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Of oman were portly attack near the iranian coast friends crude is up 2.9 percent this morning a $1.74 with a tanker on fire follow the earlier attacks on vessels near the for gyro emirates one of the worlds largest bond hops for oil which is located just outside the nearby strait of hormuz a torpedo is suspected to have it at least one of the us. the worlds largest sovereign wealth fund norways state investment fund is divesting from fossil fuels and moving towards green energy always parliamen...

Recovery. bond markets around the world, $11 trillion of sovereign debt carries negative interest rates here in the u.s. this morning before the market recovered, we saw the yield 1 2.9%. the lowest in years. this is a signal of panic, as josh said. the stock market got absolutely crushed in may so youll get a bounce. there are headlines that said china and mexico may come to the table and restart in chinas case, negotiations. >> think about the cognitive dissdi dissidenc dissidence. maybe this ...

Key demographics. unemployment is at record low. job surges used to be stock with average wage increases around 2.8 to 2.9%, above 3%. how long it lasts is anybodys guess. the trend is his friend. i wonder when democrats bash it, they look clueless on that aspect what do you think? >> i couldnt agree more, neil. the president has always been his own worst enemy. one of these polls says as much. they cited the fact that by their modelling is he should have won the popular vote. like you, im stunn...

Previous fed statements suggested there will be two rate hikes in 2019. the change of direction came from a warning though. this is what the problem is about slower economic growth and a possible increase to the unemployment rate. here is the story of the u.s. economy grew by 2.9% last year when the boost from the gop tax cuts being felt the most. the gap between the administration predicting and the federal reserve forecasting is widening. gdp growth is the growth in everything that we do econo...

Spending by $824 billion over ten years. the administration said repeatedly it expected the economy to grow by 3% if the presidents policies are put in place. >> if you say thats a rosy scenario that maybe theres 3% growth over the next decade i agree its an optimistic scenario. its a policy where president trumps policies are enacted into law. if theyre not enacted into law, for sure, growth will fall short. >> and back with the republican moves of increasing competition requiring patients to p...

But the overall trend toward slowing around the world and in the united states is pretty clear by now. and the question is where do we go down to? if we were around 3%, either 2.9 or 3.1 depending on how you measure it in 2018, are we going down to 2 1/2? are we going down lower than that? federal reserve had said lower than that. of course thats correhanged th attitude toward rate increases. were not expecting any this year, but thats a tough calculation for them to make. >> how about the u.s. ...

Advisers, one of the people who wrote the report released today. hes the boss of it. kevin, one thing i think confusions the discussion is the interchangeability of quarterly growth numbers and annual growth numbers. how should we look at gdp growth? how do you like to look at it? >> the first thing i want to do is waive this. we signed one for you. if you carry this around at msnbc, you will be the coolest person there. only 700 pages. 2.9 and 3.1, they are insignificant. the three about what w...

Right now clearly they have a lot of time on their hands. and by the way, this is -- i think this is all about the mueller report. i think she knows. shes like -- >> i think thats a good point. >> my childhood pet that could he will when an earthquake was coming in california, and shes going this is a 2.9. not a 9.3. >> but you make the case that she should wait, right? >> wait for what? >> wait for the mueller report. >> i think shes read it. i think she got the amazon sneak peek for prime memb...

I wouldnt. i would rather have more people working. i would like to see wage increases for workers. >> i would like to go back -- >> and workers working. >> final word, austin. >> the tax cut is not working. the tax cut is the most unpopular tax cut in the history of american polling. and the reason why its unpopular, it isnt working! >> how did we get to 3% growth in trumps second year? you couldnt get 3%. >> we did it. it was 2.9%. i just told you. the growth rate -- >> 3%! >> from the fours t...

Previous three months but with unemployment close to a 50 year low, consumer spending was strong. business investment was even stronger rising by 6.2%, that helped to support overall growth. with solid growth in the fourth quarter, the economy grew 2.9% for the entire year, that just misses the trump administrations goal of 3%. it actually makes it the strongest year of economic growth since 2018. economists are still cautious about the pace of growth going forward as the economy maxes out on av...