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Speaker 1: I'm Catherine Cowdery. You're listening to Taking Stock with Kathleen

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Speaker 1: your investments. Doug Sioca is the chief executive officer and

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Speaker 1: between presidential elections and market cycles? Ay, Pim, Good afternoon,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me on. I think that, um, there

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Speaker 1: are myriad correlations or correllaries that are drawn between the

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Speaker 1: I mean it's very very progressive. So people are are

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