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Government borrowing rates are still four times as high now as they were a year ago. two thirds of that was probably because of global issues, interest rates have gone up around the world, the federal reserve. band the world, the federal reserve. and that was their _ the world, the federal reserve. and that was their argument, wasnt it, when there was this reaction, to say a lot of this is about global factors beyond our control. band a lot of this is about global factors beyond our control. and...

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The dow since 1931. look, bigger picture, the dow lost 5.6% for the year. the worst year for stocks since 2008. look, at the end of the day, stocks were bound to fall. you cant have a bull market run forever, but its the way that stocks are declining that is causing real serious investor concern. specifically, this month has been punctuated by panic selling, and extreme volatility. investors are worried about whats ahead. theyre trying to measure the prolonged impact of a trade war, a global eco...

Way that stocks are taking a hit that cause a lot of concern. december specifically was marked by panic selling and a lot of volatility. one of the indices, s&p 500 was up or down about 1% nine times in december alone versus eight times for the entire year in 2017. this is the kind of thing that causes a lot of concern among investors and traders every day here. and theyre trying to figure it out. theyre worried about the economic slowdown, the trade war and more importantly, dysfunction in wash...

Sounding off on the volatility, even blaming the federal reserve for the drop. >> i think the fed is making a mistake. theyre so tight. i think the fed has gone crazy. i really disagree with what the fed is doing. >> cnn senior economic analyst stephen moore joins me now. hes a former economic adviser for the trump campaign. stephen, what is going on this week in the market? >> well, panic. panic selling. you know, every time the fed raises interest rates as it announced it was going to do last ...

Since we had seen that kind of price movement. things sort of resettled. the fundamentals are very, very good. pete: david, thats why it happened. so what should investors going into this week do? >> well, investors versus traders, very likely shouldnt be doing anything. you cant try to trade, either panic selling or panicked buying. in the midst of that kind of chaos. it was technically broken. the market wasnt functioning the way it normally would. so investors need to stay calm. they need to ...

Chips dropped a good five hundred points just within two minutes its not normal so were still trying to figure out what really caused this massive sell off yesterday and all this volatility so rather strange isnt it so us is the economy is doing well that global growth is starting to sync up how do you reconcile all of that with the pessimism from investors in the past few days. and on top of it corporate profits that were getting so far this earning. susan also looks rather bright and it also g...

Gerri willis taking the pulse of all of that in new york. >> thats right, neil. thats right. you look at the dow and the drags on the dow here. tells story that youve been telling since the beginning of the show. yes, people are worried about the trump agenda, financial stacks getting hit hard here. goldman sachs representing 79 points that the dow lost. the stocks down 5.4%. jp morgan down 4%. big moves for these stocks. investors worried that the agenda wont come through, we wont get tax refor...

Tabled for who knows how long and traders are trying to figure out whether that means president trump still has the ability to push through perhaps even more complex legislation down the line in the form of tax cuts, a comprehensive tax cut package both for companies and individuals as well as any infrastructure spending plans down the line. so again, its important to note, this is not panic selling. were going to be down 150 points. this has happened in the past. this is not one of those days w...