Principal Financial Group ($PFG) podcast mentions

1. And so, so, yeah, Egan Jones for Wall Street Journal. Egan Jones: Rating firms accused of grade inflation vouched for $40 billion of insurance debt. And like MassMutual owns 7% of the assets that MassMutual owns have Egan-Jones-rated debt. And that's for TIAA, that's 18%. Principal Financial Group, 20%. I don't mean to cause any worry, but—

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2. Yeah. When yields give you the room, people want to buy so badly and they look, they're buying stocks they'd written off and two would have been written off not that long ago. Tesla was not doing so well, but Coinbase, Principal Financial, that's one new one that's going up. If they're buying Campbell's, then we know that the Armageddon is post-apocalyptic. Bone forever.

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