Hello and welcome to choose a five today in the show we have one of our all time

favorite guests Brian for all the back to join us to talk about all things stocks

specifically the stock market what an investing outlook is for 2024, and how him and I are thinking about the

economy, the macro landscape, prognosticators in the media, and all these good things.

I think you're really going to enjoy this. With that, welcome to Choose Up.

Ryan, my friend, welcome back to Chisovai. It's always a pleasure to have you here.

Brad, it is always a pleasure to be here.

Thank you for inviting me back again.

Yeah, you bet, my friend. So yeah, you are the most frequent gust in the history of

choose a vice so it's uh keep the street going here I like it all right we are

recording this on January 23rd 2024 and we essentially have just hit all-time market highs. Now, this is very interesting

and a lot of levels, obviously most of us are doing, you know, if you're looking at the market, if you've logged in to your investments anytime recently and obviously I would suggest to everybody out there, please track your net worth, right? You should be doing this at minimum yearly,

which would mean you've done it in the last three weeks, but I like to do it quarterly,

maybe every six months, whatever. So you've probably logged in recently and

done some cart wheels or backflips, and it's only continued to go up since then.

And Brian, it's been a wild ride right because I think there's such an interesting

dichotomy in the sense that the stock market's flying high, unemployment is

incredibly low, but yet people have been predicting recession and doom and

gloom and horrible the sky is falling for as long as I can remember certainly the last 12

months 24 months so you fill in the blank I guess depending on what corners of the

internet or the news you're following so I'm gonna throw it over to you like

where are you with this market with stocks generally like what is your general sentiment?

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