In this podcast, Motley Fool analyst Asit Sharma and host Mary Long discuss:

• How investors can prepare for tariff disturbance.
• BlackRock's latest acquisition.
• The reasons for and against a national strategic reserve of cryptocurrency.

Then, Mary and Motley Fool host Ricky Mulvey debrief on their trip to a crypto conference in downtown Denver.

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A full transcript follows the video.

This video was recorded on March 05, 2025

Mary Long: We're going to Washington. You're listening to Motley Fool Money. I'm Mary Long, joined today by Asit Sharma. Asit, always a pleasure to have you on this show. Thanks for being here.

Asit Sharma: Mary, thank you for inviting me once again.

Mary Long: We got an interesting show today. We're going to focus on a couple of different stories that sit at the intersection of policy and stuff that's happening in Washington, but that also do have an impact not just on the economy, but on investors in particular. We'll kick things off with Trump's speech last night. Last night, President Trump delivered a one-hour and 40-minute speech to Congress. There were a lot of headlines out there this morning that are covering this speech. But Politico summed it up this way this morning. Saying, "This was not a speech that shifted the news dial at all. New policy announcements were few and far between." What did shift the news dial yesterday was really the implementation of tariffs that have been talked about for a while, but finally went into effect yesterday.

Trump took yesterday's speech as an opportunity to double down on the rollout of these tariffs. During last night's address, Trump confirmed that new reciprocal tariffs on goods imported from a wide range of countries will begin on April second, notably not April first, because that's April Fools' Day.

Asit Sharma: Less there will be any confusion there?

Mary Long: There was a bit of a joke to understand the speech itself.

Asit Sharma: This is just a joke. Please let it be a joke.

Mary Long: Please, we can hope. Ricky and Jimbo hit a lot of the tariff talk yesterday, so we're not going to talk too much about the technicalities of that. Today, I just wanted to hone in on the potential effect of those tariffs because Trump did address that in the speech last night. Trump himself acknowledged that these protectionist policies may co-create a little disturbance within the economy. With that Asit, that little disturbance, "Stuck out to me because Trump's not necessarily one to address the effects of what might be happening." How can investors prepare for a potential disturbance to markets and to individual portfolios, but also just to consumer wallets.

Asit Sharma: Investors should be prepared for volatility because uncertainty surrounds these tariffs. They did come down with a hammer this week. But I note as of this morning, Howard Lutnick who is the Commerce Secretary, is talking about maybe having some concessions that will be wrought out of Mexico and Canada. Potentially those broad and very vigorous tariffs will find some exemptions or rolled back in some ways. The market, I think, hasn't breathed a huge sigh of relief this morning, but you can already see in a little bit calmer action today how that's manifesting. I would say be prepared for that to continue. President Trump has volatile negotiating style himself.

It's very difficult to predict what side of an issue he'll land on at times. This is partly by design. It's just the way that he tends to wreak concessions out of partners. As investors, we should just take that. It's going to be part for the course from now on where we have issues that affect the markets. I don't think this is a surprise to anybody. The second thing that we need to be prepared for is how narratives are going to shift in the companies we invest in, just as you and I are trying to figure out what effect this could have on our portfolios. Different companies are trying to gauge what the net result will be on their earnings, not just next quarter, but say a year from now. They have to try to get things nominally right or directionally correct. In these various boardrooms, and they're not really boardrooms anymore. Everyone works from home.

But anyway, on the Zoom calls, CFOs, COOs, CEOs are trying to game out what happens if, let's say, a certain part of the market, which affects their business gets carved out for an exemption or tariffs get rolled back. Or they're able to find some workaround strategy, say, bringing goods into the US if a manufacturer or a consumer goods company, for example. As they do this, they're not going to be 100%. We will experience, maybe not equal measure, some pain in companies we own, saying, Look, we got slammed by tariffs this quarter, and then some surprises where a company now is already projecting that they're going to get hit hard, and three quarters from now, they say, Look, it isn't as bad as we thought it was going to be. We have a surprise in earnings. That's just something we have to prepare for. As for wallets, personally, Mary, I don't know about you, but I start from the worst case first and work backwards. If you're looking to buy a car, this year, you may have already noticed there have been a few viral videos already showing an instant jacking up of prices for different makes and models, I would assume if I'm making a big ticket purchase that by the time I'm ready to make that purchase, it'll still be at an elevated cost to me. Now, if concessions come about, negotiations change, that's for the better, but psychologically, it's easier to do it that way than to be a little too optimistic that things will shift very quickly in your favor as a consumer.

Mary Long: Tariffs are taking up a lot of the air in the room, understandably, but there are some other policy economy stories that are maybe slipping under people's radar that I want to take a moment to hit with you. One of those stories is that BlackRock has agreed to buy a majority stake in two of the four major ports along the Panama Canal. BlackRock is going to be acquiring these ports from the Hong Kong based group CK Hutchinson, the total price tag for this deal, and it includes more than just these two ports in the Panama Canal. The total price tag for this is about $23 billion, and it allows BlackRock and NCO. A crew of other investors that they rallied together. To gain control of in addition to these two ports in the Panama Canal, more than 40 other ports across 23 countries around the world. But most folks know BlackRock as an asset manager. Is this company new to the port business, and why is it trying to enter into it?

Asit Sharma: They're not exactly new to this business, believe it or not, BlackRock has an infrastructure arm. For them, when you manage 11 trillion odd dollars in assets, of course, most of that is in ETFs and stocks and fixed income assets, you have a lot of money to put to work. The infrastructure practice has been a thematic practice for BlackRock for some time. They have really changed a little bit of their philosophy of being a passive manager in these events to being a bit more active. To do this, they purchased a leading infrastructure fund last year. This is global infrastructure partners.

This is a business that also invest a bit passively, but it takes direct interest in different types of infrastructure from ports to airports. They own part of Gatwick, for example, and so great timing for them. If you're thinking, maybe this is a political move by Larry Fink and BlackRock, actually, I don't see it that way. They've been preparing to make some big deals in the port space, and that transaction, which is only now a few months closed, which was a a big investment on BlackRock's part, they borrowed about three billion bucks to pull off this deal. Now they can go ahead with what is sure to be a lead partner out of that consortium, their own GIP, global infrastructure investment partners, and be more of an active participant. Going to an operator owner type model, this is something that's good for their margins, but it does introduce a little bit of volatility into their business model, which until today has been very passive and fee based.

Mary Long: We talk a lot about how do you value a company? How do you put a price tag on this? How do you value a deal like this one? Is $23 Billion a good deal for over 40 ports around the world?

Asit Sharma: Funnily enough, the way you evaluate a port is not that different from some other industries that we're all familiar with. Most buyers take an income approach, so they want to understand what the future cash flows the port can generate are going to derive. You do this by looking at a few things like the geography of the port, you evaluate its infrastructure. You do a lot of due diligence to understand if there are any environmental issues. You conduct a strategic review to see if a port might be able to be automated. There are so many factors that go in, but at the end of the day, you're doing the same exercise that we do when we buy a stock. When I hear that price tag, to me, I think they probably have done a pretty good job. The group I mentioned, GIP is particularly good at due diligence. I think they may have a very decent handle on what they can extract out of those ports, and keep in mind, these are very long term assets. If you stay good with the government, you can operate a port for a long time. It probably is a reasonable price, even though the price tag seems very big. It's a lot of breakfast cereal for me, [laughs] $23 billion bucks.

Mary Long: Our third policy adjacent story of the day that we'll close out on Trump has also unveiled a plan for a strategic crypto reserve. Now, this is slightly different than what's been floated in the past. Previously, we'd heard about plans for a Bitcoin-only reserve. This newer proposal includes not only Bitcoin, but also Ether, XRP, Solana and Cardano. What is the benefit of the US having a crypto reserve at all? Why is this being pushed forward?

Asit Sharma: Mainly it's being pushed forward because it is an alternative asset to Bitcoin. Let's focus on Bitcoin for a second. It is an alternative asset, and theoretically, it has value Visa V, maybe an eroding dollar. This is one reason it could be important. It's also something that mirrors what the US has done in many other areas. Although I will say that it's differentiated here. The US has strategic reserves in different places. Like oil is one, we've all heard of the strategic reserve in oil. We've got a helium reserve. We have a bullion reserve at Fort Knox. But each of the assets I mentioned has intrinsic value, and this is where we start to get on a little bit of a gray area because Bitcoin has no intrinsic value. When we create a reserve, what we are positing is that the value of Bitcoin is either going to remain stable or increase. Otherwise, why would invest in something which has such a fluctuating price point. Those are the positive or pro arguments for the reserve.

Mary Long: What are the downsides for the reserve?

Asit Sharma: The downsides are, we are running a large deficit. When we think of where the US can place its money, it becomes curious if we're putting money into an asset which is so volatile because, we have to raise money to bring the deficit down, 90% of the funding for the US government comes in the form of taxes. Payroll taxes, personal taxes, corporate income taxes, the rest is the mishmash of other stuff. In the future, if this comes up just like any other reserve, it's going to be funded from taxpayer dollars. Now, the so called crypto SAR said, wait a minute. Hang on. Tweeted out.

Don't assume that this is going to come from some big spending program or taxes upfront. Wait till you hear the details. But inevitably, once we establish reserves, in future additions to the reserves are based on tax revenue money coming in. One of the arguments is that we are potentially taxing US citizens to invest in something where we can lose value. There are some other assets that have been floated. I know Mary, you had a question about that, as well. It's not just Bitcoin we're talking about.

Mary Long: Interestingly, some crypto leaders have come out against this idea of having a crypto reserve that includes more than just Bitcoin. Ether is a pretty legitimate coin. It's another big name that probably even the crypto ignorant will likely recognize. But what is the deal Asit with XRP, Solana, and Cardanol? How do they get early inclusion into this potential strategic crypto reserve list?

Asit Sharma: There are a lot of people scratching their heads on why these smaller cryptocurrencies, digital assets have been included. One theory is that David Sachs, who is the crypto SAR I mentioned, has a background in promoting a lot of different crypto assets. He is very positive about the industry and wants to broaden out any governmental or sovereign investment in digital assets. This has caused, as you mentioned a rift in the crypto community, even those who are very, pro-Trump and pro-crypto are scratching their heads, many of them at this inclusion.

This brings up more of the cons the argument if this goes through, because you could potentially with your tax dollars, one really great characterization I read, be bailing out some crypto Bros so they can cash out, as your hard earned tax dollars go into the reserve. This is something, of course, that still has to be put into or onto paper. It's maybe jumping the gun to say, this is how that reserve is going to pan out. But if this comes to pass, I think we're going to hear more discussion, a lot more debate around what exactly this reserve is supposed to achieve. Is it really all about creating this strategic asset for the United States, or is it something else that lets one industry capitalize on a lot of interest from the very highest levels of the US government?

Mary Long: We'll end it there for now, but if anyone listening is craving more crypto talk, we do have it coming up for you right after this. Later on today's show as Ricky and I debrief our time at ETHDenver, which is a crypto conference that came to our very own backyard. Until then, Asit, thanks for coming on to the show. Always great to talk to you and to get some of your insights into what's going on in the world.

Asit Sharma: Same, Mary. Thanks a lot.

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Mary Long: Last week, the crypto World came to Denver. My colleague, Ricky Mulvey and I decided to take a little field trip to check it out. We saw lots of flashy people and products, including Doge-covered sports cars, magicians, spiritual guides, and an NFT backpack. But amid all that, did we find anything worthwhile for investors? Up next, Ricky and I debrief on our time at ETHDenver.

Ricky Mulvey: Mary, a few days ago, we got back from ETHDenver, which was a cryptocurrency conference in our backyard. This is not a world that we play in much, but I think it was interesting getting a peak into the world of crypto.

Some good, some bad. But when you think back on your experience at this conference, this gathering of cryptocurrency enthusiasts, speculators, investors, business people, what were your high level takeaways from visiting this ETHDenver?

Mary Long: Ricky, you say some good, some bad. I say all interesting. I think my highest level takeaway was just it is one thing to read about and think that you have gotten a glimpse into the other world, the culture that is crypto. It's another thing to really see it and be walking through it. Something that really stuck out to me is truly just how crypto broadly feels like a whole other language to me. A big thing that I walked away from was, as we're passing through these different booths on the convention floor, and you and I are trying to figure out what macho.XYZ or Gelato or The World of Newton. These are names of different booths that are exhibiting there.

As we're trying to figure out and we're talking to people to figure out what it is that these platforms do, we're struggling to get answers. One of the things that I kept thinking to myself was, how is one of these platforms differentiated from another? That got me thinking a lot about MOTS and how we think about them in more traditional businesses in the traditional world of equities, and how we think about them in this crypto world, because it's one thing for me to articulate what the differences between, say, Coke and Pepsi. I understand those products as a consumer. I understand the difference between them as a marketer, as an advertiser. I can compare the fundamentals of the businesses. It's another thing for me to walk through the differences of again, I'm just going to pull out two random names of exhibitors there Gelato and The World of Newton. Those are businesses that I don't really understand.

I don't understand what to grade them on because I'm not deep within that world of crypto, so it's a harder thing for me to evaluate. Though after being there, I do think, there are probably people that could articulate that difference. I just don't speak the language well enough to do it.

Ricky Mulvey: One of the things that struck with me, we would go to these booths and ask what's going on with these essentially play to earn video games. There was a robot advising products that was very odd, a couple of tokens that we didn't quite understand. You would talk to the person at the booth, and then once you asked basically two questions, they would say, well, I'm really not the person to talk about this product and that level of detail, you should talk to someone else.

There were parts of it that were cool. I'm glad that I'm thinking more about things like AI agents from this. But so much of this felt like unnecessarily complex. We went to one booth that was allegedly a type of financial advising product. There's a big wheel in the back that you spin to earn credits for this thing you don't understand. There's a couch, and I'm sitting on the couch and one of the workers at the booth, she, sits right up next to me and asks, how much of your life is predetermined and how much is free will, which was odd. I still don't know what the product is. I basically 60/40 predetermined. I grew up in a two parent household in a good part of America. You can't discount that. Then I get a 20 sided die. Then you figure out that this is for some AI agent that allegedly invests cryptocurrency on your behalf that I still don't quite understand. To me, that was one of the biggest themes is, even for someone who's into the world of investing, there is this deliberate obfuscation of a lot of what this stuff actually is and does.

Mary Long: I think that booth, in particular looms so large in my takeaway from this event because it was so much about showmanship. I think broadly, when we talk about crypto, we think a lot and talk a lot about how it represents the gamification of everything. You see that on a very real level in these products in these platforms that make up the world of crypto. But you also see it in the real world when you go to a crypto conference, and you see the whole booth that's supposed to be advertising and drawing attention to this product is not actually centered around explaining to you, potential user, investor, whoever, what the product is. The whole booth is centered around this game, this quasi meme, where the employees can't actually articulate, Oh, we do XYZ. Instead, they're all dressed in black and they're speaking this language of, are you ready to embark on a journey? How much of your life is predetermined? Touch the crystal, here's a die, and you and I are left going, sorry, what did we just experience?

Ricky Mulvey: Is that supposed to make me want to give you money? The other thing that struck with me is one of the big themes in crypto that I don't really think about is these, play to earn video games. Honestly, that made me a bit cynical about the utility for a lot of cryptocurrency stuff. We went to one booth where we ended up playing some sort of cryptogame where there was no explanation for how the game worked. Your character would bump into another character, and then nothing would happen or you'd jump on a treasure chest, and then nothing would happen. Then the game just goes off after a minute, and you have no idea what happened.

That's in one case. In the other case, there's literally a whole booth for crypto video games, and you're thinking, what is that? Well, in this case, and for a lot of these games, they are these basically play to earn games where you start with characters, and through the game, you're able to build up the skill and health in these characters, and then you can turn them into NFTs, which then you can then sell for money. It just struck me as first of all, there's an unfairness associated with this. You're playing a game that's rigged if a lot of people are starting with players that are better than you. In this case, it was a soccer management game. Then secondarily, I was also thinking that for a lot of these games, I'm not even allowed to demo them. I can't go in. I'm watching this guy click around and explain how we could possibly earn money by playing this soccer management video game where we can play matches, win them, and then use those points to increase the health of these players which we can then sell on an open NFT market.

Mary Long: The thing that sticks out to me about that game because it's so interesting to your point, Ricky, like, you have these screens, and you think, of course I'm going to be able to try this game out. In fact, you are not able to try that game out. That just hits home that obfuscation point that you made about, there's a visual offering here, but try to dig a little deeper and actually play the game yourself, ask questions to figure out what it is, and you come up very short. With that game, I kept thinking, managing a soccer team. I liked playing Sims when I was a teenager. I get this idea. That sounds fun to me. The NFT piece is where I and these are my biases upfront, but that's where I get lost a little bit, because, again, I think back to what I liked about playing the Sims, and it was just the act of creating and living this life, managing the soccer team.

I can theoretically, understand the appeal of playing a game and making money off of it. But then my question is, how do you know when you're playing the game not just for the joy of creating, playing, etc, but instead to turn a profit. It's one thing if you know how to turn that profit, if you know what the value of these NFTs and what your players are based on. But there aren't any rules, so it's still a crapshoot. That's another thing that just was echoing through my brain of, wait, what is the value here? I was asking myself that as we're looking at the soccer management NFT game, as we're looking at the booths, wait, hold on. If you're an investor that wants to put money into these platforms, what are you basing that judgment on? What are you looking for? Are you betting on the founder? Are you betting on the product? If you're a player in an NFT game, how are you trying to build your soccer players to create a more valuable NFT? I don't know the answer to any of those questions.

Ricky Mulvey: This is pulling back the curtain a little bit. I went into this conference and still have, I would say, a large amount of skepticism and distrust. There was a version of this where I was like, we could find some interviews and put them on the show. But then I thought, Mary, I think we came to agreement on this. We don't know this well enough to know if we'd be putting a scammer on the show.

Mary Long: Totally.

Ricky Mulvey: When I'm thinking about going through that conference, I'm still not like I wish I grabbed that interview to present this to the listeners of our show. One of the things I went in with this, if I invest in crypto, how should I do it? Or speculating crypto would be maybe a more accurate way of putting it. I came away thinking just do a little bit and do it simply. If you just buy a little Bitcoin enough that it can't hurt you, maybe that's a good idea for the next five to ten years. Yes, it could be a tulip bulb thing, but a lot of people seem to be accepting it as a digital gold. But then once you get more complex than that, I think there's so many ways that you can step in a pothole. They asked me to host this panel about the next billion dollar idea in crypto. Of course, I said yes, because I thought it would be fun.

Mary Long: You'd learn something.

Ricky Mulvey: I basically came away from that with just being like, you should just maybe buy a little bitcoin, because I don't understand the rest of it. One of the questions I had for the panel is they kept talking about these defi loans and staking. The idea is you can take stable coins, coins that are attached to the value of a US dollar or US treasuries and then lend them out and then get an APR. I looked at one of these offers when I got back. There's one stable coin offer where you get these stable coins and you lend them out onto the blockchain and you can get about 6.5% per year. If that's your goal is to just generate income on the assets you own, I don't see the reason to do that versus just buying a large basket of high yield corporate bonds, especially if you're an American investor. USHY, it's backed by Black Rock, it'll pay about 7%.

I asked this to the panel, and the explanation was basically like, well, not everyone has access to invest in that, and moreover, you're investing in these cool projects that allow people in developing parts of the world to build and create things. For me, as an investor that I'm like trying to protect my capital and generate income on some of it, I didn't find that exactly satisfactory.

Mary Long: Totally, I think the access point is a really great one because access sounds awesome and in a lot of ways is awesome, but just because you have access to something doesn't mean that you should invest in it or that it is the next billion dollar idea. Knowledge is important too, and just because any investor or anyone on the planet might have access to all these different crypto platforms, coins, blockchains, fill in the blanks, I still think it takes access is one step. But you need some knowledge in order to act upon that access in a wise way.

Ricky Mulvey: There was one honest moment, too, I think, of that convention, and that was it. We went to the crypto booth, and we basically asked like, what are the use cases for all of this? The guy told us he just, it's stable coins and gambling. What did you take from that interaction?

Mary Long: [LAUGHTER] Well, one, I was so stoked to have found seemingly the one person at this conference who could actually explain a use case for this to us after we had asked so many people very similar questions. Immediately, this person had won a little bit of my trust. But also, I bought it. Again, before we went to that booth, we had been checking out these games that are scattered around the convention area. I'm thinking about, the game I can see that crypto is like it's the extension and potentially the end of the gamification of everything. That theme is running through my mind, and then to wind up at the end of the day at this booth where basically you have this guy going, no, a use case for this is gambling and just like the implementing this in two games, I thought, sounds about right. I think that that can work for a lot of people.

There is a conversation about crypto that paints it as the future for everyone. I wonder, I don't know that that is the truth, but is it a future for some people? Totally. I can buy that, but that doesn't mean that it's going to be the next thing that takes over the entire world. It can still be an important piece for some people who exist within that culture and choose to interact with that world.

Ricky Mulvey: I think that's the disruption that I came away from thinking about is the gaming element, where you have these sports books right now. You think about Draft Kings fandal, that thing. There is a take rate that they're taking on bets going in between during a game. One could imagine a crypto market where there are smart contracts being used and there's more visibility into the markets where people are betting on certain things that I think could absolutely be disruptive. You can even imagine a sports league like the NBA having a sort of NBA token where people can bet on games with it. It's an open market, and then maybe the league is taking between 2 and 5% is profit. The league wins. There's a more open market, and it becomes more efficient, as well. The problem with that, I found one league that was doing it, and I wanted to check it out.

But I immediately got locked out of my account. I had no way of going back in to try to check out the token. Then I'm being told that it's not a gambling thing, it's a play to win thing, which means you can't lose your tokens, you can only win them, which means that when you win, there's a slightly, the word was slightly inflationary supply that you have to worry about. Then you don't really know the value of the token. I'm like, this is too difficult. I don't want to deal with it. Maybe a good idea, but the execution is still incredibly tough.

Mary Long: One more use case potential use case that you and I mentioned before. I think a lot about the loneliness epidemic. You and I talk a lot about the loneliness epidemic. One other use case might just be friendship, Ricky?

Ricky Mulvey: It is very odd. There is this the idea of speculation intermingled with friendships, and that seems to be the promise of a lot of these coins. You're not just buying something, you're joining a community. I had this odd moment where I was walking in on the second day, and I'm seeing these people exchange phone numbers, and one of the guys said, we were friends on the Internet, but now we're friends in real life. The guy just shrugged him off a little bit and I realized that you can try to find shortcuts for friendship, but you don't just find someone and then decide that you're friends forever now. I found it very odd, but also maybe a good representation of a lot of the, ways that human relationships are made in this space. Last thing, as we close out. We're going to do high-low buffalo. I think we've gotten to some highs and lows. High was definitely the slight of hand magician. We saw a slight of hand magician that almost explained what was going on at a booth but did some, like, sick card tricks.

Mary Long: That was my high too.

Ricky Mulvey: That was a great high. I think the lows we've gotten into, but let's do a buffalo, what was a buffalo for you at this cryptocurrency convention?

Mary Long: Well, I know we talked about this one booth with the wheel of fortune type exhibition. But, truly, that was my buffalo. I saw there a doge covered McLaren, a doge covered cyber truck. Those are all kinds of things that I expected to see. There were these weird mascots walking around. Also expected to see that. But this witchy wheel of fortune booth where I got to walk into a journey, and I came away with a 20 sided die, that, I think, was and forever will be my buffalo from ETHDenver. What about you?

Ricky Mulvey: You didn't want to give them your savings?

Mary Long: I did, despite the fact that they swore they would retain no ownership of my assets, I said, no, I think I'll stick onto those things.

Ricky Mulvey: My buffalo came at, they had a combat sports event called Karate Combat, and shout out Karate Combat. The boys and I had fun. Sometimes you got to take the boys to the fights. If you get it, you get it. My buffalo there was there was a guy walking around with a LED backpack that was displaying all of the NFTs that he owned, which I thought was probably the most interesting answer to the question. When you buy NFTs, how do you show them off to people? The answer, Mary, is that you buy a backpack with an LED screen, and then you walk around a professional fighting event and try to show them off to every single person who was in the building.

Mary Long: Makes perfect sense to me, Ricky. Even if we're not load enough on shares of these different Kupjo platforms, maybe a backpack is in our future.

Ricky Mulvey: Let's end it there. Thanks for your time and your insight. Appreciate you going to ETHDen.

Mary Long: As always, people on the program may have interest in the stocks they talk about, and the Motley Fool may have formal recommendations for or against thrill buyers sell stocks based solely on what you hear. All personal finance content follows Motley Fool editorial standards and not approved by advertisers. For Asit Sharma and Ricky Mulvey, I'm Mary Long. Thanks for listening Fools. We'll see you tomorrow.