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Speaker 1: Woking our trillions.

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Speaker 2: I'm Joel Webber and I'm Eric Belchunis.

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Speaker 1: Eric. One thing that you and I both love this

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Speaker 1: time of year is doing a Halloween themed episode. We've

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Speaker 1: done like ETF graveyards before, but then we started kicking

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Speaker 1: this idea around and you had maybe the best one yet.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we have this phrase.

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Speaker 2: We use the team called the Lazarus List, which is

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Speaker 2: obviously the guy in the Bible who Jesus resurrected, and

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Speaker 2: this is could We argued we could have done this

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Speaker 2: on Easter, but because it does involve ETFs that have

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Speaker 2: been deceased. And then somebody else comes along and says, hey,

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Speaker 2: I think I can make this work. Even though it

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Speaker 2: failed for this issuer, somebody tries it again and they

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Speaker 2: sort of resurrect the idea put it back in the market.

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Speaker 2: There's even been cases where it's been tried two or

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Speaker 2: three times and every now and then and it's like

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Speaker 2: the third Times of Charm situation.

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Speaker 1: At first if you don't succeed, dry again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And so we just kind of find this a

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Speaker 2: quirky little wing of the ETF world when people look

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Speaker 2: at something that didn't work and have the I guess

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Speaker 2: vision or gumption to think I can make this work.

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Speaker 1: To walk us through this version of the ETF graveyard,

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Speaker 1: We're going to be joined by Bloomberg Intelligence ETF analysts

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Speaker 1: Sarah Vegas, this time on trillions. The Lazarus List, Athanasios,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Trillians.

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Speaker 4: Glad to be back.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you have put together a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a list. These ETFs were ones that died went to

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Speaker 1: the ETF graveyard, only they weren't dead yet.

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Speaker 4: No, And I think that speaks to where we are

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Speaker 4: in the ETF market.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: There's there's a good idea out there, and it maybe

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Speaker 1: really was a good idea. Maybe maybe the timing wasn't

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Speaker 1: quite right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, and we're back to like recycling ideas. Right,

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Speaker 4: a lot of stuff's been tested that they're like, hey,

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Speaker 4: you know what, this may be closed too soon, or

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Speaker 4: you know, we maybe could give it another shot or

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Speaker 4: rebrand it through a different you know, or maybe.

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Speaker 1: Or maybe it really wasn't meant to live, right, So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's be fair point.

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Speaker 4: Maybe these might close again. If you close twice, that's

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Speaker 4: a tough pill to swallow, I think, right, if you

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Speaker 4: try two times.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so what's the first one that you think embodies

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Speaker 1: this idea.

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Speaker 4: Let's start with probably something most recently. I Shares brought

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Speaker 4: back these target date ETFs. They tried this I think

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Speaker 4: it was twenty fourteen. So basically what this does is

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Speaker 4: like their asset allocation ETF, they hold a little bit

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Speaker 4: of everything, stocks, bonds. It's made to just be a

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Speaker 4: one stop shop. Hey, Eric, what it's one of the

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Speaker 2: So one of them, jol is it D This is

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Speaker 2: the I Shares life path target date twenty four five

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Speaker 2: twenty forty five ETF. So the twenty forty five would

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Speaker 2: be the year that you're supposed to retire, So as

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Speaker 3: But this is designed to.

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Speaker 2: Be in all equities early on and then slowly shift

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Speaker 2: to some portion of fixed income. I believe right now

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Speaker 2: this one is I want to say, eighty five to

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Speaker 3: So look, this is like.

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Speaker 2: You've actually brought this up in occasional episodes. You're like,

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Speaker 2: why isn't there an ETF that just does everything. Well,

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Speaker 2: this is kind of it. It uses other I shares

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Speaker 2: portfolio that an advisor would set up with you using

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Speaker 2: many puzzle pieces. This one does it in one shot

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Speaker 2: and it moves as you get closer to retirement. So

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Speaker 2: these are very popular in four to one K plans,

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Speaker 2: but they failed almost all the time in the ETF

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Speaker 2: and advisors, to quote George W. Bush, want to be

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Speaker 2: They can't have one fund and show the client that

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Speaker 2: think six to eight of them for the different retirement years.

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Speaker 1: So they bit the dust. What happened?

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Speaker 4: It's a fair question. I think they were a little

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Speaker 4: they've been they're really trying to go after like clients

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Speaker 4: I think the market is a much more mature place,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we had Blackrock on ETFIQ on a recent

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Speaker 2: the fifty percent of people who do not have exposure

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Speaker 2: to equities. They feel like this is a very easy

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Speaker 2: way to reach them, and they're trying to do a

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Speaker 2: little bit of God's work here, Joel, to try to

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Speaker 2: get those people invested. And I would say this is

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Speaker 2: not being take advantage of. Honestly, there's so many things

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Speaker 2: about investments that are like bad, but this is like

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Speaker 2: these charge eleven basis points and they're in very solid

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Speaker 2: I shares ETFs. They usually pick the cheaper ones. It

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Speaker 2: makes sense Honestly, Joel, if the government really wanted to

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Speaker 2: clear the wealth gap, they would actually put every person

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Speaker 2: make them, like, you know, pass some financial literacy tests

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Speaker 2: something like that. Not saying to put them all in

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Speaker 2: black rock, but something like this would make a lot

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Speaker 2: of sense as something you get when you're born, versus

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Speaker 2: say a social security system. So I think these are

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Speaker 1: Okay, Athanasios, give me one that surprised you.

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Speaker 4: Another pretty recent one, luxury goods. This has been tried

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think it was Louis Vaton was at

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Speaker 4: If there's one area outside the US. You know, we

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Speaker 4: be enough to get people enticed to invest in it,

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Speaker 4: but I think it's a pretty interesting idea that gets overlooked.

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Speaker 1: Eric, what's the ticker on?

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Speaker 2: So there's actually two. There's l u X and l

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Speaker 2: u x X, So two people have tried to resurrect this.

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Speaker 2: They're both in the market, both not that big. I'll

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Speaker 2: give you some of the holding's stroll. I mean, these

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Speaker 2: are some of your favorite brands, Hermes ferrari A mens

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Speaker 2: eric a me is it? Yeah? No, I'm from the

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Speaker 2: other side of the tracks for sure. S They Lauder Royal,

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Speaker 3: That's interesting.

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Speaker 2: That's like a home builders, Win Resorts, Hennessy, Louis Vatan.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean you read through these names.

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Speaker 1: How does that compare with the other one?

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Speaker 2: Very similar, These have a lot of overlap. The one

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Speaker 2: difference is l U X. The one with only one

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Speaker 2: which can be good and bad. LUXX has more holdings,

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Speaker 2: and if you look at the assets, both are under

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Speaker 2: So I don't know if they've really been able to

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Speaker 2: resurrect this successfully. These two could end up right back

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Speaker 2: in the same place if I'm being honest.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we talked about some ones that have had some

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Speaker 1: difficulties walking through the graveyard, where there's maybe one that

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Speaker 4: This would be one of the darlings of COVID during

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Speaker 4: that time. And its jets.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the airline ETF. It's been tried, like I think

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Speaker 4: two issuers had an airline ETF direction and Googenheim was it,

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Speaker 4: and now this is US Global Investors brought that back

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Speaker 4: it was during COVID when airlines stopped and the trade

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Speaker 4: But that's one that had been resurrected and had done

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Joel, there were two airlines ETF FAA, which had

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Speaker 2: twenty million dollars and closed, and then fliy X, which

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Speaker 2: luxury ETFs where there's like, oh my god, this is

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Speaker 2: going to go down, and then bam the pandemic ironically

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Speaker 2: because again who's flying during the pandemic. But the pandemic

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Speaker 2: really got this thing going, you know. Funny story. We

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Speaker 2: had the guy from Jets on ETFIQ the first iteration

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Speaker 2: I just ran the numbers and besides Nigeria, your ETF

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Speaker 2: prescient because right after that, jets went up and now

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Speaker 2: one point three billion. It charges sixty basis points, So

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Speaker 2: they certainly are making a very profitable ETF here, even

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Speaker 2: if it has come down a little bit from that,

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Speaker 2: you know, sort of peaked during the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: Found its moment.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, absolutely, it can't happen.

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Speaker 1: You know, what's the pie today?

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Speaker 2: It's still only ten, So like that's how that's how

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Speaker 2: like if you're at four, you can rally a lot

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Speaker 2: and still have even more to rally. That's how beat

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Speaker 2: some of the top holdings in this American Airlines, Southwest Airlines,

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Speaker 1: One to watch. Yep, Eric, when do you why do

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a.

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Speaker 1: It literally had the right exposure, right idea, Yes, and

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Speaker 3: That's why. Only on occasion is it something that launches

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Speaker 4: We got one more, probably the most famous one of all.

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Speaker 1: Save the best for a last Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Not? Not yet? Too early.

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Speaker 4: There is red involved.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna make those make those numbers early.

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Speaker 4: But this one is XIV, the credit Swiss in Verse

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm gonna read this for beatam because it

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Speaker 2: It does short the short term futures, but it does

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Speaker 2: I'd be very careful with them if you're listening at home.

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Speaker 1: Eric. When you're walking around around the graveyard, which one

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Speaker 2: For some reason, For some reason, I just immediately think

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Speaker 2: This thing launched fish at the beginning of the financial crisis.

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Speaker 2: I think it just had a bad timing.

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Speaker 2: There was an ETF called the Short Squeeze ETF s

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Speaker 1: I think it's like a third example of one that

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Speaker 3: You would have been fine.

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Speaker 1: Misconnection, I think that was what I mean, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I thought somebody would have done it, especially as the

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Speaker 2: I know the guy who put that out, and he's

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Speaker 1: Well there's still time and maybe you know there's another

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Speaker 1: Halloween episode that Athanasios. Thanks very much for joining us

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Speaker 1: on Trillions.

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Speaker 4: Oyeah, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Happy Halloween, Eric, Happy Halloween.

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