investors. The following is a presentation of TFNN, the Tiger Technician Hour. With your host, Basil Chapman, call now toll-free at 1-877-927-6648. Hi folks, Basil Chapman. Yeah, this is the Tiger Technicians Hour. On this Wednesday, the 13th of March, we're looking at the Dow up almost 100 points and 39,103. Fascinating why? Because within the context of everything that's going on, there's an independence. Every day there's been an independence of one of the markets. Sometimes, like yesterday, out of the blue, they had pullbacks and then they all ran up together. What we're looking at today is the Dow is up quite strongly, up 100 points. The S&P pulled back quite sharply. But sharply, only in the sense in relation to the Dow being up 100 points, S&P is down 7.2 at 51.6, absolutely not even an eye-blink in the general pattern that we're looking at of rising highs and rising lows. Getting into this Chapman wave, inside track repellent zone once again. This is a leg B. We've got two and a half sessions to go for the S&P to go to 51, 89.29. One penny above last week's high to continue this leg B to the upside. Or will it fail? That's a fascinating thing we're looking at right now because the technicals, certainly the weekly chart is very strong. 9 over the 14 period moving average in the daily chart is extremely strong. The stochastic is at 75% weakening on balance volume. It's weakening, it's just pulling a little bit off the previous high. The MACD is flat and now a little bit negative. This is the daily chart. This gray line is the red to strength index. It's good. It's not great but it's good. So we're watching this very closely. Now what I'm going to be doing, let me just slide this across. I always love this because it's got this picture of me from way back. I think this was taken just before I was going to go on stage for a concert where I was conducting my chamber wind group way back when I was a professional musician. So let's just look at this. This is what I'm going to be doing on March the 3rd 19th at 4pm. As we're getting into the next few sessions, I'm going to be modifying what I want to do. But basically what I'm going to be doing is I'm going to look on Tuesday March the 19th 4 o'clock to 5.30pm. The technical, it's a 90 minute subscriber webinar. You can become a subscriber. It's got a money back guarantee. You can go to the webinar and you can then archive, go through all my archives and then you can say, I'm done. That's fine because education is what we're all about. But most importantly, I want to talk about the technical tools needed for the coming few months. And I'm going to go into that just in a moment if I give you a brief synopsis. And it's archived. It'll be archived. You can't make it 4 o'clock to 5.30 on Tuesday. It'll be archived. You can see it next day. Usually it's online. I'll be talking obviously about the critical 9.40 period moving average. Very, very important. Since November the 3rd, the daily chart of all the indices have had, I believe, not more than one session going negative. Otherwise it's kept you in the trade all the way through. And in fact, some of them it hasn't even gone negative. And that's just a fantastic single tool, one tool. The weekly chivalry buy mode. And I'm talking about that because in the chivalry methodology we're always looking for at least a peak D, four higher peaks a minimum in a buy mode. And we're still to see that in some of the in the weekly indices. Deciphering the rare flood of round numbers unfolding in this market, I don't really want to go through all of those today. I've just seen, I mean, it's, I've never seen this many in all sectors. It was before it was just in tech and a lot in the semiconductors. Now it's everywhere. Sector rotation. That's really important. One of the reasons why we waited for a very sharp pullback and one of the gold stocks that we really fancied and talked about for quite some time now, is because it appears that the dollar is going to have a tough time yet. Yes, it could rally, but I don't think it's quite as strong as it was on the previous big move up. We're going to be watching closely. But in this rotation, money sort of going into materials, we're looking at crude oil, the certain sectors now in the crude oil that I think are going to be quite favorable for a little while, just there's a lot going on. So that's going to be what I'm also looking at particular stocks. But I'm also going to have live question and answer and throughout the webinar. And this is what I'm now focusing on more and more as I'm trying to prepare for this webinar on Tuesday, but I've already started preparing. I want to do notation, chapwave notation, not just the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G. I want to do the cup formation, the symmetry at left side, right side, bar, time match. There are so many aspects that I want to, it's an educational one because I do that. For instance, on Saturday, I did an hour and a half, almost like a webinar on Saturday for subscribers talking about all these different aspects. But here, we're coming closer to the end of the month. And I can start talking about March going into April. And that's going to be very important. So with that said, I still see residual strength right now. Let's just get out of this. Move it away. Okay. All right. It's out of the way. Now, a couple of things I've been looking at here. The S&P has come back and it's only down four. It's trying to tackle that pink line. That's the chapwave insider. I'll be talking about these things. Look, I drew this in ages ago. You see this uptrend line, and then I put in a little parallel one green, if it breaks to the upside pink, if it stalls within the pink and the green, that's called chapwave insider track, a propellant zone. This is, sorry, a repellant zone. At the bottom, you have the propellant zone. If you look at the QQQ, it's the same thing. Where did I type that? Oh, typed it in the wrong place. I don't know where that went. QQQ. There it is. Now you've got something that is arching over. This is the pattern that we need to look for. It can fail. In other words, this can break to the upside. But right now, the pattern that I'm looking at is a potential for the Qs to roll over, but there's no sign yet that they're actually doing that. That's just an image that I'm putting in to say, this is the pattern that we would be looking for if there was a sudden failure and the QQQs training at 440, suddenly trained down to 436, 435. Right? Look, the nine-period moving average is walking the nine-period moving average. Look at the IWM. Fails, fails, fails. Then all of a sudden, nice big candle, 150 up, 153 at 2,644. I suspect I know why this is moving and this confirms. I said to subscribers this morning, I had in my opening paragraph, I said, we are looking, we are watching closely, three particular stocks. Did I just blip it out? Oh my. Oh, oh, I had it. I thought I had it. I have it for tomorrow, but I don't have it today. Anyway, and those two particular stocks that I had in mind have both blipped to the upside. That's the sector rotation that I'm looking at. So even if there is a pretty decent pullback coming soon, I'm really watching to see, do the small caps of the Russell 2000, do they start to move? They're showing pretty good relative strength of a weekly chart has gone to D. That's at fourth highest peak. I guess we've got to be a bit careful, but so far the technicals are holding really well. 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Yes, so this is basically looks like a single leg aid to the upside. That's the pattern that we saw yesterday in the futures and they gave back that entire rally. I call it the Eiffel Tower, straight up, straight down, but this is really important. Look at the technicals, the 9 is way over the 14. The MACD is very strong. Yes, the histogram, a little vertical lines are sorry to diminish a little bit, but look at the distance and thanks so much for this to go negative. And the 9 to go under the 14 period moving average in the daily chart, you'd have to see 21, 231. No, you'd probably have to see 2100 sharply under it. I just don't see that right now. And look at the stochastic at 88% on balance volume was a little bit overboard. Now it's pulled back a little bit and the weekly chart started to improve the stochastic still terrible at 59%. All the other indices are quite good. And look, it's getting back into the inside trend. I needed to change that. I wanted to change it. Yes, I'll do it right now. So I like to have exactly on the edge of the candle hit to start off always. So that would be there and that would say that on a purely technical basis, we've taken out, let me move this up a little bit. We've taken there it is. We've just barely taken out in a monthly basis month is still young. The resistance chap we've inside track repellent zone. This is the gold contract itself. But look at this GLD GLD is in a leg C way above the one I'm not way above but above the 194 45 high that was made back in say August of 2020. That's really important in this cup double cup formation and just make it one cup. This is to that. Put it down there and move it to the right. Oh, that's already done. Okay. So within this context, you're looking at a pattern that says basically a ragged bit of cup formation breaking on a closing basis above 184 45 in March for the GLD the spider gold trust would be really positive because the silver silver is different chart altogether. That's silver itself. But look at the SLV SLV has a trend line. That's the silver trust. I shares has a trend line. You can see from there all the way to there. But look what we've got. We've got it in the nicely notated on a shorter term in the weekly chart. And that just says the whole 2280 area to 2301 is going to be strong resistance. But so far it's acting. The silver chart is acting quite nicely actually a little bit better. Just a tiny bit of the silver contract itself, even though it's related to the silver contract. Let's look at high grade copper. High grade copper is wow, what a strong move. Oh, he's telling us about the economies around the world. This is a very nice move leg E and the daily chart gone above the left side, right side price time match on the left side continues contract back in December or January up just under four. Yeah, it is a 401 and just two days, three days ago, saying, oh, it's going to get to 396 3.96 4.01. Yeah, it is very good. So that's a new leg C in the weekly chart. And that is a good sign. Let's just look at SCCO, which goes together.  This is Southern copper. This is very good. And that's the reason why when I look at, let me just go to this for a moment. And this is what I'll be discussing when I go to just one, I won't go to them both. I'll just go right here. So the chart I've got now just automatically it's on Bitcoin. Look at the way Bitcoin has gone to the previous high. I'm doing a chart pattern. That's the reason why I've grabbed this because I want to go to the black background for the chart we were looking at a moment ago. And so this is a 73 point 73,790 was the high on the continuous contract of Bitcoin back in November of 2021. Remember, there was that big move up that was I remember it was right there. That was in April of 2021. It went to 65,923 comes back down goes to a higher high. Now this is going to be very interesting. You see the way the price is way above the green nine period moving average. So that's very overboard. Overboard can stay overboard for a while. But it does say that at some point the elastic band stretches and it comes back quite sharp. Where does it come back to? At this point, all we can say is that the price right now of the nine period moving average is at 58,270. So I don't want to say it's going to come back there. I'm just going to say this is over stretched and it's going to be coming back. Now we were looking at this particular chart right here. This is SACO which is Southern Copper. Now let's go to the SACO right here. SACO Southern Copper. And you can see it's gone. This is a very bouncy. Look at this. It goes green. Then it goes pink for a while, green, pink, green, pink. Now it's green, getting a little bit extended just like it has before. But that doesn't mean to say it has to pull back or even has to pull back sharp. It just says rubber bands getting stretched straight in 1961. But I wanted to show you that the importance. This is a weekly chart. We were looking at the weekly chart. This is going to the daily chart and you see something a little different. Look at this. Every time there's been either a gap to the upside and it's gone, it extends above the green, it says that it's getting stretched and then this whole area of the green line becomes your key support level. And that's where you get a big test of what happens. So far this is very good action. Let's go to the High Grade Copper itself. High Grade Copper. Yeah, it's the same thing. Every time it gets extended. But it can stay that way for a while. So what do I have to do? I have to look at different trend lines. I have to look at support and resistance levels. But it's a really good sign overall in the market to see the, let me go back to this right here, to see copper is moving high. That's where my point was that I needed to see the fours and today we've got the fours. And it's in a leg E in the daily chart and it's in a leg C in the weekly chart. So that's still very positive. Not the chart is a lousy looking chart, but it's improving. Okay. Now, I wanted to do this. It was really important that I get to it. Shall I do it now? Yeah, I think in another five or 10 minutes or so, we get the Crude Oil Inventory Report.  Let me know if I'm being heard. Is that a telephone call? Is there something happening here that I should know?  I'm just going to quickly go over to my engineer. L, everything working fine. I'm hearing ringing. I'm hearing some different sounds that I shouldn't hear. Just text me if everything's working. Oh, is it working? Yeah. Okay. We've got a break coming up. Buzzer Chap and thank you. This is our Daz up 132, as if he's coming back a little bit down five. And then we'll talk about the semiconductors as soon as I reach it. 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This is going to be important to in the sense that I'm looking at the overall picture right now and it's very selective on the upside in all the different sectors just at a quick glance of the way I was looking at it. And when I look at the TBT, it's trying to get to the 33.58, 200-period moving average. That's going to be important because if it gets above that, that's going to say yields. This basically is the yield. This is the Algebra, Short, Demand, 20-year Treasury, 1 ETF. It means the yields are going to go higher. If I look at the dollar, DXY, the dollar is trading down seven ticks. I think the dollar is kind of struggling. It's making lower lows and lower highs. It's making an arch formation in the weekly charts. Anything can happen there. If you look at the EURUSD, this is the euro-dollar currency pair, holding quite nicely, looking like it wants to get to a leg D, and that'll be at the 1.099, which is a 200-period moving average that'll be the area to monitor. And if you look at the USDJPY, this is the euro-dollar currency pair. So this is the US dollar, Japanese yen currency pair. It's like the dollar is trying to rally, but it made a peak C1, C2 double tops, actually C1, C2, C3. That's equivalent to a D, and that says, I've got a sell signal like the Dow, which is upgrading to a sell mode on the daily, not the weekly yet. So we're going to watch this very closely. Now, here's the big issue. So we want to go through a couple of things, a couple of stocks.  So I think we're going to be kind of trading in this range for a while. I don't see a breakdown yet. When we do break down, we're going to the 396 area. That's something completely different. But right now at 413, there's more upside spikes. In fact, it actually went to a leg C right now. It's still a gray C. In other words, normally you get to a C, you're expecting a D in the chamois methodology. This one says it may be, but the magnet is still negative. The chastix is only at 56%. On-balance volume is a very weak. Nine-print moving average did flip back to positive after a day of weakness. I would love to see it go higher. I mean, we are long from the 338 level, but I wanted this as a trading vehicle, and I was testing to see if there was one more dip to the 400 to see if that's where you can go in the rectangle spike to the 413, 415 area. Today, it's spiked to 480m, now it's trading at 413. Look at this apple. Don't type it. So I see residual strength right now, and that residual strength suggests that within the general market until it dissipates, until we get a real sign, we've got weakness in the semiconductors today. That's just a heads up to say, watch out, something's going on there. You haven't seen that in a while where the market isn't being led by the semiconductors in the upside. So maybe that's a hint, but you've got apple, which is very weak. It had 169 round number low, just five sessions ago. It got up to the 173 level, not bad, 178, yeah, 3s, announced it 171. It's struggling. It's already struggling. Looking at Amazon, Amazon is trading right now up 1.58 to 176.98. There's that same rectangle, just going sideways, using up some time, how it uses is going to be very important because it is a leg D in the weekly chart, but the technicals are starting to weaken in Amazon's 914 on the daily chart, but it hasn't broken down yet. So you've got to consider that this residual strength, looking at Netflix and FLX. Let me see, I forgot to look at something. Yeah, Netflix is trading at 613.40, up 2.32, had a round number high the other day, and here it is, handmade a peak C, not an all-time high, that was 700.99. It was by one penny a round number at the high of November of 2021 and it prompted down to 162. I would say going from 700 to 162 is a problem. And then what does it do? It comes in the big rectangle phase with a lopsided cup formation. It's in leg D, underneath the previous peak D, that was the top, but it's still showing some strength and the 9 is still climbing above the 14 and in the daily and the weekly chart. So this is still holding very well. Let's see, let's go to Google. There we go. Google is trading up at 164.141.25. I did not look at this for round numbers at the low. So we've got nothing there, nothing there. I've got one thing, 155 was low, and I didn't even see a round number. You see what I'm saying? It's so rare to get these round numbers. Now let's go to Nvidia. Nvidia is trading down, now it's down 27 at 890.66 times. We got stopped out of our short position, our aggressive small short position, right on the tick. The smallest loss because we had already taken a nice profit from that. And now we're out of it and we're just running. That's upsetting. It's okay. 974 was a round number all time high. Just four sessions ago, it had a bunch of round numbers. Did it have any round number today? I don't think it did. Not yet anyway. Nothing that I can see. And really look at this. Let's go to TSM. TSM is Taiwan's semiconductor at 158.40 high. Four sessions ago. We're looking at no round numbers there. Let's go to that. No, no, no. Interesting, no round numbers, but it's off there, 158.40 high. It's at 142 right now. Let's go to one or two others, AVGO, Broadcom. I'll never get used to that. AVGO had 1418.17 all time high.  And then it had a whole slew of round numbers. Nothing today, interestingly enough. Once it gets the momentum going, you won't see the round numbers. So it's way off the most recent. If Broadcom trades under 1241, all these round numbers are going to mean something. And in my webinar on Friday, I'm going to have on Tuesday, I'm going to be discussing them in the relationship of what does it mean and how you can use it. That's the most important thing. It's not much point in talking about all these things that aren't able to actually have a modus operandi. So we'll get there. Okay, now I just wanted to see if there are any questions here. Yeah, there's a question. Can you lean over here? JP Morgan? JP Morgan. Oh, that's what I wanted to say. I'm very pleased to thank you for reminding me about JP Morgan. So JP Morgan is an all-time hot. The gene slash C, especially if there's an instant restart, I think how many PGs there are, unbelievable. This is taking a bit of 50 years here, 40 years ago. JP Morgan is an instant. He goes to another time, now it's at leg D. All-time high. I'll be right back. The gold report. As a precious metal, gold is still king. It continues to hold the most effective safe haven and hedging properties across the global major trading hubs of the London OTC market, the US futures market, and the Shanghai gold exchange. The gold report. 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They are not designed to track the underlying index or security for more than a day. Before investing, carefully consider a fund's investment objective, risk, charges, and expenses contained in the prospectus available at Direction.com. Read carefully. Distributor, foresight fund services, LLC. Under the symbol VGZ. Since it broke above it at 9 o'clock, was it yesterday morning? Or is that yesterday at the top? Yes, look at this. And now we've come back. Of course, it's a rising trend line. So here we are. It just bounced off it and it could keep coming back to that level of 528. That'll be the number to watch if there's weakness. All right. So I just need to go through that and I want to return here. So JP Morgan, all-time high. Fabulous action. Now, one of the things I'm looking at here is in this whole rotation aspect, what I'm looking at for coming up in the next couple of months, going into the summer. Oh, summer. Some people might have sought a summer already. And if you're down in South Africa, you're almost going to wrap up the summer. You're going into winter very soon. Okay. 191.20 is the price right now, JP Morgan. But look at the XLF. The XLF has been steadily walking the nine-period moving average in the weekly chart. Isn't that an amazing thing? There's one indicator. And here it is in the monthly chart. Leg B underneath the previous 4,170. All-time high of January of 2022. This is the SAP Select Financial Spider Fund. So there's your G. The G Stash D invariably goes to a D. And there it is. There's your D. That's where you've got to be a little careful. It doesn't mean to say, oh my God, everything. That's where I start to say, all right, watch it closely. So the question came up about what was it? JP Morgan and Bank of America. Bank of America trading up, oh, it's up at 30 cents and 36.26. Yeah, this is also very nice walking the nine-period moving average right there. Nine's way over the 40. Mankey is good. Unbalanced volume is overbought, but good. Stochastic is flat at 90 percent. Now, I'm going to spend some time talking about in the webinar durations where the nine-period moving average is at 90 percent or better and holding flat. What do you look for to say, whoops, if it's going from one, the pendulum swings from one side to the other, what would take it down to 20 percent or less? And what would happen? And how do you use it if one indicator near term does that? But the intermediate term, that's the weekly chart, is still holding very strong. So that's going to be very, oh, I should mention, we are long for right from there in Bank of America. That's way back in 2023. So that's it. So questions have come up that I'd like to answer specifically. So FXI, if I could look at the FXI, and that is the large-cap China ETF. Now, this is really important. 20.87 was the low in October of 2022. It ran to the 33 area. Then it came down a winner to go to. It went one penny below in the monthly chart. It went to 20.86. So that's a tough F. Now, what are the chances that you've taken out the left side low and that you're going to break sharply above to go to at least halfway into the monthly chart? That is above the 14 period moving average, which is at 26.09. And right now, you're at 24.82 up 26 cents. Well, you have to go one step at a time. So this is the monthly. This is the big picture. In the smaller picture, the intermediate term, the weekly, you're in a leg B and the 9 period moving average because it's come down so far, so long. Now, this is the way I'm going to discuss some of the techniques when we're doing our show live. I wanted to explain to you that the histogram, that's the distance in the MACD between the 26 period exponential moving average and the 9 period differential. When it goes from the 0% line, that's the 0%. This is the weekly chart. That's the 0% line. Look, it crossed positive and now it is strongly positive. What is that? What does that mean? It means that it starts to shrink as the green 9 period moving average differential. It's a combination, a multiplication of moving averages. What happens is when it goes in arrows, that's very positive. Even though it's still a pink 9 period moving average, when the 0% line crosses positive, that's when you can start to see that there's a much better chance that the move down, in this case with the XLF from the week of the 18th of August up in the 27s, down to the low that was made at 20.86, that it's taken all that time to decline and then have the 9 period moving average get close. It hasn't yet gone there in the FXI, but it's really close to turning up. This is a very strong leg B. We've seen that before and we saw it when the stochastic head really made a really nice turn to the upside. The mag D had this very strong move up and then gave it all up. Would it do that again? That's going to be a question that you have to deal with in the shorter term. That's the daily chart because the daily chart needs the weekly, the weekly needs the monthly, 120-minute chart needs the daily. This cut formation right now, is this a brand new A? Or is it an old E going to an F? Or is this an A? Gray A, because I guess it hasn't gone over 80%, and a gray B, F slash B. That's always a question in the Charmway methodology, but you don't have to really think about it, overthink about it. It'll sort itself out usually within two bars. What I tend to do is I have the overlapping way. If I put in the A right there, because I have to notate every trough and peak of importance, and then I put in an F slash B, and then I have to uppercase on the way up, lowercase on the way down, and then I have to do an analysis and say, well, on a vertical alignment, this is much stronger with the MACD good, the 9-period over the 14, stochastic still lagging at 70%. What's really important about this is that you've got the confirmation that the weekly chart is moving high. My leaning right now is to say, if I had to put a preference, I'd probably put B slash F, but I don't have to do anything yet, because the 200-period moving average is at 25, 29, so that it hasn't even been close, and the reason why I'm spending a little time on this is because it's important that you finally have China and the Nikkei Japanese market kind of moving in sync, because remember I had this, I'll do this for one second, the world, this is the VT, that's the Vangog total return, is almost at all-time highs, as we're speaking with impending to all-time highs, so you want to see the general consensus, the NG, so NK, NK, there it is, you want to see something happening here after a really strong move up, well it's done the move, so now is FXI playing catch-up, that's really the story. 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All right, welcome back. Right before the commercial break, we played a clip of Vice President Kamala Harris on 60 Minutes touting the success of Bidenomics. They want us to forget all about the sticker shock you experienced at the grocery store this past weekend because wages are up. Are you feeling it? They also told us that on Friday the U.S. economy grew at a pace of 4.9 percent in the third quarter. So third quarter GDP almost at 5 percent. But the budget gap also grew. The deficit is now at $1.7 trillion in interest costs on our federal debt, which is around $33 trillion, is now at $879 billion as of last fiscal year that beats all U.S. military spending by $103 billion. Nearly a trillion dollars flushed down the toilet on interest payments. And if the Treasury Department keeps rolling out new debt and rolling over old debt at higher and higher interest rates, the annual interest rate, what we all have to pay just to maintain the debt we already have will more than double by 2030. So a financial reckoning and economic reckoning is coming. A lot of experts say let's welcome back in. Data analyst and research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, E.J. Antoni, he's sticking around with us. We also have the CEO and founder of the Stock Swoosh, Melissa Armo, here. And just a reminder to everyone, if you hear something you think might be useful, make sure you take it to a professional and get their insight on it. You should never take advice and act on it from a television show. We do want to provide you with some information that you can hopefully start a conversation with with a financial professional to make sure you feel protected in times like these. Melissa, it's great to have you with us. E.J., thanks for sticking around. Thanks for having me. All right, Melissa, tell us what your thoughts are. Every financial analyst I talked to seems to think we are headed for a market crash. How are you preparing? Well, I think the market is definitely lower. And when you look at where we could be 12 months from now, there's a possibility that we could go into recession in 2024, which will make it very interesting considering it's also a presidential election year. So I think the market's definitely lower. We're nowhere near the highs. Right now, we're in the thick of earnings season. Apple is the next big earnings, which is Thursday night. The Fed speaks on Wednesday. So the market just is teetering right now, waiting to hear and see if the Fed is going to increase interest rates between now and the end of the year one more time, which I do think that they will probably won't be until December. But I think overall, people need to be careful with their investments. If you're already retired, you probably should have met with someone way, way earlier in the year to discuss what to do with your investments, because the market has fallen in the last several months. Now, when you look at the overall year, we haven't made new highs since the beginning of 2021 it was, 2022. So I mean, when you go back and look whatever industry you're looking at, whether it's the Dow or the S&P or the Nasdaq, we have been falling with rallies here and there, but then the market gets scared and falls again, whether it's because of the possibility of World War III, whether it's because of interest rates going up, whether it's because of inflation, the market is just getting scared at anything right now. Yeah, there's plenty to be concerned about out there. And again, you need a professional to talk to about this if you feel like you need to make some changes. But EJ, what did you think? I mean, I was sitting here in the office on Friday and I saw the GDP numbers. What was your reaction to that 4.9 percent? Unfortunately, it's a classic case of unsustainable growth. As one of my colleagues likes to call it a tissue fire, something that burns very hot and bright, but very quickly. And then there's not even embers left at the end to keep you warm. Breaking down what actually caused that growth, for example, you had a splurge in consumer spending, which was fueled entirely by increasing debt and a reduction of savings, something that obviously isn't sustainable. On the government side, we saw about a fifth of GDP growth coming from government expenditure growth, which again is not sustainable because you need a growing private economy to sustain those government expenditures, which we just don't have enough of right now. On the investment side as well, it wasn't businesses buying factories and machines, things that will increase productivity and long run growth. No, it was simply stocking up of inventories because they're afraid of future price increases. So they're buying things today. But that only means that in the coming quarters, businesses will draw down those inventories, which is going to subtract from future GDP. So all you did was essentially transfer GDP from a future date to today. You didn't actually increase long run growth. It's all concerning. I know for a lot of people it makes your head spin, but it's certainly good information to, again, take to a financial planner, someone who you trust and get their insight on this. We want to have E.J. and Melissa stick around. We're going to have a little bit of a political conversation. We're going to talk about the Iowa caucuses and some new polling there when we come right back. Former Vice President Mike Pence also officially dropping out. I came here to say it's become clear to me this is not my time. That was Mike Pence, former Vice President, officially dropping out of the 2024 race. The announcement came as a surprise to some, but Pence had struggled to raise funding or gain serious traction in a very crowded primary field. Now, a Republican with the Pence campaign said that they would be surprised if the former Vice President endorsed one of the other candidates before the primaries were over, but former President Trump, well, he thinks Mike Pence should endorse him. Here's why. I chose him, made him Vice President, but people in politics can be very disloyal. I've never seen a thing like it. You know, they asked me a question. You heard the trader chant there from the crowd. The question is, what will Mike Pence do? And if he does endorse anyone, will it make a difference in Iowa or anywhere else? Let's bring back E.J. Antoni and Melissa Armo. Thank you both for being here with us. And I know this isn't normally in your bailiwick kind of handicap in these presidential races, but a lot of people do it. Let's go ahead and dive into it. E.J., you think Mike Pence will endorse President Trump? And if he did, do you think it would matter? It's a really good question. Now, I'm not a political scientist to be clear. You know, I'm an analyst. I'm a numbers guy. So let's just look at it strictly from a numbers perspective. Mike Pence has been just incapable of raising money and garnering support in this primary, so much so that I don't think he would have much of an impact at all no matter who he endorses. In fact, if you look at his favorability versus unfavorability polling, it might actually do more harm than good if he endorses a candidate other than Trump. That is, you know, that's one of the things that just makes this political landscape so interesting. And speaking of numbers, Melissa, I want to take a look at the latest Des Moines Register poll. This is conducted with NBC News, kind of a small sample size, but I do think it's illustrative because 41 percent of likely caucus goers say their minds are already made up. So just 41 percent say their minds are made up. But when you look at the voters who have made up their minds, 63 percent of Trump supporters say they are 100 percent on board with Donald Trump no matter what they are with him. Look at this, though. Just 30 percent of DeSantis supporters say they are locked in on him. The rest are open to somebody else still. And 26 percent of Niki Haley supporters say they are ride or die on Team Niki Haley. Again, this is according to the Des Moines Register poll. What do you see when you look at these numbers, Melissa? Well, I'm a numbers person, too, John. But any time you ask me to talk about politics, I'm happy to do so. I mean, we're going into an election year. This will affect markets. And overall, I think it's Trump's race to lose. I mean, this is one of the reasons why they're trying to put gag orders on him. One of the reasons why they're going after him so much in the courts because they literally don't want him to be going out and campaigning. I think that Pence was always going to drop out. He just didn't have the support of the funding. I think Niki Haley might end up dropping out of the race. I don't think DeSantis is going to drop out in Biblical as well because somebody is going to try to want to be Trump's VP pick, whether or not he chooses one of the other nominees. I don't know or one of the other people that is running. I don't know. But I mean, I think overall, when you look at where the economy was at with Trump, COVID is the reason in my mind or the major reason that Trump lost the 2020 election. If we wouldn't have had COVID, I think that Trump might have won. And COVID was really Biden's gift to winning. I mean, Biden didn't even hardly go out and campaign. He's really not even campaigning now. And so to think about the fact that we could go into another election with the two same candidates from 2020. Again, if you're a numbers person, if you would have bet on this, nobody probably would have bet on this. Yeah. But there are a lot of people who do bet on this stuff. And sometimes their predictions are more accurate, those betting sites than the pollsters. But that's what I love about this, you know, getting people who aren't political analysts per se to just look at the numbers sometimes because you can learn a lot from this. I want to take a listen for not so much a numbers approach on this, but just, you know, see what his strategy is. Here's Ron DeSantis. He spoke over the weekend. A lot of the candidates were at the Republican Jewish Coalition event in Las Vegas. Here is Ron DeSantis. There is a sickness on these college campuses. I don't know why American taxpayers are funding these universities. If that's the type of garbage they're going to produce. And the response by a lot of these university administrators have been absolutely pathetic. I mean, I think he's absolutely right about that. But we mentioned Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis. We also could talk about the Vekrama Swami. His numbers in this Des Moines Register poll don't look great either. As the field narrows, we're going to learn pretty quick how viable some of these other candidates are. And if it's Ron DeSantis doesn't gain anything by other people leaving the campaign, E.J., I think that's a big wake-up call for him. Well, it's interesting because what we saw in 2020 was essentially Trump versus everyone. And a lot of analysts, a lot of political pundits expected that as those different non-Trump candidates dropped out that their support would continue going to the other non-Trump candidates. In other words, at the end you would be left with Trump and all of the non-Trump support behind a single person like a Ted Cruz, for example. But that is not what happened. Trump was most people's second choice in that primary. And as much as there is a large block of DeSantis voters who are never Trumpers, you also have a lot of Ron DeSantis supporters who still have Trump as their second choice. And so just because other people continue to drop out of the race, whether that's Mike Pence or maybe Nikki Haley, as was mentioned earlier, whatever the case may be, it is not a foregone conclusion that their support is going to go to Ron DeSantis or someone other than Trump. And so it is very likely that we get to a convention like we did last time where you have a tremendous amount of support that originated with other candidates but ends up with Trump and not DeSantis. That's right. We can't forget that Ted Cruz won the Iowa caucuses in 2016. It obviously didn't factor into the final result. Melissa, do you think the Iowa caucuses mean more this time around? No, not necessarily. I think that there's so many things right now. There's so many issues at hand. We were talking about the economy earlier. That's one of the issues. And again, what's happening over in Israel is one of the issues. And so many of these candidates have not been clear really about where they stand on this issue. So I think the next debate is something really that more people were going to be watching. And to see really where do people stand on these issues. And then that's something that Trump is going to have to come out and really verbally talk about. He's been talking so much about his cases. We need to hear more from him about these issues. And he needs to get out more in the public eye. Yeah. Well, he's going to have that competing event in Hialeah the same night as the Republican debate next week in Miami. We'll see what happens there. EJ and Melissa, we got more to talk about when they come back. We're going to talk about Gavin Newsom's embarrassing trip to China. Also, the GOP shifting his attention to border security.


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This is Carol Monly on Community Matters with my special guest Dr. Colette Brown, who holds a chair professorship at the School of Social Work and is also the chair of the Gerontology Specialization. So, welcome, Colette. Oh, thank you, Carol. Well, today we're talking about a really important study that was just published, and Dr. Brown was the co-author from Hawaii, and it is about the economic security of older women and men in Hawaii. And we often lump older women and men together, but I think your study really identifies the more important details that many of us didn't know. Well, we hope so. You know, over the past decades, poverty rates for older adults in this country have actually been declining, and that's really good news. But that's really, as you just said, when we homogenize, when we group older people together, what we also know is that older women are continually and pervasively more poor than older men throughout their lives and culminates in later life. Not only is it women in general, we don't want to homogenize older women themselves, but when we break it down by ethnicity, race and ethnicity, we also see even more differences with regards to financial security and financial insecurity. I see. So now, is these results comparable to what's been happening on the mainland? Because I know this study was as a result of a mainland study. What we did was, in the School of Social Work where I work, we partnered with the Institute for Women's Policy Research, which is a really very wonderful research group out of D.C. that look at gender issues, primarily economic issues, but health issues and other issues as well, and not only older women, but women throughout their life. So we partnered with them for the analysis and then came up with a recommendation specific to Hawaii. I see. And so how long did the study take from Hawaii? It took us about a year to put the whole thing together. And where's the data coming from? The data looks at microdata from the U.S. census. So the 19... From 2010 to 2014, and we looked again those years so that we could get a large sample size because we really did want to look at race and ethnicity in addition to gender. Okay, great. So we're going to get right into some of those results, and I know we have some... Several slides. So we're going to go through a few of them, and even though our viewers cannot see... I mean, our viewers can see them, but our listeners cannot. We're going to talk about the results, and it's very interesting. So what is our first slide, Rich? Here we go. So the cover... This is a particular characteristics of older women and men in Hawaii. And so what did you find out about? We wanted to look at, again, the different ethnic groups. So we looked at Japanese, Caucasian, Filipino, Native Hawaiian, Chinese, other Asian, for example, Korean, Asian, Indian, those with two or more races, and also Hispanic, and then the total. And if you look at women and men, what you see is the same thing that we see on the mainland, and that is women are more poor than older men, and that's in every racial and ethnic group. So this is very different from the mainland because, of course, the ethnicities in Hawaii are so much more diverse than you find in the mainland. That's right. So you do see differences even here. So for example, what you do see is you see other Asian really are more poor, and those with the greater personal, median personal income are looking at Japanese American older women, but still much less than men. I see, okay. And how about our next slide? This just looks at marital status, and the reason we wanted to look at that is there are a number of reasons why women are poor, and they're really, they're quite complex and interrelated, but one of them is marital status. And we know that because you have one income rather than two, you're more apt to be poor when you're older. And we also know that here in Hawaii about 57, 58% of older women are what we call single, and that's widowed, that is never married, and that's divorced. So about 58%. So the idea that you will live alone when you are older as a woman is much greater than if you were a man. So not only would you live alone if you're a woman, more likely, but you're much more likely to be poor. You're more likely to be poor, and again for a number of reasons, right, that your income throughout your life is less than the man. So that's one reason. Another reason is women still are very often in segregated employment. That are primarily women holding them as opposed to the jobs of primarily men. There are industries that are still much more male oriented, for example, just look at the tech industry, right, as one example. Then we really also haven't looked at balancing work at home. We talk about this a lot, and I'm glad that there are political discussions more, but we still haven't done anything like other countries that allow people to balance work with their families. So we don't have childcare policies really. We don't have affordable childcare. We don't have a pension caregiving credits. We don't have paid family leave. There are a number of things that we could do that would make things so much better for not just working women, but working men as well. So then the fact that there are separate maybe tracks of career is one thing, but that's not in it of itself. The reason for the poverty for women is because the salaries, right, are different. Well, there's, exactly. There's participation rates, right, and there's poverty rates. Participation rates. Participation rates, so for, not for all women, if you look at racial, ethnic, minority women, very often their work trajectory is very much like the white males. They work throughout their life. If you look at African-American older women, for example, if you look at their work history, they've worked their entire life, but they are the poorest of the poor because of what you just said, wages. And very often- And the industries that they may be working in- That's right. They're not going to be as well paid. That's right. If you're looking at home care workers, you know, I think the other issue here is that we really don't value care work, do we? So whether it's care that you're paying for or care that you're providing in your own home, we don't value it. How many women today are actually quitting their jobs as middle-aged women to take care of an older parent? And what happens to those women? What happens to their pensions, to their social security? It goes down because of that. They're doing a wonderful thing, but they're going to be penalized economically for it. So in that case, the family may end up benefiting the whole family because grandma is being cared for. But individually, assuming that the father dies, the mother, the surviving in later years will have less resources. That's right. That's right. Which is really a sad statement, I think, again, about what we value in our country. Older countries do things quite differently as you probably know. Let's look at our next slide. It just looks at the median annual personal income for older women and men in Hawaii. And again, the gray is male and the green is female. And again, what you can see just consistently is that men do work more, earn more than women. And you do see some racial differences here. Again, you're looking at Japanese older women and Caucasian older women and Chinese older women really making a higher median income. What this doesn't take into account, of course, are how many jobs one has to get that income. So it's a broad number. So when you see how many jobs to get that income, are you saying that men's careers are usually on a different trajectory they may work in, one or two jobs longer as opposed to women's? Right. What we see is that men's work is much more rarely interrupted than a woman's. And in some ways, it makes a little bit of sense. If you're looking at a spouse that makes twice what you make, perhaps it makes more economic sense that you're the one who stays home and takes care of a sick child, a disabled brother or sister, an older mother or father. But it still impacts your income, your own income when you retire. Right. And then because women live longer, it's going to impact them, particularly if they survive their spouse. Absolutely. And health care is a big ticket item when we get older, right? So actually, these results aren't too surprising, are they? They're not surprising. They really verified and validated what we know on the continental US. It did bring us some more information about race, ethnicity, and again, the importance of the kind of income women get and why we have to protect things like social security so much. All right. I think we have another slide. The data is really interesting. Let's see. Our next slide is the... This just looks at the official federal poverty thresholds and index in Hawaii. And really just trying to show you, again, looking at male and female, this is specific to something called the elder index. And this is actually very, very interesting. This was developed by the University of Massachusetts in the National Council on Aging. And they looked at the regular poverty threshold. And they said that's really too conservative because it doesn't look at housing. And it doesn't look at health care costs. So when you do that, what you find is that, especially people in Hawaii, we need a much greater income. And our poverty threshold is actually quite higher because of primarily our very, very high housing costs. So you say our poverty threshold is higher. Exactly. So where the poverty threshold may say 20,000 for a couple, it may be looking at the elder index taken into consideration. Housing, if you make less than 40 or 50, you might be actually poorer. And I think we all know examples. That's quite true. Right. OK. So compared to other states, how do we compare to other states? Our poverty rate is actually not as bad as some other states. And again, we think we need to go back and look at this more closely. But we think it's primarily because so many women are in the workforce here in Hawaii because, again, the cost of living in our wonderful state and also the fact that so many people have two or three jobs to make that income that they need. Right. And of course, in Hawaii, we've had this tradition of women working outside the home much longer than some of the other states. That's right. That's absolutely very true. Right. So we're talking about career. So it sounds like poverty then really has a long-term growth period in the life of a person. It starts out as soon as you start your career. You know, it does. And again, there's so much. I'm an educator, so I believe so much that we need to educate young men and young women about the right kinds of careers in terms of income, in terms of financial security, that they don't end up in those jobs that pay them so little. And on the other hand, we all know that there are some jobs that do pay little, and that then speaks to what is the role then of policy. Is it OK that we have poor older people in our society? It's a question we have to ask ourselves. Is it OK? And? I would say no. I'm a social worker, so I would say no. I work with people who have been good citizens their whole life. They've worked hard. They've raised their families. They haven't been in any kind of trouble. They've contributed to their community. And they end up poor because they can't afford their health care costs, their long-term care costs. Do I think that's OK? No, I don't think that's OK. And how does that affect our community by having older women who are in much more need than men? One of the reasons we did this study is because we want people to become more aware of this issue. No one is proud of being poor, so people hide it a lot.  I can't join you for lunch because I don't have the money to pay for lunch. So we want people to understand these issues, to understand, as you just said, it's a long-term process, right? And that we can't close our eyes to it anymore. We really have to look at what policies can specifically help. Younger women and older women. Younger women are just tomorrow's older women. Well, on that note, we're going to take a break. And after the break, we'll talk a little bit more about what we can do to help and what needs to be done to change. So I'm with my guest, Dr. Colette Brown from the UH School of Social Work, talking about a very important subject. The economic security of older women and men in Hawaii will be right back. You're watching Think Tech Hawaii, which streams live on thinktechhoai.com, uploads to YouTube, and broadcasts on cable OC16 and O'Lello 54. Great content for Hawaii from Think Tech. Sounds like scuba divers are the poor man's astronaut. At DiveHeart, we believe that to be true. We say, forget the moon. DiveHeart can help children, adults, and veterans of all abilities escape gravity right here on Earth. Search DiveHeart.org and imagine the possibilities in your life. Aloha. My name is Raya Salter. And I'm the host of Power Up Hawaii, which you can see live from 1 to 1.30 every Tuesday at thinktechhawaii.com, and then later on YouTube. I am an energy attorney, clean energy advocate, and community outreach specialist. And on Power Up Hawaii, we come together to talk about how can Hawaii walk towards a clean, renewable, and just energy future. To do that, we talk to stakeholders all over the spectrum, from clean energy technology folks to community groups to politicians to regulators to the utility. So please join us Tuesdays at 1 o'clock for Power Up Hawaii. Welcome back. This is Carol Monly on Community Matters with my guest, Dr. Colette Brown, to talk about a very important study that just came out on the economic security of older women and men in Hawaii. So we were talking about policy, but before we get to policy, I'd like to cover three more slides that the survey brought to everybody's attention. So let's get to the next slide, Rich. And that says poverty rate for older women and men in Hawaii. So what is the poverty rate? Again, so what you can see, and this is, again, this looks at the poverty rate, which is the official poverty rate. So it's not the more conservative poverty rate, not the elder index that we just talked about before the break. And here, again, though, you're looking at racial differences. You're looking at other Asian populations having almost a 20% poverty rate for women, so one out of every four or five women. But in every category? In every category, women are more poor than men. And have a higher poverty rate. So again, this is just very consistent with our data from the mainland as well. Right. So in every category, which is every ethnic group, Asian, Chinese, Hispanic, other native Hawaiians, white, Japanese, Filipino. That's right. Women far, well. Have more poverty. Higher poverty. Higher poverty rates. That's right. OK. And our next slide. And this one is entitled retirement income. Retirement income sources, right. And this looks at the major retirement, the ways that we get our money when we retire. So we hopefully have Social Security, which is the primary income for men and women as we get older. Let's go through one at a time, because those are very important. So Social Security. So Social Security. So what you see, if you look across, and I'm looking here at the women, you're looking at the lowest rate is 79%. So a very high percentage of older women do receive Social Security. So that's good.  And if you look at the median income, the lowest is about almost 11,000 and the highest is nearly 13,000. So it's an average of 12,000. So 12,000 a year. The older women. And how do we define older women? What age? That's a great question. We should have said that. We started that. 65 and over. Some people do look at 60, but we were looking at 65 and over primarily because we have a good longevity here in this state. So age 65 and over women average about 12,000 across all of us. Well, this is actually the median, not the median. We'll talk about the mean, the average, and another slide. So this is the median. If you look at the pensions, you look at a smaller number. So you're looking at a low from what, 24,000 actually with Filipino to a high of 42% who actually get pensions. So among those who do, they get about 12,000, but only about 35% actually get a private pension. So that's what's really important to notice in that slide. And so other sources of income besides social security? Some people have earnings. Again, a small number. So those are women who are continuing to work after age 65. Exactly, like me. And then you have your assets. If you have real estate, if you have other kinds of assets, again, a much smaller number for women than men. So meaning women have fewer assets than men. And the assets themselves are valued much less. So if they own a home or an apartment, typically, it would be valued less than, worth less than, older men. The only source of income that is similar between men and women is actually supplemental security income, which is a means-tested income source from the federal government that supplements your income when you're poor. So not all women will get that, even though they qualify for social security. In fact, that's something we really have to look at policy-wise, because we have a lower percentage of women actually receiving that compared to a poverty rate. So there's a number that are eligible but aren't receiving. OK, so in addition to those assets, I guess we're not including something like whether they're getting family support. That's right. Yeah, we're not including that. Hard to measure. That's right, that's right. OK, I think we have another slide. Let's get to our next slide. Now this one's interesting, because this looks, again, at the mean, the average income. So you're looking at women's average income of about 26,000 closer to 27, and you're looking compared to men's average, which is about 43. That's a big difference. It's a very big difference. And think about that when you're older. Could you live on $26,000 a year? And again, this is an average. The challenge with looking at averages is it doesn't tell you who's on the bottom. Right, and who is on the bottom? You're looking primarily at, on the mainland, it's primarily African-American women, immigrant women. Here in Hawaii, it looks that I would suggest it's immigrant women as well, and also Filipino women are lower income. Interesting, and men, what are the highest incomes? Which ethnic groups have the highest incomes? Whites, Chinese, and Japanese. Whites, Chinese, and that's true for both men and women. Yes, OK. Yes, it is. Is there a reason why, do you think? Speculation on why certain ethnic groups have lower incomes? You know, I think there's, again, there's a complex issue. So you're looking at things like, certainly, socioeconomic status, education, types of jobs. You're looking at the type of education they get. You look at opportunities that they have or don't have. You're looking at things like discrimination. You're looking at immigration histories. There are a lot of variables that really result in what we're seeing. Yeah, very interesting. I think one last slide on some of the data that was uncovered. Let's see. No, I guess we don't have another slide. That was it. Well, there's so many. So let's talk a little bit then about now what. We know that we have this information. What can, what are you looking at doing in terms of developing policy changes, or how can we help older women in Hawaii? Well, we look at younger women and we look at older women. So if you look at younger women, there are a number of things that I think are important to do. And one is really looking at unequal pay. We still don't have equal pay between men and women. And I would like to think that we will not let that go because you see what happens when there's unequal pay. We still have occupational segregation. There's still jobs. There's still very much more mail. There's something the law, for example, has made, medicine has made some very important changes. But other fields are still, we're not seeing that. So is it done though on an individual industry basis then, or are you as an organization or as a matter of policy, are nationwide and locally? Are we looking at some kind of legislation? I would like to think that we could do what other countries do, like whether it's France or Iceland or Germany or so many others, where gender equality is in their constitution. It's just something that they insist because we know now the effects when we don't have it. It's very clear women are more poor than men throughout their life and also in later years. So that's one thing I think we need to do. I think we have to really connect to that as the issue of segregated employment. I mean, as educators, as family members, as businesses, what are businesses doing? I mentioned this in another talk recently, but Michelle Obama gave a talk to the tech leaders a number of this past year, just a few months ago. And they're notorious, of course, for having a culture where it's primarily male. Women leave that field twice as often as men do. So there's something there that's not right. You really challenge them and say you want women in the workforce. If you do, make room. What are you doing here to actually allow and encourage and recruit women and retain them? So that's something that we really have to look at as well. But how do you explain then that there is often, as you said, we talked about earlier about how women making the choice to whether it's to stay home to care for newborns or their parents and then getting out of the workforce. And I know we talked about do we pay for that kind of leave or the care? That's right. Well, and I think very often, that's you use the great word choice because I think very often it's not a choice. You don't really have a choice. Mom needs care, child needs care, disabled elder needs care. There is no choice. There's not enough care out there. And that's something to, when we look at helping older women, it also helps younger women. We need long-term care services and supports, right? And we don't really have that today. So that's something that's really, I think, very, very critical that we support long-term care. That will help older women, but younger women. The New York Times had an article a while ago, maybe two weeks ago, that looked at the proposed cuts to Medicaid as an example. And they said, who's going to be hurt by this? It's the daughters and daughters-in-law because they're the ones who provide the care because 75% of those who receive Medicaid are the disabled and older adults who need long-term care. So you take that funding away. Who's going to feel it? Not just the older adult, but their caregiver who's primarily a woman. Right. And here in Hawaii, I know this past legislative session. We've had this Kapuna care bill. So tell us how that might help. Kapuna care is a wonderful program that is that the legislature has funded. It's operated to the executive office on aging and they work with many community agencies to provide home-based care. So that will make an enormous difference. The more that there are supports out there that will really encourage people to not have to make that choice, right? That they will be able to stay in the workforce because there will be supports that will still provide the care to mom or to dad or to brother or sister or to a child. So specifically, how does that care work? So it provides funding or some kind of credit? It would provide funding. So that's one way. There are other ways that can be done. We hope that we can actually work with our legislators on this. So for example, many countries actually give the primary caregiver pension credit for each child they have. So for example, if you have three children, you would be credited six years in their own social security system. So that's a wonderful way to acknowledge what we all know, that children are wonderful but they're expensive. It costs money to raise children. The more money you are using to raise children, the less you have to put into your retirement plan. I see. And yet here we are facing an administration that's looking at things like cutting long-term social security, Medicare, Medicaid, things like that. It's such a wonderful thing that we're all living longer. We all know that's wonderful but we also know that healthcare is a big ticket item. We know that even if we don't want to become disabled, we might and it's very, very costly. We have very few opportunities right now. People have to pay for such care. So the idea that Medicare or Medicaid would be cut will be not only problematic for older adults but for their families as well. Yes, indeed. Well, we're about ready to wrap up Colette. So what I'd like you to do is to look into camera 4 and give us some closing thoughts and maybe some ideas of how we can help in what you all plan to do and what we can see for the future. Okay, great. I think there's always something that we can do individually to stop poverty. We can learn more about finances, financial literacy. So there's of course there are things we can do individually. But society and policy has a huge role as well because we want society where older people, all older people have the right for a just and a good old age. And right now that's not what we're seeing. We're seeing too many women and too many racial, ethnic minority women really suffering from poverty. So yes, by all means learn about finances but also support issues like long-term care, support programs like KupunaCare, support the education of young girls so they can reach their potential in getting the kinds of jobs that will maybe prevent or stop this cycle that we're seeing today. And if we wanna find out more about the study, how can we do that? Yes, you can go to the School of Social Work website. There is a link to that, to the study. They can get the entire study from that link. Okay, the University of Hawaii School of Social Work. That's right. Okay, okay. Well on that note, thank you so much Colette for taking us through this very important study. Oh, thank you Carol. Okay, well my guest today has been Dr. Colette Brown who was a chair professor at the University of Hawaii School of Social Work. And she's the co-author of the current, this recent study, Economic Security of Older Women and Men in Hawaii. So thank you for joining us. This has been Karamon Lee, Community Matters at Think Tech, Hawaii, Aloha.


Hello everybody, Hooded Co-Commander 788 here, and now that we're done with Cobramon, so it's time to get back to some GI Joe action figure and vehicle reviews, and I'm very excited about what's coming up this month. We're going to get back to GI Joe by looking at a small vehicle, the LCV Recon sled, and I'd like to say a special thanks and shout out to Chris Mahalek for sending me this vehicle and making this review possible. Thanks very much, Chris. I know everyone likes to look at the big vehicles, me too, but I don't want to neglect the smaller vehicles. They had a very important role to play in the GI Joe toy line, so let's go ahead and take a look at the LCV Recon sled. This is the LCV Recon sled, with LCV standing for Low Crawl Vehicle. The LCV Recon sled was first introduced in 1986, it was also sold in 1987. It was discontinued in 1988, and there was not really a 1988 vehicle that was comparable to this, so it didn't really have a replacement in 1988. Functionally, the LCV Recon sled is a motorcycle, so it fits in with other GI Joe motorcycles like the 1982 Ram motorcycle and the 1985 Silver Mirage motorcycle. The LCV Recon sled was worth two flag points, and it did not come with an action figure. However, on the box art for the Recon sled, it was driven by Bazooka. As far as the size goes, the LCV Recon sled was comparable to the 1985 GI Joe Armadillo tank, both nice small vehicles, and it's nice that GI Joe gave us these small vehicles. They did a lot of really large vehicles with tons of features that were pretty awesome, but not every kid had the funds or the space to fill their rooms with Killer Whales and USS flags, so it's nice that we got these smaller vehicles as well. Let's look at the parts and features of the Recon sled, starting at the front with these three front wheels or rollers, and this front one is raised, I guess, so it can roll over rough terrain. These are fake wheels, they're not actually functional. It really only has one wheel in the center here, so it gives the illusion of rolling along these front wheels. These front rollers do turn a bit from side to side. In the front we have a headlight made out of clear plastic. We also have this clear plastic canopy windscreen, and that's got some angles to it, which fits with the overall aesthetic of the vehicle, and on top of that we have this periscope, which looks like a mini radar, and this can come out and this is a frequently missing part. On either side we have what the box calls machine guns. Not sure what type of machine guns they're supposed to be, they're just supposed to be machine guns. They both have some texture on them, that's very interesting. They're very basic looking, very simple, they can kind of pivot up like that, I'm not sure if they're supposed to do that, but they can do it, both of them can, and those are the only forward-facing armaments on this vehicle. Under the clear canopy we have what looks like a radar screen, and that makes sense since we have a little radar on top there. We have a couple stickers for instrument panels, that looks pretty good, and some other detailing there on the inside. We also have these two holes here, and that's where you will put the action figure's hands when the action figure is riding the vehicle. This entire front assembly is adjustable, there's a little hook right there on the underneath, so if you push it just past that hook it snaps into place, and then it is in a more raised position. I'm not really sure why you would want it in this position, I'm not sure how that would in any way be an advantage, but it is adjustable and you can have that front canopy in two positions. Just pull it again to pop it out, and there it is in the lower position. In the middle we have a little bit of engine detail here, and more on the other side. We have some detailing kind of a grid work here, and this essentially is the seat for the vehicle because the driver rides it in the prone position, essentially face down. These sculpted pads on either side are for the action figure's knees, and the figure's feet will go through these holes here in the back. I will demonstrate how to put the figure on the vehicle in a moment. And then on the starboard side of the vehicle we have this whole engine that's outside, it's not covered at all. It's done in the same sort of yellow tan color as the machine guns in the front and the instrument panel, and that's very interesting, it's got the entire engine sort of on the outside of the vehicle. On the port side we have this little mini gun, and that is adjustable. It can rotate almost all the way around, and the blueprints call this a side-mounted auto-load 9mm cannon. So it's a fairly small caliber gun, which is appropriate for this vehicle I guess. I think it looks like a rear-facing weapon. You can spin it around to face front, but to me it just doesn't look right. It looks like it's going to fire right into the canopy. It looks like the bullets from it might glance off the canopy. So I really think this looks more appropriate as a rear-facing weapon. And then in the back we have these sculpted shock absorbers on both sides. That's not too bad. And then we have a rubber wheel. This rear wheel is rubber, which is awesome. That's a really nice bonus on such a small vehicle. You really wouldn't expect to see a rubber wheel on a vehicle this size. The Ram motorcycle had plastic wheels. We did get some rubber wheels on the Silver Mirage motorcycle, but this was a slightly larger vehicle. So for a small vehicle, this is really not bad. The hub of the wheel has this kind of weird circle and square design. Almost looks like a Lego design on that. Let's demonstrate how to put the figure on this vehicle. We're going to use Bazooka, since he was on the box art for this vehicle. Now the arms are going to go in these little holes. The knees are going to go here on these pads, and then the feet are going to go through these holes. So that gives you kind of an idea of how this is going to go. We'll get his arms bent so he'll go. His arms will go in there, and we're going to have to bend his knees. And let's go ahead and put the feet in first, because that looks like it'll be the most difficult part of getting this figure in. It looks like it's best to put the left foot in first, because this side gun is a little bit of an obstruction. Then you can kind of wedge the right foot in there, which really is not too easy. Then you've got his knees on the knee pads. Then you just put his hands in those little holes that are designed for his hands. And now you have Bazooka riding the LCV Recon sled. And the television commercial for the LCV Recon sled shows the figures riding the vehicle sitting up like this, which I guess is fine. The figure is fairly stable there, but there are no controls for the figure to grip. He's just sort of leaning back like that. So I don't think that really looks right for the figure to be riding the vehicle that way. This big clear canopy gives the figure a wide range of vision, but he can't really use it, because he's face down. He would have to crane his neck up to really see out this windscreen. And the old figures just didn't have that much range of movement in their heads. So he's going to have to drive by instrumentation. He's going to have to face down at the radar screen in order to drive this thing. I think that's the downside of having the driver in this position. Taking a look at the LCV Recon sled overall, it is a very small vehicle. It's one of the smallest vehicles in the line, unless you count those windup, power pack things, and I try to think of those as little as possible. The Recon sled is not based on any real world design that I'm aware of. It's kind of funky looking, but it's not excessively science fiction either. It's essentially a motorcycle that's been rearranged. And I guess there's no reason why you couldn't really make a motorcycle look like this. I mean, you could put an engine on the back and you could give it one big wheel in the back and three small wheels in the front. I guess you could do all of that. So it's not really unrealistic. I would call this a pseudo-realistic vehicle. Comparing the Recon sled to another vehicle in its size class, the Armadillo Mini Tank, the Recon sled is actually a bit smaller. And the Armadillo is one of the simplest vehicles in the GI Joe line. But the LCV Recon sled may actually be an even simpler vehicle than the Armadillo tank. I mean, the LCV Recon sled does have a bit more as far as moving parts go.  But the Mini Tank could accommodate a couple more action figures here in the back, whereas the LCV Recon sled is strictly a one-person vehicle. Unless, wait a minute, let's see. Let's just see if we can get them on here. Is it? No, that's awkward. Better stick with just one figure on this thing. Comparing the LCV Recon sled to GI Joe's other motorcycle, it stacks up fairly well to the 1982 Ram as far as size and features go. But it is lacking in that the Ram had one big gun and the Recon sled definitely lacks that big gun. Comparing the LCV Recon sled to the 1985 Silver Mirage, the Silver Mirage really outclasses the Recon sled in both size and features and armaments. But the Recon sled is a pretty sturdy vehicle, whereas the Silver Mirage could be rather fragile and flimsy. Even though this is a small vehicle and somewhat lacking in features, I do like the Recon sled. It's not a top-tier vehicle by any means. If there was a choice between the Killer Whale and the Recon sled, I don't think many collectors would say, hey, give me that LCV, I don't need the Killer Whale. But it's really not bad and it has a few things going for it. For one thing, unlike the GI Joe motorcycles, the LCV was pretty sturdily constructed. You're not going to find too many of these broken, whereas you'll find the Ram motorcycle and the Silver Mirage motorcycle broken all the time. Also, since this is a fairly inexpensive vehicle to find complete, you can army build these pretty easily. Also, since it is in more or less military colors, it doesn't look too futuristic and it can fit in with your other more realistic GI Joe vehicles. As far as its portrayal in GI Joe media, the Recon sled did pop up every once in a while in the GI Joe animated series. I don't think it appeared in the comic book, at least if it did, I can't recall, but it did show up in the cartoon. I always wanted to test the compatibility of the LCV Recon sled with another GI Joe vehicle that came out the same year, a much larger vehicle, the Tomahawk. The Tomahawk had in the back this cargo bay door that would open and close like this. It's a pretty cool feature, but it's kind of small and the opening for the door is kind of small. There are no GI Joe vehicles that will fit through there, so you can't launch a vehicle out of the back of the Tomahawk. Everything, even the smaller vehicles, are just too big. Even a vehicle as small as the GI Joe Ram motorcycle is too big to fit in there. It's too wide with the side gun on and it's too tall with the driver on. But would the LCV Recon sled work with the Tomahawk? Could you launch this thing out of the back? And the answer is, sort of. First you have to remove all of these jump seats out of the bay of the helicopter, get them all out and create as much space as possible. Then you have to take the canopy on the LCV Recon sled completely off. Once that's done, with the figure on, you can roll the Recon sled into the back of the Tomahawk and completely close the door. It works, it does fit, but to launch the Recon sled out of the back, you do have to lift the helicopter up just a bit to get enough clearance. There's no way this is an intended feature, especially since you have to take the Recon sled apart in order to make it work. And the color and design of these two vehicles really do not go together at all. But if you choose to, if you want to do it, the Recon sled can make this otherwise useless feature on the Tomahawk somewhat useful. That was my review of the 1986 LCV Recon sled, I hope you enjoyed it. And if you're thinking of getting one of these little guys, I hope you have found this video informative. If you liked it, don't forget to give it a thumbs up on YouTube and don't forget to subscribe. I've got a lot of great new GI Joe toy reviews coming up every week. You don't want to miss them. And don't forget to like the Facebook page. And don't forget a lot of updates there you don't get anywhere else. Thanks for watching and I'll see you next week with another vintage GI Joe toy review. See you then.


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