Period, the nasdaq has more than doubled, up 115 in that time, carl, and it really tells you how important technology, and particularly those large caps, have become to this market and just how much they have surged this year as we see a Digital Transformation amid the pandemic. Thats a great point. And jon, were going to continue to look for names that are going to perform well, no matter what kind of reopening or reclosing environment were in amazon, one of the top leaders, but so is zoom on teleconferencing and in tuit on payments and those are the markets well be paying attention to. Tech investors have a lot to be thankful for this year in a tough year overall for the world. Lets talk more about the need em Portfolio Manager and chief investment strategist. Guys, good morning brian, where are we now with kind of rationalizing and strategizing around the tech trade, given how far so many of these trends have run . I think some of these trends existed before the pandemic and have be
Of the sinking of the Black Diamond down at Saint Clements river down on the potomac in maryland. I was invited by my colleague here karen stone who has done an amazing job of continuing to tell the story and to bring the story out from the darkness and into the light. A little bit about karen. She is the director of she oversees redistinct sites and that county for strategic planning, fundraising, creating strategic partnerships, overseeing Museum Partnerships and more. This is especially exciting. I love this article she recently published an article about this disaster in American Civil War magazine entitled peril on the potomac. Thank you for joining us on zoom this afternoon. Dir. Stone this is very exciting, jake. I am excited to be here. This actually took place today, dir. Wynn this is a really important event that has been overshadowed by many of the other events happening in april 1865, including other maritime disasters. A bad timing event for news coverage. Were other thing
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