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Saying it was on hopes for a rate cut on friday we talked a lot on friday about just whether and i made a joke that the market shows pricing the quickest sell off. Maybe the one individual that said, i got it and felt sicker it just seemed to subside a bit. Thats right. Human bee haflor is weird. Going into a twoday weekend except the good ones where you could have gotten 1,000 new cases. Up another 1,300 showing a bit of change. I love this graphic friday doesnt really sum it up it came back th...

Decide what kind we are dealing with i wish we could say we always know how to respond but the early days of the decline, well, theyre never easy to navigate first, lets borrow a line from the fabulous Anna Karenina all happy rallies are alike. Each sell off is unhappy in its own way. Its so true bull market sent stocks higher and everyone thinks theyre a genius for participating in them big declines much harder they would be the start of a bear market or a glinch. Thats why i want to use histor...

I am very disappointed, however, that for some reason, they forgot provide the band. [ applause ] which i think we would have enjoyed very much. The previous speaker said three things with which i think we can all agree and growth is very important and that jobs are very important. And trade needs to be free. And perceived, and i agree with this, to be fair. I think those three points, growth, jobs and nature of the trade willing system are pretty important for our discussions now. Willing syste...

Is up a buck. Our roadmap begins with historic highs for stocks, and the worst plays at these levels and where it may go next. It is amazon prime day, and now the company hoping for a big boost to its bottom line from new amazon prime members, the real driver behind the massive craze. And pokemon driving nin tete stocks up high, and stocks looking to make more history, a day after the s p set those record highs since may of last year. Alltime internet high now 2143, the closing high, 2137. Nasda...

Squeeze. Theres wall street lore about Rosh Hashanah and sell yom kippur. Not coming right now. Exactly. An exclusive with the chief Investment Officer at calpers. One of the biggest funds in the world. And if you remember last week huge news by announcing to stop investing with hedge funds. Today, were going to find out why from the person responsible for those zixs. Largest Public Pension Fund. Great point. Because, look we made sure to know theyre the Largest Pension Fund last week. Hows this...

Seat, despite the fact wert a jju investments in infrastructure create jobs now and make us stronger in the future. This committee has not held a hearing on this topic in the last four pd discussions with the chairman, we can Reach Agreement quickly on Holding Hearings on the financing of major infrastructure legislation as discussed. Tax reform as you say must be a central focus of this committee. Democrats believe that reforming the tax code should not be centered on right cuts at the; very to...

Of production to the best of their abilityx x focus onkrnn striping awaydtbn interferences for productivity growth. What kind of policies are wc they. Trade ii policies are a great opportunity right now. The tpp and estimates in my testimony suggest this could increase gdp by 200 billion if fully h. 4himplemented. This has been historically a spur ofifqhy trade growth. We saw a tremendous boom in trade technologies. To get that done, you do have to2onn give the president trade promotion tax refo...

Things dont look great. All in the red. Dow would open off 23 points. S p 500 off about 4 points and the nasdaq off about 5 points. Its great to see all of you. I havent brought bird flu back but i brought something back. Probably that our immune systems have not seen. Its right here. I heard you were sick and almost gave it to becky last week. I think i did but you never know. You had to do dna testing or rna test testing. You think this might be a hong kong. No i was fine there and then i made...

Birthday. Have i no doubt it will be marks best presentation yet. You might ask, why am i willing to go out on a limb this way . Well, as an economyism might put it, on the one hand, according to the website superscholar. Org, mark is one of the top 20 living economists in the world. I guess that designation is a gentle way of reminding us that as the no longer living economist john keens famously said, in the long run, were all dead. But i digress. Marks topranked status was echos by a can colu...

Many Americans are feeling fiscal pain despite a low unemployment rate. They want a better economy and lower inflation.