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O lose commerce and patrons. And the shipments of goods and services were diverted for a stretch of time that some businesses had a hard time recovering a year later. And the conversation around the country you had many infrastructure advocates, like building americas future one sounding the ly alarm that the country, especially members of congress, have to address problem with aging bridges. Host give us a sense of the scope of the problem. Heres from the American Society of civil engineer, their 23 report card on american infrastructure, noting that over 200 million trips are taken deficient bridges. The average bridge is 42 years old and include a map with the yellow on that map noting the more deficient bridges in the United States. Whats your sense of the scope of the problem here . Guest again, infrastructure advocates will tell you its an emergency, a severe problem, that these bridges, theyre not necessarily unsafe, but theyre aging, and with every year they become more expensi
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They make of this activity. Earnings looked pretty good this morning. Kind of mixed. Retail sales figures for december okay. Decent. Not horrible, but okay. And we had a lot of fed speak as well today. Charles plaser saying it is clear that the fed is tapering and is going to do away with quantitative easing but theyre in no hurry to raise Interest Rates. And a couple big interviews coming up on the show. Wells fargo among the banks kicking off a flurry of financial earnings this week. That company beating estimates. Mortgage loans fell to levels not seen in five years. How much of a worry is that . Well ask tim sloan in just a bit. Look forward to that. And tesla has been a huge winner an reporting much better an expected Fourth Quarter sales numbers, but buckle up. Weve got ceo elon musk coming along to tell us about those record numbers as well as the automakers do you use the word . Recall . Upgrade. Its never easy with elon musk. According to the federal trade commission, its a re
Stock . Take a look at what its doing right now. Its up nearly 5 . Of course, it already has a big buyback and the thought of it being bigger is something the investors like. Arguably the most successful of all of the activist investors going after one of the Largest Companies in the world and pushing it up 4 . Even apple responded. They said that, quote, we appreciate the interest and investment of all of our shareholders. Tim had a very positive conversation with mr. Icahn today. I tweeted out a little while ago that the translation of that is, simply, gulp. And to think this was one time a target of shorts. You had David Einhorn in there last year. Exactly. Shorting the stock. And now to think carl icahn is calling it undervalued. Certainly one to watch today. Much more coming up over the next couple of hours, im sure. Also, its called the hindenburg, and it has the Trading Floor buzzing, because the omen is back in play right now. So even as stocks are rebounding today, you can fin