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You know its been a tough day in the markets when we bust out prince yep, investors were crying as the brandnew fed chairman, Jerome Powell testified before the House Financial Services committee for the first time in his new role and sounded hawkish than they were expecting sent the dow down 300 points steve. Cant get over the prince reference. Respect. Very cool. Heres the question will powell be singing a different do you know on thursday you know, thats possible fed chair j powell was doing just fine in the testimony until congresswoman maloney asked him what would change the rate hike forecast from three to four. He started by saying a strong economy. And heres what he continued with we have seen fiscal policy become more system you lative. I think each of us is going to be taking the developments since the december meeting in and the writing down our new rate paths before we go into the meeting and i wouldnt want to prejudge that. Jp morgan said todays comments appear to open the
About the appropriations, and democrats been saying and over again it doesnt have any of their players and then come to block them until they get some kind of negotiation. Why not take him up on that offer and what is the downside of talking with the white house and the democrats on the bill . Just my perspective, as you see the numbers i recited moving through the Appropriations Committee with the Ranking Member and other members, we debated a lot in our markups that are fully flushed a summary difficult issues, and i think we stayed within a budget. We stayed with the numbers we all agreed on and so i think we can have a discussion the lets have it on the floor of the United States senate. I think its a place the best place to have it. One of those budget areas where we did not gain bipartisan support as we moved that subcommittee through the process, but it was not because there was not great work going on between myself and my Ranking Member on that subcommittee. So when you sugges
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