I'm good. It's hot hot today. How are you doing? I'm doing fantastic. Excited for another big week of hot stocks. Excited to see some of the stocks you have on the list. So let's get started and talk about some of the stocks that are making moves right now. I actually didn't expect to still on August. It's August 9th. Yep. I didn't expect that on August 9th I would still be able to say we still have stocks moving. It's like we haven't even missed a week. So I'll screen share because I want to show you a few things. Sounds good. So two weeks ago I'm going to just go back to when Powell raised rates. So what I wanted to say is props to everybody who's on this session because when Powell raised it his last rate hike, rate hike, anyways, rate hike, we named our session how's on the hike stocks to watch and what we focused on mostly was oil stocks because oil I think at that time was about was under $75 right? Yes. And we were like okay this is happening this is what it's at and I remember you saying that you went to the gas pump but it was pretty intense and then OPEC was putting a little bit more tightening on the supply and sure enough we have had a very green two weeks in oil. I actually, Rich TV and I just said literally about 10 minutes ago I said oh this morning oil was at 82 and you're like it's at 85. 84, 84. 84. So anyways I just wanted to go through these picks that we talked about when this was happening and just show you the games that came through these. Like it's been awesome. So you remember Inbridge was at the bottom, it's hot still lots more to go though because this is just the beginning. We're in August so this momentum that we just saw in oil it's just still about to get sweeter. We've had a beautiful run up so far since in these two weeks we've had about 12 percent a marathon. Exxon has already paid out. We were right about here. Exxon 10 percent. So like these are all across the board. Occidental we had Occidental tagged. We've got 14 percent or so. So basically I went through these and we were looking between 10 and 20 percent. We've already been pulling off the oil stocks. Pretty crazy right? That's an amazing call for them to be able to jump that much that quickly once you started talking about it. Pretty spectacular timing. Well the momentum was just right and you and I discussed this before that when you see these things happen and when we're coming into a fall season that's when they pick up. So clearly that happened I don't think it's over. It really don't think it's over. But lo and behold we've had some pretty freaking exciting things happening. Like it's been an event but we did we talk about PayPal last week by the way? I believe we did. Okay I wasn't so sure. Actually last week we did our video on the Bitcoin properties. Right right right okay so we didn't talk about PayPal. So I don't want to talk about it yet but I just will talk about it when we get to Coinbase but I wanted to ask you if we talked about it since we didn't get there yet there was a little bit more news that came out of that and we'll talk about that in a hot second. So let me just move this baby up. Can you see my trading view okay? I can. All right so I named my list today hot hot summer market because it's been a hot summer market. It has it's been a hot year market so far. I know so every time we think we're going to pull back we don't and I just been like frothing on so many things. So what we have today is as we do we analyze the markets and we try to catch things before our momentum flies based on economics politics whatever is going on. That's how these lists are designed. However I also have so many watch lists as ridiculous and I go through them twice a week just to bottom hunts right. So I have found some bottoms that look like they're like Beyonce like super sexy bottoms so presto to that like that one. I do. Anyways we'll talk about the Nasdaq because it doesn't do it as we know. So the Nasdaq never gets tired. It just keeps going and going as we know and it still is because tech is hot. The Nasdaq is all innovation and tech stocks. I don't think that's going to change anytime soon do you? No I mean last year we had the nice pullback in tech stocks which was a great time to buy. We screamed about it all year this is a great time to buy they're not going to stay down they're too big to fail and that's proven to be true this year we're all pretty much all the top seven major tech stocks and I guess AI stocks this year have really taken off. They call it the big seven you know the apples of the world the googles the amazons the invidias they've all had huge years meta tesla they're all up right. So at some point don't know when they're probably going to go back down again which will be a great buying opportunity but at this point they're all really high up and we've been talking about it that I'm kind of scared now to buy anything at these levels oh we all are right and it's been hard to buy anything right now because everything's been so high so you don't want to get caught holding yeah I'm going to share some actually I have some some pain about that exact statement today and I'll share my pain with you shortly but it's intense but it's just that it's like you sometimes when you're in this part of a market you see something it looks juicy but then you just get triggered scared because you're like what if but honestly I mean what the rhythm we see on the NAS is something that we saw during the pandemic and it's just been juicy and sexy and it's still going however this is what I find that I am really excited to share so take a look at the spx because we've been talking about this right when the spx and the us 30 when these start to correct in a normal market well there's never a normal market but in a historical market when we see the large caps correct we see the small caps take like a huge pump right yep so I have a little slither of some small caps in here that I'm actually pretty excited about we'll talk about the managed NAS but take a look at the spx so the spx just keeps going higher because it's been doing really really well however it does look like it's starting to get tired but then when you look at the us 30 we have this kind of peak at a nowhere and now with everyone saying you know watch out for those banks because the banks aren't reporting as well as we expected right now right well I didn't expect them to report long they will but a lot of them has had some troubles yeah so I think that that's going to pull this down I think that was kind of like a bit of an anomaly this little peak here I do think it's going to pull down but it's been super high so now take a look at the Russell 2000 the Russell 2000 it's a small cap index right yep it's growing and there's a beautiful momentum on this now we've been waiting for small caps to turn around for what at least two years now three years exactly but I mean the reversal pattern on here is looking good and it's sustaining so I find that's super cool and we can attest to that like we've been seeing small caps pop like nobody's business lately so clearly the rhythm is coming back but again we have that little psychological fear thing because we know the large caps repeat it's scary to know when to come in right of course but um later on in the session just in our very last I found a catalyst that I think well I've known about this catalyst for a while and I had it in my calendar because it kind of seems like that time is coming so I think we have a very big catalyst coming for some small caps and in small caps I need miners I like before that look at oil just been on fire do you see that candle oh yeah that candle right here broke that resistance that was the one like that is broken so I know the oil prices here in Vancouver outrageous like the gas price is now at the pump two dollars and six cents a liter the highest in the country so when the oil prices are going up these gas stations are really taking advantage of the opportunity to jack up the prices it's crazy that's right and do you think that maybe the prices are being a little inflated to put people into electric do you think that's a thing I mean it's definitely if that's the plan it's working because like how many people want to like I know like I have friends that have trucks and they have like a hundred liter truck so now for them to fill up their truck it's like two hundred dollars to fill up their gas wow I mean that's a lot of money and if you really survive on that because it can take a gas less most people a week right well well it depends on how much you drive but one of the things that a lot of people are talking about here is how Trudeau doesn't understand finance because he just made 37 million dollars in his in his office yeah so he's making money so he doesn't care about everybody else but what he doesn't understand is when the gas prices are as high as they are it affects the cost of everything because those truckers are spending more money in fuel to get those products to their destination which makes the cost of food go up the cost of everything go up and I just don't think Trudeau understands how the cost of fuel going up affects everything else and this is something that a lot of people are talking about in Canada because everything is going up like everything like you can your prices will go up as well look you can now you can go to get a sub at subway cost $17 to get yeah it costs us $17 to get a sub at subway for processed food sandwich yeah for processed food sandwich you're paying $17 right now to so at subway to get a sandwich so it's just getting crazy everything's getting crazy cost of food cost of real estate cost of gas so it's like where are you getting like where are you getting you know a break you're not getting a break anywhere everything's costing more I went out last night I had freshly caught shrimps charcoal grilled in a beautiful restaurant and my bill was 250 pesos that's probably around $17 I had a martini I had a tea I had a whole bunch of fresh caught shrimps holy cow that inflation out of control crazy well speaking of bitcoin it's having having a little rest yeah just stuck around that 29 and a half to like 30 000 range has been in there like it's been in that like 29 to 31 range for like six weeks I guess it is but it's done that before so that's what I wanted to illustrate I'm so glad you said that we've seen this many times they don't think it's dramatic so watch this when we were right here June 13th we went all the way to it took 270 not 279 days to pop off 19600 wow do you see that yeah that was this line right here so yes it did come up and down but that was actually a consolidation zone so like let me draw a little mo zone on this because I mean I I'm feeling impatient with my bitcoin as well because I want a dip because I need to stack some more before it goes insane so I want that dip like I'm praying for somewhere around 26 25 really um but this chart is messing with me a little bit you know because a good chunk of me says we have a pullback coming because we don't have a big catalyst we have a few more months before there's any more etf talk we know that we still have drama going on with the sec we have right all that drama with ripple and coinbase and ftx and whoever else they go after next those things are still happening so to me that sets up a catalyst for a dip and I really want that dip to come down to this line I want it to happen so bad but here's the thing it's impossible right now to argue with somebody about which way it will go like absolutely impossible because when I look at it and I think about you know just the actual trend of what's going on it seems like there's going to be some sleepiness if the large cats are going to correct people might take some profits off their bitcoin if they do that's going to pull down but then when you take a look when you draw a trend line that's actually pretty close you see so my trend line takes us to 23 so really anything can happen we're only a thousand 1200 away from a 23 so the trend says it's going to keep going and I think it absolutely will just there's something in me that says we might not get that 25 unless we have some kind of big ugly bad news I'm not so sure anymore that I'm going to get that 25 because the trend line is telling me unless something big and bad happens it looks like the rhythm wants to keep going like what do you think when you see this I've been telling you that I think bitcoin's going to go higher so I I totally think it's going to go higher but I everyone thinks it's going to go drop down to 25 27 and it might I think we're going to ask people what's their time frame of thinking that though like I think when it dips it's going to fly right back up when I watch bitcoin and I see it get under 29 and then it bounces up it just shows me there's a lot of people buying those there is they're absolutely is they're like strategically buying those dips so it just feels like there's a lot of support in that area I don't know how much lower it's going to get underneath 28 I think to get under 28 we need a big drama to happen you know like I'm trying to stop bitcoin which they're not going to do anymore I think they're done with their halting bitcoin they've pretty much opened it up like HSBC in Hong Kong now allows like they have an ETF so you know these things are happening so I think it will take like I don't know some big drama to bring it down but without that I think our rhythm says we're really close to trend line so anyways just a word of warning on that now Ethereum had to bring this one up yeah in this list actually let me move these two babies up here there's actually some pretty big catalysts for Ethereum and I haven't said this in a long time but there's some pretty big catalysts for Ethereum so PayPal as you know has announced that they have their own stablecoin now yeah I thought that was huge news and just full disclosure guys Amanda and I are not license advisors please do your due diligence and do your research before you invest in anything we talk about or discuss and past performance is not always an indication of future results full disclosure I am a holder and so is Amanda of Bitcoin I'm also a holder of Ethereum those are my top two crypto holdings so don't go and buy bitcoin and Ethereum just because we talk about it we believe in it we invest in it but we're not trying to tell you to buy it okay I just want to make sure everyone understands that because a lot of people don't understand what it takes to buy hold own and protect their crypto so unless you really understand that I don't think you should even be in crypto because you really have to understand crypto properly if you want to be able to own it hold it and protect it that's it do your own db you always should do your own research on every single thing so I know some members in our private trading club have been buying some PayPal myself I'm not for the same reason I didn't buy Facebook but I have a feeling that's going to blow up in my face I really do I really do but one thing that I wanted to say is that it was announced that PayPal will be using Ethereum wow okay I like that so they use Bitcoin they use Ethereum and now they have their own stable coin word so now they're using Ethereum to build their stablecoin wow okay so the stablecoin will be built on the Ethereum blockchain you got it wow so that was a very interesting little thing that I read today so I'm like that could actually be a catalyst to get Ethereum some different exposure and because I don't think Ethereum's had any exciting gaps built on their platform in a while right however I don't think anything recent I just I just finished telling you which TV I bought a little bag of Coinbase I had this order sitting for a while though I just want to tell you guys so this is basically how I planned out my order and I actually mentioned this in our trading club because somebody said what's your buys on Coinbase and my I had a little challenge with it because I want to own Coinbase now before the ETFs come along because as we know the ETFs are going to be parking inside Coinbase right yes so for me I needed a bag but so what you mean by parking is all the ETFs that are trying to get spot Bitcoin ETFs approved have all chosen to have Coinbase be custody of their Bitcoin which means they plan to put their Bitcoin all of it at Coinbase that's right so right now Coinbase has I think custody of over 100 million Bitcoin through GBTC mostly grayscale Bitcoin trust yep so you know over 100 million but now with BlackRock recommending over 80% of your wealth which is where they get their estimate of trillions because remember BlackRock announced that they expect double digit double digit trillions to be in this ETF and I looked and I'm like they don't manage that much they actually only manage like much less than that like I think a third of that so I was like where is this coming from but then they came out with their you know 80% little number so I'm like hmm I don't know how much long I have so I put an order in an 85 I put an order in at 75 and I put an order in at 65 and I thought I'm just going to get picked up all within my most zone and then go from there so anyways as I saw how fast it was coming down the last couple days I was like I'm going to cancel my 85 and then I'm going to put in a 55 well it hits so I got picked up at 85 and then I was like oh shoot I got picked up I wanted to change that order but then this happened so speaking of Ethereum Coinbase has just announced that they have developed their own blockchain wow did you hear this no I did not hear that this is launched today but this could very well give Ethereum a run for its money if it functions properly right yeah 100% so this was announced so when I got picked up I was shattered that I didn't change my order because I was like oh it's not even done coming down but then this came so this could give us a little bump so Coinbase expects more revenue from decentralized applications or DAFs which is what's built on an Ethereum network right built a top base than from the blockchain itself so they expect people to build on them and they think they're going to make income from this Coinbase participated in discussions among developers for future upgrades for the Ethereum blockchain so I don't know where that comes in on the you know competing and then together I've got to do some more digging into that Coinbase aims to provide a trusted interface curated experience to people who've previously not spent a lot of time working with blockchains so that's actually kind of interesting that may be an entry level for somebody wants to build something so the new network technically a later to blockchain built a top Ethereum is expected to immediately vault into the top ranks of rival projects that's a pretty big statement isn't it oh yeah it's huge even prior to its public debut debut there was already 133 million of deposits locked into apps and protocols on the very new brand new base network there's already 133 million of deposits in bases blockchain wow that's ridiculous right hey there's a lot of money flowing into this industry that's what it tells you so I just want to say I'm glad that I got my 85 actually we'll see what happens tomorrow but I'm still keeping my other orders as is because I am more than happy picking up in the zone I think when you make a trading plan you have to know like it could take quite a while to pick up off that zone but I know for me my major catalyst is the ETF and I know that that ETF could be four months away and I don't mind waiting for that so that's why I'm not with that but I thought that was pretty big news so I had to share that pretty huge I think another catalyst like just from seasonal catalyst is typically every October November we see a huge spike in crypto so I just as a seasonal catalyst I do anticipate that we're going to see that again October November I think that we might have a little bit of a tougher time here in August and in September because that's historically what happens in the market and that's been kind of the case to start August where things have traded a little bit down a little bit sideways I do believe that we're going to see a huge run in October November that's what I expect but I might be wrong but that's what I expect based on uh history I agree and seasonality when you look at the chart of crypto typically October November sometimes even December going into January if it says really hot is a very good time for crypto so I fully anticipate we're going to see that again this fall so one thing that you alerted me to soon before we came on um is that Disney reported after hours and they had made some moves they did they were up after hours I don't know if they're up right now but they were they were up after hours after they reported and I don't think they had an amazing report and they're one of my top 10 stocks for August and so is PayPal by the way but the reason why I picked PayPal and Disney wasn't because I thought they would have great quarters it was because when you look at the chart they just look so beat down that I feel like money's going to rotate into those types of trades because already so much money's been made on the metas and the invidias and and the teslas and the apples this year so money now is going to say you know smart money's gonna say those are really overextended now let's sell our positions and let's go into some of these good quality companies that just haven't gone up yet I think you're gonna see a rotation of money and uh and that's my strategy right now as an investor as well so those are the types of trades I'm looking for not looking to buy apple and tesla and nvidia at these really high levels of multiples it just doesn't make sense because typically when you get to these levels it's so long go ahead I was sorry I didn't mean to interrupt you I mean on it because we talked about Disney not long ago when we were talking about entertainment stocks this was just a couple weeks ago right yeah when we were like you know where does all the money go in the summertime everyone takes their kids to Disneyland in the summertime that hasn't hit the books yet the summertime flux has not hit the books yet so when we had this conversation just a couple weeks ago it said I expect that after summer quarter to be pretty juicy because that's where we see all that happen so to me this chart looks like it could pop at any time what I mean look at the chart it's like right at the bottom so that's why that's why I like the Disney idea it wasn't for anything fundamental it was strictly a technical trade where I look at a stock that's been as high as 200 bucks and it's right now trading under like 90 so it just felt like it was a good technical trade because it's popped up this level and not since 2020 so like this is a sale of three years I think that's pretty impressive now this is one that you introduced me to today that you were watching right R-E-N-B yes what's this one about so it's a company that just did a merger with an AI company and I think it was for some type of cancer treatment I don't have the news in front of me but I just thought that it had an AI angle to it it was very hot stock today so I thought okay hot stock AI angle right now anyone who talks about AI the stock pops so I know that we're going to look at a lot of AI stocks AI has been really hot all year so I thought here's another one it's still really cheap only at $1.50 did go up 80% today but it's another one that if this AI momentum continues this could be one that we can make a lot of money with it actually looked like it ended at 80 after the pullback it looked like it had a hell of a lot more than that it did and then it came back down a lot of people sold into profits 60 and ended at 80 so that's kind of interesting so there was some profits left on the table but that was a pretty big pop now Tilray has been moving all week what was the catalyst on Tilray? Oh Tilray just bought a whole bunch of assets oh so okay so Disney is at 89.45 right now up 2% after hours so it's just under $90 so Tilray just bought the assets of the company that was uh what is it Budweiser? Is it Budweiser the company that had a transgender model? Yeah I think it was it was something Bush the company name is something Bush and Hyzer Bush yes so they sold they're pretty much going bankrupt because of their decisions and they were forced just for the record yeah they just sold 10 of their businesses to Tilray for 85 million in cash wow so Tilray is getting into the alcohol business now so they're in the cannabis business now they're getting into the alcohol business so I thought that was really good news for Tilray and Tilray's obviously responded very well after that so they're just growing their product line I just think Tilray is really growing their product line becoming a very strong international company and I am a shareholder of Tilray full disclosure so I was happy to see that news and to see them really doing well over the last few weeks you can see they've gone from what like $1.50 to just $3 in the last few weeks. That's pretty freaking impressive we haven't seen a root like that in cannabis did the whole cannabis sector rip because I I have a cannabis stop list but I've been ignoring it for quite a while.  I want timestamp because I like what they've been doing and I actually said that to you you know what I'm gonna buy myself a bag of timestamp I didn't put it in order but even if I did it wouldn't have hit that's the thing so just just wanted to let you know even if I did I wouldn't have got it because I was thinking to put an order in around $1.17 because I really thought it was going to pull back to this level but it surely didn't it only pulled back to about $1.40 and today it was up over 60%. This was looking like a day traders paradise right here this is the type of stock you can really date. All the AI are yes the rhythm on AI and I'm in there every single day and what I've been seeing is like planter and c3 those two run together now when one goes the other goes and they just peaked and made new highs of the year right just last week and so when those start to pull back the next one start to step up and it is like clockwork it is a dam like it is clockwork so it's actually becoming pretty juicy and easy to watch so just to let you know I did pull the trigger on sound hound oh you bought some sound I did very nice congratulations getting in the AI games I bought some sound hound and pretty stoked about it because they reported and it went really well did you see that no I didn't watch this I'm quite impressed sound hound net loss almost halves revenue surged anyways I did some pretty awesome digging into this and I was like they were set for a rabbit anytime personal opinion not a financial advisor do your own duty I bought it might be a little biased but watch this they were estimated to only have 8 million that came in with 8.8 nice pretty good right yeah not bad revenues were at 42 percent year over year gross margin 79 percent so we saw a pretty good pre-market pump in sound hound I got really excited we saw like you know I think it was came up about 12 percent and then timestamp took the main stage and had all lights glowing on her so sound hound kind of sat in the background so I think we closed up around five five percent four five percent we closed today but I have a feeling once this kicks in and circulates people are going to realize there's some juice sound hounds that is continues to expect full year 2023 revenue in the range of 80 43 million to 50 million so that's pretty decent pretty decent pretty excited about that um the whole reason why is because they actually have an AI that is being used that is being purchased and it's a voice over AI so it's boy it's communicative did I say that right communicative AI that's it's a hard word but anyways there is some juice left analysts are calling a five dollar price target on this oh okay yes got my attention so that would be like it from here that would be another 150 percent if it gets that five dollar price target exactly so I got a dollar 98 and it looks like there's some juice left in there so I'm pretty excited about that now congratulations for your entry and sound hopefully you win big on that one I hope so I had already taken one little run on it like a couple weeks ago and it was just like it was a little test run and I took one little peak I figured I didn't take much it was under 10 percent because it got scared and ran away but then I got back in because I'm like I think you're good this is one that I've been reading a lot about I'm actually pretty impressed with it so do your own DD and symbiotic but symbiotic is an AI and it's actually when I'm reading like analysts reports on AI a lot of them are mentioning this one like a lot of them are and I think that's why it ran all the way up to 64 where do we get out of that yeah about 65 dollars almost so to me that pullback looks pretty damn juicy because last time I saw a pullback like this we had it right here and then we had a mad rip off that trend line so I think do some DD and symbiotic and if so these they all take turns so we don't know when the day is going to come it's their turn but it's going to come GFA I I watched this spike happen and then I saw it come back down and now I'm thinking I might want to play with this one soon because you know how these things are right it's like they go down and then they put out a piece of news and then it goes back up so very very interesting I really like what you're saying I like GFI a lot and I haven't bought it yet but I'm really looking at it now and I'm looking at the chart and I think you're onto something here I think so too so I mean I've been dabbling in my AI in my AI like just being careful right so like I did it I had a nice successful trade on planterra and a successful trade on C3 little went on sound I miss timestamp I miss iCAD shattered about that but no more screwing around I am getting this so anyways I like GFI I did some beauty and these guys are in like they have AI for the military to me that's a big deal there's a lot of money in that oh yeah I mean every time I see a company with a military contract stocks go berserk exactly the market loves military contracts that's right yeah AI for the military I could see that being really big also security okay so listen to this one from July 20th this was the this was the pump that brought this 114 percent guard force concord security co launches a robotic security service in Singapore that's no joke if somebody is successful in Singapore the tech capital of the world everybody will adopt that because if it comes out of Singapore it's golden now if you're public company guys and you see your stock is going up and down and then you know that when you put out news it's gonna pump and then you see your stock goes from 10 bucks which it's done back to five it's almost as if now they're preparing their next press release that's because they're like okay well we just went from five to ten on news and it's come back down so let's put out another piece of news and then we can run it back up to ten but you know what happens and I want to make sure you are aware of this in the market as soon as these companies start getting massive volume and the prices go up what do they do Amanda every time they sell stock right that's their business right they're the business of selling shares so when the stock goes up and it's very liquid that's the best time for them to go and race raise money sell stock which then typically brings them back down they're not in the stock market to make you money they are public to make them money the stock market is an avenue for companies to raise money that's what it's actually called which means us as the money givers are the ones that are investing in the company they are taking our money that's what they do so you need to be careful you need to be careful as an investor when you see a stock move up a lot because typically what's going to happen then is the company is going to rush to go to a bank a finance year a high net worth investor an institutional investor and say listen we want to raise 50 million 100 million a billion whatever the number is and we feel like right now is a good time stocks very liquid you know and then they find a buyer and they do a stock sale and then typically the market doesn't like that sometimes they do because it means there's more money going into the company but in Canada specifically it's like it's like doom when they raise money because in Canada for whatever reason the Canadian investors don't like it and every time someone raises money the stock goes down and typically let's say if the stock's at three bucks and they raise money at two bucks the stock will go to two bucks yeah yeah just the way it goes so you need to be aware of that as an investor so this is why we always teach here rich tv read the financials read the news read their filings on cedar get to know these companies intrinsically know the inside and out because the more companies the more likely you're going to be able to make good decisions as an investor because you're going to know oh wow the stock's up like crazy they're probably going to sell stock at some point and then as soon as they put out that press release that they sold stock you know it's going to sell off so you're either selling before the news or selling right after the news because you know that typically when they do raise money they raise it at a lower price than the market because if I'm an investor and I'm an institution and I see a stock's at five bucks it's gone to 10 I'm not going to want to raise money at 10 I'm not stupid I'm going to say to them okay you know what I'll give you 50 million but let's do it at 750 that's it once they announced that yes it's money in the bank for the company so it's great but it's also more dilution because they're issuing more shares so a lot of times the market might go up because there's more money in the bank but other times they don't like the dilution so market makers or shorters or even insiders will sell the stock in anticipation that it's going to go down to 750 at the same price or around the price where they raise capital that's right and when you're doing your dv on the ai stocks you'll see there's a good handful like I'd probably say in my list of ai stocks about half of them have raised in the last five or six months at least half of them of course that's why ones that I brought up in April I haven't brought up again because the desk hasn't settled on those ones so I would you know I'm not going to bring it up if their desk hasn't settled but one that I really really am into is this one PO AI predictive AI a new one I've never seen this one before yeah this is this is an oncology so it's a cancer AI they're using AI to predict cancer growth cancer return wow so on and so forth so um yeah kind of a big deal I think these guys are going to be and it looks like I'm not the only one who thought so because back in April they hit $14 wow so yeah I was digging for what that news in April was and honestly it really wasn't all that big of a deal um here we go oh no they did a split sorry sorry they did a split my bad anyways recently they've been popping off these levels can it come all the way down to $3 sure it can but ever seeing what just happened with ICAD which is also an oncology AI I'm not so sure that's going to come all the way down so we've got 70 out of this just since June and we're on a pullback so to me it's looking juicy yeah I'm really liking DO AI and I'm really liking GFAI charts yes it's going to look really juicy right now when you do your DV and GFAI let me know what you think because that I'm pretty impressed I'm looking for a spot okay thanks just to let you guys know I own blank I'm in at $6.48 so I'm in profit pretty stoked about it um it's really not so much of a big deal I don't think it's a catalyst just because they had a lift on their general outlook well guess what they reported and their report was not so bad but yet the stock came down like it went down like pretty decently where do we come to after report all the way down to $5.80 and then just a couple days later an analyst says actually they have a pretty good outlook and there we went up to $7.30 today so this is why I'm saying like right now a lot of people like this to me is proof that a lot of us are trigger scared until you have that validation right the scary time in the markets I mean the world is just all over the place and markets are doing really well despite the fact that rates are high so people are struggling but everything's going up including stocks so I don't like annual box but I'm into picks and shovels on the EVs because if you need an electric vehicle you probably have to charge it at work you have to charge it when you're driving you have to charge it at your house to me the chargers are the juice like this is the jeep well literally the chargers are the juice so I am looking for at least one more EV charging company because I figure if I have three then I'm diversified and if they roll like they have been because I've been watching them closely for six months and they are they take turns like the AI one goes the next one goes the next one goes they all take turns and they cycle so I have a feeling that this one could be next just judging by this chart evgo had a pretty juicy spike for not a great reason it literally just left mo zone just because it felt like it and I went from 499 all the way to six bucks pulled back it looks like it's tested the mo zone and to me it looks like it's got some juice in it so I'm wagering that evgo or charge point I don't know which one but one of these two is going to be my third so I'm just not sure which one charge point has got a lot of good reviews about it there seems to be some pretty good sentiment going out around it so those are the two that I'm kind of looking at just not sure who's the winner rapid seven I'm bringing up rapid seven because I actually been watching rapid seven because they're expecting an acquisition and you know usually when there's some things acquired it likes to have a pump and rapid seven is in cyber security and anyone that's been following us knows I'm a huge fan of cyber security I think it's a necessity even more now than ever before and rapid seven is showing signs of life so I think the sector as a whole that's good news so that's the only reason I want to wrap that up if you don't have a cyber security list get in there okay beyond say bottoms here's the little list of beyond says get left we have 15 minutes Amanda I'm going to go fast because I have a really exciting one in a second okay I'm just going to wrap and fire through the sexy bottoms sounds good looks juicy AF to me match match calm is the following at home it's nothing nothing wrong with writing these down I literally have a notepad and pen and anytime there's a new pick that I'm not aware of I always add it to my list sorry Amanda go ahead no I'm totally cool matched up calm had a nice report because everybody's out online dating again okay and we had a pullback so just know we had a pullback if you missed that launch buck a lot Eritzia I've been looking for Eritzia for a spot for a long time the reason you know this right I know you've been talking about this one for a long time it's so close so my mo zone on Eritzia is $20 right now we're at 2371 oh we're so close I can literally taste it so I don't have my order in yet but this week I'm actually going to put my order in because I am not going to let that go without me it came down because Canadians were pressured and weren't spending too much money so you know these were the things that were happening but a company like this that's also expanded I mean they're all over the place now and I personally call them the Lululemon of business because this is like business casual wear and they're a monster so I actually I'm not a fan of celebrities but I know that Hailey Bieber has been wearing Willifred which is an Eritzia brand so word up on that they're going to blow and you might miss it coals looking pretty sexy bottom for me as well really like coals right now really like the look of coals and here's a little present for you 6.98% dividend oh I like that pretty good right yeah coals is where people go just like a target to go by their cheaper stuff all right this is the end of the summer this one popped up in my calendar Scott's miracle grow because in the summertime everybody is growing and fertilizing and that shows up on the books at the end of summer if there's any a time that people are fertilizing it's during the summer months so back a lot I did this last summer and I actually did really well so I sold my scots in January but I had purchased it in August last year so I took a nice rip on that and it looks like it's pretty much close to my buy zone again next report November 1st so I think that's going to be the juicy one all right Brookfield Energy I changed my Brookfield Energy like underwear like I'm in and out of this a lot but I love where it's at renewable energy pretty juicy 5% dividend yeah that's dirt cheap for them right now straight it is this is Verve the reason I got Verve and I've been looking at it pretty much every day is because Kathy Wood I watched Kathy Wood's buys and sells and she has been buying this like nobody's business she's been buying a lot of chunks of Verve so it is um it's a biotech company they're doing some interesting things and there's a lot going on in there and Kathy clearly knows something speaking of cyber security crowd strike looking good had a nice dip I'm out of it I wasn't it I'm out but the dip is looking pretty good to me I think it's almost time Blackberry Blackberry is back to my buy zone I did good on Blackberry two times off this zone um and I think it's looking pretty sexy again now little slither of small cats before we get into the juicy stuff every day people financial we talked about this one last week on the week before told you guys it was at that bottom and we've got some beautiful juice out of it so this one went 114 percent nice little pullback but the reason I say this one is because they're offering um not so bad of an interest rate for an online bank account um they're kind of based and they have actually mortgage products now that are pretty cheap considering so I think this is something that's going to be attractive to people that are interest rate hunting and clearly the chart says so takeoff I've talked about takeoff before but it's it's looking like a sexy area to me lots of times lately we've seen takeoff around this area it's taken off so this is drone delivery system pretty interesting right so every time it's hit this level in the last year it's popped about 60 65 percent so sexy boom dragonfly do you know dragonfly I do it's uh um robotics drones right drones and robotics yeah okay um so they've been actually expanding their business model and I was reading more about the robotics and I'm like oh snap there's actually going to be a huge call for this so I'm looking for a spot I don't know where I think it can still come down about another 20 percent so somewhere in the zone is going to be a launchpad not sure where big if you look at Canadian public companies holding bitcoin big is one of the largest holders of bitcoin out of Canadian public companies and it's at 35 cents they actually a ton of a ton of bitcoin considering so if you look at public companies that own bitcoin big is in the list the same list I make a strategy is the one not even near what they have but they still made it to the down list so I think it's worth paying attention to these guys another one this is bbkc this is big digital assets in the US do your own bd um fcx the reason okay let me bring up my article and I will show you the catalyst for these last talks I know we only have nine minutes but this was the exciting thing for me today do you know how recently we've been talking about what could be the catalyst for small taps to rise yes and you've said it yourself there has been no catalyst for minors have been down in the dumps because there's been no big aside from aside from lithium because that's like the main topic of electric electrification of vehicles there's not really been a big catalyst for minors this is our catalyst Saudi Arabia to spend three billion us acquiring global mining assets in 2023 this has not occurred yet there's only four months left in 2023 so to me this is the mother load of catalysts Saudi Arabia is getting there they're putting the money into everything these days Saudi Arabia's new mining investment firm will acquire assets in key minerals such as iron ore copper nickel and lithium brilliant these four sectors so now I'm like I did so much gd this week to see because this came up in my calendar as it's time to look and I probably should have looked before but I dug a little bit more and I have not found any that they've acquired which means they're not there yet there's only four months left in 2023 I really feel this is our catalyst so they will they have so much money like billions up to three billion in 2023 complete two to three transactions this year that's pretty impressive right so then I found myself digging through all the top because clearly they're not going to buy you know some piece of garbage they're going to buy something that already has already producing a lot of iron ore otherwise they're in exploration and why would they do that right yeah so I was looking for ones that produce quite a bit of iron ore produce nickel produce so I'm looking for ones that actually have it coming out and that's what I got in this list I have a feeling that out of this list we're going to see some acquisitions how to build this list can we know which ones that are going to pot well we know that when one sector goes they go together so I'm not sure it's going to be like you need to be exactly which one I think when iron ore gets some good news all of the iron ore companies are going to run with it so here's my list FCS Freeport McMorrin they're one of the top iron ore producers pulling heaps out of the ground just want to let you know that do you have a dividend 1.41 percent then we have tech resources iron ore and copper and these guys are a monster 0.89 dividend so not really worth it still a bit of upside but if they're one of those ones that Saudi taps buckle up because only at 41 dollars southern copper corporation they have a 4.18% dividend and they're actually pulling quite a bit out of the ground copper and iron ore and I think they have nickel as well CLF I'm really excited about those sectors right now like don't you think that's juicy yeah I mean obviously it's very difficult there's thousands of companies so it's difficult to figure out what they're going to buy but it's nice to know that they're you know putting their money into the sector so I think it's a good strategy I have a feeling they're going to buy the top ones so like the ones I'm showing you that are higher but I think that it will lift the entire sector so that's why I'm saying like don't buy those tops hoping for a home run and a top but if the whole sector can run together on that news you want to know which ones you need to tap right so I think there's a lot of juice left in CLF like a lot of juice in CLF and they actually did well last report as well then we have United States steel this actually looks like a solid contender I was doing some digging actually they actually do look like a solid contender but even if they don't and they just take a lift on the sector there's 65% left in that stock so another thing I learned is that and I went back and timestamped these a lot of these peat do you want to know when they peat 2020 when the Ukraine Russia wars started so these nickel iron ore and copper stocks had a big pump the same month that the Russia Ukraine War started a lot of them have pulled back about 50% off that which to me says that if you were investing at that time it might be time again so I think there's some pretty decent ones left in lift but look at the dividend 8.72% I like that right LIA this is Labrador it's Canadian Labrador iron ore corporation so big pump at the war they got about 75 70 ish percent left in them but just to hold it from those levels you have over 8% dividends so pretty stoked about that that was my favorite MSB Misabi trust this one was quite interesting do your own DD but actually they think it's pretty frothy because you see this dividend 10.21% whoa double digits and we got 100% left in the chart these guys are also a monster I like that it's good but it's frothy so it looks like at the bottom and it's got a massive dividend so that's like a could potentially be a double win for you you got it I saved the best for last that's as excited about the end of our show then we have black iron they actually should not be this low at the bottom I did a lot of digging on them I think they have a ways to go but they're super risky because they're 8 cents to do your own DD but it's quite interesting BKIRF when a sector like iron ore goes up you have all those you know retail investors are looking for the next hot cheapy that could monster it out just a couple more almost done Canadian nickel company I got a little mix of USN Canada in here because Saudi said they were buying global miners not just US so I had to slither in both Canadian nickel company we don't have a dividend cheapos but the chart is juicy so do you see that number 231% to take us back to a year ago high wow I like that chart looks juicy yeah Canadian nickel this spiked beautifully when the war started it's had a pullback because everyone forgot and stopped caring but at the studies are looking for for nickel Canadian nickel company is pretty monster so um and then it's CNI oh CNI and CNI KF of US my bad three more first quantum minerals not so low pretty cheap dividends but they actually have all three minerals they have nickel copper and iron ore which made them interesting to me and they are FQVL F in the US last one I've traded this I traded this uh when the Russia when the war started last january you can go back I traded value I got out it looks juicy as held to me their dividend was a heck of a lot higher last time I traded it but whatever 5.37% is still a pretty decent dividend and they actually are a solid contender for an acquisition and about 60 left what do you think I love it thank you so much for the list once again Amanda thank you so much for your time I got a 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Whenever you say anything on the internet about Marx's ideas on human development, freedom, or alienation, someone asks the obvious question. What about the break between the early and the later Marx? Didn't Louis Alterser show that the true, later Marx breaks completely with the young Marxist ideas? If we're proper Marxists, followers of the writings like the Communist Manifesto and Capital, why should we bother thinking about the ideas Marx had before he became the Marxist founded Marxism? This video looks at what Alterser actually said, what the differences between the early and the later Marx really are, and what they mean to us. Part 1. Introduction. The idea that Marx developed as a thinker over time was not entirely new with Alterser, of course. Anyone who had read Marx's schoolwork, his PhD thesis, or his early journalism cannot but notice that he changed his mind about things later on. Like every sensible person, as Marx learned more and reflected on what he learned, it changed his mind accordingly. This goes for the slightly later early work, to the more middle work as well, as Marx delved deeper into political economy. Lenin, for example, once wrote that Marx's first mature work was his critique of Prudeau, the poverty of philosophy. The notes that later got compiled into the book The German Ideology were at that time not available, and in many ways Lenin was right here. Among other things, the poverty of philosophy is the first published work where Marx really focuses on political economy. With the rise of the Soviet Union and efforts to compile Marx's collected works, notebooks and drafts that had previously never seen the light of day began to appear. This includes now classic works, like the economic and philosophical manuscripts of 1844, The German Ideology, and the Gründrissa. These had a massive impact on Marx's scholarship, often focusing on questions of human species being, alienation and so on, which by some started to be used to criticise the later USSR. Often, these were used by so-called Marxist humanists, who argued that Marx's account of species being reveals a commitment to an unchanging and unalterable human essence, provides an ethical critique of capitalism, and so on. Althusser's early essays on the young versus late Marx are kind of pushback against this sort of reading. He argues that there is what he calls an epistemological break. We'll talk about what that means later, between the young and the late Marx, and that only the later Marx is truly Marxist in a way that's relevant for us. For Althusser, it's only after shedding his liberal ideology and idealism that Marx takes up the science of history that forms the core of Marxism. As we will see, Althusser raises many points that we think are important to understand and that we agree with. Although we need to focus when we talk about Marx's ideas, we should never separate elements from each other so completely that we lose sight of the whole package. We shouldn't read the old Marx into the young Marx, where that doesn't make sense. We must emphasise the importance of Marx's development and change as a thinker. We were all born ones, and luckily, we change our ideas as we learn and think more about things. Althusser stresses that this is so for Marx as well, and we very much agree. To mention just a couple of examples, even after 1845, where Althusser locates the break between the early and late Marx, Marx changed his mind on his theories of the political economy, on the revolutionary potential of the feudal peasantry, for instance in Russia, and on imperialism and colonialism, where he came to adopt a much more critical stance than he had earlier on. Finally, we agree that we must be careful not to confuse issues of terminology with issues of ideas. Changing the words that you use to express yourself obviously doesn't mean that you're necessarily changing your ideas. With these points of agreement in mind, let's look at what Althusser says. Part 2. What Althusser Says Althusser writes that we need to draw a line of demarcation between the true theoretical basis of the Marxist science of history and Marxist philosophy on the one hand, and on the other, the pre-Marxist idealist notions on which depend contemporary interpretations of Marxism as a philosophy of man or a humanism. This division, Althusser writes, is situated essentially in the terrain of the confrontation between Marx's early works and capital. In other words, his arguments are specifically trying to show that there is a major split, what he calls an epistemological break between the allegedly idealist ideas of the early Marx and the properly materialist Marxist ideas we find in capital. Here, volume 1 of capital is the most important, because it's the only volume of capital that Marx finished writing, finished publishing and finished revising and republishing himself. Althusser locates the epistemological break in 1845, with the writing of the thesis on Feuerbach in particular. This break has two main components. First, the founding of Marx's theory of history, and second, the development of a new philosophy of dialectical materialism. In other words, for Althusser the epistemological break is between a young Marx who's essentially an idealist philosopher and a mature Marx who's developed and embraced a certain philosophy and theory of history, what is often called dialectical and historical materialism. This in turn provides the basis for dividing Marx's work into four categories, the early works, the works of the break, the transitional works, and the mature works, where again, capital is the paradigmatic mature work. Now, there are a lot of nuances and details of Althusser's argument that we won't explore here. In part because he's responding to thinkers we haven't been discussing in this series, and would end up distracting us too much from our main points.  The people Althusser is responding to have a very different reading of the early Marx than we do, and when they talk about things like Marx's theory of alienation, their interpretation differs quite a bit from ours. That's why we started by pointing out many points where we agree with Althusser, and these are some of the reasons why we also disagree with those people Althusser is responding to. What we will focus on instead is the interpretation of Marx's thoughts on human development and flourishing, freedom, alienation, and communism that we've discussed in our video series. We will see whether Althusser's arguments do anything to show that Marx changed his mind on these things as we understand them. We don't quite know what Althusser himself we think of our views. As we said, he was responding to some very different readings of the early Marx that we generally don't agree with. Why are we focusing on him then? Because almost all the people who insist on there being a split between the young and late Marx tend to refer back to Althusser's arguments. Since Althusser wasn't responding to quite our type of interpretation, we think it's a bit unfair to focus on him, but nobody we know seems to be able to find anyone better. So what we're presenting here won't so much be a critique of Althusser, as it will be us showing that his arguments don't show that our interpretation of the later Marx is wrong. To see what Althusser's arguments actually are, let's begin with the three principles that Althusser offers for providing a Marxist theory of ideological development. His first principle we can call the principle of totality. Every ideology must be regarded as a real whole, internally unified by its own problematic, so that it is impossible to extract one element without altering its meaning. Instead of focusing on individual elements or some individual person's particular claims and ideas in isolation, Althusser says we need to focus on an ideology as a whole that is held together by its own quote-unquote problematic that makes it the kind of ideology that it is. The second principle we can call the principle of material basis. The meaning of this whole of a particular ideology, in this case an individual's thought, depends not on its relation to a truth other than itself, but on its relation to the existing ideological field and on the social problems and social relations which sustain the ideology and are reflected in it. The sense of the development of a particular ideology depends not on the relation of this development to its origins or its end, considered as its truth, but to the relation found within this development between the mutations of the particular ideology and the mutations in the ideological field and the social problems and relations that sustain it. Put differently, every ideology is rooted in a material basis, the social relations and problems that it reflects and responds to. Althusser thinks that when we should try to understand how ideologies develop and change, we should not focus mostly on where the ideology arose out of or what it evolved into, rather we should first and foremost focus on the relations between the changes in the ideology and the changes in the social relations and problems that it is concerned with. From this follows a third principle. We can call this the principle of motive force. The developmental motor principle of a particular ideology cannot be found within ideology itself but outside it, in what underlies the particular ideology. Its author as a concrete individual and the actual history reflected in this individual development according to the complex ties between the individual and this history. What Althusser is saying here is that the driving forces of any particular ideology aren't some of the elements of the ideology itself, rather they can only be found in the concrete lived reality of the people who use and develop it and the social and historical processes they are part of. So according to Althusser, what is the ideological structure of the early Marx? To be honest, that's a bit unclear but roughly speaking it seems to be that his early work and ideas share the same kind of anthropological problematic. Althusser seems to think that the early Marx looks at different things, the state, religion and so on, through the lens of them being objects for humans into which humans project, alienate and seek to reclaim their universal and ahistorical species being. This perspective, Althusser argues, is abandoned in the later Marx. The details are unclear and Althusser changes mind over time basically in response to more and more of Marx's notebooks coming out and other writings being examined in more detail revealing, as the previous videos in this series have mentioned, that Marx in fact uses many of his earlier concepts later on as well. Overall, Althusser argues that if you look at the whole of Marx's work, there is no doubt that there does exist a break of some kind in 1845. In 1845, Marx began to lay down the foundations of a science which did not exist before he came along, the science of history. And in order to do that, he set out a number of new concepts which cannot be found anywhere in his humanist works of youth, mode of production, productive forces, relations of production, infrastructure, superstructure, ideologies, etc. No one can deny that. It is true that Marx several times uses the term alienation, but all this disappears in Marx's later texts and in Lenin, completely. We could therefore simply say, what is important is the tendency, and Marx's scientific work does tend to get rid of these philosophical categories. There's a lot here that we agree with. Certainly, many of the key ideas of what later gets called, Marx doesn't use these terms, dialectical and historical materialism, are things that Marx only really starts developing and using fully from 1845 onwards. There's also a marked shift towards studying political economy that starts in 1844, but really begins to take root from 1845 and 1846 onwards. Part 3 The Evidence The change in focus and emphasis that Althusser mentions, however, doesn't mean that Marx rejects all of his earlier ideas. This is why Althusser adds the aforementioned claim that the later Marx's work does tend to get rid of these philosophical categories. Althusser's main support for his reading was that certain key concepts in the earlier works, like alienation and the negation of the negation, never appear in Marx's mature works. This was quickly shown to be false. Both of these appear in later works, not only in his later notebooks like the Gründrissa, but also in capital itself, Althusser's paradigm case of the mature Marx. Althusser himself, in admirable spirit of honest self-criticism, admitted and pointed this out. In my first essays, I suggested that after the epistemological break of 1845, after this discovery by which Marx founded the science of history, the philosophical categories of alienation and the negation of the negation, among others, disappear. John Lewis replies that this is not true, and he is right. You certainly do find these concepts, directly or indirectly, in the German ideology, in the Gründrissa, to texts which Marx never published, and also, though more rarely alienation or much more rarely negation of the negation, only one explicit appearance, in capital. Althusser also points out that Marx uses many of these ideas less and less, but this isn't quite right, since as he also points out, there are many references to alienation in the Gründrissa. At some points, Althusser makes a lot out of the fact that the works were terms like alienation appear more frequently, or works that Marx never himself published, but this is only partly relevant. You certainly tried to publish some of them, and many of the works that Althusser relies on very heavily, like the German ideology, were never published at all either. In fact, we now know that the German ideology was in fact compiled by later editors, and it's not clear that it was ever written as a single coherent work at all, much less in the form in which Althusser read it. Terrell Carver has written extensively about this. Althusser at times also claims that Marx says there's a complete break between his early and late works, especially between the work up until 1845, and from about 1845 onwards. The problem is that Marx never says anything like this. He says he rejects philosophy various places. He says he really began chaining his mind on his way to socialism when as a young radical democratic journalist, he first came face to face with class struggle. Marx does talk about settling philosophical scores with the people he disagrees with, and talks about devoting himself to political economy and rejecting philosophy. But that's all. He never claims there's a break in his work of anything like the kind that Althusser argues there is, and Althusser never provides a good quote to back this up, which is what you need to do in these cases if you want to prove your point. This doesn't mean that Althusser is wrong to think that there's a break in Marx. It only means that, contra Althusser, Marx never says that there is any such break. Not only does Marx use alienation and its associated concepts in Volume 1 of Capital, he uses it throughout the early drafts and notebooks leading up to it, some proposed additional chapters, and so on. If there was a massive epistemological break between and early Marx, where these ideas were core features, and the later Marx, where they really have no important role, why should Marx keep using them again and again, especially in his own notebooks? Changes in terminology versus changes in ideas. So far, we've looked at changes in terminology and how the evidence Althusser uses doesn't, and he admits it, quite support his conclusion. The same terminology of alienation, etc. carries through to Marx's later works. But we want to look deeper than this. As we saw earlier, Althusser himself points out that we can't and shouldn't look just at individual concepts, but at the broader shifts in one's set of ideas, and here we can find more agreement. We agree with Althusser that the later Marx isn't making arguments about things like shared universal values that all humans agree upon, that he doesn't focus on ethical or normative arguments about what should be the case. This is obvious, since Marx spends most of his later life devoted to scientific research and consciousness raising. As we saw in earlier videos, the later Marx especially says again and again that he isn't talking about justice or morality or ethics. There is also a general shift in terminology in the later works, especially the finished ones. True, alienation and similar words don't disappear, but they get used a lot less. But as Althusser himself said, that's not enough to show that Marx changed his mind about the ideas behind them, and here we think we have something really important to point out. As we've seen in all the previous videos in this series on human development, freedom, alienation and communism, Marx uses the exact same ideas throughout his earlier and later works. In the videos of this series, we have shown, using Marx's own words, that Marx has the very same core ideas about what human development is, what freedom is and why it's valuable, that and how we are impersonally dominated and therefore unfree on the capitalism, and so on. Now sure, Marx doesn't use the German words that get translated into alienation in English in the 1844 manuscripts very much in his later, especially his published works. But there's an obvious reason for this. It's really unclear what alienation means for Marx when you use two words interchangeably to refer to four different things, i.e. the four different kinds of alienation that Marx distinguishes. As the decades of arguments about what Marx really means in the 1844 manuscripts show, that terminology is really hard to deal with for readers, especially because these manuscripts are written in heavily Hegelian language that of course Marx was fluent in, but that most of us don't grow up with or get trained in before we start reading Marx. After all, it's not uncommon to find different ways of expressing your ideas when writing notes to yourself, as Marx did in the 1844 manuscripts, and when writing stuff you want others to understand. As we've shown in this video, and our videos on human development, freedom and alienation from product, Marx's ideas on these things run all the way through from the 1844 manuscripts to capital. Although the terminology changes, the ideas are retained, often with clearer terminology. Let's take just one example here, alienation from product, which we discussed in depth in a previous video. In the economic and philosophical manuscripts of 1844, Marx writes that to the worker, the object labor produces stands opposed to it as something alien, as a power independent of the producer, which begins to confront him as an autonomous power, that the life which he has bestowed on the object confronts him as hostile and alien. As a result of this, the object becomes an alien object that has power over the worker, so that the more the worker produces, the more he falls under the domination of his product, of capital. We must remember here that the product that workers are dominated by, capital, is a social relation, so that workers, on this view, are dominated by capitalist social relations and therefore alienated under them. We can see the exact same idea at work, in what Althusser and We Agree is the paradigmatic example of Marx's later work, Volume 1 of Capital. In Volume 1 of Capital, Marx writes that under free competition, the imminent laws of capitalist production confront the individual capitalist as a coercive force external to him, and talk about this power of money under capitalism, which is impersonal. Again, the laws of capitalist production are those inherent in capitalist social relations, in capital, and they dominate the workers are subject to them and to continually produce and reproduce them through their labour. For Althusser, Marx's use of alienation 1844 serves as a merely philosophical category. For us, however, Marx's theory of alienation is very different from anything that Hegel or Feuerbach talk about under the same term. On our reading, alienation for Marx is instead a key part of his diagnosis of specifically capitalist social relations and the kinds of social divisions, activity and labour that they involve. It doesn't matter whether Marx labels this alienation or not. This isn't about the labels, it's about the ideas, and the ideas here are clearly and obviously the same. For those who are unusually interested in the history of Marxist thought, this shouldn't come as a surprise. Long before either the 1844 manuscript or the Gründerisse were available, the Hungarian Marxist Georg Lukács, in the essay Reification and the Consciousness of the Poletariat, managed to reconstruct all four kinds of alienation, drawing only on Marx's published works, especially the later ones, like Volume 1 of Capital. He did this, we should note, without having access to the early works like the economic and philosophical manuscripts of 1844 or the Gründerisse at all, and if you can use only capital and a few other late published works, occasionally some earlier ones that were around, to completely and correctly reconstruct the theory of alienation that Marx uses in the 1844 manuscripts without having access to them at all, then it's hard to say that the later Marx doesn't have and use these same ideas. How can Alterser, who noted so many important things about Marx's development, fail to notice the continuity of these ideas? One reason we think is that he accepted some of the humanists' erroneous readings of the early Marx. If you think that the early Marx believes in some magical, static, ahistorical and universal human essence, then it's obvious that the later, very historical and contextual Marx must disagree strongly. However, we think that it's wrong to think that the early 1844 Marx holds this kind of view. We can see how this is so by looking at another example we've discussed in a previous video, this time on freedom and human nature. There we saw that in the economic and philosophical manuscripts of 1844 Marx writes that, man makes his life activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has conscious life activity. Conscious life activity directly distinguishes man from animal life activity. Only because of that is he a species being. Or, rather, he is a conscious being, i.e. his own life is an object for him only because he is a species being. Only because of that is his activity free activity. Marx says the very same thing involving one of capital, writing that, we presuppose labour in a form in which it is an exclusively human characteristic. A spider conducts operations which resemble those of the weaver and the bee would put many a human architect to shame by the construction of its honeycomb cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is that the architect builds the cell in his mind before he constructs it in the wax. Man not only affects a change of form in the materials of nature, he also realizes his own purposes in those materials. And this is a purpose he is conscious of. Apart from the exertion of the working organs, a purposeful will is required for the entire duration of the work. Marx goes on, also involving one of capital, to emphasize the universality of this, writing that, such labour is the universal condition for the metabolic interaction between man and nature, the everlasting nature-imposed condition of human existence, and is common to all forms of society in which human beings live. Now the label of species being isn't the important thing here. Remember, change in terminology doesn't necessarily entail a change in ideas. The important thing here is that for Marx both in 1844 and in volume one of capital itself, humans are distinguished from other animals by their powers of consciousness, that this is fundamentally expressed in their activity of labour, and that this is common across all forms of human society. They are not, however, the kind of static and ahistorical things that Marx criticizes Feuerbach for using. Rather, it's a kind of internal capacity that all humans share, which is developed and expressed differently in different contexts and forms of society. It's only possible for all people to fully exercise these powers to govern ourselves in a society that allows it. We saw in another earlier video that Marx thinks, also from 1844, all the way through to volume one of capital, that this is communism. So in other words, once we properly understand what Marx's early ideas in 1844 at least really were, we can see how they carry through to his very latest works, albeit often with modified terminology that makes them easier to understand. Continuity and discontinuity in Marx's thought. There are many other things that Marx didn't change his mind on after 1844, like his commitment to communism, his rejection of capitalism, feudalism and slavery, and his commitment to the labour and communist movements. He never wavers in his defence of freedoms of speech, press, conviction and association. And he remains committed to, among other things, women's emancipation and the importance of equal rights for all humans regardless of race, gender, ethnicity and so on. This does not, of course, mean that Marx didn't change as he matured and learned more. Of course he did. After 1844 and 1845, he really explored political economy in much greater depth and developed his ideas on political economy much more. Furthermore, he develops a much better and more critical understanding of imperialism and colonialism, he changes his views on the revolutionary potential of non-capitalist societies like Russia, he elaborates his views on history much more, changes and developed his analysis of the state, and even changes his mind on the transition to communism in response to the Paris Commune. He also de-emphasized the normative aspects of his analysis of capitalism. We've seen that he still thinks that capitalism is, for example, unfree, but he doesn't focus his work on arguing for this, but instead focuses on explaining how capitalism in fact works. And he has a reason for doing this. Basically, he doesn't think that criticizing capitalism is going to be very helpful for the working class struggle, replacing it with communism. By contrast, he thinks that understanding and helping others to understand what capitalism is really like and how it really works will help the working classes overthrow capitalism and take us to communism. Since the kind of reading we've defended here is well recognized among Marx experts today, though it's not entirely uncontroversial, but often more controversial on the internet, here's a challenge. If you disagree with us and you'd like to have a conversation about this, please focus on the passages and our interpretation of them and our arguments based on them. If enough things come in, we'll respond in a Q&A video. This marks the end of our first series. Thank you so much for watching. After a Q&A and some response and review videos, our next series will look at Marx's theory of praxis, history, and social change. Have a good summer.


In the earlier module, we just looked at the cable network service architecture in which we just briefly looked at how the internet service could be provided on coaxial cable. But after all, the internet service provisioning is based on a complete ISP kind of architecture in which we also have the IP level connectivity, the triple A services, the transmission of packet data to the IP cloud. So it means an entire set of services is required. So the cable network architecture is what deals with all these network related issues. We'll talk about Cable Labs, a pioneering company that started providing these triple play services over the existing coaxial cable. And then we'd look at the architecture and its internal detail. So the Cable Labs known for defining the specifications and the overall architecture for transmission of data over the cable networks. Primarily, the primary intent was to provide internet. However, later, the voice of our IP services were also integrated. So Cable Labs actually thought about an integrated solution. The integrated solution means that a couple of services can be offered on coaxial cable. It means it is more than just connectivity. It is more than just the downstream traffic issues and upstream traffic issues. It actually relates with the simultaneous provisioning of all these services, such as the continued services of the analog and digital channels, the transmission of radio on these cable infrastructure, high definition television, which requires very high data rate, video on demand, internet of course, and the voice over IP, not only voice over IP as in telephony, but complete set of services. Now, what we pick from here is the most important message that is in order to integrate these services, the Cable Labs needed lots of bandwidth and lots of frequency channels. And this is exactly what happens, that is on a single coaxial cable, multiple channels, that is, multiple frequencies are used to provide these services. Some of these services may be using the same frequency band. Some of these services might be using dedicated frequency bands depending upon their bandwidth requirement. So consequently, once all these services are to be provisioned, then some integrated approach has to be adopted. So the integrated approach is adopted in a way that different segments of the end-to-end network is understood and then it is designed in a way that one part of the network is not affecting the other part of the network design. For that, the Cable Network architecture is based on the home IP network side, that is, the user side, which deals with the provisioning of various internet-based services, including voice, including browsing, surfing, and others. Then there is something known as the DOCSIS architecture. We'll briefly talk about it. It is very important to first understand that the traffic, which is downstream and upstream, as we discussed in the earlier module, have to be carried through some proper mechanism and DOCSIS deals with that. Then the overall architecture, that is the packet cable network architecture. A packet cable network architecture means, as the name implies, it is the transmission of IP packets, which might be carrying literally anything over the existing cable network. And this needs to be integrated with existing internet infrastructure that involves, but is not limited to the core IP network and the overall internet infrastructure. So it means when we look at these segments, these segments can be seen to be mutually non-overlapping and they have some kind of exclusive design issues which must be handled differently. So in all, once integrated services have to be provided in this kind of segment-based network, a mechanism should exist, that is exactly what cable network does, to provide a transparent, transparent means there is no dependency requirement for various types of services in a very homogeneous manner, consistent manner. Let's look at the integrated network that achieves these integrated services while utilizing the coaxial cable. Let's look at the figure from the user or the customer premises. We have homes where the cable is laid right up to the pavement and to the curb. These homes have the cable modems. These cable modems are the customer premises equipment. The customer premises equipment works on behalf of all the devices which are there in the residence or in that home. Now from this customer premises device, the cable modem, then it actually is the scope of the DOCSIS architecture. DOCSIS is basically the data over cable service interface specifications. Now what happens is how data is carried is what is the scope of cable modem and the cable modem termination system. So it means the cable modem is now going to talk to its counterpart, the cable modem termination system. Now from the cable modem termination system to the network side, which deals with the integration or the aggregation of various kinds of traffic such as voice, video, data, etc. Every type of data traffic and service needs a different network. For example, PSTNs deal with voice call. The TV broadcasting network is different. Internet service provisioning needs ISP. So the packet cable network allows the cable modem termination system to have some kind of integration mechanism through which all this traffic can be carried to respective networks. And then we see the services network segment on the left-most side, which deals with different kinds of services. So it means what we can simply understand from here is if we now explain it from the left-hand side to the right-hand side, we shall see that there are different kinds of services, voice, video, data, radio, all these have their own networks. All these networks are connected through an integrated aggregated network which is the scope of the packet cable architecture, which in turn deals with the cable modem termination system, which is the intermediate gateway that talks to the home subscriber cable modem. So this is the complete end-to-end network architecture. The most important aspects to be understood here are the packet cable network architecture design and the DOCSIS specifications. We shall talk about these.


Hello friends, I am Sanjay Gupta. In this video, I am going to demonstrate you how you can remove linker error that you face while executing graphics related programs in TurboC. Before starting, you can subscribe my YouTube channel by clicking on the link which is available at bottom right corner of this video. You can download my app, TechMS that is available on Google Play. You can connect with me by following these details which are available in front of you. Now coming on to the topic, first I am including a header file Graphics.h which contains declarations of all functions available in Graphics in C. Then I am defining main function. Inside main, first variable is declared gd which stands for Graphics driver. It is initialized by detect. So Graphics driver will be detected automatically. Then second variable is gm. It is for Graphics mode. Then to initialize Graphics, I am calling initGraph function. In initGraph function, first argument is gd address, second address of gm variable and then a path ctc bgi. This path contains all Graphics related libraries. So if in your system, TurboC is installed in any other drive, then you have to provide that path. In my system, it is installed in C drive. So I am providing c, tc and bgi. After this function, I am calling another function that is out text xy. This function displays a text on console and at desired x or y coordinates. So the position of a text will be 10, 20. 10 is x coordinate and y is y coordinate. Sorry, 10 is x coordinate and 20 is y coordinate. And the message which will be displayed on the console is this. Then to hold the screen, I am calling getch function. Then to deallocate the Graphics which are initialized, I am calling closeGraph function and at last return 0. So this is a simple code which is implemented using Graphics in C and I have implemented it in TurboC. Now, when I will be executing this code or suppose any programmer who implements Graphics related instructions first time in TurboC, he or she might face this problem. And I hope you have also faced this problem. At compilation time, it is not showing any error. But when I will be executing this code, it is showing three errors. And all three errors are linker errors, undefined symbol closeGraph, out text xy and initGraph. So why this error occurs? Because Graphics library is not linked. So to remove this error, you have to click on options, then select linker and click on libraries. You can see here four libraries are available, container class, Turbo version, Graphics library and standard runtime. So standard runtime is selected right now. To select Graphics library, you have to click here. So if cross is available here, then Graphics library is selected. Now click on OK. Now, when you will be executing your code, your Graphics library will be linked and it will be executed properly. So again, I am executing this code. You can see no errors has occurred this time and the message Sanjay Gupta underscore text pool is printed at 1020 coordinates. So I hope you have understood how to remove linker errors that occurs while executing Graphics related functions in TurboC. If you want to watch more programming related videos, you can subscribe my YouTube channel. That is Sanjay Gupta underscore text pool. Thank you for watching this video.