later, what happened, we are having 70% tax rate but it also, you know, i think plays in some way more centrist, he can beat a far-left candidate because the policies aren t that they are really not that extreme. the most populist things like tariffs, so i think he is going to see neil: concerned for american workers, that is more union movement, democrats than typically republican. do you think the markets are hearing this, though, and not liking the direction, whatever the politics, we have the record debt, it s to the point now where i think one party is calling national security threat, republicans, even though they have done little to address it, but the worst this looks, the worst the prospects looks for anyone advocating for more government?
karma and action and reaction and that boomerang effect of the things you do, very important but it comes down to this it s cause and effect. right? what s the cause and effect of all the things that happen and if you step back and say well we see the effect, what caused that and keep it simple, neil if we do that, we can really uncover a lot of things and be successful in a very simple way. neil: well a lot of it is very to the point advice when it comes to losing weight you ve got to, you know, eat less, exercise more, move more to your point but when it comes to investing what do you do because the simple take on this is maybe it s a little rich you hold off. what do you say? well what i say and i talk about this in the book, keep the emotion out of it. you know, the fundamentals, neil what are the things that the causes that give you the effect that you want. what s your investment strategy? stay the course, don t get sway ed by the headlines, by all
a lot of bad weather they are you know you took cal you took a big risk by staying at home being so close to the coast did you ever think you know in the last twelve hours or so did you ever think that this storm is going to be worse than we thought we should have gotten out we did actually bring our plan was to get out we had some flights. that were supposed to be leaving out wednesday evening they did get canceled so we decided that we would get up early thursday morning and head more in line towards the raleigh chapel hill area however it did reduce down to a category two they they said whenever it was hitting and we have got we re twenty five thousand feet above sea level where where our home is was created in woman s hand and we ve got hurricane shutters that we put on we got our generators gassed up and we just felt like we d be ok ride it out either as a category two however it has been very scary where we re at fortunately you know
care companies going up against him and that has not borne out. no. i thought what was interesting about the speech today, on the one hand he could say, you know, these are the pharmaceutical companies are the biggest lobbyists in washington. at the same time as michael cohen, as you said, was taking $1.2 million from novartis and that didn t seem like a contradiction to people. and there s a way in which, to jennifer s point, the 40% of the country that s with him, the people in that room are sort of are hermetically sealed off it seems. it s not just fox. the entire leadership of the republican party has been nurturing this base for years. i think it s been clear for at least some folks from the outside what s been going on. they thought they could contain it and just sort of ride it to electoral victory year in, year out. so that hermetically sealed quality is not just a function
off it seems. it s not just fox. the entire leadership of the republican party has been nurturing this base for years. i think it s been clear for at least some folks from the outside what s been going on. they thought they could contain it and just sort of ride it to electoral victory year in, year out. so that hermetically sealed quality is not just a function of media. paul ryan could pierce that hermetically sealed bubble. mitch mcconnell could pierce that. in fact, show me an elected republican official who is not retiring who has even attempted to pierce that bubble, and you win a cookie. everyone says oh, yeah, he s retiring, he s retiring, she s retiring. and jennifer, it interacts with what we just were doing in thing 1, thing 2. it is a remarkable fact when you step back and think about it. this president cannot sit down for an interview with essentially a non-friendly outlet even when he s got a big achievement like he frees three hostages from north korea. his vice pres