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Back up. ed: jeez, david, as an individual investor, do i want to get into energy stocks then or in investment because the prices are up? >> well, energy stocks have gone up dramatically. one of the leading sectors this year of the market has already moved, so again we go back to buy the room or sell the news. we are now at levels where we were pre-pandemic on some of our oil companies. now we also have to look at some of the investments that these oil companies are now making. will they go to f...

Ed: prices are up double digits in the past year. here to tell fuss this will continue, katrina, luxury real estate specialist. katrina, is this a bubble and could it burst or not? >> there is definitely not a bubble to burst this time around. the great recession was the perfect storm and the dynamics of this market are completely different. you have robust demand and lets not forget the topic that many people dont discuss. the millennials are back into the market. they are buying homes which ha...

Progressive right now. ed: before you go, remember when president biden bashing former president trump about banning travel over u.s. covid fears in january of 2020. listen to this. >> in moments like this, this is where the credibility of a president is most needed as he explains what we should and should not do. this is no time for donald trumps record of hysteria, xenophobia and fear-monger to go ed tolead the science. >> well, its a very different moment. we know a lot more about the virus t...

Migration to the suburbs but are we still seeing the trend of peopling moving away from high-taxed states, california, new york, to texas, tennessee. >> today im in minnesota but im from miami, florida what we are seeing is quite remarkable. influx from high-taxed states and its not stopping any time soon. we see a lot of migration from new york, from california, and so forth and people are really just making south florida their home because of that. thats one of the main reasons and since covid...

How upsetting is this, the fact that federal government has largely ignored the situation on the southern border and its falling under your shoulders? >> well, i could tell you right now that at least as far as the state agency goes, as far as texas dps the morale for state troopers at all-time high. we have tremendous support from governor greg abbott and texas legislators and state leadership because we have the resources to take care of the problem but the issue is that the federal government...

And might they find some of the small businesses that are making these unique ingenuity in order to use online? >> absolutely. oracle came out with a study saying 77% of people are very concerned with the -- with the variants that keep coming out and how thats going to impact their holiday shopping and their gift giving. the live streams are -- i dont want to see complete alternative because i think people select to go out to the stores, its part of what we are talking about christmas traditions...

Walking the stores, shop online, its called omni channel retailing which is term that was coined by former chairman of macys terry but we are now seeing businesses, large and small go and do live streams on all the social platforms. so getting some data from meta which is formerly facebook they were saying that stores like wal-mart and macys in conjunction with toys"r"us are doing live stream and smaller businesses like the jewelry store in south carolina and the other gift, i think its a bar ca...

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Further to the left, why the democratic party as a whole not looking at this and saying, wait a may not, maybe we want to alter some of the spending plans or reverse some of the policy decisions? >> yeah, its a good question. one would think a turn would is happened after virginia when you saw glenn youngkin triumph over terry mcauliffe and over democratic establishment and celebrities. if you look at the race, they brought everyone in from former president obama to the current president. they h...

Others into maybe hey, look, i dont want to face this in the next election, is that partly what we are going to see? >> if you talk to house democratic leadership what theyll tell you number churn and burn and theres nothing to see here but you mentioned that that number is at 17 right now and youve got to think that a lot of these incumbent democrats over the holidays as theyre away from washington, d.c. and spending time with their families, they are thinking about the future and they are wond...