Strong gains. But the major averages did manage to record their best week since late november. Volume was light on this holiday short and trading session and by the early close today the Dow Jones Industrials were off 50 points to 17,552. Nasdaq gained a wopping 2. 5 points and the s p 500 dropped 3. For the week, all the major averages rose about 2. 5 or more. Oil had a big week with prices for domestic crude rising roughly 9 . But be of good cheer there was some positive news today on the economy. Jobless claims fell to a near 42 year low. The number of americans filing for Unemployment Benefits dropped more than expected last week as the Labor Department continues to tighten. Initial claims declined 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 267,000 for the weekended december 19th. Well, Consumer Spending of course makes up a huge portion of Economic Activity in the United States and like wreaths, eggnog and carols last minute shopping is part of the christmas tradition. This year is no differe
Strong gains. But the major averages did manage to record their best week since late november. Volume was light on this holiday short and trading session and by the early close today the Dow Jones Industrials were off 50 points to 17,552. Nasdaq gained a wopping 2. 5 points and the s p 500 dropped 3. For the week, all the major averages rose about 2. 5 or more. Oil had a big week with prices for domestic crude rising roughly 9 . But be of good cheer there was some positive news today on the economy. Jobless claims fell to a near 42 year low. The number of americans filing for Unemployment Benefits dropped more than expected last week as the Labor Department continues to tighten. Initial claims declined 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 267,000 for the weekended december 19th. Well, Consumer Spending of course makes up a huge portion of Economic Activity in the United States and like wreaths, eggnog and carols last minute shopping is part of the christmas tradition. This year is no differe
Strong gains. But the major averages did manage to record their best week since late november. Volume was light on this holiday short and trading session and by the early close today the Dow Jones Industrials were off 50 points to 17,552. Nasdaq gained a wopping 2. 5 points and the s p 500 dropped 3. For the week, all the major averages rose about 2. 5 or more. Oil had a big week with prices for domestic crude rising roughly 9 . But be of good cheer there was some positive news today on the economy. Jobless claims fell to a near 42 year low. The number of americans filing for Unemployment Benefits dropped more than expected last week as the Labor Department continues to tighten. Initial claims declined 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 267,000 for the weekended december 19th. Well, Consumer Spending of course makes up a huge portion of Economic Activity in the United States and like wreaths, eggnog and carols last minute shopping is part of the christmas tradition. This year is no differe
Races. Or bronco games, whatever you like to do. Americans are not ideological which is, sadly, why ideological appeals dont always resonate with americans. If you in this room represented, if you are a firm representation of the american body politic, wed have no problems. Youre not, im very sorry to say, and neither am i. Ideology is about ideas, politics is about winning elections. And you only win elections in the aggregate as divorced from any individual election where anything can happen. But when you take a look at this great nation of ours with 435 congressional districts and 100 senate seats, in order to be a Majority Party you have to put together a majority coalition. This is a twoparty system. Its going to stay a twoparty system for a long time to come. No minor party is going to emerge and suddenly displace one of the two major parties, the democrats or republicans. Not in my judgment anytime soon. You remember ross perot. Ross perot lost that election, 1992, helping bill
Georgians as we talk about whats coming over the coming days. Good morning, jedediah. Jedediah good morning. I was looking at that big beautiful set. There he is saw you over there great to have you on the ground over there. A lot to cover obviously this is a big, big weekend and great to see you beth. Pete will cain has it in his contract when there is a big Senate Runoff we build a set just for him. He demands that he hosts alone. We are not allowed to be there the first day. Fox delivered for him. Look at that beautiful brand new set down there for that big runoff on tuesday. We are covering every angle this morning. Will is already on the ground for us. Big interview with senator perdue who is one of the two republican candidates up for the senate race this go around. There it is right there. And as you mentioned i will be down in georgia i fly down tomorrow after the show we will have some coverage of the big election coming on tuesday. Jedediah yeah, thats a big race coming off a