of Investing in 2026

The two historical times that I thought of comparing this moment potentially to are

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
The Reality of Investing in 2026

is the 1973 oil crisis, also Iran involved in that one, and then also the war in Iraq started in 2003.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
The Reality of Investing in 2026

You had 9-11, 2001.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
The Reality of Investing in 2026

The period after that for the market was essentially a decade of the market going absolutely nowhere.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
The Reality of Investing in 2026

There was an economic impact

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
The Reality of Investing in 2026

And then you potentially had a market impact where investors start to go, man, look, think about all the growth stocks that we have today.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
The Reality of Investing in 2026

Maybe we shouldn't be valuing these as highly if we've got a whole lot of uncertainty.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
The Reality of Investing in 2026

So now you see multiples start to come down.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
The Reality of Investing in 2026

Is that something that we should be thinking about, Lou?

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
The Reality of Investing in 2026

And we don't want to be dumerism here, but these are the concepts that we need to think about.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
The Reality of Investing in 2026

Because if this is another 1973, if this is another 2003, it could mean that that's going to affect our investments over the next decade.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
The Reality of Investing in 2026

Yeah, John, we've already seen the market start to be impacted.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
The Reality of Investing in 2026

The S&P 500, as we're recording year to date, down about 4%.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
The Reality of Investing in 2026

The NASDAQ composites down about 6%.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
The Reality of Investing in 2026

We're definitely not in any sort of major correction territory, but the fear and greed index is now in full-on fear mode.

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing
The Reality of Investing in 2026

So should we be sort of a little bit more fearful in the way that we're thinking about expectations for the future?