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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: New year, new president, new policies. What can we expect

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Speaker 2: when a new president takes over the White House. I'm

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Speaker 2: Barry Ritholtz, and on today's edition of At the Money,

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Speaker 2: we're going to discuss how presidential cycles affect markets and equities.

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Speaker 2: To help us understand all of this and its implications

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Speaker 2: for your portfolio, let's bring in Jeff Hirsch. He's editor

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Speaker 2: in chief of the Stock's Almanaccents May two thousand and three,

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Speaker 2: and in twenty eleven he was the author of the

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Speaker 2: book Super Boom, Why the Dow Jones will hit thirty

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Speaker 2: nine thousand, and How you Can profit from it. Full disclosure,

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Speaker 2: I wrote the forward to that book. So let's jump

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Speaker 2: right into the presidential cycle theory. Your father, Yalehirsh, developed

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Speaker 2: this concept in nineteen sixty seven. Explain his theory.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Yale really put the presidential cycle the fuer cycle

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Speaker 3: on Wall Street's map when he've published a first almanac

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Speaker 3: back in sixty seven. Bottom line, it's about presidents trying

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Speaker 3: to get reelected. They try to make voters happy. Uh,

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Speaker 3: prime the pump in the third year. We've got a

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Speaker 3: whole page on how the government manipulates the economy. Most recently,

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Speaker 3: the twenty twenty three Startschriter's Almanac, and they really try

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Speaker 3: to prop it up in the third year, and they

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Speaker 3: take care of their least savory policy initiatives and agenda

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Speaker 3: items in the first two years. I think what we've

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Speaker 3: seen recently with Trump two point zero on day one,

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Speaker 3: et cetera, as a case in point of that, trying

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Speaker 3: to get a lot of stuff done. Foreign adversaries tend

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Speaker 3: to test new administrations early on. Ukraine in twenty two

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Speaker 3: is a good example of that, and it sort of

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Speaker 3: creates this tendency for bear markets in the midterm year

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Speaker 3: and that sweet spot of the four year cycle, the

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Speaker 3: Q four of midterm year to Q two pre election year,

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Speaker 3: and if you remember, October twenty two is pretty much

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Speaker 3: a textbook midterm class at October bottom.

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Speaker 2: So nineteen sixty seven seems like a long time, different economy,

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Speaker 2: different market, different credit cycle. How has the theory evolved

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Speaker 2: since let's call it fifty seven years ago.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean the first two years have been

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Speaker 3: notoriously weak. I think the biggest change has been post

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Speaker 3: election years, which is what we're in right now A

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Speaker 3: twenty five have gotten much better. It seems to be

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Speaker 3: sort of the same, you know, priming of the pump

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Speaker 3: ahead of the midterm cycle now where they're trying to

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Speaker 3: hang on to it as many congressional seats as possible.

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Speaker 3: So post election years have improved dramatically since World War Two,

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Speaker 3: actually more dramatically since nineteen eighty five, with now averaging

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Speaker 3: seventeen point two percent in post election years eight up,

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Speaker 3: two down, best average gain in the four year cycle,

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Speaker 3: besting the pre election year, which you know is the

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Speaker 3: best over the longer term at fifteen point two percent.

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Speaker 4: But the pre.

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Speaker 3: Election year only has one loss, even though the average

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Speaker 3: is a little bit lower.

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Speaker 4: So it's pretty bullish for twenty twenty five for me,

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Speaker 4: you know, I'm looking at an up year.

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Speaker 3: Eight to twelve percent is my base case, with some

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Speaker 3: pullbacks in Q one and Q two, but you know,

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Speaker 3: not the twenty plus percent we've had the past couple

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Speaker 2: So I think back since this theory came out in

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Speaker 2: sixty seven, Nixon, Ford, ever, so briefly Carter Reagan, Bush,

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Speaker 2: Clinton for two terms, Bush two for two terms, Obama

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Speaker 2: for two terms, Trump, Biden, and then Trump again how

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Speaker 2: has the p finential cycle theory held up over all

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Speaker 3: Pretty good in general, except for the nineties. You know,

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Speaker 3: the dot com boom pretty.

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Speaker 4: Much straight up during the late nineties. But there have

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Speaker 4: been some derailments.

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Speaker 3: I mean a lot of this is on page one

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Speaker 3: thirty of your Handy Stock Traders Nomanact, the whole four

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Speaker 3: year cycle, which I always keep in my desk you

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Speaker 3: can refer to yourself. There's been some derailments. It's not perfect,

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Speaker 3: you know, As I said, we had the Super Bowl

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Speaker 3: in the nineties. In the two thousand, COVID was that

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Speaker 3: sort of big oversold by there was? It still a

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Speaker 3: good year. The last cycle, which I just you know

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Speaker 2: So let's talk about the strongest year tends to be

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Speaker 2: the third year of presidential terms. Historically, the kick out

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Speaker 2: all the stops, everything they could do in year three

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Speaker 2: The third year almost always seems to do really well.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you got to repeat what we just said.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's prime of the pump. It's how the

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Speaker 3: government government, it relates to communist stay in power. There's

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Speaker 3: a whole list of items with changing Social Security payments.

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Speaker 3: I mean, even in New York State, you're a New

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Speaker 3: York State rep. You got a check from Kathy Hochel

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Speaker 4: I mean it it's down to the governor's level. They're

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Speaker 3: It's just, you know, they're doing everything they can to

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Speaker 3: to make voters happy going into the booths.

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Speaker 4: And that's what creates that.

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Speaker 3: They got to do it ahead of time because they're

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Speaker 3: to do a lot of these things to prime that pump.

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Speaker 3: In the pre election year, and that's the most consistent

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Speaker 3: part of it. I mean, it really sets up that

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Speaker 2: Plus it does take a little while for things like

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Speaker 2: the economy. If the third year is the strongest, what's

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Speaker 2: historically the weakest year and what are the factors that

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Speaker 2: hold that back?

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Speaker 3: It's the midterm year, the second year, the second year, sorry,

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Speaker 3: we call them post mid and pre that's Yales, Yale's

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Speaker 4: Yeah, second year.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we had we were all over this in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty two. Putin invading Ukraine helped. I think part

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Speaker 4: A vulnerability there in America.

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Speaker 3: But it's it's the midterm year, and that you can

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Speaker 3: cycle UH breakdown by quarters. The weak spot is Q

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Speaker 3: two and Q three. The midterm year dows down on

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Speaker 2: Huh. Really interesting. Any difference in the historical data between

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Speaker 2: let's say a president has two terms between the four

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Speaker 2: of term two, or does it not matter.

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Speaker 4: It's a little bit better, not not much term two

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Speaker 2: The assumption being, Hey, if the economy is good enough

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Speaker 2: for them to get re elected, then everything should be firing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, especially in that post election year, the fifth year

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Speaker 3: of a presidency. You know, they've got more of a mandate.

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Speaker 3: You know, we've seen you know, on average about nine

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Speaker 3: point seven percent for the S ANDP in those fifth

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Speaker 3: years versus what it's about, you know, all years about

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Speaker 3: nine and a half percent of the all post lectures

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Speaker 4: Better in recent history.

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Speaker 3: You know, you go back to you know, nineteen seventeen,

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Speaker 3: nineteen thirty seven, fifty seven, seventy three, all week years

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Speaker 3: in that fifth year, but since since eighty five, you know,

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Speaker 3: post lecture years fifth years are great.

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Speaker 2: Here's a totally random question, and I know there's no

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Speaker 2: real good answer to this. Does it matter if the

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Speaker 2: presidential terms are non consecutive? I know we have now

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Speaker 2: a data set of one before this, maybe maybe one.

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Speaker 3: I mean eighteen ninety three, we had the Panic eight

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Speaker 3: nineteen ninety seven, we had what was there even indoor

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Speaker 4: I don't think.

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Speaker 4: Not exactly the same world. I mean from Fiddler, it's

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Speaker 3: You know, I mean, it's much different, but it's still

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Speaker 3: all about building their legacy, keeping the party in power,

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Speaker 2: So it's funny we're talking about eighteen ninety three. It

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Speaker 2: feels like America today is more partisan and more polarized

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Speaker 2: than it's been certainly in our lifetimes. Does that have

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Speaker 2: any impact on the presidential cycle.

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Speaker 3: I don't think so. I'm not sure if it's if

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Speaker 3: it's perception. You know, we know each other a long time.

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Speaker 2: So you're a data wonk. You've been going through the

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Speaker 2: Stock Traders Almanac for your whole career. You're always looking

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Speaker 2: at all these fascinating numbers and market data. What's been

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Speaker 2: the biggest surprise or anomaly you've observed in presidential market cycles.

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Speaker 4: First of all, I grew up doing this.

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Speaker 3: I mean I took over the editorship, you know in

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Speaker 3: O three I think is the where you mentioned it.

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Speaker 3: But you know, I grew up running these numbers by

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Speaker 3: paper with a pencil. The biggest surprise, I think is

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Speaker 3: this the record of the Dow in pre election years

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Speaker 3: so from forty three to twenty three in post election

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Speaker 3: years excuse me, pre election years. The Dow is twenty

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 3: And then the other thing with the four year cycle.

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Speaker 3: There's a couple other discoveries of the things we made,

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Speaker 3: but for the four year cycle. This thing I mentioned

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Speaker 3: earlier was the post election year flipping from being the

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Speaker 3: of the almanac, like I mentioned, to being the best

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Speaker 3: in s eighty five.

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Speaker 2: So why do you think that is the first year

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Speaker 2: slump just hasn't materialized since really since the financial crisis.

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Speaker 2: Are we blaming accrediting low interest rates in the FED

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Speaker 3: I think it has something to do with the compression

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Speaker 3: got to do stuff to make voters happy so that

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Speaker 2: So our final question, how should investors think about their

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, we have a strategy where we use

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Speaker 4: We basically stay in from.

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Speaker 3: The mid term low you know, the midterm bicycle in

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Speaker 3: October through the post election year April May.

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Speaker 4: So basically you want to avoid the week spots. Q

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Speaker 3: Q one first year is one of the weak spots,

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Speaker 3: before Q two and Q three the midterm year, and

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Speaker 3: in twenty two. And I think you want to you know,

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Speaker 4: And sort of be more cautious in those two years.

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Speaker 2: So to wrap up, investors with a long term perspective

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Speaker 2: should prepare themselves for a little bit of softening following

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Speaker 2: the first quarter of a new presidential term, maybe at

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Speaker 2: lasts four quarter six quarters. Historically it's a little weaker

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Speaker 2: than the rest of the cycle. When it makes that low,

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Speaker 2: whether that's the summer or October of the midterm year,

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Speaker 2: that's what tees you up for really the best historical

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Speaker 2: returns within a new presidency. So strap yourself in. Could

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Speaker 2: get a little shaky for the next couple of quarters,

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Speaker 2: but the payoff for that is from the midterm cycle

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Speaker 2: through the last year of the presidency. I'm Barry Dults.

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Speaker 2: This is Bloomberg's at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Bad h