... it's gotten crazier I think a little bit, so would love to hear.

Yeah.

Well, I guess, you know, the big news this week is that the Federal Reserve raised interest rates.

This is the first time in three years that they've done that.

In fact, first time they've even touched interest rates this entire year, and it's also since we have a, uh, still new Fed chairman, and I think he's, uh, also wants to show his independence, uh, from the White House.

There's a, a, a bunch of different, uh, currents at work.

And then there's of course the, uh, w- the, the vote was unanimous, which was interesting.

Would love to, to hear there.

Tell the listeners what this is, what was the inspiration to get it started, all that good stuff.

Well, one of the things I wanted to convey to investors with my blog is that investing is not that hard.

It's easier than it looks as long as you are patient and disciplined.

So I said, I'll start a buy list.

I actually first did it in 2005, just sort of to the end of the year.

So it was a couple of months.

And I said, here are 20 stocks.

So as we wind down 2025, as we look out into the future, uh, What's got you excited? What's got you worried? Anything you're thinking about, reading, on and on?