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Sumona Gupta is a student and organizer based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. An air of uncertainty hung above the United States on November 3, 2020—no one knew how the presidential election would play out, how long it would take to decide, when the backlash against the winner would begin, or if it would turn into violence. One thing was relatively certain, though: California would vote overwhelmingly for Joe Biden. Indeed, Biden won the state with 64.6 percent of the vote, a historically large margi...

Standing up to the iran challenge. its a real crisis now with the iranians acting with impunity. that was a capital strike against the heart of the saudi oil industry last saturday. the iranians have been threatening shipment in the gulf. they shot down u.s. drones and the administration has to be careful. we dont want a wider war, but sanctions sanctions and sending a few hundred troops to saudi arabia is not going to be seen by our adversaries in the region, by the iranians, as tough minded or...

Ma at the ernlt of -- dilemma at the center of this climate change proposal. when theyre proposing economic policies on people, would there be push back. guess what? there is pushback. paul: the violence is unacceptable, and a lot of anarchists and others are taking advantage of this. but the idea of a revolt against the carbon taxes, were seeing it in democracies all around the world. youve watched in canada. >> right. in canada trudeau was going to put a tax on 30% of your emissions, and he ha...

Criticized barack obama for was all the regulation which called -- something of a capital strike as businesses say, hey, i dont know who will hit me next here so im not going to make that investment. trade operates in a similar way, arbitrary government that can hit people with tariffs or new rules to change supply chains, if that happens, they may say fear that might happen, well, i will hold off on investment. >> yeah, well, donald trump, president trump argues that we want to open the chinese...

Trade related, one thing we criticized barack obama for was all the regulation which called -- something of a capital strike as businesses say, hey, i dont know who will hit me next here so im not going to make that investment. trade operates in a similar way, arbitrary government that can hit people with tariffs or new rules to change supply chains, if that happens, they may say fear that might happen, well, i will hold off on investment. >> yeah, well, donald trump, president trump argues that...

Event, north korea, a political event or perhaps the feds eventually raising interest rates. paul: thats all a risk. but i want to talk about one particular thing that were seeing. that is a capital strike, so called, that we saw under obama. seems to be ending. for years, you know, in the recovery you had really capital investment, much lower than you usually get in an expansion. and now its actually popping up. >> yeah. its up and that is really important component here going forward. caterpil...

Whether its a foreign policy event, north korea, a political event or perhaps the feds eventually raising interest rates. paul: thats all a risk. but i want to talk about one particular thing that were seeing. that is a capital strike, so called, that we saw under obama. seems to be ending. for years, you know, in the recovery you had really capital investment, much lower than you usually get in an expansion. and now its actually popping up. >> yeah. its up and that is really important component...

Jonathan hoenig. >> good morning. >> alisyn: why not play fiscal chick and and scare the other side to get your way. >> fright is not, americans are frightened and they dont know whats coming forward, whether youre joe six-pack with 10,000 in brokerage account or more importantly a multi-million dollar or billion dollar company who maybe wants to invest in a plant or jobs, how can you plan 30 years out when our own government cant legally plan 37 days out? thats a tremendous amount of uncertaint...