No right. Whats your sense of whats driving this in the Mainstream Media that you are part of . First of all theres a bias against republicans in general. With reagan he is portrayed as stupid or dangerous, the same thing with trump, hes stupid and dangerous according to the media. They feel if they did there would be ostracized by the colleagues. For example, from for people wn the white house correspondents, cobol, among themselves they laugh at him, they mock him. That is the overriding theme. Many people just inherently cant think independently. Thats one reason i left college after two years like a few of the people, michael dell and gates. I did want to be told how to think. I did want to be told what to write. I wanted to get firsthand what actually happened and thats the way ive operated. I dont have blinders on. I like to penetrate secrets and thats what ive done in this book with all these details about the real donald. Its really a fun read. Explain what happened with Reince
Consternation about the opec meeting. Jim, another day of Business Leaders addressing racial inequality whether its gorsky on squawk, moynihan, ballmer, this letter by cory barry, theyre out in force yeah. I thought that one of the themes echoed by alex gorsky is no more dodging. Look, im white, i am part of the problem because im not doing enough i think theres been a long history of people who have said im white, im older, im a ceo, i cant do anything other than have a committee and put some money at it. Theres far more soul searching this time. These are heartfelt sentiments but also sentiments that say im rolling my sleeves up. Im not going to say my heart is going out with them. The hearts going out with them doesnt work it is something that is a platitude, something that gets nothing done and when you hear it now, its code for, hey, okay, i finished that lets talk about the numbers i think that a lot of courageous actions, different tone. David, you have to admit, this is a tone
Should dow gaining 22 points. S p advancing 1 nasdaq 1. 2 the truth is there is a lot of rot underneath and many investors are in denial about how bad things can be for some of the weaker players out there. The ones actually involved with the economy, the ones that dont have bullet proof Balance Sheets consider this weekend Warren Buffett presided over a somber annual meeting instead of festive investing. We had an older gentleman with brilliant answers followed by questions with becky quick tell you to stick with it. This time he wasnt bullish by any stretch of the imagination last week i told you it was time to start doing some selling. I still think thats the right call without a big bounce in the bottom the Charitable Trust was selling heavily at the end of the week go to actionalerts. Com Conference Call this thursday. I have to defend losers tyson foods which we bought for the trust when the trade war with china ended because they had a pork shortage. I always say its better to b
10 , but lets be honest the markets are still down big time this year so cold comfort for investors who may have gotten in toward the end of last year well dissect all of that. One big theme today is the Federal Reserve effectively riding to the rescue of the bond market and even the etf bond market look at the hyg, something we have been highlighting and were going on more than a month now up 7 as well as the fed as it says there goes all in and we are all in with a great lineup for you again. We have guy, tim, weve got karen and weve got steve grasso it is going to be a beg hour we have Paul Macaulay with rare mineral supply chains and i want to get to steve grasso because the Federal Reserve, and i know it is very difficult for the audience out there who is not doing this every day to keep track of the alphabet soup of acronyms the Federal Reserve came in today with another 2 trillion program. Did they effectively bail out a big part of the etf market yeah. I think they did so the f
And you told your club members this morning were done selling for now. You raised the cash for when or if the market starts to revert to its old ways. Weve been selling into this strength and have to set up for another leg down why . Were about to go into earnings. Mcdonalds this morning reported some bad numbers and withdrew forecasts. We may see more of those once april 14th comes around. Its earnings season when we come back from the holiday, i think well have earnings cut earnings cut. I donennt think this is didnt where do we think earnings are trending, with so many guidance pulls, we got more out of levi last night how do we know what a reasonable model for this years models are . Both pinterest and levis rallied, why they said we cant forecast, but we have good strength in the core business. Levis talks about theyre an iconic brand and they can do well i cant hang my has the on that. Those stocks are down big. I would tell you that there are companies that will have better numb