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Speaker 1: wall of worry, we've got Slovan growth, rising interest rates,

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Speaker 1: UM and valuation are some concerns, and now you have

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Speaker 1: geopolitical risk to add into the um. The whole panoply

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Speaker 1: of issues for this market to navigate. Let's check in

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Speaker 1: on the economic outlook underpinning all of this. We can

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Speaker 1: do that with Pete Earle. He's the economist at the

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Speaker 1: American Institute of Economic Research. Pete, has your economic outlook

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Speaker 1: changed at all given what we've seen coming out of

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Speaker 1: Ukraine over the last week or so. Good morning, Gentlemen's

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Speaker 1: good to talk to you. It's great to be back. Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it certainly has. Um. When we last folk in October November,

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Speaker 1: I seem to recall that I mentioned that the ugliest

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Speaker 1: word in economics, which is siflation, was back, but I

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Speaker 1: didn't think it was where. I didn't think it was

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Speaker 1: We see commodities across the board rising pretty precipitously, even

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Speaker 1: consumer sentiment falling. Consumer it fell in January, consumer competence

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Speaker 1: other signs that we may we may actually see rising inflation,

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Speaker 1: rising general price level with slowing growth. There's a few

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Speaker 1: other issues embedded in there. But the answer is yes,

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Speaker 1: I do think we are turning a corner here. Do

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Speaker 1: we need um the Fed though too? Well? Is the

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Speaker 1: I don't think the FED will move any greater than

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Pete Earle economists at the American Institute of

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Speaker 1: Economic Research, giving us his outlook. Take a look a

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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk commodities, guys. I have my g

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg terminal. All of energy higher, metals higher, most of

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Speaker 1: kind of what's moving this market, so we turned to

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Speaker 1: Everett Millman, chief market analyst at Gainesville Coins. Everett, what's

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Speaker 1: your call across commodities here at a time when we

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Speaker 1: have rising geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe. Right well, appears

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Speaker 1: that gold has certainly held up its bona fides as

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Speaker 1: a faith haven asset UM. It has certainly rallied amid

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Speaker 1: reversal possibility would be a de escalation of this proposal

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Speaker 1: All right, let's given this environment, given this backdrop here, ever,

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Speaker 1: what are the two or three most common calls you're

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Speaker 1: are you telling them to be exposed here? Well, obviously

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Speaker 1: gold it's always a safe place during on certain times

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Speaker 1: order to support its foreign exchange value. UM. I'm also

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Speaker 1: looking at platinum and palladium UM. Russia is far and

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Speaker 1: a little bit about what turns gold around. In particular,

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Speaker 1: already some indication that perhaps we will be gold used

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Speaker 1: Right now, let's switch over to the markets. The market outlook,

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Speaker 1: Lots of bricks in that wall of worry. Now we

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us here. Kind of what

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