Yes, markets do run in repeating cycles. However, the best traders ask themselves, “What’s different this time?” Byron Boston, CEO of Dynex Capital explains that this is the very first rule his firm uses when plotting how to navigate their portfolio through changing times. However, two large exogenous events – the pandemic & now a war – are creating some uncertainty for baby boomers hoping to turn assets into income.
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[Paul Tyler]: hi this is paul tyler and welcome to another episode of that annuity show ramsey
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[Paul Tyler]: how are you
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[Ramsey Smith]: fantastic
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[Paul Tyler]: hey a good um we have a great guest in fact it was a really good show it was one i
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[Paul Tyler]: missed when i was on vacation now mark is out so we’re tag team in this show
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[Paul Tyler]: ramsey do you wanna do the intro
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[Ramsey Smith]: absolutely so we’re very lucky today to be rejoined by byron boston who is the ceo
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[Ramsey Smith]: of Dynex a mortgage real estate investment trust and the reason that we wanted to
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[Ramsey Smith]: have him back on the show and the reason it’s so timely is byron
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[Ramsey Smith]: is a student of economic history
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[Ramsey Smith]: and he has really an extraordinary view on sort of macroeconomics
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[Ramsey Smith]: and and geopolitical issues which of course we you know really at the center of
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[Ramsey Smith]: everything that we need to worry about
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[Ramsey Smith]: as an economy and it’s not just it’s not just big investors need to focus on it we
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[Ramsey Smith]: as individual americans financial advisors all need to have context and so we’re
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[Ramsey Smith]: we’re delighted to have delighted to have byron back and one of the things that i
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[Ramsey Smith]: always say about baring that i think is many things that are interesting is that
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[Ramsey Smith]: fundamentally when he when he talks about how he viewed the world he starts with
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[Ramsey Smith]: you know four four words i am a lender and i think that’s something that people
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[Ramsey Smith]: not necessarily understand about what it means to be a mortgage reit but he’s
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[Ramsey Smith]: fundamentally a lender and and that that lens i think brings a very interesting
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[Ramsey Smith]: perspective on the way it looks at the world so with that
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[Paul Tyler]: oh
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[Ramsey Smith]: welcome back byron we’re delighted to have you tell us a little bit about tell a
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[Ramsey Smith]: little bit about yourself and your journey and what brought you to
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[Ramsey Smith]: and what dyne does very quickly no
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[Byron Boston]: thank you sure sure ramsey paul thank you so much for having me and um that’s a
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[Byron Boston]: fantastic introduction
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[Byron Boston]: to i am very much so a student of history
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[Byron Boston]: i am a an economics ner a very student of economics and i found my way to that
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[Byron Boston]: topic in college and i’m very happy that i did i am an economics major from
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[Byron Boston]: dartmouth college
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[Byron Boston]: and i found my way there senior year it was not my original major i had to switch
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[Byron Boston]: my major my last year in school and the reason that’s important and so many
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[Byron Boston]: students are confused in terms of their majors i switched that major because
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[Byron Boston]: that’s what i was interested in i had taken a path down the the wrong direction
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[Byron Boston]: mainly because of influence of of others and and i’m so happy that at some point i
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[Byron Boston]: said you know what i love economics i want to switch my major the head of the
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[Byron Boston]: department helped me switch my major and here i am sixty three years old that had
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[Byron Boston]: to be and at this point it was forty two years ago and um forty yeah forty two
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[Byron Boston]: years ago when i made that decision and i am so happy i did because i i really am
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[Byron Boston]: an economics ner and so in this job at dynex capital
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[Byron Boston]: this is a core
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[Byron Boston]: knowledge skill set that i lean upon and how we make our decision so i am a lender
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[Byron Boston]: i came out of dartmouth college after studying economics i came right to the wall
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[Byron Boston]: street world and i was trained in one of the better corporate lending programs at
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[Byron Boston]: chemical bank spent three years as a lender i went back to business school and
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[Byron Boston]: studied finna county came back to wall street as a mortgage backed securities
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[Byron Boston]: trader i was fortunate it was before larry fing started black black rock that one
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[Byron Boston]: of the best he ran one of the best mortgage back securities trading desks on wall
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[Byron Boston]: street and i was allowed to join that group and so i believe i trained
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[Byron Boston]: in both both the chemical bank and at first boston by some of the best in lending
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[Byron Boston]: and in uh investing and in trading and the asset class and trading that i focused
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[Byron Boston]: on was mortgage backed securities
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[Byron Boston]: and so i started that journey as a trader in eighty six eleven years on the what i
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[Byron Boston]: would call the south side of wall street and i flipped over to the b side where i
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[Byron Boston]: was at freddie mac for seven years where i further hone my skill and knowledge of
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[Byron Boston]: lending money against real estate um and in two thousand four i started my first
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[Byron Boston]: company it was called sunset financial was a mortgage reit took it public i got a
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[Byron Boston]: takeover bid in two thousand six we sold the company happily sold the company the
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[Byron Boston]: company was successful and one of the the most important things i can tell you
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[Byron Boston]: about my career
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[Paul Tyler]: no
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[Byron Boston]: is that a chunk of the investors of my first company i started asked me to come to
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[Byron Boston]: dine capital and help them rebuild this
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[Ramsey Smith]: w
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[Byron Boston]: organization dye had hit some hard times and it was somewhat of a rebuilding mode
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[Byron Boston]: so this has been a turnaround i’m very proud that my i started a company sold it
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[Byron Boston]: and i had enough happy investors to ask me to come and do it again with her and so
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[Byron Boston]: i’m still here that was about fifteen years ago my fifteenth year at dint
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[Byron Boston]: investment trust a financial services company and we generate dividend income long
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[Byron Boston]: term total returns by financing real estate assets but most importantly our
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[Byron Boston]: purpose we’re here to make lives better and the way we make lives better is by
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[Byron Boston]: taking care of the individual savers who buy our stock or our preferred stock we
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[Byron Boston]: also make the lives better of our employees by creating a great working
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[Byron Boston]: environment and giving them also an opportunity to own dn capital stock and enjoy
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[Byron Boston]: the dividend and cash income that we throw off from that stock and then here’s
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[Byron Boston]: another category that most of won’t understand we use leverage or we borrow money
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[Byron Boston]: to to make money in other words we
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[Byron Boston]: we sell stock to our investors we then borrow additional money to then take and
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[Byron Boston]: lend that money to either directly to homeowners
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[Paul Tyler]: it’s
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[Byron Boston]: uh through securities or directly to homeowners and we also lend against other
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[Byron Boston]: asset classes such as apartment buildings malls
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[Byron Boston]: we’ve pretty much a l again in every asset class
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[Byron Boston]: in fin capital the last thirty years or so so our goal again make lives better
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[Byron Boston]: take care of the savers take care of our employees and the last category i forgot
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[Byron Boston]: to tell you was we take care of our creditors when we borrow money we don’t want
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[Byron Boston]: to be a problem to our creditors we want to be one of the best credits that they
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[Byron Boston]: have on their books
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[Ramsey Smith]: so i just want to jump in real quick there so you you’ve got a business that you
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[Ramsey Smith]: are a lender it’s you’re a leverage lender and so tell us a little bit about why
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[Ramsey Smith]: that makes you so sort of hyper focused on what’s going on
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[Ramsey Smith]: in the macroeconomic environment
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[Byron Boston]: so first off
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[Byron Boston]: just trying to think every lender most people in this economy deal with deal with
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[Byron Boston]: they’re leveraged so banks are leveraged banks leverage themselves through demand
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[Byron Boston]: deposits right and so uh they could use other type of leverage but their core uh
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[Byron Boston]: uh liability happens to be demand deposits we
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[Byron Boston]: use shorter term borrowings which are not as um
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[Byron Boston]: what word simple word i can use not as easy as demand deposits it’s a little bit
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[Byron Boston]: tougher when you’re leveraging yourself through what we call the repurchase
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[Byron Boston]: agreement market or short term markets as such
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[Byron Boston]: risk management is essential for running a real estate investment trust such as Dynex
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[Byron Boston]: capital so if you ask me for just one line about dyne i’m going to say we bring to
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[Byron Boston]: the table expert risk management
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[Byron Boston]: discipline capital allocation and those are the two skill sets that we bring to
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[Byron Boston]: the table and we’ll present you with a very skilled and experienced management
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[Byron Boston]: team so we are leveraged we must think about the
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[Ramsey Smith]: thats
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[Byron Boston]: global environment we have a very disciplined approach start first with assessing
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[Byron Boston]: the global macro environment and then work your way down to ultimately the either
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[Byron Boston]: the bond or the loan that we put in our portfolio and let me just add this one
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[Byron Boston]: thing ramsay and paul i don’t want to confuse anyone if you lent money in nineteen
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[Byron Boston]: seventy five more than likely you’re making a direct loan to a borrower in twenty
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[Byron Boston]: twenty two i have more options i can either make a direct loan or i can buy a
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[Ramsey Smith]: b
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[Byron Boston]: security
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[Byron Boston]: that is backed
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[Ramsey Smith]: back
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[Byron Boston]: by a pool of loans and those are we call securit eyed assets so today dyne
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[Ramsey Smith]: like
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[Byron Boston]: balance sheet it is majority you know ninety nine percent securit eyed assets
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[Ramsey Smith]: so to talk about and we were paul and you and i were talking about this before the
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[Ramsey Smith]: before the call like there’s a lot going on in the world right now
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[Ramsey Smith]: so
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[Ramsey Smith]: you know tell us tell us about you know what what what’s on your mind and and
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[Ramsey Smith]: importantly like why things might be different this time around
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[Byron Boston]: that
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[Ramsey Smith]: in terms of market distress something that you have a great deal of patience for
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[Ramsey Smith]: because you expect it to happen every four five six seventy years but it might be
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[Ramsey Smith]: different this time tell us a little bit about that
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[Byron Boston]: what would you look at what
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[Byron Boston]: the main question we ask at din’s capital is what is different this time so there
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[Byron Boston]: was a book written called this time is different and you hear quoted on t v and
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[Byron Boston]: other shows and i think that book is misleading there is something different every
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[Byron Boston]: single time and the real question you ask is what is different this time but be a
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[Byron Boston]: avid student of history to understand global economic cycles global uh market
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[Byron Boston]: economic data social data political data
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[Byron Boston]: and to assess inform an opinion first and foremost on the macroeconomic
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[Byron Boston]: environment we don’t want to get so focused on that loan or that bond that we want
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[Byron Boston]: to make and ignore the global environment and we make a decision and then we get
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[Byron Boston]: completely annihilated because there’s a major macro change or such as
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[Byron Boston]: at this point we’ve experienced two exogenous shocks in the economy so in general
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[Byron Boston]: we believe a dy that the world changed as of january one twenty twenty that we
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[Byron Boston]: have entered into just a completely new environment what are the characteristics
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[Byron Boston]: of the environment first and foremost right off the back we were hit with an
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[Byron Boston]: both central banks and fiscal policymakers responded enormously like none of us in
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[Byron Boston]: our generation has ever seen um to try to
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[Byron Boston]: save the global economy
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[Byron Boston]: uh given this situation that they intentionally shut down the global economy none
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[Byron Boston]: of us could have ever imagined we shut down a global economy we were all sitting
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[Byron Boston]: at home two years ago not leaving our homes right so this enormous effort was made
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[Byron Boston]: um central banks took an unprecedented step except maybe during world war two of
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[Byron Boston]: stepping into the the global capital markets buying etfs bonds i don’t know it
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[Byron Boston]: seems if they bought a little bit of everything
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[Byron Boston]: and now two years into that we came into twenty twenty two
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[Byron Boston]: with the central banks intending to try to reverse that
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[Byron Boston]: fiscal policy makers potentially trying to pull back on some of the fiscal policy
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[Byron Boston]: that have been added to the economy so when we started this year off at dns we
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[Byron Boston]: believe we were in a big moment in history we’ve never been through this where
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[Byron Boston]: central banks at first built up their balance sheets that large and now they’re
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[Byron Boston]: going to try to pull back the stimulus or the liquidity that have been pumped into
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[Byron Boston]: the global system and right in the middle at the beginning of this process we now
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[Byron Boston]: experience another major exogenous shock and what do we mean exogenous shock it’s
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[Byron Boston]: outside of the economic system something that happens on the outside now we have
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[Byron Boston]: to assess that and say through what mechanisms will this impact the economy and so
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[Byron Boston]: we first had this huge drop in demand from the the pandemic as we shut down the
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[Byron Boston]: economy this time we have another exogenous shock and now we’re coming through the
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[Byron Boston]: uh the mechanism uh o energy right we’re going to drive inflation
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[Byron Boston]: with that issue you could ultimately have a psychological impact because at some
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[Byron Boston]: point the war could bring very negative psychology
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[Byron Boston]: to the consumer
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[Byron Boston]: the consumer environment the largest one we’ll all talk about is inflation we had
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[Byron Boston]: an inflation issue before the exogenous shock now it’s been more exacerbated and
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[Byron Boston]: then when you think about it we’ve got the supply issue supply chains the if you
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[Byron Boston]: think about cutting off russian oil in effect we’re saying okay we’re going to cut
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[Byron Boston]: off certain supply of our energy but the demand is still there
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[Byron Boston]: so now we probably have a problem in terms of prices increasing as we try to
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[Byron Boston]: allocate
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[Byron Boston]: scarce resources so we’ve enjoyed for thirty forty years this wonderful world of
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[Byron Boston]: globalization
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[Paul Tyler]: so
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[Byron Boston]: it has helped keep inflation lower it took a long time for many of us to recognize
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[Ramsey Smith]: alright
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[Byron Boston]: full impact of moving production from
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[Byron Boston]: an employee asked that
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[Ramsey Smith]: yeah
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[Byron Boston]: right we moved to the low low cost producing areas of china mexico other places in
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[Paul Tyler]: and you know i’m a history i was a history major in college and i think back you
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[Byron Boston]: boy the first point is you gotta acknowledge the social issues it’s it’s it’s
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[Byron Boston]: just c plus i plus g plus net exports equals gdp there are a lot of factors that
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[Byron Boston]: seen in other places right you go to turkey and and you know ewan doesn’t want to
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[Byron Boston]: the social issues around just what has happened in the past and how we’re going to
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[Byron Boston]: university of chicago wrote the book fault line it’s a crack beneath the surface
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[Byron Boston]: imagine that it’s happening whether it’s electing an extreme person into office
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[Byron Boston]: and psychology happens to be technology has allowed us to really experience
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[Byron Boston]: everyone else more than when i was a child so i didn’t grow up on the the
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[Byron Boston]: it was like whoa man maybe you know maybe life is a little different for us right
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[Byron Boston]: the wealthy don’t live a life that no one else sees the wealthy live a life where
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[Byron Boston]: all the poor people can see exactly how they live and they can see what they’re
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[Byron Boston]: we have had a larger amount of authoritarian type leaders rise to the global stage
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[Byron Boston]: over the last call it ten to twenty years and it’s concerning to us at
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[Byron Boston]: i hope that wasn’t too long winded there’s a lot
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[Paul Tyler]: no well you know and i think it’s it’s interesting how how do all these pieces add
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[Paul Tyler]: wait a second i’m looking at you i feel like i know you and i see you here i think
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[Paul Tyler]: you know ukraine has such technology talent we’ve had so many you know especially
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[Paul Tyler]: in our business you know i have worked with so many different technology vendors
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[Byron Boston]: yeah i do feel like you know
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[Byron Boston]: yeah it would be off to the side i i’ll tell you i have
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[Byron Boston]: uh um uh he’s a muslim descent from bosnia and uh she said what’s the difference
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[Byron Boston]: they’re feeling the pain of this what is taking place we’re seeing this president
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[Ramsey Smith]: so do you have do you have any thoughts on how this might all play out i know
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[Byron Boston]: right
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[Ramsey Smith]: for some of the various outcomes
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[Byron Boston]: way i tell smart papo who’s the president of our company companies and the chief
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[Byron Boston]: fuel i’m on the sidelines i’m the coach so i can’t come on the film through the
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[Byron Boston]: here no different than the summer july of nineteen fourteen no one really knew
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[Byron Boston]: lean on and say okay this is what’s
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[Byron Boston]: the world is has changed period
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[Byron Boston]: get used to it what we knew ten years ago when the travel and the globalization
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[Byron Boston]: iphones were made in china and brought back one piece made in mexico one in china
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[Byron Boston]: decoupling process of some sort
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[Byron Boston]: what will it be how dramatic will it be how long would it last we’re not sure oil
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[Byron Boston]: clearly has been a political commodity
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[Paul Tyler]: yes
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[Byron Boston]: for
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[Byron Boston]: ages it continues to be a political commodity today so we’ve got to come to grips
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[Byron Boston]: with the fact at dye capital the world has changed we don’t need to sit around and
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[Byron Boston]: be and and cry over spilled milk the world has changed so things could escalate or
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[Byron Boston]: or they could could de escalate but we don’t know which way that will take place
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[Byron Boston]: and what we do at dns think through these scenarios what will we do in this a
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[Byron Boston]: generic situation what would we do in this situation what we do in this situation
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[Byron Boston]: one of the complications here is that before russia invaded ukraine at dns we
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[Byron Boston]: believe this was a big moment in history just based off of but governments trying
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[Byron Boston]: to pull back the liquidity that they had pumped to all the liquidity pumped into
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[Byron Boston]: the global system
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[Byron Boston]: to spare the world the pain of the pandemic so that was huge in itself so now you
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[Byron Boston]: layer this exogenous shock on top of it it really complicates the picture things
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[Byron Boston]: have changed supply chains are going to to change um if you recall in the one
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[Byron Boston]: thousand nine hundred seventy seconds you may not have been born yet ramsey but we
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[Byron Boston]: all had to to start we the speed limit on the highways were dropped from seventy
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[Byron Boston]: seventy five miles an hour to fifty five it was a federal law the speed could
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[Byron Boston]: drive over fifty five miles an hour on an interstate highway and so that was just
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[Byron Boston]: a big deal everyone
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[Ramsey Smith]: thank you
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[Byron Boston]: was like oh my gosh the speed limit is fifty five and then i think gas stations
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[Byron Boston]: were closing at night and there was a lot of adjustments that had to be made
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[Byron Boston]: during those oil embargoes so it’s been wonderful we’ve had a great life you know
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[Byron Boston]: everybody’s been traveling visiting other countries and everything’s been great
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[Byron Boston]: but things changed at this point likewise we all got used to this wonderful low
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[Byron Boston]: inflationary world and prices continuing to come down and if you look at history
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[Byron Boston]: in reality inflation has always been tended to be higher than what we’ve
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[Byron Boston]: experienced maybe over the last decade or so so we’re probably going to have to
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[Byron Boston]: get used to because if nothing else these supply chains changing and breaking down
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[Byron Boston]: and volving to something new we’ll probably end up with more inflation than we had
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[Byron Boston]: before one concern again i have i have a concern on the human conflict because i’m
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[Byron Boston]: concerned that this wealth and income inequality is being exacerbated by all of
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[Byron Boston]: these developments from the pandemic to this current development clearly the
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[Byron Boston]: higher oil and gas prices are hammering the lower income parts of the world more
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[Byron Boston]: than the higher income participants so the
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[Byron Boston]: the future is very very uncertain it’s not a new
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[Paul Tyler]: w
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[Byron Boston]: place for the world the world has been again study nineteen fourteen to nineteen
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[Byron Boston]: forty five but you could also study other
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[Paul Tyler]: see
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[Byron Boston]: other periods you could study the one thousand nine hundred sixty seconds
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[Byron Boston]: the world has i i know you want it to say it’s all nice and peaceful everybody’s
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[Byron Boston]: happy but that hasn’t been the case throughout history so things have changed we
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[Byron Boston]: are acting at dynamics if things have changed we’re trying to draw up scenarios
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[Byron Boston]: that include
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[Byron Boston]: some very
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[Byron Boston]: extreme scenarios
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[Ramsey Smith]: so then how do you how do you manage money differently so you have the old regime
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[Ramsey Smith]: right and you approach risk management one way and now this is new regime it’s
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[Ramsey Smith]: hyper inflation and but not hyper it it is inflationary it is inflationary there’s
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[Byron Boston]: yeah
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[Ramsey Smith]: there’s a lot of new risks um you know do you do you invest in different
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[Ramsey Smith]: instruments do you like how do you think about
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[Ramsey Smith]: you know managing your interest rate exposure just just big picture like what are
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[Ramsey Smith]: some what are some meaningful changes you think you’ll make in the way you run
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[Ramsey Smith]: your business
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[Byron Boston]: okay so i’m glad you asked this question i did bring this quote with me today so
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[Ramsey Smith]: okay
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[Byron Boston]: eight years ago in twenty fourteen here’s a quote from my
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[Byron Boston]: my fourth quarter
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[Byron Boston]: earnings call at the beginning of twenty fourteen i said we believe that economic
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[Byron Boston]: uncertainty regulatory uncertainty global market uncertainty have created a very
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[Byron Boston]: complex environment for global growth to be able to accelerate the levels seen in
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[Byron Boston]: prior post war uh
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[Ramsey Smith]: yeah
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[Byron Boston]: post war periods the recoveries so we use the word complex
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[Byron Boston]: i got a ton of people who like really challenged me for saying that the global
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[Byron Boston]: risk environment was complex that was twenty
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[Ramsey Smith]: i’m
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[Byron Boston]: fourteen so why is that relevant
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[Byron Boston]: look at i
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[Ramsey Smith]: oh i live there
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[Byron Boston]: joined Dynex in two thousand and eight when
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[Byron Boston]: we first started to invest we invested safely then we took on more risk starting
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[Ramsey Smith]: is more so creating to remember
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[Byron Boston]: about two
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[Ramsey Smith]: all those
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[Byron Boston]: thousand nine we went what we call down in credit we bought triple b assets single
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[Byron Boston]: a rated assets some non rated assets we took a ton of risk in terms of credit
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[Byron Boston]: about this period in twenty fourteen because we were concerned about the uh uh the
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[Byron Boston]: rising level of global risk complexity
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[Ramsey Smith]: movie
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[Byron Boston]: we started to
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[Ramsey Smith]: c
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[Byron Boston]: go what we call up and credit and up in liquidity we sold our lower credit rated
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[Byron Boston]: assets
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[Byron Boston]: we then started to sell our less liquid assets
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[Ramsey Smith]: yeah
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[Byron Boston]: and we moved what we call up and credit and up in liquidity by twenty eight
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[Byron Boston]: eighteen we were
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[Ramsey Smith]: education
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[Byron Boston]: pretty much so ninety five per cent
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[Ramsey Smith]: oh if you’re gonna go down there’s in the face
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[Byron Boston]: uh ownership the assets on our balance sheet that we
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[Ramsey Smith]: and
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[Byron Boston]: owned were all all the most liquid
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[Byron Boston]: real estate bonds that we could find which are thirty year residential
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[Byron Boston]: freddie mac fanny may securities furthermore we increase the amount of cash in
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[Ramsey Smith]: for in e as in rush text
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[Byron Boston]: what we call
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[Ramsey Smith]: yeah
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[Byron Boston]: unencumbered securities on our balance sheet that we call out liquidity versus
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[Byron Boston]: twenty thirteen when bernanke said taper we’re probably carrying you know six
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[Byron Boston]: seven
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[Byron Boston]: eight times as much cash and unencumbered assets on our balance sheet so we’re
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[Byron Boston]: very very liquid and we have a very very flexible mindset because we believe the
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[Byron Boston]: world is complex
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[Byron Boston]: and we believe we’re
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[Ramsey Smith]: just kind printing
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[Byron Boston]: going to be surprised the phrase we use is surprises are highly probable clearly
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[Byron Boston]: over the last eight years the surprises have continued to come and we’ve stuck
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[Byron Boston]: with our posture of being up in credit and up in liquidity this give us the
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[Byron Boston]: ability in my opinion we make the right decisions we have the ability to make
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[Byron Boston]: money in any environment um now you got to be able to assess the environment right
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[Byron Boston]: now you can’t
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[Ramsey Smith]: sh
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[Byron Boston]: assess the environment it’s uncertain what’s not gonna happen
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[Ramsey Smith]: so so so higher quality higher quality credits higher liquidity and
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[Ramsey Smith]: that served you well through the pandemic
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[Byron Boston]: yes very well through the pandemic we were ready for that we look very well
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[Ramsey Smith]: right at right not right like if you look at like some some mortgage rates did
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[Ramsey Smith]: better than others
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[Ramsey Smith]: in through the pandemic put that put it that way and then and then here you are in
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[Byron Boston]: yes substantially better
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[Ramsey Smith]: this next crisis and it sounds like a strategy it works it’s continue to work well
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[Ramsey Smith]: you know the takeaway for this audience you know is is just sort of think about
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00:33:02,567 –> 00:33:04,647
[Ramsey Smith]: things is like all right well how how do i think about
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[Ramsey Smith]: my own portfolio or my client’s portfolios if one is to sort of follow your lead
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[Ramsey Smith]: it is it is you know a flight to flight to higher quality
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00:33:16,647 –> 00:33:21,047
[Ramsey Smith]: a flight to higher quality and having more liquidity as opposed to sort of dialing
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[Ramsey Smith]: up on risk but the interesting thing is everybody
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00:33:24,167 –> 00:33:26,087
[Ramsey Smith]: everybody’s dialing up on risk these days
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[Byron Boston]: they are everyone wants to buy the dip
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[Ramsey Smith]: right we are in a low interest rate environment so a lot of people are going the
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[Ramsey Smith]: other way right so that’s kind of an interesting dichotomy there yeah
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[Byron Boston]: yeah they are they are can i give your thought on that um
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[Ramsey Smith]: sure
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[Byron Boston]: because i’m always thinking about the the individual investor i’d say fifty
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[Byron Boston]: percent of our investors are what we call retail investors and i have a great
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[Byron Boston]: concern for my generation the baby boom generation
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[Byron Boston]: they have just talked to too many friends who all believe in buying the dip they
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00:33:54,320 –> 00:33:58,320
[Byron Boston]: all use phrases like well it always comes back don’t sell buy into it it always
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[Byron Boston]: comes back
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[Byron Boston]: you know by the dip mentality
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[Byron Boston]: i would urge whether it’s a if you’re an investment advisor listening to this or
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[Byron Boston]: if you an individual listening to this i would not simply fall back on the by the
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[Byron Boston]: dip mentality i would really do some analysis and understand why you are
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[Byron Boston]: continuing to if you’ve got your your your you just fully invested
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00:34:24,560 –> 00:34:29,440
[Byron Boston]: you know for example all your risk is in stocks i would try to diversify in some
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[Byron Boston]: way shape form a fashion your holdings
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[Byron Boston]: i would ask myself what would happen if the stock market corrected and it didn’t
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[Byron Boston]: come back for seven years so i’m using the seven year benchmark because i think if
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[Byron Boston]: you bought the s and p five hundred in two thousand jan two thousand i don’t think
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[Byron Boston]: you got back to even t two thousand seven and then you got cober again with the
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[Byron Boston]: with the great uh financial crash and then you had to wait another probably seven
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[Byron Boston]: or eight years after that to get back to that level if you would have bought the s
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[Byron Boston]: and p five hundred i think in nineteen twenty nine you didn’t get back even until
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[Byron Boston]: nineteen fifty five
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[Paul Tyler]: yeah
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[Byron Boston]: and so finally we ran a chart at Dynex that
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[Byron Boston]: that layered on the growth of the fed’s balance sheet and the s and
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[Ramsey Smith]: where
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[Byron Boston]: p five hundred and and if you just a visual looks like a one to one relationship
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[Byron Boston]: right so there’s been a ton of liquidity pumped into the global system
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[Ramsey Smith]: oh
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[Byron Boston]: by the central banks
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[Ramsey Smith]: oh
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[Byron Boston]: that has inflated all
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[Ramsey Smith]: okay
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[Byron Boston]: all like let be two
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[Byron Boston]: an enormous
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[Ramsey Smith]: you cannot
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[Byron Boston]: amount of elevation in global asset prices stocks um
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[Byron Boston]: anti cars art
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[Byron Boston]: houses at least in the housing i think it’s a little bit unique i have an opinion
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[Byron Boston]: on that i’ll give you but they’re crypto there’s an enormous amount of liquidity
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[Byron Boston]: that has supported global asset prices i personally this is a byron opinion i am
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[Byron Boston]: concerned about a global asset price correction i don’t believe if let’s say you
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[Byron Boston]: didn’t have the russia situation if the central banks would have tried to reduce
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[Byron Boston]: their balance sheets and they try to do it now i eventually i do not believe they
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[Byron Boston]: can do it without with a soft landing i i don’t believe that they can do it with a
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[Byron Boston]: soft landing that i i just don’t believe they can do it so i am concerned about
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[Byron Boston]: the baby boom generation why because i’m sixty three so let’s say i take a hit in
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[Byron Boston]: two thousand it doesn’t come back to seven years okay i’m seventy now and then
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[Byron Boston]: let’s say i take another hit like the great financial crash when i’m seventy and i
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[Byron Boston]: maybe i’m dead by the time or before it comes back you see what i’m saying i mean
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[Byron Boston]: i’m just being real here about it if you’re if you you’ve got to think if you
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[Byron Boston]: don’t earn money anymore you’ve retired a lot of baby boomers have retired early
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[Byron Boston]: right the great resignation you must make sure you think about do you have enough
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[Byron Boston]: assets to go as long as you want to live everyone says i want to let them ninety
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[Byron Boston]: ninety five really well then maybe you should should work to seventy you know so
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[Paul Tyler]: yeah
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[Byron Boston]: check your income make sure you’ve got enough coming in and understand that this
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[Byron Boston]: is a unique moment in history don’t just buy the dip because you bought the dip in
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[Byron Boston]: nineteen nineties and everything worked out okay
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[Paul Tyler]: wow
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[Paul Tyler]: ramsey this was
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[Ramsey Smith]: but
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[Paul Tyler]: great where the end of the hour
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[Paul Tyler]: it went fast
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[Ramsey Smith]: sure did
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[Byron Boston]: yeah
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[Ramsey Smith]: so at byron thanks thanks for thanks for coming back a lot of takeaways from that
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[Ramsey Smith]: but perhaps the biggest one for me this time around was you know that there’s not
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[Ramsey Smith]: probably a scope for soft landing and right and most importantly you didn’t see a
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[Ramsey Smith]: soft landing before
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[Byron Boston]: no
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[Ramsey Smith]: russia invaded ukraine
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[Byron Boston]: no i really don’t know
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[Ramsey Smith]: so whatever the delta was on you know they’re not being a soft landing it’s even
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[Ramsey Smith]: higher so
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[Byron Boston]: yeah
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[Ramsey Smith]: i yeah hard landing the delta hard landing is even higher
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[Byron Boston]: yeah
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[Ramsey Smith]: so a that’s a very very sort of interesting view and it’s consistent with your
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[Ramsey Smith]: focus on liquidity and higher quality so thank think of shame
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[Byron Boston]: and we’re still able to generate a solid above average dividend yield it’s not
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[Ramsey Smith]: yeah
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[Byron Boston]: like we’ve said shareholders are well at a great above average
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[Ramsey Smith]: yeah
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[Byron Boston]: dividend yield
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[Byron Boston]: guys are still making solid cash income from both our preferred stock
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[Ramsey Smith]: yeah
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[Byron Boston]: and our common stock
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[Paul Tyler]: yeah well byron thank you again this was i got a lot of more questions we’ll save
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[Paul Tyler]: it for that for next step
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[Ramsey Smith]: hi
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[Paul Tyler]: if people want to get more of what you’re
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[Paul Tyler]: telling us
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[Paul Tyler]: how do they do this what is the best way to follow you know what you’re writing
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[Paul Tyler]: saying doing
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[Byron Boston]: you know we we do have
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[Ramsey Smith]: let’s see
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[Byron Boston]: our quarterly uh calls are very detailed and we do have a macro view we start with
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[Byron Boston]: the macro view to ultimately get to the investments so every quarter we do have a
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[Byron Boston]: call sometimes i post on a linkedin but i try try to be very careful
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[Byron Boston]: about some of the social media we do at Dynex we do post we do post certain points we
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[Byron Boston]: thought about you know some of the economic
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[Byron Boston]: thoughts that we have
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[Byron Boston]: but you know it’s like when i said complex in two thousand fourteen i had so many
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[Byron Boston]: people who didn’t understand what i was really saying why were we going up in
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[Byron Boston]: credit or up in liquidity and so sometimes i like yeah you know fine i’ve got
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[Byron Boston]: shareholders who
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[Paul Tyler]: excuse me
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[Byron Boston]: listen to us and we’re all in the same boat together and we’re happy and i want to
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[Byron Boston]: take care of my shareholders it’s very very important so please you know there is
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[Byron Boston]: a quarterly call that’s there i i urge people with annuities to look to diversify
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[Byron Boston]: with something like a nine x capital stock or a preferred stock and and we’re in
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[Byron Boston]: the same boat as all of our shareholders were
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[Paul Tyler]: so
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[Byron Boston]: dedicated to making their lives better
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[Paul Tyler]: okay hey listen great ramsey thanks byron thank you and
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[Ramsey Smith]: pleasure
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[Paul Tyler]: thanks to thanks all our listeners join us again next week for another episode of
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[Paul Tyler]: that annuity show
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[Byron Boston]: thank you for having me
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[Ramsey Smith]: alright appreciate it byron
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