And, folks, a key part of the estate tax, controversial tax to begin with, being almost totally ignored. Is the irs about to strike back . Well tell you about that one. We certainly will. We start with fed chair janet yellen getting grilled on capitol hill on regulating the banks and also her comments on the economy. Steve liesman, take it away with the highlights. Shes just finishing up testimony now, mandy, on the last question of the hearing that gab at 10 00 a. M. This morning that was supposed to be aboutbac banks but ended up mak news on monetary policy. Chair janet yellen told markets to wake up and get ready because december is a live possibility. What the committee has been expecting is that the economy will continue to grow at a pace thats sufficient to generate further improvements in the labor market and to return inflation to our 2 target over the medium term, and if the incoming information supports that expectation, then our statement indicates that december would be a l
How this all plays into the Federal Reserve. I like jims point there in Halftime Report which is if they dont move in september, were goi in december, were going to drive ourselves in sane. This is right in the sweet spot of the feds full employment number. Maybe that number is going to come down but right now theyre between 5 and 5. 2 . Over to the 173, thats the payroll number for august. Thats below the 220,000 that was forecast but several economists, many economists, point out august has been consistently revised higher. The most revised month of the past five years. You by 75,000. We also have positive revisions and a wage number that was a little bit higher than expectations. Some of the calls made expost after the number came out. Wells fargo, ubs, bank of tokyo, all affirming or saying they are in the september camp for Federal Reserve raising rates. With. September, there are good names over here in december. All these in the december camp. Quickly some of the arguments. Reas