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podcast i'm very excited every time i see peter book bar on the calendar i get excited and he's with me now

he's the chief investment officer at bleakly financial group he is a friend of fast money. He's a friend of

CNBC. And he's a friend of ours. Peter, how are you? Hi, Guy. Great to see you. Everything's good.

Thanks. Well, as you know, and I think most of our listeners and viewers know that I think the world

of you and your work. And I've thought that now for many, many years. And you're one of those voices that you turn the volume up on CNBC.

But it's great we have you here today because obviously we got a CPI report earlier today,

today being Wednesday, that the market really seemingly championed and was excited about,

at least in the short term, but there are a lot of

things that have happened on the back of it. So let's start there with the CPI number and what

your thoughts were. Right. So the number came in for both headline and core of two tens. The estimate

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