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In fact, many services, when they report the debt ratio for a company, report book debt ratios.

So if you're wondering why my debt ratios are different from what you might find in Yahoo Finance, this might be the reason.

Now, book debt ratios do have a use, especially when it comes to computing accounting returns.

Now, this might be getting ahead of myself if you haven't looked at the accounting return data set, but I report return on equity and return invested capital.

They got you.

The magicians have you looking focused on the interest rates and CNBC, Yahoo Finance, all those, right? They're going to be doing they're going to be focused on that next week like nothing before.

But what really matters is that inflation rate.

We talk about this all the time.

All right.

So there's a story in Yahoo Finance about a woman who inherited some money from her parents.

They passed away.

She got three hundred thousand dollars and she decided she was going to be disciplined and she was not going to touch that money.

Today's episode is particularly important because there is a significant shift going on right now about how companies are thinking about compensation for next year.

According to an August 2026 Yahoo Finance report citing data from PayScale, only 32% of US organizations plan to give across the board salary increases in 2027, which is down from 36% in 2026.

At the same time, performance-based increases are making a comeback with average increases expected to hover around 3.5%.

So the average is 3.5%, but not everybody is getting that.

That's all the superficial, short-term noise.

The stories we get from the mainstream media, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, The Wall Street Journal, all that, right? That's just the icing.

But that's what people see.

Think about it.

I mean, think about what we hear about gold and silver from the financial media.

It hardly ever gets mentioned on TV shows like CNBC.

It hardly ever gets mentioned on Yahoo Finance or by the Wall Street Journal.

But when it does, it gets mentioned in a negative light.

As I always say, if we invest on the long term, we should not pay too much attention to all this.

Obviously, it is not good to remain walled up in our knowledge without being informed about what is currently happening, but here, not even sticking to the financial news every day and go and see how they are reacting to investments, depending on what is written on Yahoo Finance, Morningstar or the Financial Times.

Anyway, we've talked enough, let's go and see the fall of July, in particular the fall that the semiconductor sector has had, highly linked to the AI world.

Speaking of this, on July 28th, the KOSPI, the main index of South Korean stock exchanges, fell by more than 10%, with in particular Samsung down by 14% in stock, as well as SH Enix, which even went down under its initial value of the IPO, after which KOSPI continued to go down for another two days, reaching a minus 29% in July, levels that did not touch since the crisis of 1997 and 2008.

Could be all the main news channels were, you know, stuck at their website crash.

We ended up finding an obscure Yahoo Finance talk show that had a stream of what was going on the news.

And that's what we saw.

We were like, holy crap.

He claims on True Social that he's made hundreds of billions of dollars on stock.

Yahoo Finance notes that his broader multibillion-dollar income, over $2.2 billion reported for this year, also largely stems from crypto and licensing ventures.

So he's licensing his name like we talked about with Palm Beach International, which is now Trump International.

And they can control who gets the licensing deal with their name on it.